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Dad. Writer. Amateur photographer. Dabbler in tabletop game design. Fan of books, tabletop/video games, comics, music and movies. Neutral Good. He/him.
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reay, to random
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MAC PEOPLE, HEAR ME NOW.

I have an old iMac from a friend that had a dead harddrive that I was able to replace pretty cheaply and has worked fine ever since, though it's topped out at an old OS.

I got another iMac from a neighbour suspecting it may be a harddrive issue as well, which could be an easy fix.

BUT, with both of these stopping at much older OS's that don't get updates any longer and won't run more modern programs, the question came up today...

1/2

reay,
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Is jailbreaking a Mac a thing?

Would there be any upside to doing so? Could a newer OS be installed and used, for instance?

The thinking was if the OS's aren't updated or security patching anyway, there's no difference if we jailbreak the computers and they then don't update or security patch as a result.

But is that even a thing? If so, any drawbacks I'm not seeing to doing this (or more to the point, having someone who knows what they're doing do it)?


reay,
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@feld Thanks for that angle to it.

reay,
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@dap6000 Thanks for all this.

reay,
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@feld That’s rough.

I’m just trying to figure out a workaround for having another Mac that works flawlessly — it’s outlasted a number of Windows laptops we’ve had — but which has of course been designed to be obsolete years ago. I don’t think that first one that was brought back to life with a new harddrive will even run Garage Band, as crazy as that sounds.

Really good computers are still WAY less useful when they can’t run certain remotely recent software.

reay, to HashtagGames
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The Notting Hills Have Eyes


reay, to random
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Your dog loves you so much it’ll even give you kisses RIGHT after it licks its own butthole.
❤️

reay, to random
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On the one hand, I don’t get the boycott of Loblaws because groceries being so expensive is a much wider problem than with just Loblaws alone.

On the other hand, for Loblaws to say they’re trying to keep prices down for customers and blame shipping and other issues of their control holds zero water when they netted profits of nearly $500 million this quarter.

You CANNOT be trying to keep prices down while also being a publicly traded company with happy shareholders. Pick a lane, Loblaws.

reay,
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On that note, are NGO grocery stores a thing? You’d think it would be a no-brainer to get food to people for not a cent more than the food cost to get and stock.

That would also push the organization to use more local options to keep prices as low as possible instead of, say, shipping in pineapples all year.

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Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is)

Crossing the street should be safe, convenient, and easy, but it isn't. And that's because in the US and Canada, the roads are designed for exactly one purpose: to move lots of cars as quickly as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ByEBjf9ktY

reay,
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@stux I had to teach my kid to look both ways before crossing including on one-way streets and when traffic has red lights because of how bad drivers have gotten in Toronto in recent decades.

At risk of sounding 85, back in my day, that didn’t happen. But it legit didn’t. There are more drivers here than ever before, and they’re lazier and more distracted than ever before.
Bad combination.

frauenfelder, to random
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Noem constantly whines about "fake news." Unsurprisingly, as soon as she gets caught writing fake news, she refuses to be held accountable. Perhaps she should stick to recounting stories that she has experience with, like slaying animals that displease her.

https://boingboing.net/2024/05/06/no-going-back-author-kristi-noem-already-going-back-on-her-made-up-encounter-with-kim-jong-un.html

reay,
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@frauenfelder No Going Back.

… except to take out the ridiculous lies people actually paid attention to and called into question.

And THEN?
THEN, No Going Back.

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Just saw that the Leafs lost game 7 in OT. lol

reay,
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@allenu This is The Way.

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