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by memsom 1y ago
I stayed on Catalina for a long time as it was the last version my Macbook Pro 2012 supported natively. It is a pretty solid OS, though it is harder to get Apple services running on it now. I personally just use Sonoma now on my Macbook Pro
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by memsom 1y ago
PowerPC you have Leopard or Tiger, the latter being "faster" but more limited. You can also install the version of Leopard someone added Snow Leopard beta parts to, which I do have on my PPC MacMini, but it still gives you limited
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by memsom 1y ago
When I was in school in the 80's, I remember seeing these books stacked up at the back of the classroom. There were other Ladybird books in English standard spelling (they were really common), but these were weird. The teacher just to
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by memsom 1y ago
I have had tinnitus for most of my life. When I was a child I had a massive ear infection that burst my eardrum on the left side and that is the worse side. Honestly I can just tune it out and it seems normal. It mainly causes issues in lou
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by memsom 1y ago
Would it be the classes Java has always had that sit inside a parent class and can access the instance fields/properties of the parent? These are very Java, and hard to recreate in a language that doesn't support that type of embe
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by memsom 1y ago
I don't really see any cross platform framework hitting "critical mass". React Native is very accessible to web developers. Are you sure that is not just information bias from your own situation? For me, most cross platform
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by memsom 1y ago
If you use more than one of their IDEs on a regular basis, I'm going to be honest - it starts to make more sense that the change between IDEs is less jarring. I use Rider a lot, and Pycharm and Android Studio infrequently, and I like t
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by memsom 1y ago
Gaelic arrived in Scotland within 100 years of English arriving in England. They are both attested to arrive in around the 4th - 5th AD century IIRC. Before that Scotland spoke Pictish (which is not known in the modern era and may/mayn
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by memsom 1y ago
Yeah - but they were there when I was a kid in the 70's and 80's so predates the notion of Estuary English. They come more from the fact Portsmouth had a big influx of dock workers from East end of London at one point. The vowels
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by memsom 1y ago
In the UK, some traditional dialects are almost different languages. It is not really like that anymore, but people do have whole swathes of vocabulary that outsiders do not understand. I think in France you got rid of the diversity in a lo
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by memsom 1y ago
Those words are used, but a lot of people on the island use a massively watered down version of the dialect now. When I was a kid we said "baw" for "ball" "vis,va' 'n fing" for "this, that and th
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by memsom 1y ago
Pompey is less strong on the island these days, but Leigh Park people sound like I remember from childhood still.
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by memsom 2y ago
SheepShaver was originally virtualised and not emulated. The original version ran MacOS in a virtual machine on PowerPC BeOS (BeBox and Mac that ran BeOS.) Because of this it ran at full speed and was akin to the Classic environment on earl
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by memsom 2y ago
The UK is shutting down 3G aggressively. Vodafone closed 3G last year and most other providers are closing this year. For me that means the poor 4G reception and okay 3G has become poor 4G and useless 2G. The issue is they have closed 3G wi
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by memsom 2y ago
SVT Play (app or web) is a very good resource, and it is mostly subtitled in Swedish, which helps a lot. From the UK (at any rate) it is pretty rare to find many of the shows with georestructions, I do not find many. It is worth trying it w
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by memsom 2y ago
A great Swedish reading resource is 8Sidor ( https://8sidor.se/ ) which is the news in "lätt svenska" (easy swedish.) You can subscribe to a physical copy, but honestly the site is great and has built in tools to ai
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by memsom 2y ago
A lot of SVT is available with no VPN. It also has apps, so I tend to watch it on an Apple TV. I second comic books, though the Swedish tends to be super colloquial and you will get stuff like "dig" rendered as "dej" (wh
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by memsom 2y ago
No, we didn't call them that. Bum bag was the name. Bum being about as profane as fanny in the US, and probably the same thing.
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by memsom 2y ago
It's pretty mild, but still offensive in the UK. Your friend was right to believe that much. That everyone thinks it means that? No - the US uses it differently for a region of the body slightly less offensive. It's a bit like spu
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by memsom 2y ago
Only on Windows. For other platforms it has very limited support for the Unreal engine and not much else.
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by memsom 2y ago
Isn't that mostly because Android uses its own VM, not a standard Java one?
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by memsom 2y ago
Okay, so update - we went to the local Morrisons (another chain) over lunch and got 18 eggs (they are sold from trays that you box yourself, but we just took half a tray) for £5.40 (so, what? US$6.82) The eggs are sold by the egg too, 0.30
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by memsom 2y ago
Wow! I wondered about this article - US centric. I wondered because eggs are not expensive here. I just looked [1] [2]. I can get a dozen free range for about US$4 at the current conversion rate. They are a supermarket own brand, but even t
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by memsom 2y ago
My issue isn't that it does or does not highlight an area, it is that sometimes it highlights an area that is not a building and the instructions are a bit vague as to is this is "correct" or not. One example - I see it highl
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by memsom 2y ago
I see people more and more ignoring this rule too on wider non light controlled (Zebra) crossings. Sadly a lot of them are taxi drivers and they are often recent immigrants. Rules vary a lot, but in Europe the general rule seems to be that
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by memsom 2y ago
It is more attitude. As in - people in the UK seem to have a vendetta against pedestrians in the road. I know the laws surrounding cycling and pedestrians changed even recently, but no one in my experience actually cares and carries on as b
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by memsom 2y ago
In the UK, it is very rare for a pedestrian crossing that is controlled by a button press to not completely stop traffic. The first time I was in North America as an adult, I realised that when on a crosswalk drivers will come sailing at yo
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by memsom 2y ago
Any App with a menu generally works as I described. And that hails back to the System 7 days, and also NextStep was the same from what I remember (though I mostly used OpenStep.) System Preferences (especially the iOS-ified version) breaks
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by memsom 2y ago
This is a MacOS thing - an app is not just windows, it is also a menu. The windows can all be closed and the menu is still there. Apps that don't behave like that feel like they are not proper Mac apps. As a seasoned Mac user, cmd+Q is
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by memsom 2y ago
They were still in complete control of the platform though. You couldn't just take a OS build and put it on another generic computer without a lot of hacking and/or picking hardware as close to the actual hardware that the OS coul

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