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Way way back in the day, I tried running Darwin without the macOS GUI on top of it. It was really interesting, and I remember liking the mascot very much.

Apple would probably shy away from that now, for fear of being associated with demons.

Had Jonathan Frakes sing Happy Birthday to me on my 60th (thanks to Cameo and a couple friends with money)

I think this is one of the coolest aspects of all.

I think Tim Cook has been awful, really. If there's one thing that has stuck out to me about his time at the top, it's that Apple lost a lot of what made it special. We used to eagerly anticipate the things Apple would add, and now it's like "Oh, look, three new emojis." :goth:

Windows is awful. I ...

I am just so impressed with how fast and stable and Mac-native Helium has felt, and how it passes these tests:

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

It took A LOT of extensions to get Brave to randomize the data used for fingerprinting.

They fixed the issue for colorblind people, and all I can say is that I am impressed.

There are certain issues, like I want a vertical layout that doesn't also compress the browser and force the absence of a title bar, and I want nested tabs.

But man, this browser experiences MUCH fewer problems ...

I'm not familiar with those. Do you know of video for what they do?

I got a "bug fix" iOS update yesterday, maybe just an unrelated coincidence. My iPhone seems to be working as expected, but now I am afraid to fully turn it off again.

Why do you turn it off? I've never once had a use case, outside of phone replacement (where the old one goes into retirement ...

It's terrifying when it seems like a phone isn't going to start.

Oh dear Lord.

So dumb.

Honestly, I hope it's positive, because Tim Cook has presided over a pretty big drop in quality in terms of macOS releases. With a few notable exceptions, since Steve Jobs died, the changes to macOS have more often been changes to be dreaded instead of looked forward to.

And the operating system's ...

I'm colorblind. In macOS, there are three settings for colorblindness, called "Increase contrast", "Reduce transparency", and "Differentiate without color".

Here's what Helium looks like with the macOS colorblind settings enabled:
https://i.postimg.cc/1VKf25y8/Screenshot-2026-04-18-at-8-34-22-PM ...

Tree-style tabs aren't quite the same as normal vertical tabs.

They let you see which tabs were opened from another page, so if you've been doing a long search that required searching through several tabs, you can then visually see which ones can safely be closed.

Since I'm colorblind and don't have the foggiest idea what most favicons actually are supposed to represent or their colors, horizontal tabs are completely unbearable for me, especially when there are many.

I originally hated the idea of vertical tabs, but they're so much better. And they show the ...

Best thing since sliced bread.

This timeline just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

Res, I mean this as sincerely as I possibly can.

I used to have cats, and I loved them more than I can say. I absolutely love reading about your experiences fostering cats. Thank you so much for sharing these!

I went on Saturday morning to a Cars and Coffee event at someplace called "Heatwave Coffee", and took the 240Z.

While I was there, a kid about 16–17 years old drove into the lot in kind of a ratty white 280Z. While I was standing around with the dog drinking some bad coffee, he came up to me, and ...

Oh, that's cool!

Thank you!

I’ve definitely heard of cream cheese wontons.

Let's see…

Not necessarily in order(because I got a bunch of classic Macs AFTER the PowerBook and Power Macs):

I had a Macintosh IIci
Macintosh SE (2)
Macintosh Plus (2)
Macintosh LC
iMac G3 333
iMac G3 400
Powerbook G3 Wallstreet 233
Power Mac G3 300/350/400(overclocked)
Power Mac G5
Hackintosh ...

I think you’re right.

Apple has really been making me mad recently, because I noticed it’s not possible to order their highest-end RAM configurations without having their highest-end processors.

My current MacBook Pro is from 2021, and I’ve been thinking about upgrading, and I also noticed that it ...

TRUST ME ON THIS.

Go to a restaurant supply store. The equipment you get there will be so many steps above anything you’d get from the typical places. You’ll wonder why you haven’t done it before.

I like that!

Is the first one spaetzle?

The color temp can be specified in the app.

My LED headlights are NOT usually set to cool blue.

What you’re talking about is just not an issue with my lights.

You want them cool blue? Fine. Warm blue? Fine. Incredibly yellow? Also fine.

And this whole idea that I’m sitting there ...

Although Albuquerque drivers do make me go

The color temp can be specified in the app.

My LED headlights are NOT usually set to cool blue.

What you’re talking about is just not an issue with my lights.

You want them cool blue? Fine. Warm blue? Fine. Incredibly yellow? Also fine.

And this whole idea that I’m sitting there adjusting ...

The color temp can be specified in the app.

My LED headlights are NOT usually set to cool blue.

What you’re talking about is just not an issue with my lights.

You want them cool blue? Fine. Warm blue? Fine. Incredibly yellow? Also fine.

And this whole idea that I’m sitting there adjusting lights ...

My particular headlights are dimmable.

That's the point of my headlights. LED is just the technology they use.

I bought them specifically because they’d be reliable and I can turn them down by using an app on my phone. They remember the value you set them at, so my headlights are NOT unusually ...

Polishing the headlights is one of my favorite things to do for a car, because the result is so clear so quickly.

I bought some LED headlights whose brightness and color can be configured by a bluetooth app on my phone. It may sound gimmicky, but it’s really useful for city driving versus driving ...

I came dangerously close to making it to high school not knowing that GUI-based computers existed.

*Mac OS X turns 25

I remember beta testing the original, and how much I disliked so many aspects of it. It’s gone through a lot since then, some good changes, and some bad ones.

I think the changes tended to be more positive while Steve Jobs was still alive.

How much of that did you do on your own little plagiarism machine though?

Because once you end up using things like claude or grok or chatgpt, you’re beholden to the providers of tokens, which, once they’re past the initial VC rush of easy money, will quickly price these technologically-dead ...

Well, for one, I might have a big potential lawsuit coming up, and it spend about 7 minutes creating an extremely long years-long timeline based on all of the documentation on my computer, including timestamped communications, notes, emails, and tons of other legal documentation which I hadn’t ...

Because it’s easy.

Where about in New Mexico?

I like Debian for how to manage it, but I really don’t like the GUIs available for Linux distros. I want a universal menu bar at the top of the screen, and the best I’ve seen any Linux distro with that is OCCASIONALLY having the menu bar at the top of the screen for SOME apps, which I feel is ...

You can use Docker to run it, and it’s pretty simple.

I was really impressed with Sinners. I heard it was good, but I had no idea what I was in for. I didn’t even see a trailer for it.

All I knew were three points:

Michael B. Jordan

Good reviews

Vampires

Being a fan of vampire movies, believing that Michael B. Jordan is a very good actor, and ...

Sinners.

Just got back.

Very much recommend if you haven’t seen it yet.

Very cool. Congratulations to her, and to you for finishing and improving your time.

Jehannum wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2026 6:46 pm
"brownies in a corn mold":

Oh my God.

I just.

I just can’t.

When I was on the east coast, I used to garden so much. I would grow mint, cilantro, zucchini, basil, and TONS of tomatoes. I miss that, and hope to be able to do it again. It’s so dry here.

I’m so sorry.

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.

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