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@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!

@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..

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!

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 😅

(viewable at https://amys.website/orchids if interested)

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

also didn't realize these things' fans are fully off most of the time, afaik the airs are always spinning at low rpm? kind of neat

silly 2015 mbp 13" situation today, no force touch (touchpad worked otherwise) and it only turned on intermittently with the touchpad connected... turns out this random capacitor on the bottom of the touchpad daughterboard was visibly burnt, and immediately crumbled into powder when i squished it with pliers. now it boots reliably and force touch is back?? not complaining, lol

@Cykelero you should, it's so versatile! get the pre-toasted stuff if you can, though you can also bake a bunch in the oven yourself and store it for later

wonder what i'd eat every day if my ex hadn't fed me buckwheat in high school. wonderful stuff. cheap, healthy, cooks in 5 minutes in the microwave, tastes good on its own or with soy sauce, random vegetables, peas, nuts or mostly anything else that would be good on rice 😋 i love it

@mr_mrak @gruber did anyone ever actually show a link between Keystone and high WindowServer cpu usage or even suggest a mechanism for it?

the whole thing seemed like a red herring to me, with Chrome itself, another graphical app or a macOS bug as the more likely cause...