pet the cat, walk the dog

The goddamn page required me to enable JS to see the list, after which Firefox immediately pushed the system into swap.

Anyway, makes sense since the foundation afaik funds and coordinates development of some important low-level stuff, and these dudes are invested into that (since Fuchsia apparently went nowhere, hehe). Although idk what the foundation wants with React or Neo4j.

Hmmm, bit of an oversight on the part of whoever came up with the encryption format. The disk blocks can just fail by themselves, after all.

See if the headers are duplicated somewhere else on the partition (at the end or somesuch).

This is where Ansible comes in.

Well, ackshually

keep in mind that linux started and still is a server os primarily. DEs started out for the developers to have the ability to have some GUI on the side as well

Absolute nonsense. Unix GUIs and workstations predate Linux. The X Window System was first released in 1984, the Motif widget toolkit in 1989, and both were alternatives to existing proprietary GUIs. The workstation landscape was a Wild West before Windows prevailed.

Buy used. Worked great for me.

Just to recheck, you’re saying that Scandinavian countries are authoritarian?

And, you realize that some capitalist countries with private property and capitalist markets, in practice approach anarchy?

So every capitalist country is authoritarian?

I’ll tell you more, the UK is one of the leading countries in cameras per capita, either installed or accessible by the authorities (not sure about exact details). They built government surveillance without any communism in sight.

(Leaving alone that China’s state capitalism is the opposite of communism.)

From Apple’s side, this situation is indistinguishable from the phone having been stolen.

P.S. Although maybe there’s a way to learn to what account a part is locked, and write to them ‘hey bro, could you please unlock this phone you threw away’. Then again, the repair shop also can’t know that the phone wasn’t stolen.

The internet doesn’t stop existing when your phone breaks.

Ask the previous owner to remove the locking, same way as they would need to if you bought the device to use it. What’s the problem?

Again, says right there they should just remove the device from ‘Find my’, which disables Activation Lock, the very same feature that prevents theft for reselling the device for regular use.

Instead of using Repair Assistant to unlock the part, you can remove Activation Lock using Find My.

Sounds like this is to prevent theft for parts. Considering it says right there that parts can be unlocked with the user’s account. So it’s the same mechanism that makes a stolen iPhone non-functional unless unlocked by the user.

Exactly, this depends on the circumstances. E.g. cats tend to bury the waste so it doesn’t smell, while other territorial animals piss on everything in sight to mark the land. Nevertheless, when an animal is jumped by another, they often drop deuces all over while hitting the road dramatically. There’s a recent-ish clip on Reddit of two hippos fighting, wherein one of them decided to do the helicopter distribution of dung in the middle of the altercation.

Not really, it’s well known that animals tend to shit and piss, dropping the weight and encumbrance, right before executing on the fight-or-flight response. People are likewise prone to soiling themselves in fear. So idk why it’s the other way around when just going on my walks, but I’m not gonna complain about it when my city doesn’t have many public toilets open at night.

In my unscientific experience, if I’m on the go as in walking, the piss can be kept in for an hour and more. If I stop, I don’t think willpower alone will prevent me from pissing myself. So the dance is probably simulating the conditions of being too busy for a toilet break.

Yeah, ImagePipe also resizes large images to defined dimensions and quality, which typically reduces the file size. And the app takes all of one megabyte, instead of over 150 that Image Toolbox takes.

Although I have a weird issue that it currently seems to resize smaller images to the target dimensions too, even though ‘max w&h’ is selected.

Hammerspoon and Alfred are way better automation utils than alternatives in Windows or Linux. The absence of these two makes me weep regularly.

Karabiner might be the best too, haven’t looked into third-party Linux remapping utils yet. Both Cinnamon and KDE support only predefined remapping out of the box.

HyperSwitch and a dozen other utils allow customizing cmd-tab switching, namely add switching between windows instead of apps.

Native Clipy clipboard manager is way snappier than CopyQ. At least for Windows there’s Ditto.

There’s even an util called Mos fixing the fact that apps with foreign UI frameworks don’t understand the mouse scrolling speed properly, and treat the mouse and the touchpad differently. Which is also present in Windows.

You know about the touchbar? MTMR allows custom buttons on the touchbar, with custom actions. I’ve used it to connect/disconnect bluetooth headphones or hand them over to the phone (which was also set up as an Alfred command and as buttons on the phone itself, with bidirectional logic everywhere).

Shortcat allows keyboard access to arbitrary UI elements in the active window: sorta like Vimium for browsers, but you type a bit of the text label instead of a two-letter shortcut.

Hazel automatically processes files saved in particular folders, with particular rules — like the downloads. It can e.g. rename, move, or tag them. By the way, did you know that MacOS has tags for files while Windows and Linux have jackshit?

MacOS’ Cocoa UI framework allows addressing any element in an app’s window via xpath (iirc) and manipulate them, if given accessibility permissions from the user. Which permits doing a lot of UI automation without fiddling with mouse coordinates and faking clicks. And can be done with native AppleScript (although I’d prefer that they properly supported JXA instead). By the way, more than a few apps provide their own support for AppleScript, such that for example you can access notes in Evernote with it.

P.S. I also forgot about Automator, which is a first-party app by Apple, bundled with MacOS, that allows creating custom workflows for particular files, apps, or whatever. Neither Windows nor Linux ship with anything remotely like this, and even third-party apps in Win/Lin suck in comparison. iOS also has something similar with the Shortcuts app, while Google phones have the Assistant, which afaik can’t work without phoning home.

There are tons of utils to customize the MacOS UI, including lots of open-source ones and some that kick ass off anything on Linux or Windows. Anyone saying that MacOS can’t be customized, has never used MacOS.