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Have you ever read the first constitution of the United States? This portion of the Articles of Confederation may provide insight as to the context of the second amendment. I just think it’s interesting to note that it provides no provision at all for individual ownership of firearms. 🤷♂️
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Apple gleefully breaking shipped App Store apps. It’s still broken right now. Entirely preventable. 🤷♂️ replay.software/updates/u…
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Had to go into the dungeon under the house to reset the circuit breaker today. Not a fun chore. Intensely disliked. Yeah, so I used to work at a place where we made dungeon crawlers? That doesn’t mean I actually like dungeons in which things are for real crawling around.
🕷️🕸️⚔️🛡️😅🧹🕯️🕸️🕷️
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Synergy is unusable on recent versions of macOS. I’m told this is because of issues with network drivers and AirDrop/Handoff. Maybe this is true, but it worked for years with those features existing. 🤷♂️ Got fed up and picked up a trial of Duet Display. Seems better supported, but not great.
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Turns out it wasn’t a business decision after all. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/…
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We are all Jimmy Kimmel tonight. youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_…
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KOMO-TV (Sinclair) still refuses to air Kimmel. Call them @ 206-404-4000 (opt 2) and tell them what you think about that.
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KOMO-TV in Seattle (a Sinclair-owned station) continues to refuse to air Jimmy Kimmel. I’ve been suspicious about this since the announcement from ABC as KOMO did not publish any reporting about it. In fact, today, they re-published a conservative blog post and treated it like their own reporting.
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Core memory.
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Lol there is no volume indicator when you adjust the volume via the keyboard while in a lock screen on macOS 26 Tahoe. Who is doing UX over there? 😆
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Kick ass, Mr. P.C. youtu.be/GcBblRwHh… 🎶
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I think iPadOS 26 is the biggest win of this year’s updates. The multitasking improvements really do make it a lot more like macOS. I’d like to see an option to pin the “Finder” menu to the top of the screen. Also, I want to be able to vertically scroll through all my stage manager spaces.
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First they pulled people off the streets, and now they are pulling people off the air. Next up, they’ll pull you out of your house.
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I’m reserving judgement about macOS 26 Tahoe, but I’ve noticed that system performance for basic things like dragging windows around can be pretty rough on M1-series Macs. I don’t have any newer machines, but I’m currently trusting that this will be resolved in 26.0.1, 26.1 or 26.2. 🤞
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Caught the end of the Leagues Cup! I realized that soccer is just basketball you play with your feet. ⚽️
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Blue Angels supercut from today’s performance! 🎬 youtu.be/HN7sAXLmX…
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What convinced me to change my political alignment from liberal to democratic socialist was the recognition that FDR was not simply an altruistic class traitor in a vacuum, but that he existed in the space just after the Russian revolution. The New Deal was a compromise to prevent a revolution.
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Here’s my current update strategy on Windows btw:
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Hop into WSL and run: omz update; sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade; brew update && brew upgrade
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Once or twice a week: Fire up UniGetUI and force updates for most user apps.
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About once a day: Manually run Windows Update.
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Fuck you, Windows Update
Windows Update is broken. Full stop. The situation regarding unwanted reboots is unacceptable. My work machine is on Windows 11 and I’ve tried all of this shit to no avail: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ans…
None of these solutions appear to be effective at preventing automatic updates from triggering a system restart without asking me. Short of completely turning off the Windows Update service itself, which makes it impossible to get updates at all even manually.
I’ve been running an experiment lately: I specifically make a point to run Windows Update once a day and STILL I come to my machine this morning and it had restarted itself, fucking up the state of my apps. I’m not crazy: My system was already VERY UP TO DATE and Windows Update is just fucking with all of us.
Now what system update could possibly have come out between yesterday and today that REQUIRED a system restart that the system didn’t bother to notify me about a day ago?
What I want is for Windows to toss up a dialog when it needs an update. It can pop up once a day if need be for persistence sake if I’m not cooperating. Then I can choose when to apply the update. That’s all I want. It should never – EVER – fucking just restart my machine without asking me first. Ever. Don’t do it.
It’s just a batshit situation. This software does not respect the user’s wishes at all. Why do we tolerate this? It’s like the Windows Update software is designed to provide the user with settings that are nothing more than elevator buttons that don’t do anything at all. It’s like an illusion of control.
Well fuck you, Windows Update.
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And here’s a possibly controversial hot 🍕 take: Pizza without pepperoni isn’t pizza at all! #ATP
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I have many thoughts about the latest ATP member special. 🍕 atp.fm/atp-tier-…
My 2 cents: Pagliacci’s Diavola is IMO one of the best pizzas in Seattle. The soppressata + hot honey combo is wonderful. Fight me, Marco (jk). 😆 pagliacci.com/order/pro…
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Dave got a VAX youtu.be/z-iA_9U3W…
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“The government is abducting individuals … purely on the basis of protected political speech that they disagree with” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2…
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Looking forward to the ATP follow-up on this one. It turned out exactly as expected: Apple would likely sooner Brexit rather than allow this overreach by the UK government to succeed. daringfireball.net/linked/20…
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Heads up: I just learned all sales are now final at Bartell Drugs. While I was ultimately able to convince a level-headed store manager that it was unreasonable to apply that policy to a defective product, buyer beware! seattlemag.com/seattle-c…
RIP Bartell Drugs.
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