Darren

My kid went through the same phase all kids do of refusing to go to bed.

So one night he’s grabbing on to the baby gate at the top of the stairs like a con in a prison movie, screaming and yelling. I’m at the bottom of the stairs trying to ignore him.

He fixed a stare directly at me, stopped screaming, and shit in his pants.

So yeah, 100% of parents have arsehole kids.

installing anything

I’ve been using Mint and KDE Neon on two of my machines for the past year, and I still have to search for how to install an app image properly.

Its one of those things that isn’t the end of the world, and I guess there are increasing numbers of Snap/Flatpak packages. And, of course apt. And whatever application manager your distro comes with.

But some software is available either to be compiled by the user, or as an app image. And I don’t understand why that image can’t just be dropped in an application folder and run, the same way it works in macOS.

But I’m a relative noob. I assume there’s a historical reason.

To be fair, there’s a bunch of channels on YT where people just quietly and calmly do something they’re good at. But you don’t really see them.

The MD of the company I work for is kinda like this.

“Why do we need all these ISO accreditations? They’re a fucking waste of time and money. We didn’t have them back in my day”

No Geoff, but how many of your colleagues from those days still have all their fingers and no emphysema?

Surely not Elton?!

It pains me to say, but the stock Google camera app is by far and away the best option I’ve yet found on Graphene. Which has to pair with the Photos app, or you can’t actually do anything with the photos it takes.

However, you don’t have to sync either with Google (though you do have to sign in), you can set Graphene to only allow them access to the folder they need (while they think they have wider access), and you can turn off network permission.

I looked into Ubuntu Touch last week as a potential alternative to Graphene on my Pixel 9.

The most recent Pixel it supports is the 3.

So Graphene it is then…

My bank app doesn’t work with Graphene, which is a pain in the arse, but not the end of the world. I mean, they still have a website I can log into.

I’ll be keeping the fuck away from books then!

I believe macOS 26 will be the last that’ll run on Intel hardware. So functionally, a year from now, Hackintosh is dead. Well, Hackintosh running the current macOS, of course. I imagine there’ll be a thriving community working to keep existing hardware chugging along.

It’ll be interesting to see the momentum of Linux on Macs though. If Asahi manages to crack those last few hurdles with the M1/2 hardware, it’ll be a rock solid OS, particularly as ARM64 software becomes more common. Suddenly you’ll have a bunch of incredibly capable Macs going cheap because they can’t run the largest macOS.

Did you post all three of these via Starlink?

Have you been watching me at work?

I adore Viz.

They once printed the finest letter ever penned.

Also, this advert for flat-roof pubs will never not make me hoot.

It isn’t enough to have good ideas if you can’t persuade someone to buy them.

In fairness to Jobs, he may have been an arsehole, but he was also an incredible salesman who knew what his customers wanted.

I’m old enough to remember how genuinely captivating his product presentations could be. The shit that Apple pre-records these days is worthless by comparison.

This is Patrick

When I had an iPhone, Vinegar was the best few quid I ever spent. Between that and the adblocker I used, I got ad free YouTube with the default iOS video player. Glorious.

Which 4th May is this from? Because if it’s from 2007 then that’s a perfectly reasonable mid-range machine, but if it’s from last month then I really hope he’s only using it as a personal Linux box for tinkering.

US politics is fucking mental.