awilfox

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by awilfox 3y ago
I don't see how there are unhealthy relationships. I will agree that Bingo's behaviour in Backpackers was unacceptable - I personally would have gently nudged her with a "don't play so rough", which would have been
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by awilfox 3y ago
I think this is the real value of imaginative shows like Bluey - it inspires kids to use their imaginations as well.
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by awilfox 3y ago
Baby Race reduces me to tears every time.
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by awilfox 5y ago
I wonder if that has any influence on it. My first Unix system was Solaris in the 90s, and I never felt the need to tweak it endlessly. Perhaps those who started on Linux and grew accustomed to tweaking everything from the outset find s
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by awilfox 5y ago
One of my friends reminded me of CrossOver, which has eliminated that last small gap. And it is nice to finally be able to give back to the WINE community after using it for so long – I think my first use of WINE was Red Hat 9 in 2002. The
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by awilfox 5y ago
> You don't miss retina if you never used it. This line of thinking baffles me. I should put up with subpar text-rendering and pixelated fonts and widgets because that's how we did things before? > I guess it comes from poo
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by awilfox 5y ago
February 2021 as a daily-driver; I still have a VM to this day.
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by awilfox 5y ago
You can't really "void the warranty" poking at Mac OS internals, and the built-in recovery partition makes it pretty easy to fix anything you break. Same as booting a BusyBox shell when you break something in Linux. … though
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by awilfox 5y ago
"Casual" is relative: digiKam choked on my 55K photo library where Lightroom Classic works fine. Adobe XD's only libre competitor that I knew of was Pencil, which died three years ago after Mozilla killed off XUL and they tr
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by awilfox 5y ago
I found Jellyfin to be a great media server. Its client is so nice and works on Roku. Not sure about LG TVs. It's libre and .NET so it runs anywhere – including my Mac server :)
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by awilfox 5y ago
Forced to run it as a Flatpak would have been a dealbreaker for me since Flatpak apps don't support Power and my main desktop was the libre Talos II. Looks like it is missing deadline support, otherwise you are right that it is almost
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by awilfox 5y ago
I agree that it should save to the format it was previously saved in as a default, but it isn't necessarily user-hostile. "Normal" people coming over to a Mac probably want to use Pages, and might even appreciate the trans
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by awilfox 5y ago
> I can only send so many pull requests before giving up and buying a MacBook. It's funny because that was what happened to me, too. I believe my final set of contributions was an attempt at fixing some low-level thing in Mesa that
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by awilfox 5y ago
> I haven't had to apply any patch manually for the last 15 at the very least You're very lucky. I've had to apply patches manually for the majority of my Linux experience, to the point where I can literally recite you th
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by awilfox 5y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with the 4K scaled to 1440p as well. Scaled to 1080p looked so crisp and well-rendered I could cry, but the UI elements were far too big. My main use case for the Mac Studio is photography and video editing, so
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by awilfox 5y ago
Oh, my grandmother is still happily using her mid-2012 iMac, and my 2011 MBP is still kicking around for the occasional 32-bit only app (some older games mostly). The problem is initial capex: you have to have that amount of money all at o
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by awilfox 5y ago
That's interesting. I have multiple Apple and non-Apple C-to-A adaptors, and one even has a five port hub attached to it. I haven't had any issues on Monterey, but my main use case for them is external disks and a Blu-Ray drive,
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by awilfox 5y ago
I can do office and productivity tasks, but not in a way that interops with the tools that others use. It's interesting because Pages can spit out a .docx that Word doesn't mangle too badly, but LibreOffice still can't. I st
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by awilfox 5y ago
Explorer was never the WM; you could kill explorer.exe off in both 9x and NT systems without affecting window management. I don't remember how it worked in 9x, but NT used CSRSS.EXE for window management until NT 4 moved GDI into the k
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by awilfox 5y ago
I've never had hardware accelerated graphics work correctly, and I don't want to have to use the Google ecosystem – that's an article for another day, probably. When I was "all-in" on the libre ecosystem, I used a T
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by awilfox 5y ago
Time is one of the big factors for me, too. One of my favourite stories to tell about my initial migration is when still had a laptop running Linux, I noticed that the Lock Screen was "stuck" for about 5 seconds every time I open
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by awilfox 5y ago
That's interesting. Xcode didn't require Rosetta for me. I also didn't have any issues installing Rosetta when I finally did need the functionality. Was this when the M1 was first released? I didn't have an M1 until
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by awilfox 5y ago
This was a follow-on article to my first one, where I spoke about the deep issues I saw in the Linux ecosystem after running a distro for three years. My thinking was by showing the Mac has all these nice things that make me productive, thi
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by awilfox 5y ago
My concern with the Mac mini in particular is that then you need a display, and honestly, having an LG Ultrafine 4K hooked up to my Mac Studio, you really need a 5K display to get the most out of a Mac. I think 1440p displays work well to