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5 years ago

I agree. I've always been a ThinkPad fan, although oldest I've tried and actually touched was a T510 (2010?). Had South Bridge problems, wouldn't boot sometimes, so I sent it back to its seller on eBay. I'd imagine old Macs to definitely be a little more robust, though I still love IBM's hardware motifs.

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5 years ago

How useful/fun do you think buying an old Macbook/Mac Pro would be, particularly one from the Snow Leopard era? Never owned a Mac before, but I love the aesthetic and function of old OSX from what I've seen. I'm thinking of an older desktop model, maybe 2009/10/11, for document work and browsing; don't want to deal with a crappy battery, after all.

thatwhitehand 5 years ago

I have one that goes all the way up to Catalina, I just like to Dual Boot it with older versions. I also have a MacBook Core Duo white model and an iBook G4. Its great fun to mess with older hardware, see how usable it is in 2020, ect. I have done it before when my computer was down and actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

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elaboraet spyware

5 years ago

I'm proud to be an early follower and followed person of this site, ha. Looks like it really grew.

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elaboraet k7

5 years ago

Interesting layout, I haven't yet seen a PDF as a site index before. Come to think of it, that could probably make things a whole lot easier to design! maybe just a little slower to load.

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k7 5 years ago

It really does make things easier if you just want to upload a .docx file online.

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5 years ago

Looks interesting!

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No update today, just a vert align adjustment

elaboraet nohappynonsense

5 years ago

Mhm, I guess it's a minor touch. I guess I'll keep Moon for now. Hey, looks great at least!

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elaboraet thatwhitehand

5 years ago

Aw, I only found Arctic Fox for PPC Linux. Have you ever found an x86-based Linux binary?

elaboraet nohappynonsense

5 years ago

That's right, I remember seeing a CSS trick for Firefox, userChrome method or something similar. Wouldn't an update wipe it out, though?

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nohappynonsense 5 years ago

It prob would, yeah. But I'd imagine you could just retain the code and copy paste it as needed? Tabs on top don't bother me much so I've never looked into the fix too much

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5 years ago

I'm in another one of those moments...Should I use Pale Moon or Firefox? I had Pale Moon freeze for a solid five seconds trying to load an Imgur gallery just now, but Firefox doesn't have a tabs-on-bottom feature :(

thatwhitehand 5 years ago

If its compatible with your system you can try Arctic Fox, Pale Moon but with the bugs worked out.

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nohappynonsense 5 years ago

i believe you can do tabs on bottom with a custom CSS style for firefox, no?

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elaboraet letslearntogether

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I love your latest blog post "Light in the Dark." A transcendant or guiding purpose, whatever it is, always justifies patience and endurance. Too many today have lost any sense of a purpose and live in a daze, as if dead, and then consume entertainment and junk trying to fill that void a missing purpose left.

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letslearntogether 5 years ago

Thank you! Indeed. That is a very good point! I am often reminded of a famous Nietzsche quote, to paraphrase: "If I have a why, then I can endure any how." Without a clear why, many seem to be drifting through life, and the "bread and circuses" only serve to further distract them from their purpose. Unfortunately, when someone feels "burnt out" from the toil of the day, they can think of little else...

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letslearntogether 5 years ago

...consuming some "junk" (food, drugs, media) before they go to bed and repeat the process again the next day. This is a cycle that I hope I can help everyone to break, including myself. Thanks again!

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thatwhitehand elaboraet

5 years ago

That Linux story was a good read. I went through a similar process myself where I switched from slackware to Ubuntu.

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elaboraet 5 years ago

Traitor! /s In seriousness I think the one thing holding me back from vanilla Ubuntu is the default UI scheming. It almost reminds me of the UI on those Xiaomi/etc phones

elaboraet xgqyx

5 years ago

I did try SMPlayer (I think MPV uses the same backend mplayer, right?) since it didn't have the same volume syncing issue. Unfortunately it wasn't able to open remote files! Just stuck with VLC for now. Does MPV do something better than VLC?

xgqyx 5 years ago

MPV has the advantage of offering a lot of features in a really small package, it has over 400 options and can load videos from URL.

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xgqyx 5 years ago

Have you ever tried MPV ? VLC is bloated.

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elaboraet quokka

5 years ago

I remember this site! Very nice. Too bad it's dormant now

quokka 5 years ago

Thanks for the comment. I'm in college now, and I really need to update this log badly.

quokka 5 years ago

I guess you reminded me this was still here. :P

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