@rscottjones I never really looked at making friends as the result of a decision. It's always been more of a natural desire that I just go along with.
@techhelpkb
1) Agreed - PIA
2) Agreed - PIA
3) Don't care. I don't use window management
4) Don't care - Not a gamer
5) All computers age out eventually; Windows just did the same thing to older PCs w/out TPM 2 chips for Windows 11
In my ongoing attempts to move away from the bigger tech company's I am thinking of subscribing to Kagi search. Does anyone have any pros or cons to throw my way?
@mph that's beautiful
Ramen is Classy - Once a staple of poor college students and prison inmates, ramen is today a respected restaurant dish - https://linkage.lol/ramen-is-classy/
Breaking Things - I have a history of fighting computers until the wee hours of the morning after breaking them after questionable decisions - https://louplummer.lol/breaking-things/
Today on AppAddict - Topgrade - Upgrade All the Things - One of the more useful Homebrew apps I've found is topgrade-rs, the currently maintained fork of topgrade, an updater for Homebrew, the Mac App Store, MacOS, VSCode extensions and Rust. It is supremely easy to use. Just enter the command
topgrade in Terminal and sit back while it does the... - https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/topgrade-upgrade-all-the-things -
@jasonekratz Discovered I was still running the Intel version from using Migration Assistant. Installed the ARM version and lost connection to all my formulae, taps and casks. I don't understand it well enough to write coherently about it LOL. Computers are too complicated. They will never catch on.
@dhry I can't verbalize how much I hate those things
Going into my fifth hour of trying to fix a broken Homebrew install on my MacBook. I haven't written a single blog post today. Hopefully I can knock something out in the AM. My daily posting streak goes back to March.
@matt I have a Canondale Synapse with 30K miles on it. It's a road bike with a comfortable geometry. Carbon fiber. Mine is a 2011 model and still rides perfectly.
@benbrown I was in TX last week, well Austin, if that counts. Heard from a guy who had weed delivered by a hippie in a minivan after ordering it on the Internet right in Hyde Park. Saw lots of Harris/Walz and Colin Allred signs. Greetings from NC where our Republicans are as bad as yours.
Trying to decide if I am curious enough about Gruber's latest passionate defense of Apple vis a vis the browser wars to read it. No, I don't think I am because if he drops some of his fucked up hot takes on important issues in there, then he will have gotten me again and I don't feel like being got.
@jimmitchell I pay but hardly ever use the AI. I like the syncing between computers though and I do use it for my clipboard management so the unlimited history is helpful too.
@birming There were two other ones in color of ladies who had been to an Indian Holi festival and were covered in colored chalk.
<p>The 101st Stranger - I found a long-lost photo today from when I was working on my 100 Strangers project. This is Steve, a street guy whom I gave $2 and made him promise not to spend it on food.</p>
<img src="https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/07e70188b86e2d0980424aa8994758a2.jpeg" width="600" height="400" alt="">
- https://amerpie.lol/2024/09/06/the-st-stranger.html - #Photography
Tattoo Facts - A full third of Americans have at least one tattoo and people have benn getting them for over 5,000 years. - https://linkage.lol/tattoo-facts/
@raccoon That was actually the toolbag belonging to a much more accomplished network engineer, a woman, who sent me to fetch it at a time when I had to carry it through a crowd of high school students. I told her I didn't mind one bit.
Non-Toxic Masculinity - Testosterone fueled chest thumping and belittling behaviors aren't required and aren't appreciated - https://louplummer.lol/non-toxic-masculinity/
More parenting advice
Today on AppAddict - Haste - A Web Search Utility - Haste, by Plastic Software, is a keyboard centric search utility that can access a wide variety of websites without you having to manually switch to your browser and type a URL or access a bookmark. You activate the search by tapping the command key twice. Then you enter the text... - https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/haste-a-web-search-utility - #Mac Apps
@mihobu I am impressed not only with all the thought you put into your tattoo, but also with the result. Talk about Go Big or Go Home! I also like that you take pride in your home state and wanted to honor that.
Out student union has a grand piano in it for people to play. It also has great acoustics. I stopped by today to get a coffee and there was guy there playing Springsteen's Thunder Road beautifully, so I stopped and listened. As soon as he was done, I went to give him props but he was already into another tune, Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, playing it just as good. I was mesmerized.
@BrianJopek I've been working in education for a quarter of a century and it is strange how it went from something we never thought about to something we think about all the time. I am sorry for your loss.
@starbreaker @keenan @matt I'm eyeing that disclaimer with envy. I may have to adapt that.
@numericcitizen It's not. This is mocking conservatives.
Slow Horses - The Books - The hit TV show, Slow Horses, is based on a series of spy novels by Mick Herron about misfit MI5 agents led by Jackson Lamb. - https://linkage.lol/slow-horses-the-books/
This is a photo of Ricky Aspinwall with his wife Shayna and their two daughters. Those at Apalachee High knew him as “Coach A”. He went to school today for the kids, because he loved investing in young people’s futures.
Ricky Aspinwall died today at the hands of someone with access to an AR-15. He was ushering students to safety when it happened.
We must remember him. Today, tomorrow, and especially on November 5.
@dsilverman One of the greatest song writers ever,
Books and More Books, Never Enough - I am a lifelong reader of a great variety of books, lowbrow and highbrow and I'll never have enough of them. - https://louplummer.lol/books-and-more-books/
To all my fellow Bear Bloggers - One of the luckiest shots I've ever taken. Catching the light that way was a pure accident. This is me before coffee - a big dangerous lug sitting in dim light staring into space. (Grizzly bear, NC Zoological Park, Asheboro, NC 2015)
@mbjones @philomath Y'all know about this site, right? https://s-blu.github.io/basic-dataview-query-builder/
Today on AppAddict - MacTube - An Ad-Free YouTube Player and More - Mac Tube is an ad-free YouTube player currently also supporting AppleTV, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Max, Disney+, Peacock, Tubi and CrunchyRoll as well as Vimeo, Twitch, Ted Talks, BigThink and TikTok. The developer's website doesn't it make it clear, but the Mac App Store version of the app, known... - https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/peartube-an-ad-free-youtube-player - #Mac Apps
@daniel @jedda There's a submission form on the page at https://blogroll.club
Be careful, this happened to all three of my kids! It could happen to yours too.
@jimmitchell Nope, that trail name was 100% political. My wife's name "Hush" comes from her introverted and quiet nature.
@jimmitchell Thanks Jim! https://athikerpictures.org/hikers/30620
@mariovillalobos Don’t turn it off. I was in an accident yesterday and mine activated. Thanks fully I didn’t need 911 but it was reassuring to know that it did what it was supposed to do.
@mbjones What's her user name? I'll go over there and shill for her.
Speak up. Speak your truth.
Apple Watch Fall Detection and My Latest Accident - Apple Watches from Series 4 on up feature a robust and valuable fall detection feature that activated for me after an accident. - https://linkage.lol/apple-watch-fall-detection/
Everyone Talks About the Weather - We may feel like we are in control of our environment, but mother nature has ways to prove that to be a fallacy. - https://louplummer.lol/everyone-talks-about-the-weather/
<p>Dawn over Tomales Bay near Inverness in Marin County, California #photography</p>
<img src="https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/64d5f28375.jpg" width="600" height="395" alt="">
- https://amerpie.lol/2024/09/04/dawn-over-tomales.html - #Photography
💻 If you don't know the difference between "log out" and "turn it off" you shouldn't even be allowed to use a computer. We are 24 years into the 21st century.
Today on AppAddict - Keyboard Cowboy - Free and Open-Source Automation Software - If you'd like to take a crack at setting up some Mac automations without spending the money that Keyboard Maestro ($36) or Better Touch Tool ($24) will run you, then you should download and try Keyboard Cowboy, a free and open-source automation tool available from the dev's Github site. It... - https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/keyboard-cowboy-free-and-open-source-automation-software - #Mac Apps
@jimmitchell Have keyboard, will travel
@alexandra It should be out in a couple od months
[Apple Watch - Apple](https://www.apple.com/watch/)
@alexandra I have an Ultra 2, but all Apple Watches since series 4 have the fall detection feature
@zicklepop I'm hating that my free .lol domains are $27 to renew. Seems mean.