Users often ask / let me turn those off for them. Except spotlight local-to-disc, plus system updates, but if the user is savvy at all I ask if they would like notifications instead of auto install.

The iCloud stuff that is hard to let go is usually the calendar/contacts/reminders, and substitutes are poor usability. I’m often surprised at how easily they give up photo syncing for ‘I’ll just use a cable.’

fb messenger, though, once people are locked into that, it’s hard to escape, especially for boomers.

lol, he publicly identifies as a Sauron cosplayer

cf. $companyName

…but he’s actually more like a sweaty Zorg, as a cartoon villain.

Cool thanks!

“Hold my ketamine”

One fell in a farmer’s field in Saskatchewan. Dude got a hassle, some publicity, and a nominal fee of a grand or something.

edit: here’s a mastodon thread where astronomer Sam Lawler lives nearby and visits the site with media:

SpaceX wreckage in Saskatchewan

A poet friend once advised me: “it’s not your guts, don’t make it precious to you, just write what comes, it’s not identity or possession, mine it later for good bits”.

Write garbage for a few minutes when you start. Plan on throwing that away. Warm up. Stretch the brain then put it to work. It’s low risk.

Around here the blackberries touch you.

Marv Newland, from Vancouver. Rocketship was his animation studio.

Also look up Lupo the Butcher if you like this.

Thank you for your sacrifice

If you grew up with commercial TV, not only is the frequency of ads on youtube bad, but the placement–in the middle of a sentence or a scene–is mentally and emotionally destructive.

Seems like youtube forces sign-in using Unwatched on iOS? An alternative is Vinegar which replaces the video player in Safari, and skips the ads, mostly and usually (until youtube updates some things then vinegar needs to catch up).

People aren’t just objecting to the quality of the software, and even more than objecting to the relentless commercialization at every opportunity in the ‘smart’ features, they are rightfully worked up about the firehose of surveillance telemetry these devices are feeding back to the manufacturers.

35 / 2 = 17.5 + 7 = 24.5

Oh I see why you picked those ages.

Nah.

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So slightly better ping than my ISP, then.

adj.

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6. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.

Yes, I agree, I was projecting about five or six years into the future.

I have a 2008 iMac running Mint just great.

By the time Apple Silicon is truly old and no longer supported, they will probably support Linux fine. It won’t be just Asahi either.

Model numbers are on the bottom of the computer printed in light grey on the aluminum.

If your computer is an A1466 It’s the most common kind of air, and fairly well supported in a few distros.

Put ZorinOS on it and use it as a laptop. Easy. Or Mint. Both work nicely on a 2015 Air.

I have a few and was going to use them as servers, but laptop battery management is too fussy for a server setup. Now selling them cheap with Linux.