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With HL2 being free on Steam, maybe whole new generations of gamers can discover the aggravations and frustrations of a great unfinished game that will never bring any sense of closure when HL2 and the episodes are completed. To me that's the big legacy of Half Life 2: frustration. Seeing Valve...

There always seems to be this fundamental shift in the life of any social media platform. Once they get to a certain size or become publicly traded, the vampires take over and all effort goes into sucking money out of it. Slowly there's more and more ads. Slowly the algorithm favors clickbait...

As someone who works in the film/tv industry, I think he's just using AI as cover for not spending an enormous pile of money amid a changing landscape. Georgia is considering sunsetting its enormous tax incentives. This would be incredibly disastrous for production there as movie studios...

I saw headlines about these drives not long after buying one in December 2022 (past the return window sadly). Just yesterday, suddenly all the data is gone. I'm glad I had nothing important on there but I guess it was a when, not if, the drive was going to fail. I found a firmware update but...

It's hard to put into words how much I hate the "archive" and "junk" icons in Apple Mail, especially on the phone where these un-intuitive icons always have me scratching my head usually because some google-powered email account will not have delete presented as an option and I'll have to pause...

Follow-up: I never agreed to allow this mysterious update. After 13.2.1 Ventura update, this went away.

What. Is. This. Out of nowhere a message that a system extension from Apple has been updated and I have to approve it in Security & Privacy. Am I being hacked? Seems like maybe it is legit...

I've been incredibly confused as to how the flashlight comes on for a long time. That's how it's triggered? Can it be turned off??? so annoying

I'm so close to buying a Mac Studio, but now I feel I need to wait for the M2 update.

I really wish Microsoft would hurry up. I want to continue to use non-terrible versions of Quicken in a VM.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/08/mac-pro-apple-silicon-same-design/ Does the SOC design of Apple Silicon make it so there simply cannot be external memory? Like they cannot put a memory controller in there that can interface with external memory that would be of course not quite as fast as...

I upgraded to a series 8 watch, and I find myself wondering if there's any use to the temperature sensors other than the health tracking for the ladies? Can apps access those temperature sensors at all? Like for instance if I went on a bike ride could the actual ambient temperature be measured...

In Propublica's article on the study it says: "Such agents sometimes hesitated to push rents higher. Roper said they were often peers of the people they were renting to. “We said there’s way too much empathy going on here,” he said. “This is one of the reasons we wanted to get pricing...

Just read the AppleInsider post about the Mac Pro being a 2023 thing. Looking over at my 2013 Mac Pro I say "Hold on just a little while longer....." Is there even a possibility that Apple could have an option for external memory to the SOC? It would seem limiting for some applications to...

<Heavy Sigh> My 2013 Mac Pro.... is yearning for replacement. I wish this was coming sooner.

One of the first things I noticed was that Siri was talking back again. I looked in settings and Siri can no longer be silenced? Even with the phone on silent mode she talks loudly in response to a command. That's a definite step backwards. The only options for "Spoken responses" now are...

I recently started messing around with the MacOS version of Quicken. I have used the Windows version in a virtual machine for more than a decade I think holding over from my primarily Windows using years long ago, but it seems that Apple Silicon is going to force me to give that up. The...

Did Apple roll out some kind of hot fix or something? I don't do auto updates though I know on occasion Apple pushes out hot fixes.

Overnight suddenly my laptop got recognized as a "new mac." I woke it up to see that system preferences no longer recognized VMWare Fusion as having its needed accessibility permissions, and just by logging in it triggered my watch to ask if I should trust this mac and across my devices...

Just daydreaming of a 16" screen macbook air type thing. An economical 16" screen machine that doesn't have to be super fast or have all the ports or anything but would just be the perfect machine for my mom. One can dream. I think it has a near zero percent chance of happening on Monday lol. Oh...