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hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.

(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

i've ordered jeans which fit me. then ordered a size smaller to check if it's too small. it is too small. why did i do that

@ireneista same (i think?) here, the "condition" and "item location" dropdowns are broken for me. was also wondering if it's somehow my fault, but sounds unlikely then

@samhenrigold doesn't "plateau" imply flat? i mean, unfortunately accurate in my case, but seems risky for general use

i believe in a "misery business" x "better than revenge" cinematic universe i.e. they're about each other/the same guy

becoming the mythical "10x engineer" by simply spending 10 minutes on the computer for every minute in the day

(for some reason, my pc just Does This every week. i don't know why)

re: extremely flashing lights 

@nina_kali_nina (11" gang 😮) played with it some more with my sibling, and it seems to vary by viewing angle; they see red on "red" from the side but green head-on. i'm still not sure i ever see red, but it's definitely not always green. sometimes yellow? lol. really interesting effect!

extremely flashing lights 

@nina_kali_nina fascinating. i see green, purple, and black respectively. no idea if my laptop (11" macbook air) or brain is at fault here 😅

ofc, i'll be keeping the 11" macbook air as my main laptop since the 12" is very slow and a notoriously unreliable model, but it _is_ very light and very cute..

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bought as non-working on ebay for ~100 cad. turned out all internal flex cables were torn (???), the keyboard had several bad keys, plus an unrelated short in the touchpad caused it to intermittently think the power button was held down 😅

...at least the main board and screen were alright, and i stole cables and a keyboard (~90 screws, yay) from a second machine. the touchpad issue confused me for a while but resolved in the end just by cleaning corrosion!

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finally got my hands on my very own [in]famous 12" macbook!

@eb i had a similar experience last year; my gen 2 airpods' batteries became unusable and i "temporarily" switched to wired earpods (came with my sibling's iphone 8)

they fit and sound ~the same, and i never got around to shopping for new airpods. picked up a spare pair of earpods instead 😅

finally learned the name of my mystery brassanthe orchid by umm, reading a label i didn't see before 😅

obligatory 1y hardware replacement therapy posting

highly recommend, less so the preceding years of Fucking Around

@BasicAppleGuy i've always loved how the big sur wallpaper makes the menubar almost solid purple on some screen resolutions

i swear they introduced new colors of purple flowers this year

for the macos 26 beta enjoyers, this seems to enable a water animation on the default wallpaper (at a couple fps, lol, maybe hidden for a reason)

sudo mkdir -p /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/NeptuneWallpaper.plist onemove -dict Enabled -bool true

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