I wish that it was easier to have a Linux distro that had menus along the top edge of the screen.

And I don’t mean this "faking it" stuff by having certain apps with menus there and certain ones with menus in the windows themselves.

I want consistency in at least the basic UI concepts.

That would be a fair point if true.

Very nice! I use a number pad too much, but I definitely appreciate the simplicity.

8GB of RAM is fine if you’re buying a computer and using it in the past.

Apple ALWAYS screws over their low-end customers. Especially on new products.

Their goal is NOT for it to be usable. Their goal is that you buy it, spend a while with it, realize it’s too slow, and then buy another better one.

It looks like a useful product for the right market, but I have 64GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD in my M1 Max MacBook Pro, and I’m not going lower than 16GB, no matter how much newer a device might be.

In Albuquerque, if you go down to Yale, pretty close to UNM, there’s this little place called “La Urraca”. They have Colombian food. The chipotle chicken arepa plate is really good. I recommend it if you haven’t been there.

Arq Backup with a cloud-based storage solution.

It creates an encrypted backup on whatever location you want. You can also have it back up to an attached disk or to one on your local network.

That is awesome!

Thanks, I really appreciate it.

I will take a look.

I’m not saying a huge heated area, just a little walkway. Ice melts just above 32ºF, so it wouldn’t have to be generating a huge amount of heat in most places. Most places don’t get quite the same amount of snow as Minnesota.

Ooh, a TAM! I don't think I ever got to see one of those in person.

They make heated walkway mats that can prevent snow from accumulating on the walkway.

Imgur blocked my VPN, so I can't see images from Imgur, but under the reply box, there's a link to postimages.org(which is in the Netherlands, not like Imgur, which is in the U.S.).

I am really sorry you are dealing with this.

You're in my thoughts, and best wishes for your family.

Yeah, I found him annoying, but I 100% bought one when I saw it in the store. I was expecting something delicious.

But to be honest, Virgil's root beer is better, and Mug is better, too, IMHO.

I ended up working in Loudoun County for a while years ago, and one day I went in to their Goodwill, just to see what they had.

To this day, I know the best place to buy dishes and kitchen stuff.

@Zapski, it works if you go to the "Post Reply" page, just not on the quick reply box.

I did open a request with the creator of the plugin for that feature to ask them to add it to the quick reply box, too.

It's absolutely amazing how reddit went from useful to just bloody awful.

Every major social media site seems to be about fighting.

It's weird to think about posting on MAF being 16 and now I'm in my 40s.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to hobble on down to get some prunes from my fridge...

Can we extend this to TikToks? I'd like to share both.

I want a Macintosh LC550 and a Macintosh LC, because those were the two Macs that I was first introduced to.

We have the MacAddict ones too, if you click on "Post Reply" and then on "Maxes" on the right side of the posting page.

Whoa. That is incredible!

Malkin wrote: Tue Feb 17, 2026 4:05 pm

Can you add a “check your spam” to the message at the top, obvs? A lot of people are getting stuck on the validation.

Good idea! Done.

I've never really played games like this. I'm kind of starting off tabula rasa.

Ame! Awesome! Really glad to see you!

Our two countries are

interesting

right now.

I really miss how cool those iMacs looked. Not like modern computers, which look like tools.

Within the next few days I'm going to make an effort to read the database table for users' email addresses and send out a message to all former members inviting them to join our relaunched forums.

Welcome back Bren!

Good to have you here!

Oh my God! It has been forever since I've heard that song! Thank you!

I do know that song. I've seen Jesse & Joy in concert, and they were great. My favorite song from them is 3 A.M.:

I do have an older version of the playlist, from Spotify:

Oh my gosh! You have so many pets!

I just got this a few weeks ago. I have no experience using this. I haven't turned it on. I need some ideas, or suggestions, or games, and is there a way I can game with other people here?

This is a link to my favorite playlist. It's in Spanish(pop music), but it's really good, I promise!

And I use Qobuz, because it's good, it's not Spotify, and it's from France.

My sister and brother-in-law run one. They love the thing. It seems really useful. They always have a bunch of new stuff to watch.

Does it just have various video files and music files, or does it connect to other services?

I think 50 posts per topic page and 50 topics per forum page makes sense for right now. If anyone wants to increase that, we can.

You know what? You're absolutely right! Yeah, we could easily do like 50 or 100 posts per page. This is 2026 and not UltimateBB MacAddict Forums from 1999.

Yeah, I'm thinking about maybe orienting the page numbers to the left or maybe installing an extension to allow loading more posts in a topic without needing to scroll, because that surprised me, too!

If you've ever had a bad boss, I think you will enjoy Send Help.

I saw Send Help last week.

Very good. Very good.

Hello hello! Glad to see familiar faces!

I'm looking for some new ideas!

Okay, for the time being, newly registered users do not need approval for posts.

Obviously we'll probably want to turn that back on after a certain amount of time.

Tell me about it!

I feel like I've never used (or administered) phpbb before.

I enabled markdown, so you can use the same kinds of code you use on reddit.