marimo @a@asentientbot.ca

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you can use computers every day for thirty years and still be utterly blown away by new error messages you cannot even begin to comprehend

I've wanted to make these diagrams for so long.

Google has announced that they will now consider an account dead and delete it if it receives no logins for two years. If you have any gmail accounts you don't use often, or have custody of someone else's while they're in jail/the hospital/the tundra or whatever, you should set a recurring alarm on your calendar to manually log into it every few months.

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Wavy

Fucking YIKES. This looks like it's both burnt AND corroded?
Did this get hit with wet lightning or something!?

⚠️​ HELP WANTED ⚠️​

It looks like the new M3/Pro/Max machines are shipped out with THREE separate unreleased builds of macOS:
- 13.5 (22G2074)
- 13.5 (22G2080)
- 14.1 (23B2073)
If you're getting any such machine, find it has one of the above builds and would like to help preserve its firmware before updating, please reach out to me.

I don't get why so many people rant against Apple for putting firmware on the internal storage, "because SSDs are consumable". Does anyone seriously go around booting machines from external storage when internal storage dies, on any sort of long-term basis? That's ridiculous. Especially for laptops.

What you do is replace the SSD.

Which is why the real argument you want to be making is for replaceable storage, which makes a lot of sense.

Apple have very good reasons for putting boot components on internal storage and only booting from internal storage. They do not have good reasons for not putting their NANDs on sticks (and in fact they do, on Studio and Mac Pro models, so they certainly could do it on all the others). Argue for that, not the silly external storage thing.

It’s not just you: Apple Weather widget is showing a file icon instead of snow https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/31/apple-weather-app-widget-file-icon/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

would you love -yourself- if you were a worm? can you love yourself even though you’re -not- a worm?

Richard Stallman, in the flesh - or, rather, in the sandals. I took the liberty of relieving you of your software. Most of them were proprietary property. As for the ThinkPad, I think you've earned it.

@tay I also love it whenever I have that drive connected but it's currently spun down, I open a save dialog in any app, and it brings all file system accesses to a complete halt for 35s until that drive has spun up, even though nothing accessed anything on it. I swear I need to write a disk image driver for some Apple engineers that has 10s latency on any and all operations, just to make them fix everything else.

#RightToRepair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than #apple whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of #ewaste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.

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As a teenager growing up in #Ontario, I always envied the kids who spent their summers #TreePlanting; they'd come back from the bush in September, insect-chewed and leathery, with new muscle, incredible stories, thousands of dollars, and a glow imparted by the knowledge that they'd made a new forest with their own blistered hands.

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