It's been years since the #Mac machines I've owned can sleep properly. I choose sleep from the 🍎 menu, and the screen blanks and comes right back on as often as not. If I let the screen sleep after a period without using the machine, sometimes I'll return an hour later and find the screen on, and unlocked. Total #security and #power management failure.
I'm not saying they're remembering it wrong, but riding in a car without seatbelts, while your parents smoked and argued with the windows closed, was not the joyride the memes would have you believe
@pborenstein my father drove an Opel Kadett Caravan, similar to what’s pictured below, and I sometimes rode in the cargo space, sliding around on a blanket covering the metal cargo floor. Somehow, I survived.
@jimluther@thestrangelet Are you kidding? At one point (maybe still), I had a box full of the thermal travel cups with the red Copland “8” on them. Used them for years.
We had a leak in our 2nd floor deck once and used an 8' vinyl “Copland” banner to cover it until we could patch it. We wondered if any pilots taking off from Oakland Airport were Mac users and would recognize it.
And then there’s the Mac OS 8 semi truck, that my kids played with growing up…
While delving into native 68k Mac development, I have discovered that I am now soft and weak and find it rough to read dense C code without at least some minimal syntax highlighting.
But as far as I can see, it simply DID NOT EXIST back in the 68k Mac era. BBEdit 4 supports it, but it's a post-System-7 post-PPC fat binary.
Anyone know of anything before that? Were there any notable competitors to BBEdit for programmer's editors on 68k Macs?
@davepolaschek@eschaton@alexr@siegel@swetland What’s all this talk about color? Real 68k development was done on black and white. If you were lucky, you had a radius two page (1024x768ish) display.
What’s the current evidence on the relative merits of getting Novavax as a booster vs getting yet more Moderna/Pfizer boosters?
I know there was speculation that protein-based vaccines like Novavax •might• provide protection complementary to mRNA-based vaccines, and that mixing and matching •might• do better than merely repeating.
What’s the status of the science on that? A web search suggests “fuzzy.” Anybody have useful info beyond “heard on social media?”
@inthehands i have trouble with their just-in-the-nick-of-time stocking of some of the stuff i need. The staff behind the counter are great, but corporate management is squeezing the bejesus out of them.