Posts by MikeNM
Internet April Fool’s should have died with ThinkGeek.
The 11" Air is still my favorite laptop I ever had. Literally just something that could live in your bag regardless of what you were up to. www.theverge.com/tech/901698/...
We'll never get an answer now that the whole market is skewed toward datacenter builds, but the backplane over TB5 feels like the only way to glean what an Extreme could have been like.
While people have a lot of legacy PCI devices that Apple probably could have capitalized on, but much like the growing army of EGPU enclosures on the PC side, there's plenty of people trying to figure out how to support them with Thunderbolt.
If they only released the Studio as “Pro” option it would be seen as the new Trash can. The fan service Mac Pro was entirely a hedge against bad press to feel out what market felt about the Studio.
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The AirPods Max meaningless update walks so the meaningless Mac Pro update can run.
Could Apple just quietly release the same colors from the Neo for the Air at the end of the week? I need more than 8 GB of RAM but I want a Mountain Dew colored laptop.
Maybe feeding a generation to the culture industry as preteens was not a good idea.
All Minor no Threat.
Nothing says welcome to winter in Wisconsin like a pre December blizzard. At least I got the bulk of the shoveling finished before it was done. That way today was just clearing the giant wall of snow the plow left at the end of the driveway.
How AI reading AI will end up swallowing the whole web in endless crap citing itself. Truth like privacy is about to become only for the rich. youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...
Feeling lucky that my card had enough reward points to cover a replacement smart watch the same day I break the face on mine.
As if we didn’t all get raised on a bunch of movies about how great it was to be a kid in the fifties and sixties. Stand by Me, the Sandlot, etc.
One of the dumbest things in journalism is to pretend each time the nostalgia cycle moves forward ten years, it is to write a bunch of think pieces asking why a generation reaching their mid-thirties is nostalgic?
@katbailey.bsky.social Looking forward to @katbain.bsky.social Axe Of The Blood God divorced parent era where she doesn't show up all the time but when she does it's with a stack of weird souvenirs from her travels and for some reason a random inappropriate pet the rest of the hosts to deal with.
What is the self?
Fall lurking around the corner ready to pounce
What are superfluous lyrics to extract royalties for a song you didn’t write?
Cromulent Roosters
Three inch tacks
Saint speed you grey duke
Slightly diminish a band
Shonen Butter Knife
What is Batman Bings?
Intel getting the Old Yeller treatment from the US Gov because sitting officials can’t tell the difference between Singapore and China sure is something.
Henry Rollins sitting looking pensive surrounded by the Beastie Boys standing and crouching all on a rooftop.
Old Hank wondering which Greek god he offended to be plagued by these satyrs
Either one'll do
Some getting really granular about industrial subgenres