Thank you for your sacrifice

If you grew up with commercial TV, not only is the frequency of ads on youtube bad, but the placement–in the middle of a sentence or a scene–is mentally and emotionally destructive.

Seems like youtube forces sign-in using Unwatched on iOS? An alternative is Vinegar which replaces the video player in Safari, and skips the ads, mostly and usually (until youtube updates some things then vinegar needs to catch up).

People aren’t just objecting to the quality of the software, and even more than objecting to the relentless commercialization at every opportunity in the ‘smart’ features, they are rightfully worked up about the firehose of surveillance telemetry these devices are feeding back to the manufacturers.

ADHD: functional notes in abbreviated version on fat strips of painter’s tape on server case or shelf. Passwords go on page dedicated to that server or service in a little black notebook, then eventually in a password manager.

Readme file if my brain lets me, usually 3 months later after hyperfocus on troubleshooting.

35 / 2 = 17.5 + 7 = 24.5

Oh I see why you picked those ages.

Nah.

deleted by creator

step foot

Eh. That’s not correct? I’ve heard it said my whole life.

So slightly better ping than my ISP, then.

adj.

…

6. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.

Big fan of using the classifieds (craigslist or what have you) to grab semi-vintage gear cheap.

You don’t need a fancy amp, just something powerful enough for your speakers. Your speakers should

• fit the space
• have enough bass, or add a subwoofer
• be placed where you will hear the stereo ‘soundstage’
• be less than 20 years old so you don’t have to fuss over maintenance like redoing rubber mounts
• be listened to before you buy

Kind of a nepo baby. Grandfather and father were politicians. Great grandad and uncles were involved in progressive politics, usually officially.

Since Naomi Klein is his spouse, I bet the family get togethers have some interesting conversations.

The Neo is similar to the 2020 M1 base MacBook Air but with less effective multicore performance and endurance at higher temperatures. What you can do fairly easily with an 8GB M1 Air:

• edit limited length multilayered HD video without hiccups
• edit short 4K video
• Develop websites up to intermediate complexity
• install homebrew and go to town on the command line and server stack
• manage 40,000+ photos
• run photoshop on average sized RAW files
• a hundred tabs each in firefox and safari
• run old school gaming emulators
• admin of any kind
• hook up a big external monitor
• and a lot more.

(Source: personal experience and many clients doing all of that.)

Not all at once, of course, but macOS swap is fast enough that you can run a lot more of that at once than the limited RAM would suggest. I’d definitely strip down memory usage for A/V production.

The Neo should be pretty close to that, which is a LOT more than basic web and email.

Yes, I agree, I was projecting about five or six years into the future.

I have a 2008 iMac running Mint just great.

By the time Apple Silicon is truly old and no longer supported, they will probably support Linux fine. It won’t be just Asahi either.

Model numbers are on the bottom of the computer printed in light grey on the aluminum.

If your computer is an A1466 It’s the most common kind of air, and fairly well supported in a few distros.

Put ZorinOS on it and use it as a laptop. Easy. Or Mint. Both work nicely on a 2015 Air.

I have a few and was going to use them as servers, but laptop battery management is too fussy for a server setup. Now selling them cheap with Linux.

Everyone commenting on stuff like this seems to be philosophically disposed to some kind of monolith.

The whole point of a multilateral realignment means that a bunch of rules will be remade, some by this group and some by that group.

I grew up in Italian-canadian households, so even as a little kid I got diluted wine at meals. As a teen I thought it was illegal so didn’t talk about it, then one day had a hotel room tossed by narcs who left empty handed yet left all the beer in the tub that we were obviously all drinking… only one of us was drinking age, and the room was in their name, so the narcs never even commented on it. In your home, in B.C. anyway, you have discretion about what the kids consume, as long as it isn’t abuse.

9d old account, 329 comments, mostly one-liners, mostly combative. Hm. More No U. OK