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reay

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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...

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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.

stux, to random
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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.

allenu, to random
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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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What are the oldest sounding names of old people you've ever known?

In my childhood house, my parents and I lived beside Bud and Ethel.

GO.

reay,
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@purple Not sure I’ve ever heard Eustice.
Solid.

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Welcome to your 40s! If you sneeze in an awkward position, you may require a visit to the orthopedist.

reay,
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@the_etrain Not wrong.

A few weeks into my 40s I had some weird pain in a joint and mentioned it in passing to my step-mother, who said very bluntly, 'Well, you're in your 40s now, so that happens.'

I got almost verbatim the same feedback from my doctor later, very possibly about the same issue.

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Look here, it's 20-fucking-24. There is no logical reason your business' online payment system has to charge an additional card processing fee. The internet can't take checks or cash. Get your shit together.

reay,
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@StefanThinks @BGMcKay I always balk at being charged an added “convenience fee” for getting tickets online.

Listen: When I could buy tickets from home instead of having to line up somewhere to get them and someone had to process that purchase manually, I got it.
But when it became an automated process, then in some cases buying online became THE ONLY way to get tickets at all, and you’re still charging extra for getting them that way? Then it’s just pure money gouge.

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I'm glad this stowaway #kitty was found safe! #GiftLink https://wapo.st/3WizSUZ

reay,
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@APBBlue Cats and boxes, I tell ya…

benjancewicz, to random
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Went for my French test today.
My French teacher Marie Berthiaume would not have been proud. 🥲
I was really nervous and stumbled a lot, but I made it through. At least I didn’t bomb.
I’ll see how I did in a weeks.

reay,
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@benjancewicz Bon chance!

reay,
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@benjancewicz Any idea if what you’re learning is Parisian French (as I suspect) vs. Quebecois?

Here in Ontario, we’re beside the biggest French population outside France. And as happens with colonies over very long stretches, they’ve developed their own unique accents.

Yet right next to that population, what we’re taught in schools here is French with a distinctly Parisian accent instead of Quebecois.

Curious which is taught elsewhere.

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Especially with a dog now, I'm finding people leaving dog poop bags (or uncollected dog poop) left around on sidewalks and lawns -- yes, some people take the time to bag their dog poop and then still just leave the knotted bag on the stranger's lawn -- even more maddening.

If you have a dog, you pick up its poop and ditch it in a public garbage in a park or carry that tiny weight back to throw it out at your own place. That's Owning A Dog 101.
Can't do even that little? Then don't have a dog.

carnage4life, to random
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Google went from you have to be in Mountain View at least three days a week to do this job to you can do it from India and Mexico in less than a year.

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reay,
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@carnage4life Shocking that such an upstanding, reputable company woul--...

Wait...

... never mind.

That_One_Guy, to animals
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My day off so far has been doing nothing and playing Xbox with the dogs.

reay,
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@That_One_Guy How's their game?

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BREAKING NEWS

The dog has woken and moved from the back of the overstuffed chair to the seat of the overstuffed chair and gone back to sleep.

STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES

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I will never not be confused by this kind of nonsense.

Post on Mandy.com for an audiobook editor:

"Must have good knowledge of a DAW, be able to clean and edit sound to a professional level, and ideally enjoy the subject matter. Editors are to go through and do the final editing and clean up, re ..."

Salary: No pay.

With my bit of knowledge, with some time and effort, I could probably do this, and I'm very new to this stuff.
But even me? For NO pay?
Kick rocks.

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