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...
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)?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
I THINK I know where this chunk of Triptych by Karin Slaughter is going with this seeming huge detour from the main storyline.
Hoping I’m wrong, because if I’m right, it’s way not my thing.
@noonan Well, not FINAL, per se, but final insofar as I’ve stopped reading it, because…
It’s… odd. I can’t say a ton without spoiling things, but suffice to say we’re introduced early to two characters who aren’t what they seem. And a LOT of time and lurid detail is spent on the history of one who the reader wouldn’t be meant to care about unless he wasn’t what he seemed, tipping that big reveal early.
@noonan As a REALLY big spoiler (turn away here to avoid seeing it)…
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Weird choice to make a main character a serial killer in a series opener, because plhe won’t be in the rest of the series. But he’s a regular in the TV show (and it feels better to me that way).
@noonan Also, we don’t meet Will Trent’s love interest (same as on the TV show) until just under half way through the book.
THIS IS A WILL TRENT STORY, yet to that point we’ve barely met him and are only now learning he’s in a relationship with someone?
I get I’m projecting here, and part of that was having expected something more like the show (I had similar issues with Midnight, Texas), but yeah, this isn’t my jam. 🤷♂️
@noonan Fair enough.
Comparisons to the show aside, there remain some odd storytelling approaches I wouldn’t have done, but that’s purely subjective.
It could well be a Dan Brown thjng, where his earlier books were… um… not good… but his style and techniques notably improved in later stories. Maybe I’d be super into her later work. 🤷♂️
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.
@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.