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Snap! Cloth, too. https://www.zazzle.com/map_of_metal_second_edition_colossal_...

Where is the "Purchase Print" button so I can tack this poster to my wall?

The death of Google search referrals?

The rarest possible choice for Amiga (Amiga UNIX) represented. Curious thing to do. Fun project site either way.

Saw them last year in Seattle. One of those bands I never thought I'd get the chance to see (I'm 54), but thanks to them they are still touring and making great music.

It was an amazing show, and incredible night.

That's a lotta Os!

Only Amiga makes it possible. ;)

Remembering my college typewriter-use-by-quarters (coins) on a timer like being at the laundromat, I kind of love this.

At UT Arlington in the Stone Age we had a typewriter lab so folks without home computers with printers could still produce their papers typed, which was required. I had to get a roll of quarters ($10) to do a single paper. And the erase tape was always so used up it was useless.

It was one of the most sadistic things I remember about my college experience, trying to type on those crappy typewriter on a timer. With no errors. And I literally wrote it by hand before trying to transcribe it.

Good luck, we’re all counting on you.

Isn't this more for parents at the end of the day?

I loved reading this with the still built-in caginess around all the identifying details. Just in case!

OK I thought this was a late April Fools until I kept scrolling.

Somewhere seemingly out of nowhere John Gruber got a strange sensation, like a goose walking over his grave.

Oh dang I made it to the end of the grid/world. Got scared in the darkness and retreated back to the light.

Big Amiga fans (and still are) from what I see. =)

When I was in the Air Force in the early 1990s, we still used KC-135 "flying gas stations" that had been built during the cold war in the 1950s. While expensive to maintain they were far less expensive to fix than buying new and starting from scratch. With regular full maintenance checks in the hangars (wash them, inspect them with dental picks and flashlights, replace broken parts, etc.) we kept those planes in service and mission ready for decades.

There was an entire supply chain of every single part ready to go, with technical manuals for every maintenance task you can imagine. If we couldn't fix something, it would go to the jet lab or machinists or whatever.

The system in place is mind bogglingly good.

/edited for a typo.

I wonder this will impact the "just walk out" booze stores at T-Mobile Park (MLB)? Those seem pretty successful.

OK I think all pasture raised cows should be given nice little wooden brooms going forward.

I've often found it's bare bone utilitarian and efficient design a breath of fresh air compared to most of what's online today. That, and their philosophy of being donation based to keep the lights on.

That egg scramble plate GIF is pure gold.

If you're not familiar, Hoffman is also a supremely talented musician as well (often inspired by and/or made on an Amiga).

His track "Eon" here is from a very famous and artistically beautiful demo. https://hoffman.bandcamp.com/album/the-cave-sessions

Didn't need the click-bait title. I would have read it regardless (and did). I wish there had been a PRG or D64 included for the non-programmers. Fun read!

"Page last updated: Nov 26, 2001."

That page even looks a tad dated for 2001!

Sure https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q75jbezh5tm2jhj2yyzsgfeo/po...

I had the honor and pleasure of meeting her in 2018 at PRGE (Portland Retro Gaming Expo). She was sitting at a signing table after being on a panel. When it got to be my turn, I asked her if I could get a photo instead of a signature. She quickly said yes and I bent down to get into the frame. She was extremely kind and always cracking jokes. What I didn't know until I got my phone back and later looked closely was that she'd given me rabbit ears in the picture.

RIP, Becky.

Would be cool to decouple Apple Watches from iPhones, too.

I very much relate to the author's sour mood and frustration. I also host a small hobby forum and have experienced the same attacks constantly, and it has gotten especially bad the last couple of years with the rise of AI.

In the early days I put Google Analytics on the site so I could observe traffic trends. Then, we were all forced to start adding certificates to our sites to keep them "safe".

While I think we're all doomed to continue that annual practice or get blocked by browsers, I have often considered removing Google Analytics. Ever since their redesign it is essentially unusable for me now. What benefit does it bring if I can't understand the product anymore?

Last year, in a fit of desperation, I added Cloudflare. This has a brute force "under attack" mode that seems to stop all bots from accessing the site. It puts up a silly "hang on a second, are you human" page before the site loads, but it does seem to work. It is great UX? No, but at least the site isn't getting hammered by various locations in Asia. Cloudflare also let me block entire countries, although that seems to be easily fooled.

I also don't think a lot of the bots/AI crawlers honor the rules set in the robots.txt. It's all an honor system anyway, and they are completely lacking in it.

There need to be some hard and fast rules put in place, somehow, to stop the madness.

My god, for that price...

Imagine the cost if it was a pair of pants! Apple pants™

Works for me. 26.0.1 (25A362)

The fix is to disable Glass. In a terminal: defaults write -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES

This gets rid of the slow animations, inconsistent window cornering, and other annoyances.

Then (so menus aren't transparent and unreadable): System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Reduce Transparency

If you do those two things your machine should look and feel normal again. I've been running an M1 Max since 2021 and Tahoe was simply a disaster. Removing the glass layer made everything feel good again.

If for some reason you ever want the bad performance and glass back, you change the YES to NO in the Terminal command. Maybe someday it won't suck.

I almost knee-jerk downvoted you as a baseball fan when I read "has lost all passion" but then I immediately stopped when I read, "Go A's."

As a Cubs fan, I still read that and thought, "So say we all."