Just spotted, on Twitter, an unfortunate fellow with a touchbar MBP. In the short video, the touchbar is blank but about ⅓ of the way down from the top of the screen, the touchbar contents are displayed all in a row. None respond to clicking, not even the X that's supposed to dismiss it.
I cannot believe that only two days ago the temperature was 38°C. Right now, according to various weather apps, it's 8.5° and feels like 6°C. At 4:30 pm. One week away from summer. It's pissing with rain, windy as all fuck and I hate it.
Now here’s a find! A webkit-based web browser called Roccat. It’s system requirements are OS 10.5 or newer, PPC or Intel processor. It’s being actively developed, in fact, on my Sierra MacBook Air, it’s hosting Cappuccino. Security issues prevent it from accessing 10C on PPC Macs, plus when such Macs try to work with nice.social, the browser ignores the Upload Files button. No such problems in Sierra, though. Unlike TenFourFox on PPC Macs, it does support Flash. Plus, it is a fast browser to load. It could be the answer to 10.6.8 Mac users who don’t have access to a modern secure web browser.
10 years ago a popular tourist attraction at a seaside town closed for safety reasons: it was a chairlift from partway up a hill to the top of the highest point on that stretch of land. It had been operational since the 1960s and closed after a pylon collapsed injuring 18 riders and stranding the rest for hours. A friend and his then ten-yr-old daughter were among those stuck in midair.
I've just learned that it will be reopening on Dec 3rd as a Swiss-designed gondola cable-car system. This is great news, I recall riding the original in the late 1970s and enjoying it greatly.
@JeremyCherfas A line I'm known to use is this: "You want sympathy? It's in the dictionary: between Sin & Syphilis."
// @indigo
Conclusion re "office intermediate" computer/reading multifocal spectacles: using a Mac with a 20-inch monitor, I can now focus clearly when the screen is a metre away from my eyes and still get in close enough to read my Kindle Paperwhite close-up. I also chose an anti-glare, anti-smudging & scratch-resistant coating on the lenses.
Previously with the reading glasses only, the screen couldn't be further than ¾ of a metre away and even then was getting a tad fuzzy.
@matigo Apparently so. I have really lucked out in getting that Mac, it's been quite a workhorse. It's also the first one to come with Thunderbolt.
I bought a Seagate GoFlex 2.5-in Thunderbolt-to-SATA external drive adaptor years ago for AU$134. It's been discontinued for a couple of years now and I spotted one on Amazon yesterday for US$274. Supply & demand, I guess.
// @skematica
@skematica Almost 6 years ago I bought the base model in the 15-in MacBook Pro, with a quad-core Core i7 of 2 GHz, more expensive versions at the time had 2.2 & 2.3 GHZ processors. I started with 2 GB of RAM & now it sports 12 GB, with the option to go to 16 GB if needed. I was using just 25% of the space on the 500 GB HDD, so I swapped it for a 256 GB SSD.
This Mac is still my main machine at home, it's still plenty fast enough for my limited needs.
All the more amazing about that longevity is the this particular model was subject to a graphics issue, with Apple offering a free motherboard replacement for affected machines, this was due to problems with the lead-free solder used in its circuitry. Mine never gave any trouble.
// @matigo