your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

Hey, I have a somewhat basic Mac IT question, but does anyone know if the new OS is okay for a 2012 Macbook?

I'm using it on a 2011 mini so I'd expect so

i like dashlane - as you say, Karl, it seems about as easy as these things get to be... HOWEVER am examining my options now that the free has expired

what turns off is the "sync" which synchronizes your devices' password lists. so each device still has the same password list as when the "free 30 days" expired - but if you change/add a password on one device, you have to manually add/edit it on your other devices. it's a clever thing to force you to pay for - didn't seem like a big deal at the time, but i now recognize how annoying it is to go without it.

:-/ that's what i was afraid of! so basically, after 30 days, if you added/changed a password on your laptop and had dashlane generated a strong unique one like v#m.g)nm29]|, then then you'd have to either manually enter than in on your iphone or copy and paste it from your laptop to your phone (which seems less than completely secure)?

yes :(

good lord, how many typos can a post have? sorry about that, i was apparently typing in a hurricane!

thanks for confirming, sean! in my quest to never pay for anything, i think my plan is to update all of my passwords on mobile/laptop during this 30-day time of plenty, and then just deal with the occasional headache of adding or changing a new password afterward.

Another vote for 1password - paid version, using iCloud to sync.

Another vote for 1password - paid version, using iCloud to sync.

is there a hoonja doonja for connecting or choosing between which of the various bluetooth enabled appliances around the flat? there must be an easier way than going into settings all the time.

the bluetooth icon in your top menubar
if not there you can enable it in settings

sorry, i meant on a phone.

if it’s for audio the audio player should have the little icon to pick where to send it. other devices, good luck :/

sorry, i meant on a phone.

urp, apparently i was running ssX in emulation on 10.6.8, because upgrading to high sierra has ruined it. is there any good slsk client for an intel-based os x besides soulseekQT?

What’s wrong with qt?

dunno i haven't gotten it yet i guess the idea of being forced into the only possible alternative seemed grim, i remember the clients that were not ssX being pretty bad

QT works better than any other client I've had

i just don't like change ok

it's clunky looking but works like greased lightning

it's the Millennium Falcon of OS X Soulseek clients.

it is!

I use backblaze and pretty happy with it though wish it could just accept that I don't plug in my external hard drive for months at a time

While we're griping, I really wish I could have my external HD eject as soon as Time Machine does its thing. For now it's plug into external monitor/hub, then hope I remember to eject the drive once backup is finished but before I unplug from the monitor.

gonna try to master this multi-touch gesture:

Show desktop
Spread your thumb and three fingers apart to show your desktop.

i always forget about that one

will try the spaces-revealer (four fingers up) too, but that means i will have to make a habit of using extra desktop spaces. i started by setting one to have its own background picture!

still enjoying having a new mac, feeling ~blessed~

- which, once you are using, also makes four fingers right / left useful too, for swiping between spaces (and the dashboard lol)

had to go back to gesture school after one too many accidental pinch-zooms in safari (which gives preview-overviews of all open tabs)

to think, the first computer my family owned had a special key just to get keystrokes to repeat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_Plus#Repeat_key

i mean it's kind of useless to me to be able to reveal the desktop now since i have gone from having 4000 files on my desktop to having zero, but still, good to know it's there, so empty and clean

i use the launcher gesture all the time. it still gives me a little minority report thrill.

i have the bottom right corner set up as show desktop. the corner hotspots are great because they work while you're dragging a file (unlike gestures). i use it a lot to drag files from browsers, etc. to the desktop without needing to hide windows.

You mean you don't always have a .5cm square of desktop on, err, which corner is it today, that you drag things to??

ha!

you have to sort by date modified on desktop imo. then the most recent nonsense is always top right. and with that hot corner, bottom right shows the whole shitshow.

http://proofficecalculator.com

hmm…don't trust it

that was my reaction - bitcoin miner, bot need, what is it?

PCalc 4 life

otm

what's wrong with the default one

no RPN no credibility

RPN all the way. Using the HP theme for full effect.

i was a math major but i could just never get with rpn

huh, interesting. i was viewing a pdf in preview, and outside of that i updated the underlying file and generated a new pdf for it, and preview automatically redrew the newest version. wouldn't have thought it would do that.

it does do that, very useful for TeX things.

Search box is my calculator

lol yes it me

someone described Pro Office Calculator as the Frog Fractions of calculators. if that sentence is not gibberish to you, it may be worth playing around with

hmmm. so it's NOT really a calculator, you're saying

i mean, it DOES work as a calculator, for a while

the finder sorts numbers in filenames in a natural-language order now!

e.g.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
07
8
9
10
11