pschastain

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by pschastain 4y ago
A nice idea but it gives the wrong info for Spokane, WA, USA
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by pschastain 4y ago
Apple rewrote Preview.app post-Mavericks and crippled it in the process; text box placement definitely lost functionality
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by pschastain 4y ago
I used to use Preview.app extensively for work until it was rewritten & hobbled post-Mavericks. While it's still useful it lost a lot of functionality i.e. "smart" text insertion.
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by pschastain 4y ago
My last MBP only lasted 10 years of almost daily use so yeah, no practical use at all...
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by pschastain 4y ago
Please point out where I said that
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by pschastain 4y ago
This overlooks power consumption
37.
by pschastain 4y ago
For single-core performance, yes. Anything that can make use of multiple cores, no
38.
by pschastain 4y ago
Because only your experience matters
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by pschastain 4y ago
We're talking "out of the box" here, and while I'm not a fan of a lot of the UI changes in macOS it still "just works". Linux doesn't i.e. the wifi on my laptop dies after sleep & the only "fix&qu
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by pschastain 4y ago
I tried KDE and had different but equally frustrating issues. People say you can "just fix it yourself" with Linux but that's not always feasible or worth a person's time.
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by pschastain 4y ago
Funny. Coming from macOS to Linux Mint, I find I can make many of the same or similar arguments but against Linux. The UI is inconsistent, esp. wrt the menu bar. Keyboard shortcuts are inconsistent across different apps. macOS remembers win
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by pschastain 5y ago
Turns out there is a way to report it, it's just incredibly convoluted. Check the post above yours.
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by pschastain 5y ago
And what happens when Google decides to move in a different direction and drop development of Chromium? It's highly unlikely but Google does have a track record of dropping projects and products for the most obscure and obtuse of reaso
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by pschastain 5y ago
Relevant: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/02/25/...
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by pschastain 5y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how so many people only consider their own experiences as relevant "btrfs is not stable" is coming from people for whom btrfs has not been stable. Why is that so hard to understand?
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by pschastain 5y ago
Anybody else get a "Potential Security Risk" warning for the site? Using Firefox 96.0.3 under Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon
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by pschastain 5y ago
Do you believe in the right to yell "fire!" in a crowded theater when there isn't one?
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by pschastain 5y ago
Are TOS censorship?
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by pschastain 5y ago
This is not an attack on free speech, this is free market economics at work. Spotify is free to promote and profit from whomever they please, and other creative artists are free to take their work elsewhere. Market demand will determine the
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by pschastain 5y ago
If I had a gun for every ace that I have draw, I could arm a town the size of Abilene...
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by pschastain 5y ago
Both my wife and I had 2011 MBPs that were only replaced last year. I upgraded the RAM & replaced the HDDs with SSDs over the years, which is reasonable imo. I'd say 10 years is a pretty good run for a laptop. YMMV
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by pschastain 5y ago
If x86-64 is "open" why are Intel and AMD the only manufacturers..? The answer: it isn't open, it's proprietary. Check out x86 history, it's kinda interesting.
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by pschastain 5y ago
Citations?
54.
by pschastain 5y ago
So you don't consider falsely claiming VPN tech as your own while also including a tracking gif on every page "shadey"? Guess we have different definitions...
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by pschastain 5y ago
Been using Mint w/ Cinnamon for a while, tried Kubuntu as well and will probably switch back to a KDE-based distro at some point when I have time. Both are fine but I don't find either as functional for me as macOS (which has lost
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by pschastain 5y ago
> What are the costs? I can buy an iPhone or an Android phone and switch pretty easily can’t I? Software would need to be repurchased if it's even available on the other platform. Maybe you could but I know I couldn't easily or
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by pschastain 5y ago
OS X/macOS used to have some serious issues with exFAT but they may have been addressed in the few years since I last used exFAT on a Mac. Something to double-check before using the pair to store critical data.
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by pschastain 5y ago
Plenty of community-maintained software for it?
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by pschastain 5y ago
So you don't do mobile? Because I don't know of any truly functional mobile platforms other than Android and iOS, neither of which is community-maintained.
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by pschastain 5y ago
Honestly this kind of behavior from Google should surprise no one at this point.

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