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beardedscotsman··on I got my first $50/mo customer
Yes, look at Google publishing news snippets in France
beardedscotsman··on Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies
I need to ask, what so socialist policies are you suggesting and which countries?
beardedscotsman··on Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom
Webex can sync with your corporate calendar. Its possible by signing into Webex, it checked your corporation calendar and synced that.

There is also a system with Webex, that is separate, and if you have Webex meetings registered against your email, it will provide you those meetings if you are not signed in.

beardedscotsman··on Ask HN: Anyone here use a Hackintosh as one of their main machines?
That's exactly how I felt. Every update had a risk of being a maintenance nightmare. The machine was really fast, but now I ended up buying a top end iMac 5K and a MacBook Pro. I'll never go back to a hackintosh, but if I didn't do it originally I doubt I would have gone Mac full time. My old hackintosh is now relegated to Win7 for those game devs that are making games for Windows only.
beardedscotsman··on Ask HN: PC I can buy today to add/make Hackintosh?
Well to get it working requires faking a product hardware I'd that is not in use. Issues with that or mistakes can cause you to be blocked from iMessage on all devices. So for me, not a hassle I want to put up with.
beardedscotsman··on Show HN: Useful Mac OS X commands for your .bash_profile
why not just store this as a gist with comments?
beardedscotsman··on Ask HN: PC I can buy today to add/make Hackintosh?
Yeah could do, but the problems with the hackintosh are a pain. I honestly can't wait to upgrade. My current CPU is the intel 3770k and the 4.0ghz iMac processor is around 30% faster at max usage.

I've moved most gaming to consoles, just not super interested in PC gaming and the iMac can still do most of it.

If Apple bring out a Mac Pro though with a gaming performance GPU I might consider that too, but thats never going to happen any time soon, lol.

Also finally I love the glassy reflective screens. Just so used to them these days and using anything but is just odd to me.

beardedscotsman··on Ask HN: PC I can buy today to add/make Hackintosh?
Just this, great for a hobby machine, but honestly it's next to impossible to use as something you have to relay on.

For me, it's just about updates and iMessage. I use iMessage a lot, and their security means it doesn't work on a hackintosh. Next are the updates. The issue here, is that graphics doesn't work, or the machine doesn't boot, etc. All fixable, but often you have to debug it once or twice.

Problem I had with the Mac Mini was I bought mine as the basic model, and its so slow to use, the hackintosh is better. However, nothing works as well as my MacBook for actual work.

Right now, personally, I'm waiting for the 5k iMac and when it can be used as an external monitor. I upgrade my computer every couple years, but my old Apple Cinema Display is 7 years old now, so I really need an iMac to be usable as a 2nd display. Hopefully september will bring that update.

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