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I was mostly objecting to the "perfectly" part. And I couldn't resist making a Princess Bride reference for amusement.

From the link: "Note: The inbuilt WiFi chip is not natively supported by FreeBSD, so you will need to (temporarily) use a USB WiFi or Ethernet dongle, or (as I will explain) copy s…

It is significant if you remain healthy and employed with income. But it is basically nothing if you get laid off at age 56, and you can't find another job due to age discriminatio…

I felt this pain yesterday. I use Open Core Legacy Patcher (OCLP) to run modern macOS on old Intel macs. The first time the computer boots after an upgrade (e.g. Sequoia 15.7.3 to …

Yup. The MBA11 is probably my favorite laptop of all time. It's my daily driver. I have 4 of those now, running MacOS and Linux Mint. I was really hoping for the Neo to be more lik…

The solution to turn off "load images" in the web email clients. One side effect is that Capital One thinks that it has the wrong email address for me: "You haven’t opened an email…

How does nixos solve Firefox configuration on MacOS and Windows? :-) I use all 3 OSes daily.

I guess personal preference? Image preview is slightly slower and has noticeable latency, compared to the text popup that is almost instantaneous. And it is more visually distracti…

Did not know about 'user.js', thanks! I guess creating a document that lists all my overrides was the first step. Now I have to figure out how to create a user.js that works on Lin…

No kidding. I had to create a Google Doc document to remember all the little things that I have to clobber in Firefox to make it behave reasonably. Here is an excerpt of how I clob…

I don't know what to tell you. I'm older than you. I've seen it happen 20-30 times in my life. I've seen batteries leak in flashlights, clock radios (the backup battery), wall cloc…

Great in theory. In practice, the Duracell alkaline battery will leak caustic fluids inside the remote control and destroy it, and you will have to mortgage your house to buy a rep…

Yeah, most of the devices using 9V are smoke/CO detectors which only accept alkalines. I don't use the few remaining 9V devices enough to justify buying a new charger.

Three things prevent me from eliminating all alkalines: * smoke and CO detectors with low-battery voltage sensors calibrated to alkaline * some older electronics (e.g. multimeters)…

Any chance you can prevent the left hand navigation floating widget of 10 bubbles (no idea what it's called) from rendering on top of the actual content? It obscures the text that …

Haha, so a trackpoint is the best thing ever, better than any trackpad, if you are stuck in the year 1992.

Pinch zooming is not the same as keyboard zooming though. With pinch zooming, the entire webpage is magnified, including images. With keyboard zooming, the images become smaller (t…

How can that work? Middle click is the "paste" function in X11. If I'm in a terminal emulator, how can I two-finger scroll over the output history buffer? What if I am hovering ove…

What is the trackpoint equivalent of the two-finger scroll? I cannot imagine browsing the web without the two-finger scroll. Or pinch-zooming, how do you do that with a trackpoint?…

Did not know that, thanks for the info. But Apple lost me as a customer 10 years ago with their hostile actions. Even if they added back USB-A, I wouldn't go back.

Not all reverted. Still waiting for my USB-A ports and the SD card reader, on laptops described as "Pro". It's as if Apple forgot that "Pro" is a shorthand for "professional" inste…

Same. I buy Motorola phones because they have 3.5mm headphone jacks, real SIM cards, and microSD cards.

I agree that the article is a bit unfocused about the supporting material. But the primary topic is clear: it's about the memory consumption of the Go map implementation. This is a…

Off topic: Something on that web page causes Firefox on my MBA2020 to use 133% of CPU, 30% of GPU Helper, the fan goes to full speed, and scrolling is slow and janky. I can barely …

Sounds awful. Luckily we still have other options. I hope I never have to use GNOME again.