The Nature of Things has been rocking that format for 60 years. CBC show. Segments and maybe whole shows available on youtube, or if Canadian, in the app.

Too many years on bbedit to change now. But Kate is great, too.

My 520ST paid much of my way through university using PaperClip to format documents for other students.

It led me into exploring TeX on the school mainframe, and unix.

Later, I worked with possibly the very first gui granular synthesizer program, developed on a ST1040, which was kind of old at that point.

Some governments use self-managed Rocketchat and similar.

You can also run a Matrix site federated but fully private and get similar security with more features.

Apple has been optimizing macOS for underpowered machines for a long time.

Testing a bunch of linux distros on old intel macbooks has shown me that apple is really good with resource management on their vertically integrated hardware, even with greedy daemons like identityserverd or whatever it is, trolling through your drive cataloguing faces in your photos all the time, and the relentless indexing system, and telemetry.

Most models work smoothly most of the time, even the little 11" Air with 4GB, doing standard basic user stuff, and the 2020 1.1 GHz i3 Air is somehow usable on macOS 15, basically current.

It’s fine for all those use cases. The M1 Air rocks all that 5 years later.

Also: install xcode, then

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

or something like that, and stretch macOS a little. I bet if they refresh the model with 12 GB of RAM running emulation and virtualization will be hot.

I like buttered toast

PSN required to play online games. Ongoing subscription, not cheap. So no, not fully functional, except as a pickpocket.

The bandaged eye sells the joke beautifully.

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

I don’t understand how that isn’t obvious to everyone but the deranged.

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.