themadturk

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by themadturk 8mo ago
Oddly, except for font sizing, it's OK on the iPhone, and fine on the iPad, too, but it just bothers me endlessly on MacOS. I'm glad Sequoia still works well.
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by themadturk 8mo ago
I went back to Sequoia on my M3 MBA not because of speed (which was fine) but aesthetics. Hated the look of Liquid Glass.
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by themadturk 8mo ago
Yup. I ran UUCP on a 64K Kaypro with a 1200 baud modem.
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by themadturk 8mo ago
My first Apple Silicon machine was an 8GB/512GB M1 MacBook Air. I rarely bumped up against the RAM, but I was pretty happy using between 300-400GB on the SSD, so I really think the 512GB was plenty. I have a 1TB machine now, and typica
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by themadturk 8mo ago
I never understood the 256GB SSD on the MBA. That's no space at all.
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by themadturk 8mo ago
Wait, my M3 MacBook Air nags me about Apple subscription services? Where? When? And you're right, I can't uninstall Stocks or News, but I if I never open them, does it matter?
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by themadturk 8mo ago
Eh, except that a huge number of Office users are there because their employers make them use it, and then use it at home because it's what they know. Not sure it's much of a choice for a lot of them.
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by themadturk 8mo ago
As an OG Star Wars fan (I was 21 when it came out), I had a really hard time when my kids liked the prequel trilogy more than the originals. As my youngest once told me (when he was in his teens), the original trilogy was great, but the pre
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by themadturk 8mo ago
Well, at least I got the answer to one longstanding question...the relationship between Fry's the electronics store and Fry's the Kroger-owned grocery store. They even have (or had) the same logo!
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by themadturk 8mo ago
My father in law grew up in the Denver area. His father made his living as a handyman, and one of his regular customers was Molly Brown (the Titanic survivor known as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"). Every week he would go to her ho
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by themadturk 9mo ago
Office Space has become a part of the corporate culture's shared language. You are out of the loop if you haven't seen it, and it wouldn't surprise me that a lot of people are introduced to it in a work-related environment (a
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by themadturk 9mo ago
You sound as though you worked for one of my managers, though he just gave everyone a copy of the DVD for Christmas one year. The thing is, he definitely got it, knew he was part of the system, and did his best to take care of the people wo
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by themadturk 9mo ago
Makes me wonder if this how the creature under California feels.
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by themadturk 9mo ago
I've never understood why Apple didn't adapt Dark Sky's design lessons. Apple Weather is functional, but dull.
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by themadturk 9mo ago
Just joined your Early Reader's list. I've already self-published a novel written partially in Markdown, and starting work on another, so I'm anxious to see what you have to say!
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by themadturk 10mo ago
It wasn't coding, but tech support...I was on vacation from my law office IT job. All I had was my PalmPilot, the clip-on modem, and my sister's landline phone system. I spent 2-3 hours one day exchanging email with my firm's
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by themadturk 10mo ago
I think it start Jan. 1 in Washington.
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by themadturk 10mo ago
Though when things really break out into harmony after the 12 minute mark, it's almost pretty. (Sandra Boynton is amazing, no matter what she does.)
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by themadturk 10mo ago
Back in the early 90s I was working IT at a law firm in Seattle. One secretary was having problems with her machine -- I'm no longer sure about the nature of her difficulties, only that none of us on the IT staff could figure it out. S
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by themadturk 10mo ago
Somewhat different, I think. She had no direct financial interest in IBM's decision; she convinced the guy at IBM to look at Bill for the PC's operating system. Sure, at that level favors and family can have a lot of influence, bu
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by themadturk 10mo ago
Maybe when (if?) the Democrats take back the House and Senate in 2026. Right now Congress is solidly right-wing and sees no reason to impeach...nor would a conviction ever happen, even if the trial was held.
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by themadturk 10mo ago
There are multiple text editors that work just fine on iPhone, certainly on Android as well. Textastic and Runestone are two for iOS (there are more). They read and write text files just fine. You can even keep them version controlled in Gi
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by themadturk 10mo ago
I've been scolded online for buying from Amazon. "Oh, if you look around enough you can get anything locally." I live in the Seattle area, and I certainly cannot get everything I want locally, unless by "locally" yo
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by themadturk 10mo ago
Though I don't like shopping at Walmart, I still have to (no store in my area, even "supercenters," has everything I need), and their phone app is absolutely stellar at telling me where a particular product is. Especially han
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by themadturk 10mo ago
I don't miss cassettes, but they were an important thing to me in the 1980s. When my wife and I got married we were as poor as could be. Our first stereo was a little radio/cassette deck with four inch speakers. We played a lot of
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by themadturk 11mo ago
I had to clear a "We need to talk about your ad blocker" notice, after which it let me read the whole thing (without turning off my ad blocker).
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by themadturk 11mo ago
I first encountered it in 2009, in Seattle, when I spent time in a hospital. I'd never heard the term before...but then, I'd never spent time in a hospital before, either.
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by themadturk 11mo ago
The Neo has small storage, and is divided into documents, which I believe take up a fixed amount each of that total storage. Any decent-sized novel is going to strain the storage of the Neo. Still, it's a great little distraction-free
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by themadturk 11mo ago
Same with any weather app... you already know if it's rainy, sunny or snowing as well.
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by themadturk 11mo ago
I had a friend in college in the mid-1970s. He was in engineering, and his dream was to get hired by one of the major shipyards near the beginning of development of a new aircraft carrier, because he knew design to delivery would take up th

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