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mike susz

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pro tips if you have to take a 'profile' photo for work.

1. set up your phone on a tripod or prop it up, higher than your eye line (nobody likes being photographed from low angles)
2. use the timelapse function of your camera to capture a series of frames
3. stand and mug for a while. to get a natural smile, consider how absurd all of this is
4. replay the video frame x frame until you can find one that you might tolerate
5. (optional) give up, throw your phone & computer into the nearest river

Jul 11, 2024, 7:55 PM · view on Mastodon

mike susz

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Mastodon

so i had tooted another complaint about Apple TV+ content being egregiously dark, but i deleted it. i found settings in my TV (Sony X800H 65” yeah it’s mid, w/e) to compensate for low contrast and black levels, and i can actually SEE what’s happening now.

my best guess is that Apple assumes you have an OLED and you’re watching in a completely dark theatre or something.

Jul 11, 2024, 12:54 AM · view on Mastodon

mike susz

@mikesusz

Mastodon

If people you work with completely refuse to stop using the “alarm” emoji - you may need to go scorched-earth.

Jul 10, 2024, 3:12 PM · view on Mastodon

mike susz

@mikesusz

Mastodon

writing a blog post for the first time in a year. i finally figured out how to synthesize a lot of things i’ve been thinking about. maybe because i just got done with an assignment at work? my brain is free to do ‘other stuff’ than panic about meeting unrealistic deadlines.

Jul 10, 2024, 1:42 PM · view on Mastodon

mike susz

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Mastodon

okay okay i get it, no politics in your documentation. maybe instead of gender specific pronouns we just use some _hypothetical_ names like “Adolf and Eva”

Jul 2, 2024, 11:08 PM · view on Mastodon

mike susz

@mikesusz

Mastodon

Slack would probably get 20x more conversions if instead of threatening to delete the old data in your free account, they threatened to use it to train AI.

Jun 25, 2024, 4:56 PM · view on Mastodon

mike susz

@mikesusz

Mastodon

@jerzone they did that with mine and i cut off an old piece of conduit and put it inside the tube of the bird feeder. works the same, not enough room for squirrel to get in there

Jun 13, 2024, 11:23 PM · view on Mastodon

mike susz

@mikesusz

Mastodon

in reply to a conversation

@m750 yeah i can’t remember when i got this leverlock. the small ones - i’ve been buying one every time i go to homedepot. trying to saturate the house with them (so my good measure doesn’t go missing). i think i need one or two more.

Jun 10, 2024, 2:07 PM · view on Mastodon