matdotcx

matdotcx, 11 days ago to MacAdmins

A reminder for my #macadmins friends and community; we’re still accepting applications for PSU this year - if you’re looking to attend your first Mac focused conference, please apply! https://www.macadmins.org/news/2024/4/28/2024-community-and-conference-grant-for-mac-admins-at-penn-state-university

ratkins, 4 months ago to random

Fucken when Apple?!

ratkins, 6 months ago to random

Today we’re very excited to show you our brand new product, the iPhone 13 flat! Using our patented SemiTrailer™️ technology, we can reduce the thickness of an iPhone mini by two whole millimeters!

ratkins, 7 months ago to random

Is there a non-shit chess app I can put on the (iOS 15 running) iPad for the kiddo to play? Something that will adjust itself to his level, obvs.

ratkins, 7 months ago to random

I haven’t written a blog post in ages, but here’s a rambling and self-indulgent one about electric toothbrushes and how Oral-B are customer-hostile arseholes: https://frabjousdei.net/post/729554261033287680/fuck-you-oral-b

matdotcx, 7 months ago to random

Holy hell. Cisco has announced they're buying Splunk for 157USD per share, aka $37.41 more than their last close - deal worth $28 billion USD. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cisco-to-acquire-splunk-to-help-make-organizations-more-secure-and-resilient-in-an-ai-powered-world-301934777.html

ratkins, 7 months ago to random

@matdotcx Because we’re about to start working with partners who require it, we’re going to have to start doing device management. Which of Jamf or Secfix will we regret least? Are there other/better options?

matdotcx, 8 months ago to random

So uh how ya doing over there @ratkins ?

ratkins, 9 months ago to random

When are the best pomegranates? I thought the season was more like October, but they’ve just reappeared at the juice place at the markets. I want as rich and flavourful as possible (to make grenadine.)

matdotcx, 9 months ago to random

@kissane are you using a modified Blog theme on Blot for your website? I’m having hell adding in my own typefaces and sadly have been unable to puzzle it out. Could you share your static json.package typeface entries, before they’re mangled / published ?

matdotcx, 9 months ago to random

I finally did something productive with the old piles of junk in my home office. Behold, printing Lorem Ipsum from my iPhone over Wi-Fi to an Apple ImageWriter!

video/mp4

matdotcx, 9 months ago to random

Companies should clean up their mess and not fly-tip ewaste, of course. But is taking something that’s abandoned really moral? Shouldn’t that stuff be the state’s to do with what they want, or the company stakeholder / investor?

ratkins, 9 months ago to random

Holy shit, XT90 connectors are huge and AWG 10 wire is even huge-er.

matdotcx, 9 months ago to random

The radio lives! It sounds… surprisingly rather lovely.

The internals of a radio set, spread across a desk, out the back of the cabinet.

matdotcx, 9 months ago to random

Really? Who’s choice was that? 85º caps do not belong in enclosed PSU designs.

Expanded, and failing, electrolytic capacitor.
Hand holding a failed Yihcon capacitor rated for 85 degrees Celsius.

ratkins, 9 months ago to random

I’m still looking for a nice (rubbery, not plasticey) set of ~30cm figure 8 power cables. Europlug, UK, US and Australian would do. The ones which used to come with the Microsoft Surface would be perfect but I can’t see how I can buy them as a spare part.