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therieau

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Pagan_Animist, to macbookair
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Opinions.
Many varied opinions needed.

Should I buy the 2020 MacBook Air at WalMart for $700?

I tried a Windows laptop earlier this year and it was a disaster.

I’ve spent too long in the iOS sphere. 16 years, which is much of the reason I’m totally out of touch with my geek ness.

If I’m going to get a computer, it’ll be a Mac.

Worth it?

I always buy AppleCare.
This time too?

therieau,
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@Pagan_Animist If it's an Intel-based Macbook Air, then no because macOS is probably looking at EOL for Intel sooner. Also, the butterfly keyboard is terrible. If it's an M1 Macbook Air, also no because, as I often say, never get a rev.1 motherboard from Apple. If you're very brave (I'm typing this on an i5 2019 Air) $700 is a great deal. Get as much RAM and as much storage as you can, though.

Cheers!

StillIRise1963, to random
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What happens if Mrs. Alito’s neighbor spits back?🤔

therieau,
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@StillIRise1963 Was the, "Mrs. Alito is too powerful to be controlled by a simple Supreme Court Justice" letter supposed to feed the narrative that the court is justified in controlling women's health?

paulrickards, to retrocomputing
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A Hayes appreciation post.

therieau,
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@paulrickards

StillIRise1963, to random
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I want a Jetsons future, not a Matrix Zion future.

therieau,
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@StillIRise1963 You want the candy-colored one, not the actual Jetsons future we seem to be stumbling into right now.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/3/16598440/jetsons-dystopia-dc-comics-future-apocalypse

kiwa, to random
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Every time I come to the office there is someone using a laptop with a bulging battery, gave him a new one

therieau,
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@kiwa "It's so hard to type. The machine rocks back and forth. And my laptop bag is full of tiny screws!"

pluralistic, to random
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Idaho®

therieau,
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@pluralistic "If I'm paying these kinds of prices, my potato better be trademarked!" - steak-eating person

ActionRetro, to random
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Vintage computer nerds will see this and think “hell yeah”

therieau,
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@ActionRetro Oh man, that's the hotness.

ActionRetro, to random
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I have fixed the internet

Delete key
Full trashcan

therieau,
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@ActionRetro Thank you for your service.

StillIRise1963, to random
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therieau,
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@StillIRise1963 I have a single question: Why is a territorial law valid now? Are other territorial laws still valid?

NanoRaptor, to random
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Macintosh PowerBook G3 Wallstreet.

therieau,
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@NanoRaptor My Wallstreet is the I/O champion on my workbench. If it had a working battery, it'd be a real threat.

StillIRise1963, (edited ) to random
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She sounds INSANE.🤣

therieau,
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@StillIRise1963 What is happening? Murder and credit card debt! Katie Britt sounds like a nutso.

ernie, to random
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This move into HaaS printers is so baffling, I’m missing the Leo Apotheker era of HP leadership. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/

therieau,
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@ernie Without looking it up, is your acronym for renting an HP printer "Headaches as a Service"?

NanoRaptor, to random
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PowerBook 540c.

If I had to name a Best Mac Of All Time, this would be it most days.

therieau,
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@NanoRaptor And I had been enjoying this machine, but the power adapter crapped out and it’s either fixing the brick or finding 16.5 volts somewhere else. But where!

ActionRetro, to random
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Hah neat!

therieau,
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@ActionRetro Congratulations! That would look nice as a hood ornament on the Jeep. Here's to many more happy and ridiculous discoveries.

ActionRetro, to random
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Server security updates complete!

therieau,
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@ActionRetro thank you!

StillIRise1963, to random
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I hope these "press" motherfuckers get what they deserve in their old fucking age. I hope it hurts.

therieau,
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@StillIRise1963 So we get together while they're slurping their soup at the skilled nursing facilty and shout, "WHY DO SOME PEOPLE SAY YOU AREN'T KEEPING IT TOGETHER!" all at once.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Niki Haley wants to raise the SS retirement age to 70.

Life expectancy for African American men in the US is 62*.

For men in general? 73.

Enjoy your negative 8 and 3 years everyone.

*This is for black men born in 1960 ... the cohort who would be retiring soon if they weren't dropping like flies.

therieau,
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@futurebird @littleEva Work 'till you die, then a little beyond that.*

  • See reverse mortgages, funeral expenses...
NanoRaptor, to random
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Thank you all for the links to ticketing systems. I think about three were just what I could have used.

But making a start on implementing them also made me realise I'm probably looking at things way more complex than I needed - I remembered a previous job that was all chaos all the time and set up a personal file tags system that helped make sense of that chaos, and since the inside of my head is also chaos...

It's worked wonders! Yesterday and today I finished eleven backburner restos. Nice.

therieau,
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@NanoRaptor Pretend? You're one of the best I've ever seen.

And also, you're amazing.

kiwa, to random
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fixing old computer, drinking water, not mixing the two though

therieau,
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@kiwa If you're not mixing the two, do you have a plan to release excess smoke buildup in the computer? (asking for a friend)

pluralistic, to random
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Rooftop solar is the future, but it's also a scam. It didn't have to be, but the US decided the best way to roll out distributed, resilient, renewable energy was to let Wall Street run the show. They turned it into a scam, and now it's in terrible trouble. which means we're in terrible trouble.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/27/here-comes-the-sun-king/#sign-here

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therieau,
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@Viss @thestrangelet @pluralistic That sounds like an absolute nightmare. What if you have the skills to build a system yourself? Do you still need to deal with these knuckleheads to get permits/grid tie?

black_intellect, to random
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Elon Musk Seems to Endorse Tweet Saying Students at Black Colleges Have Low IQs https://www.yahoo.com/tech/elon-musk-endorses-tweet-saying-210500360.html

therieau,
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@black_intellect
Time to send your employer's social media manager a link to this and ask why they haven't left X yet.

ActionRetro, to random
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This was a real computer case you could buy

The front panel is gold plastic, with DVD drive and a big button
The back, showing computers ports

therieau,
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@ActionRetro I found your monitor!

pluralistic, to random
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No operational photography permitted

therieau,
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@pluralistic Eleventy thousand years ago, I took my new 35mm camera out to the desert across the street from Walter Annenberg's estate while Reagan was partying there over the new year holiday to get some shots for the school newspaper. I didn't get hassled by Secret Service. I got hassled by the other photographers. Effing gatekeepers.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Airgap cable.

therieau,
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@NanoRaptor I've made a bunch of those over the years. 🤦

kiwa, to random
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New laptop

therieau,
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@kiwa The keyboard looks a little cramped for these absurd meat hooks, but the built-in mouse is an inspired choice. Digging it.

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