Darren

So he is. It’s been a long day…

What’s especially dumb about this is that Tom is an excellent writer. Villager is wonderful.

Christ, that’s astonishing.

It’s an M2 Air, so it does. Runs very well on it, in fact. But as it currently doesn’t support external displays it’s a little limiting. Other than that, it’s a decent experience. But ultimately macOS is still somewhat more polished.

And somehow those prices won’t really drop when the tarriffs are quietly removed.

I’m looking at you, energy prices.

I recently discovered that, at the beginning of Cheers, Cliff was some five years younger than I currently am, and I’m not happy about this AT ALL.

As someone who’s used Apple’s Pages as my primary word processor app for the past 18 years, I’ve spent the past 6 months or so using only LibreOffice in order to get myself to a place where I’m not reliant on Apple hardware.

And oh my fucking god, LibreOffice is dog shit in comparison. It’s horrifically unwieldy, to the point that it’s only marginally easier to use than Word. And Word is God’s continuing punishment of all mankind for what we did to Jesus. Word is ebola tearing through an orphanage. Word is Kid Rock covering the collected works of U2.

And LibreOffice Writer is just a little better than that.

It kills me that Pages is locked to Apple hardware, because it’s just so nice to use.

What I will offer from my limited experience is that the Mint install I have will begin to topple over after a few weeks if I don’t run updates, whereas my Mac will soldier on without missing a beat if I miss several months of updates.

I’m gradually immersing myself in Linux until my Macbook loses macOS support, at which point I’ll go full time on Asahi, having learned the ropes from Mint on my old Mac mini.

There are still some things that send me scuttling back to macOS, glad that Preview exists with its easy to operate editing and PDF viewing. But I’ll learn to make that stuff second nature in Linux. Eventually.

Which one? Either would lead to remarkably different evenings.

Actually, this is radical.

They haven’t yet responded, so I can only assume that they died of how much they hate you. Sorry.

I’ll test Linux on a Mac this afternoon and see how it goes, but I’m optimistic it will just work also.

I have Mint running on 2011 and 2014 Mac minis. It’s basically flawless. The only trouble you might have is finding the wifi driver, depending on which model you’re using. Iirc, the minis were fine, but the 2011 MacBook Pro I put it on was a little more difficult to track down. But ethernet worked right out of the box, so it wasn’t a huge deal.

Linux on Apple Silicon is a trickier proposition, but getting less tricky all the time.

Bonjour!

I can’t believe that nothing mainly concerning the Ankh Morpork Watch has ever been produced. If nothing else, they could be the source for a great TV show, but so far nothing has ever been made. It’s weird.

Are you a Batman villain, threatening to poison Gotham’s water supply.

I got an LG OLED a few weeks ago. Hands down the best TV screen I’ve ever owned.

Fuck knows what the stock OS does because I’ve only watched Apple TV through it.

Yeah, like several other people on the internet I’m not American, so I have no idea what this is about.

sigh

You post a message containing a demand for an opposition party, then when you’re reminded that they exist you say you won’t vote for them.

And people wonder why most countries have wandered centre-right over the past 40 years.

Drugs Are Really Excellent?