@sumudu If I uncase it…probably? I can check when I get back to it. That's actually a good question. :)
// @indigo @peemee @kdfrawg
@peemee Hahah, seriously. I have a fold-out Bluetooth keyboard for my phone, but it's still tinier than I'd like, and the fold sticks B way further than is natural to type with left pointer. And probably still bigger than that portable laptop's keyboard!
// @sumudu @indigo @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg It was fighting with PDFs that sold me on the bigger one. :)
Even then I was a bit worried at first - printed out scale outlines and cut them out to check fit in hand, and still worried a bit. But it worked out well in the end.
Now I don't want any smaller, but I don't know as I'd want any larger in a phone, either.
// @sumudu @indigo @peemee
@indigo My phone has come to matter a ton as I have less sit-down computer time outside of work. It's basically my main computer now, for better or worse. (Better for availability, worse for a lot of things.)
Agreed on the pocket front. Most of my phone use is because it's there in my pocket. If I had the same ease of access to my laptop as my phone, I'd use laptop instead of phone almost every time.
Women's clothing seems infuriating in how it goes out of its way to leave its wearers helpless.
Men's clothing is annoying in how uninspired it often is, but I have a watch pocket for my knife, two big pockets behind, and two bigger pockets to either side, so it's easy for me to load up my pants and have basic needs on me at all times: ID, keys, computer, knife, … And with space to spare! I've no complaints about men's clothing's utility.
// @sumudu @peemee @kdfrawg
@indigo I used an iPhone 5 borrowed from the office as a ~sacrificial~ test device for a while recently. I didn't try reading PDFs on it. For general use, it was fine, with two drawbacks:
- squinting, because I was reluctant to bump the font size up on such a small device; mostly an issue with web pages
- typing, especially passwords
My personal phone is a 6 Plus. Being able to read PDFs without constantly having to slide the viewing window around has been wonderful.
It seems I have both big pockets and big hands, so this phone has ended up more usable for me than a smaller one - I can hold it one-handed and still reach every point on the screen with my thumb, and it's a lot easier to avoid typos thanks to the larger keyboard. Unlike an iPad or laptop, I can pocket it and retrieve it in a jiff, so I have it with me all the time.
I could go a bit bigger, but I noticed I lost full-screen one-handed reachability with some of the largest Android phones. I find that's what dictates the cutoff in size for me.
// @sumudu @peemee @kdfrawg
Read: Ellison, Harlan. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. https://web.archive.org/web/20100531195535/http://pub.psi.cc/ihnmaims.txt
Surprisingly strong imagery. Short and vicious. The ending that brings us at last to the title phrase is actually too weird and abstract to be terrifying, but the moments just before are horrific.
@phoneboy This sounds like a "lie" sense 4 definition 1 A vs B thing to me: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lie
While A imputes intent, B is simply about fact and independent of speaker's intent ("an untrue or inaccurate statement that may or may not be believed true by the speaker or writer").
It's funny how way down the list of definitions that is vs lie-as-a-verb.
On second thought, there's probably a lot more lying down, on, and with than lying about going on at any one time…
@phoneboy Yeah. The talk around "lie" sounds like an intentional self-serving narrowing of meaning to me. But there are also plenty of other serviceable words like "falsehood" that would seem to dodge the annoying rules-lawyering around "lie", and that seems more productive than digging in on a single word. But petty confrontation is the phrase of the century.
@thedan84 "Snif Cappuccino" is a good way to go. What it does definitely works. What the docs say, may or may not work.