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@tvaziri.com I’m hoping “The Sheep Detectives” is one of those “wait what do you mean ‘Mean Girls’ is actually really good?” movies.

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I used to be all about clean, neutral UI’s; black & grey everything. Now if I find a bold colorful theme in an app, I’m like.. why not? Embrace the whimsy. Wallpaper also changes color 😊

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@isolyth.dev I will say the experience of using LLMs is really something… I never thought I’d be able to interact with a computer this way.

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@jwac4780.bsky.social I got this set for my older brother for his birthday. Can’t wait to give it to him 😊

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@ansdor.com I respect that as a reason.

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Yeah, you can just call me any form of “Cow.”

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@blaiddwest.bsky.social I guess if all you eat is Pop-Tarts, then sure, fine, have protein Pop-Tarts.

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What I can’t fathom is probiotic Pepsi. What the actual fuck.

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@lonebengalsfan.bsky.social Maybe this is why I play open-world games. I can play them as long as l like with my own goals.

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Or there’s Satisfactory, which after 600 hours and my third attempt at a play-through, I have still not managed to deliver everything to the space elevator. And I am still happy as a clam.

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@thomasfuchs.at The corner radii of windows are out of control. The amount of screen real estate being sacrificed to them is insane, especially on the MacBook Neo.

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@georgevorewell.bsky.social The worst part about waking up from a 10-year coma in 2026 would be finding out Trump is still President.

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@ansdor.com Nice that’s still going! My initial build was in 2016. I’ve replaced most of it over the years; just the motherboard, case, and power supply remain.

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@ansdor.com Dang. My Nvidia GPU was the tricky thing on CentOS when I first built my PC. Ultimately just went with Windows 10 to spare myself the trouble.

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Experimenting with Bazzite on a spare system lately as it’s sort of trying to replicate SteamOS from what I understand. So far so good 🤞

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😑

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@ansdor.com Mileage surely varies on distros, but first game I tried on Bazzite was Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition through Steam, and it worked absolutely fine.

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@oldenoughtosay.com Space, mind, reality, power, time, and soul.

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Well that tracks, I guess.

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@retroblastpod.com I also think it was quite a friendly war. We had the Genesis (and a Sega Master System before that), and the neighbor kid had the SNES. We’d basically ping pong across the cul-de-sac and alternate between them. Such a joyous childhood :)

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@rotomonkey.bsky.social I interviewed with them to work on this a couple years ago and they talked to me about crowd shots and how they were still trying to figure them out. The two glimpses in that trailer are… well, wild 😳

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I wasn’t able to relocate for the job, sadly 🥺

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@tvaziri.com I think a lot of people probably didn’t notice. A lot of the damage seems to be the aesthetic people remember as just being par for the course. I noticed because I was obsessed with movies and worked at a theater at the tail end of the film days.

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Found this really cool little site that shows off all the versions of Mac OS X, from the Cats to California. Check it out!

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@tvaziri.com Or see a movie at a theater that got a print after another was done with it, because the theater chain only got so many prints :)

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@semperwry.bsky.social I think the Cybertruck and/or Tesla Model 6 Plaid notoriously have capacitive arrow buttons on one side of the steering yoke.

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And I mean, technically speaking all turn signals are electronic, in that the stalk sends an electrical signal to a light 🤔

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@semperwry.bsky.social I was just trying to make a joke about people yearning for something so simple 😜 But yes, I absolutely agree with all your points. Preach!

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@semperwry.bsky.social I think this might be at the heart of the backlash over car manufacturers replacing physical knobs and switches with stupid touch screens.

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Safety schmafety, the people yearn for the buttons.

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I’ve come to the realization that my Mac Studio’s password prompt taking almost 5 seconds to appear is due to it waiting for my Apple Watch, which I’m not currently wearing. Turning off Watch unlock makes it pop up instantly. So now I’m deciding if I’d like to give up other watch auth for this 🤔

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@michaelemann.bsky.social “The Demon-Haunted World” and “The Death of Expertise” by Tom Nichols should be read back-to-back. The ending of the former flows right into the whole of the latter.

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Both left me with a real sinking feeling that I think should be a warning bell for anyone curious enough to pick up a book.

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Well that’s a new one, but totally on brand for the dumpster fire that is LinkedIn.

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@mollyploofkins.bsky.social

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@windowscentral.com My CPU is unsupported by Windows 11 and my PC still runs fine. When they finally cut me off this fall, I’ll probably go with Bazzite until the poor thing bursts into flames. Only then will I think about building a new gaming system 😜

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I’ve basically concluded that having any Mac on Sequoia while the rest of your devices are on some 26 OS renders Airdrop useless, at least going from the Sequoia system. I’m at least nearing the end of a project, at which time it should be safe to upgrade my Mac Studio to Tahoe.

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I have this delightful little app on my Mac called Sip that lets me quickly sample colors. What has amused me lately is that 2-factor codes I copy from my iPhone get picked up as a color. So I get this little chirp and the icon changes.

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sipapp.io

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Bruce the Wonder Yak: blog.natecow.com

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@ebornian.bsky.social Also, in searching for a good overview of Bruce, I found the author above just recently released a recreation of Bruce: b10g.xyz/blog/2026/th…

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@ebornian.bsky.social It wasn’t a game, but old versions of Final Cut Pro had an Easter egg called Bruce the Wonder Yak. There was a text file in the application folder that contained all his quotes, and I always assumed they were quotes from the development team.

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b10g.xyz/blog/2026/br…

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@rotomonkey.bsky.social I once hooked up a Cintiq 21UX to a 5K iMac thanks to that exact drawer.

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Why yes, Audible, this is precisely the behavior I want when trying to AirPlay audio to my Mac. Just take over both screens with no option to hide.

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I Didn't Think the Server Would Eat MY Face. blog.natecow.com

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I just tried Malört for the first time and honestly, everyone else is such a wuss. This is like if you removed the flavor from Campari. It’s just bitter water.

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El Capitan Lives! blog.natecow.com

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When it’s painfully obvious that you’re just using a web app in a trench coat.. For a brief moment, my messages in Microslop Teams messages were surrounded by <div> tags.

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I think the biggest Liquid Glass crime on Tahoe has to be QuickTime. The blue is all wrong.

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I love this.

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youtube.com/...

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Having seen two total solar eclipses myself, it’s depressing knowing how no image will come close to conveying what the Artemis II crew is witnessing right now.

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Unbelievable how many fake image I see being posted claiming to be from the Artemis II mission. And then on the flip side, how many people claiming the real photos are fake.

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I hate this timeline.

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I’m a lefty, and the hotkeys in Silhouette are mostly concentrated on the left end of the keyboard, which as resulted in this layout for me when doing roto.

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Finally picked up a Wacom remote so I can be more comfortable. But trying to retrain 20+ years of muscle memory is a challenge 😬

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My biggest worry as the Artemis program started sending people into space was how these moon missions will be talked about in the age of social media and… boy howdy is it going to be rough. I truly detest what this shit has done to our collective intelligence.

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No, I’m not going to upgrade my Mac Studio to Tahoe just to fix AirDrops to my MacBook Neo and better SMB reliability. I’m going to complain that Apple won’t deploy those fixes to Sequoia because THAT’S WHAT I DO HERE.

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Earth from Artemis II! blog.natecow.com

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These are the mission updates I’m here for. I’m curious how often the word ‘toilet’ appears in NASA URLs 🤔

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www.nasa.gov/blogs/mis…

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Maybe it’s because I’m generally not on social media much now, but am I crazy in looking around wondering why more people aren’t totally psyched that there are four people on their way to the moon right now?

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Literally something that hasn’t happened in my (millennial) lifetime.

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