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The System 7 version leaves a lot to be desired.

So many UI elements are absolutely WRONG.

(For reference: https://infinitemac.org)

Yep. They came up with the solutions I would have suggested! (CMD + F1, internal/external monitor craziness, Caps Lock key as your power indicator.)

Probably the battery isn’t that great because it’s old — I’d be curious what mAh it’s still holding. Also wondering if that display is being connected and somehow drawing power from the computer (although I wouldn’t think it should if it’s turned off).

America 250

I get phone calls for a guy named Randy about his business. I can’t for the life of me figure out how to make the phone calls stop.

The simplest solution is to change my phone number. But

a) why should I have to? it’s my number, dammit!

b) how many accounts have 2FA? if I changed my number, what if I miss updating one that’s important?

c) it could happen again

If I change my number, however, that is the simplest way to solve the problem. It’s just, do I want to?

Correlation is not causation.

In other words: the side effect of making more money is that you have more money to spend on your children’s education.

Where I’m from, the person who sneezes often says nothing, unless they’re accidentally sneezing near someone else. Strangers nearby however will say “bless you!” or occasionally “gesundheit!” But yes, I think people who utter the words do so as a quick reaction without much forethought.

There were (and still are?) bathroom reader books.

My parents leave copies of The New Yorker, Newsweek, and Nat Geo in their bathroom.

Paging John Gruber!

When I go to http://hackerne.ws I still get an error.

The redirect from hackerne.ws works, but I think there’s a certificate that needs updating.

People draw horses because they want to draw horses.

People draw dicks because they feel it’s funnier, it’s a form of rebellion, and/or it’s way easier than almost anything else. And because they can without repercussion.

Apple giveth, Apple taketh away.

Personally, I am enjoying using Typst.

It just happened 1300 of years ago! (Reminds me of an episode of Flight of the Conchords.)

But it is really interesting to read.

How about when users accidentally click too much, or they believe the first click didn’t register?

I am still reminded of a keynote where Steve Jobs was demoing how much faster PDF documents would display on the newer macOS. So he had engineers put a button in for him to click that would scroll through the PDF on the screen, and he accidentally clicked it more than once. Steve wondered aloud if it would scroll all the way through twice… and sure enough, it buffered the process! He had to wait for it go all the way back up and scroll through a second time!

Steve saved grace by telling the audience that, even with moving through the document a second time, altogether it was still faster than PDFs had been in the last version of the OS.

> On Apple Silicon machines, the DFU port is closest to the screen on the left side.

Nope, not always: https://support.apple.com/en-us/120694

Headline typo

Quality vs. Quantity.

The forums I still go to are hyperspecific, and yes, the experience is crappier. But because of that, only the diehards frequent them, meaning you generally get better, smarter discussions.

And here’s a conversation.

Is there a Radar open for this?

Anyone else watch Season 2 of Hijack?

I remember seeing a video on Jerry’s Map from nearly 20 years ago.

I don’t even remember my own GPA, for me college was a lifetime ago!

Hell yeah

And for that matter, /developing/ for one person, often yourself, is probably better than for everyone. I’ll see this with app developers when they’re trying to figure out what kind of app or game to make. Just make the thing you would use!

Or just add an ampersand at the end and execute the command 8 times or so:

    yes > /dev/null&

Someone could also just make a font file that swaps all of the characters around. So like an A looks like a Z, and a Z looks like an A.

As a kid who grew up in the public schools in Minnesota, MECC was amazing, and Apple II’s were everywhere. Each classroom had a computer, and our school had an entire computer lab. We had access to every piece of MECC software — history, math, spelling, social studies, and many other titles like Print Shop. All of the software was very, very good.

There are a few stories about Oregon Trail, one of the most popular games that was originally written by a few Carleton students for the public schools on older computer hardware that was then rewritten for the Apple II. (It’s so iconic, Xennials in America are sometimes nicknamed the “Oregon Trail Generation” because of how pervasive the game was in schools to help teach about the westward migration in the mid-19th century.) Supposedly, Apple put in a bid at the last minute with the state and won the school contract, and they had a virtual monopoly in the public schools in Minnesota.

I think the writer got the prices wrong, unless these are Canadian prices or something. It’s $599 and $699, not $599 and $799.