I remember reading a chart about a year or two ago as to how long different kinds of masks protect from COVID depending on whether one person is masked or all are masked. ¿Has this chart been updated for the latest variants? #COVID #novid @17050056
If the missing word in "My coworker's brother-in-law just unexpectedly after a brief COVID infection." was "died" I'm sorry for their loss. I wear a mask and it frustrates me that most people don't.
@fcf300c1 Additional alt text: A bell-shaped rock mountain with green trees or bushes growing here and there. Leading to the rock is a graded but rough path with red dirt and posts with wires demarcating the path.
@6adf5d3d Interestingly, that's about the time I started becoming a foodie and losing interest in 1950's Cantonese cuisine. Not sure whether the HK/Sg trip was responsible, but it's definitely around that time in my life.
@8dc22363 Interesting points. I disagree that it's just about death. As a foodie, I would be miserable if I lost my sense of taste or smell to long COVID. And chronic fatigue would not be fun either.
@6adf5d3d Glad you like the weather. I was miserable the whole time I was there, even in aircon spaces. But then again I find anything over 68 F/20 C to be a heat wave. You are totally right about SF at 80 F.
@6adf5d3d I just had a look at a map and street view. From the map location, No Signboard seems like it may be right (and I would have been wrong about the walk only being 20 minutes past Bugis, more like 40, but that's a 30-plus-year-old memory). From the looks, well, you've just told us why we can't go on looks, since there's been so much tearing down and building going on. There was a noticeable outside seating area at the time, but who knows if it's still there now.
@6adf5d3d Maybe I lucked out. Many years ago I had chili crab late at night somewhere to the east in a walkable distance from downtown, maybe 15-20 minutes past Bugis Street, and seating was outside. It was divine, if much spicier than I'm used to, and the crab was so fresh I could taste it through the chili. I think it was probably legit because a local friend took me and picked the place, although he did also take me to Newton Circus food center once, so maybe not.
@fb05aae6 If you upgrade from system settings it changes your screen saver to an animated farm field, and displays that to you as your very first login screen after the upgrade. Made my eyes feel ill for three hours afterwards.
@ecef72dd Made my eyes feel ill for 3 hours. You might be able to dodge it by installing from the macOS Recovery feature rather than from system settings, but it's too late now.
Heads up that Auto-Play Animated Images turns on every time you boot up, log in, or launch System Settings. You'll have to go to Accessibility then Display to turn it off. I suggest leaving System Settings open as I don't know when the re-on happens. #accessibility #macOS #macOSSonoma #Apple #Sonoma
Warning! If you are motion sensitive and on macOS, don't do the upgrade from within System Settings. Instead, boot into Recovery mode and do an install from there. #accessibility #macOS #macOSSonoma #Apple #Sonoma
The difference is that doing it by upgrade replaces your screen saver with a motion animation and your first log in screen will present a password field over a full-screen motion animation. Doing it from Recovery doesn't seem to do this.
@6adf5d3d ¿Are you talking about the Thompson-East Coast line? Apple Maps is showing me a single station for Outram Park for 3 lines. ¿Where is the new station?
¿Did scrolling in Mastodon change? ¿Or did Safari change? It used to be cursor down in Safari moved the timeline one line at a time. Now it jumps as if I did Page Down.
As a side note, under Accessibility then Display, there's a new setting Auto-Play Animated Images which defaults to On, even if you have previously turned on Reduce Motion.
It's apparently automatically set on upgrade. Apple Accessibility Support walked me through disabling it, but it was their first time with this case and things may change.
1) For Screen Saver, choose one of the Other ones.
2) On the same settings pane, turn off Show on All Spaces
3) For Wallpaper, if it's not your preferred wallpaper then choose that or anything that doesn't have an icon on it.
As a side note, under Accessibility then Display, there's a new setting Auto-Play Animated Images which defaults to On, even if you have previously turned on Reduce Motion.
@73ae37e6@06283d96 No they didn't. It made my eyes feel ill for three hours afterwards and someone else on Mastodon reported it made them feel nauseated. #accessibility
Warning! If you are motion sensitive and on macOS, have someone else do your upgrade to Sonoma. The initial launch screen is a motion animation behind the password field. I haven't tried re-launching so don't know whether this is a one-time thing or an every-time thing on power up. #accessibility
It's apparently automatically set on upgrade. Apple Accessibility Support walked me through disabling it, but it was their first time with this case and things may change.
1) For Screen Saver, choose one of the Other ones.
2) On the same settings pane, turn off Show on All Spaces
3) For Wallpaper, if it's not your preferred wallpaper then choose that or anything that doesn't have an icon on it.
Just so you know, they'll need their own account on the Mac, since the default boot is to that user once the install is done and they'll need the password to the account they used so they can log back in and get rid of the animation on the login screen.
@129d4bd1 Funny I ran across this because of a hashtag clash between macOS Sonoma and Sonoma California, which is probably going to be a thing for a while. Yes, it's beautiful up there.
I also have to turn off Auto-Play every time I launch System Settings, so I'm just going to leave System Settings open. #Accessibility #macOS #macOSSonoma
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