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Cake day: April 13th, 2024

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  • To make the desktop experience bearable: AltTab, Forklift, Rectangle, Ukelele, MonitorControl, Amphetamine, Firefox, Thunderbird, qView and duti to set the latter three up as the defaults.

    As a package manager I’m pretty happy with nix-darwin, now I get all the CLI tools there, and what isn’t packaged, like wireshark for example, I get through my nix-controlled homebrew.

    Coming from a Linux userland you might want to replace some coreutil packages with their GNU variants. I ran into one case where the GNU grep was much faster than the BSD version preinstalled in macOS for example.

    What I haven’t found a good solution to yet is Filesystem support. Both NTFS and ext4 are missing. I currently have a Linux VM just for that. I think Paragon sells a driver, have been meaning to look into it more, but haven’t.

    Edit: To be fair to macOS the App called Preview is a pretty good PDF reader in my view.

    PS: If you ever need to use dd on macOS, be aware that there are /dev/rdisk handles instead of /dev/disk for the un-buffered access. Its significantly faster for dd shoveling.

    PPS: You will probably have to turn off what they call “natural” scroll. macOS inverts the default for some reason.



  • I don’t think it’s just normal edit-compress-cycles.

    • The cropping theory doesn’t align with the cardboard piece
    • The second flavour from the right has lost the term “Freeze” from its name somehow
    • The way the metal ring on the refill plug has merged with the vertical metal piece on the outlet just screams of a typical AI-not-understanding-functional-parts error to me.

  • I think it’s AI-mangled. I found this older version over on Reddit, posted there on August 2nd.

    Notice that that version looks less shopped around the systemd output, has more detail in the metal pieces and in the shadows around the cardboard, and still has an electrical outlet in the back.