Too many years on bbedit to change now. But Kate is great, too.

Well, we do extract and refine our own gasoline in canuckistan, so maybe it’s that.

My 520ST paid much of my way through university using PaperClip to format documents for other students.

It led me into exploring TeX on the school mainframe, and unix.

Later, I worked with possibly the very first gui granular synthesizer program, developed on a ST1040, which was kind of old at that point.

It’s a bullshit term, too much attention sometimes,cognizant avoidance othertimes, not a deficit, a management dysfunction.

Some governments use self-managed Rocketchat and similar.

You can also run a Matrix site federated but fully private and get similar security with more features.

Don’t fall for it, it’s just a hairstyle.

Apple has been optimizing macOS for underpowered machines for a long time.

Testing a bunch of linux distros on old intel macbooks has shown me that apple is really good with resource management on their vertically integrated hardware, even with greedy daemons like identityserverd or whatever it is, trolling through your drive cataloguing faces in your photos all the time, and the relentless indexing system, and telemetry.

Most models work smoothly most of the time, even the little 11" Air with 4GB, doing standard basic user stuff, and the 2020 1.1 GHz i3 Air is somehow usable on macOS 15, basically current.

It’s fine for all those use cases. The M1 Air rocks all that 5 years later.

Also: install xcode, then

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

or something like that, and stretch macOS a little. I bet if they refresh the model with 12 GB of RAM running emulation and virtualization will be hot.

Nicotine was a medication when I was undiagnosed, for over 30 years, on and off. I would stop for a while and then small dose here, small dose there, and back at somewhat regular smoking again.

After diagnosis I looked things up, realized why I smoked and that I have better meds now, stopped permanently one day shortly after. Weirdly, no fuss and the nicotine withdrawal hasn’t been a problem.

So, so much freer and cleaner and I have my sensitive sense of smell back.

I like buttered toast

Savings add up and automation keybinders are an investment.

I once calculated that a full-time spreadsheet and word processing user can save more than a half a day per year just memorizing cut copy paste shortcuts. Let’s not get into the tab key combos, or undo or print or escape, too hard to count, but a lot.

But the original comment was way different, wasn’t it?

Yeaaaaah, I think it was worth a corrective comment, not a long-ass thread with a bunch of misunderstanding in it, where “race” gets repeatedly used like it’s scientific and not bullshit, and you really went to bat hard on a side issue of baldness in the bigger political issue, while appearing to argue against a vulnerable population’s safe spaces.

People tried to school you because you seem to have a watered down view of racism. I suspect you’re not North American maybe, where things are pretty tense on the topic.

PSN required to play online games. Ongoing subscription, not cheap. So no, not fully functional, except as a pickpocket.

Yeah you presented as asserting that racism isn’t a valid concern regarding hair issues and that other “races” are just as vulnerable around hair issues. It’s a bad look.

Wow OK

Ah well it looked like you were arguing against the elevated importance of hair salons and barbershops for people of african descent.

I am not sure how you concluded anyone is arguing the last point, I missed that.

People aren’t arguing about white peoples and others not having community in the barbershop, but that there’s a layer of risk due to hair type combined with prejudice that puts black hair salons and barbershops at a higher level of necessity. Even in Canada, or maybe especially in Canada, this is obvious.

Sure white people can go to any barber and be sure they have been trained in straight hair but that is not the point. White people with extremely curly or frizzy hair are also poorly served by society.

So people of African descent have a skill gap to contend with, on top of prejudice to negotiate, and hair becomes a political thing where community needs to close ranks.

Why is it a more meaningful relationship than for non-blacks? Tradition on top of comfort and security, and a layer of “insider knowledge.”

Getting huffy about it is pretty cringy, though, and I wish you were more open to learning.

The bandaged eye sells the joke beautifully.