Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

I would definitely have that setup with an iPad as my web browser if I were setting up from scratch but I’m not inclined to badger my boss into spending money to replace my perfectly fine computer

Really tho I’d probably still run X11 bc window managers are easier for me to deal with than tmux, I just wouldn’t install a browser.

macos command-line only mode isn't really useful, for sure

i'm nostalgically thinking about the times i'd be tweaking my x windows config or just not care about running a gui for a while and just run command line-only linux consoles. if all you do is talk on irc and play quake, it was more than good enough

tbh i wasn't even using tmux, you could switch between linux consoles with what, alt+f1 through f8 by default?

Yah. Still can!

X11 is all Wayland now though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)

(it isn't, i don't think, not yet)

yeah, I think it's a bit optimistic to say that at this point

I haven't used linux on the desktop in a serious way for yeeeears though.

dang maybe I should just get a Pinebook

the last time i used linux for personal use was
about 15 years ago and it was a debian distro.
can't say i miss it.

i usually stick to macs, unless i'm dealing with
servers, which luckily i don't do a whole lot
of work on.

yet you seem to be using a text editor with hard-wrapping instead of actual word wrapping to draft posts

word wrap is fine, most unix text editors have it

At work I just use the 13” laptop screen and run iTerm full screen with a large font size so I’m usually looking at one thing at a time, all the screen real estate I need

― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too but with a vertical tmux split.

HVTN-704% tput cols
97

that's my whole screen. looking at things side by side is for chumps!

lol do you run lynx too

mh, the thing is some browsers i use are in a small
sandbox window, and i'm usually on a work laptop.

we trade laptops and use multiple screens here,
mostly for work. some nerds use it to watch
twitch streams.

i can't be bothered to setup every single machine
i am at before i start using it.

yeah but what browser inserts linebreaks like that no matter how big the window is? Are you unable to scroll to the right? Idgi

like upload a screenshot of what your browser window looks like

lol do you run lynx too

― j., Tuesday, March 12, 2019 4:47 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sadly not as a matter of course, I'm not strong enough, and also I need to uh do web development, for my sins

silby, no, i mean i have to resize everything,
including the browser, to fit everything
i need on the monitors. so instead of just
typing to fill the entire text area, i push
enter out of habit.

it makes things look neater when i write!
:-)

it's just probably a weird habit, but
does it really bother people?

well it's like you're just asking
to get punked at least a little

forgive him
they were delicious

I think
it’s jarring
to read
text
like
that yes

not in
one
of
those
books of
poetry
like
what
robert
creeley
writes,
though

though

john
jacob
jingleheimer
&c
is no
bob
creeley

E E Cummings morelike

what if a much of
a wrap of
a
word

New iMacs with 9th gen processors out today. Are Vega graphics worth the extra £450 though? And surprise! the SSD prices are utter filth.

Probably not

A friend of mine dropped her iMac and now the whole computer is inoperable - a major downside of all-in-ones

Counter-argument is that if you empty a beer over your keyboard, you don’t fry the whole computer.

My late 2007 iMac has finally died. Probably 80% of my computer use is on a MacBook Pro but I do like to have a Mac desktop around for photo editing, managing music, and streaming video via Plex. I usually don't like buying computers used but I'd like to keep the replacement well under $1000 so I've been looking at my options. 2014 Mac Minis are around $300/4GB, slower processor and $400/8GB, faster processor. Thinking of pairing one of those with a <$200 new 27 inch monitor. How bad are sub $200 monitors, considering I've been OK with a 2007 iMac screen for the last 12 years? Will a 2014 Mini run a Photoshop alternative (e.g. Affinity Photo) and process raw images reasonably well?

B&H has the new 21.5 inch 4K iMac on sale for $1100 right now but if I could get by OK for the next couple of years for half that price... I dunno.

Why not just by a good monitor for the MacBook Pro, and an external disk if storage is an issue?

Forgot to mention that the MacBook is a work computer that I don't have admin privileges for so can't install my own software.

And between me, the wife, and kids, we need more than one computer in the house anyway.

I think Ed's line of question probably leads to the right answer - just get some removable storage and a nice external monitor.

How bad are sub $200 monitors, considering I've been OK with a 2007 iMac screen for the last 12 years?

extremely bad. There is not a corollary of Moore's Law that applies to monitors.

we ran into your problem a few years back and did what you're thinking of. so we're now on our second Mac mini (the first went down hard, right on schedule after its AppleCare ran out) with a crappy monitor and we use it for device backups, uploading photos to dropbox, and managing the music library. That is literally all it does. While you could conceivably stay under $1000 for a similar package, I would advise caution (see above re: lifespan of our 2014 Mac mini).

2007 iMac screen likely better than most <200 monitors in the market. Spend a little more and get a dell ultra sharp.

a 2011 mini w SSD and maxed out RAM is an extremely credible general purpose computer fwiw. it can't install mojave but there's little else it can't do.

Do you know what failed on your Mini, Tomboto? Hard drive or something else? Higher spec 2014 Mini and a decent monitor I guess would be approaching $700 -- at which point I can see me talking myself into just getting a new iMac for $400 more. Argh...

bought a new 3rd gen ipad air in lieu of the existence of a macbook with a working keyboard. it’s basically just the old pro with an a12 chip and two (not four) speakers, so it takes smart keyboards and 1st gen apple pencils. really quite impressed with it, considering the price jump to the current pro line. this is fine. massive jump from my ipad 3, which has been effectively useless for several years and is probably the dumbest thing apple ever made,

Was that the first retina iPad? Man that thing was slow.

yep, that thing was a streak of absolute shit

and 12 minutes later they release the ipad 4 with sufficient grunt to run the retina screen. total swizz.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/05/apple-updates-macbook-pro-processors-and-keyboard-extends-keyboard-service-program/

unbelievable that they haven't yet canned the shittest of all possible keyboards. so shit neither Samsung or Acer have copied it

swipe keyboards are an improvement. i feel like i've lost a superpower when i have to use someone else's phone. though the autocorrect is still so bad. surely this is a good use-case for the kind of natural-language tech that powers Alexa etc? don't suggest words that make no sense?

Apple is renaming iOS on the iPad to:

iPadOS

🤯 pic.twitter.com/yRwIAaqW14

— Steve Moser (@SteveMoser) June 3, 2019

hahaha

oh shit, gamechanger

actually interested in this wwdc keynote for once

I'm vaguely interested because it seems like a moment where something interesting *has* to happen?

although right now they're telling developers about how great their original streaming video content is going to be so we're not off to a good start

multiuser TvOS is good. Goodbye Horrid Henry, Goodbye Gardener's World

this is really starting at trundle pace for something that was meant to pack in a whole lot of shit