@GNUxeava i actually remember preferring 2000 pro to xp
can't do an offline install of 12.1 on an imac pro even with "medium" boot security and external booting enabled. trying to boot the 12.1 installer says it "requires an update" which doesn't work without network. i think it's a bridgeOS (T2) update but still, no way to establish a trustworthy OS on this thing.
i've been reinstalling OSes for twenty five years. today i booted to external media, formatted, and went to reinstall.
guess who formatted the wrong disk?
of course it was the temp/scratch usb3/flash disk that just had, like, mp3s and vms and stuff that's easily reproducible, but it's still annoying.
always *double check* that the disk is the right disk before you zeroize it.
@mike this is sort of the right direction but i don't install php apps unless i have to (something this simple i'd just rewrite in a real language) and i want something that does caching/history, and auto-refreshes channels (and pre-downloads them).
sort of like an rss reader but for youtube.
ok, so the dissonance between command/control for keyboard shortcuts between mac and unix was hurting me. i swapped the keys on unix for a while but the problem is that control-c is still used on mac in the terminal for control-c, so then it's physically command (alt)-c in terminal on linux, so no go there. i of course have caps lock as control.
the trick, i've found, is starting to use the physical caps lock key as the shortcut key on linux always.
this is such a pain in the ass.
@novaburst@mstdn.social i don't know what i'm looking at at that link (it looks like just a bunch of commit messages) but i don't think it solves the problem i have. i already have an ssg. it already works well. i already have CI. i can already edit a git repo to update my website automatically. how does this help me?
@doenietzomoeilijk the other mac-retro-styled keyboards that use xda (like the old apple keyboards) don't use exactly right type (it's not Univers, it's something close but off) and the only one I can find (that one I linked) is some weird special etsy thing that only takes paypal and not etsy's normal checkout flow. paypal, has, of course, blacklisted all my cards.
why is giving people money on the internet so hard?
people complain when i (objectively, accurately) use the term spyware to describe software that bundles opt-out analytics. it transmits your activity off your device, without your consent, often silently. everyone gets butthurt and says "that's not spyware, that's analytics" but not one person has offered any explanation on how that's *not* exactly the same thing that spyware is and does.
this is so fucked up. reporter out alone operating camera and doing a segment, gets hit by a car.
are we angry at the car operator who hit a well lit human being? no, we're angry at the newsrooms who send reporters out alone for some reason?
how is this not victim blaming? it happened because she was alone? fuck no, it happened because americans don't pay attention to the road.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/us/reporter-hit-by-car.html
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1147217161/minimalist-mac-style-pbt-keycap-set-124
someone has my number fuckin' stone cold
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