DJDarren
@DJDarren@sopuli.xyz
Just a guy standing in front of the internet asking it to please not
- Comment on Get a 'load' of this guy 3 days ago:
And I mean to get there early enough to fellate my manager.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 4 days ago:
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro running MX Linux. It’s no match for my M2 Air, but it’s still surprisingly useful.
Was up the council recycling centre the other day, looking at some of the dumped computers, wondering just how many of them could still be very useful.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 1 week ago:
I’ve been gifted a few old Samsung S3s for using in our workshop at work. They’re all the same model, but it turns out that one of them runs a different processor. So I’ve been able to put LineageOS on two of them, but the third refuses to unlock.
Meanwhile, I moved into the world of Android a few months ago after having iPhones since 2009. Within half an hour of taking delivery of my Pixel 9 it was running GrapheneOS.
Fuck Samsung.
- Comment on doctors 1 week ago:
This isn’t always true though, so obese people end up not receiving the care they should, because their dr couldn’t or wouldn’t see past their weight.
- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 1 week ago:
Trump has the right to BoC.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 week ago:
To be fair, an iPad can be used for way more than the average punter will do with theirs. I used to broadcast my radio show with mine, using a mini as a midi controller for my mic. It was pretty cool.
But yeah, for all the workarounds and hoop jumping I had to do, Mixxx could do it all on a regular computer, for free.
So these days mine is a social media / note taker / third screen for my Mac. Very much not worth the £600 Apple are rinsing for this thing. I can’t imagine how disappointing it must have been to shell out for an M1 Pro in the belief that Apple were about to beef up iPadOS. Then they…didn’t.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 week ago:
I did the iPad-only thing for a year back in 2019/20 and while it was fine, I spent much of the time low-key irritated by the shit I had to jump through hoops for. Shit that a regular computer can just do.
By the end of my experiment it was abundantly clear that Apple had 0 interest in making iPadOS more useful for anything more than whatever its apps could do. Five years on and my opinion hasn’t changed. I still use an iPad (mini), but mostly because it was a gift which comes in handy for note taking.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 week ago:
There was one paragraph about AI. Hardly a ramble.
- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 1 week ago:
This is true, I was there.
- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 1 week ago:
Maybe I was wrong about this guy. Maybe he’s actually pretty chill.
- Comment on Release the fear 1 week ago:
This one is my spirit animal.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 1 week ago:
Set to search only file sizes of >320 and revel in limitless FLACs.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 1 week ago:
Step 1. Download Kazaa Lite Step 2. Use Kazaa Lite to download Kazaa Step 3. Profit
- Comment on Hear me when I tell y'all 2 weeks ago:
He was the absolute perfect casting choice for Lee Scorseby. It’s a shame the movie was dog shit and the studio killed the series, but I wouldn’t have blamed the BBC in the slightest if they’d approached him to reprose the role. Instead we we got Lin Manuel Miranda, who was fine. But he wasn’t Sam Elliott.
- Comment on If you're a broke vampire, just say that 2 weeks ago:
Mopping out Laszlo’s masturbatorium.
- Comment on If you're a broke vampire, just say that 2 weeks ago:
Everyone knows that vampires live in a detached single family home on Staten Island.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s odd. As long as an app is in fullscreen you should be able to drag it from screen to screen when Mission Control is active.
As for the double click; Finder will only maximise the height without changing its width, but all the other apps I tried filled the desktop.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know why people would gripe. There’s a bunch of different ways to resize windows in macOS. You can fullscreen them into their own virtual desktop, and sure, unless you drag another app alongside then no, that’s not compatible with other windows at the same time. Personally, I use fullscreen for apps that I don’t need to interact, or that I want to have full focus on. iTunes/Music for example, is kept to the far right of the spaces on my right hand monitor. I know where it is and it’s easy to access without taking up space on the desktop.
But you can also make them fill the regular desktop by double clicking the bar at the top of the window. Or you can drag windows to various sides of the screen to resize them, the same way you can with Linux and Windows.
And yeah, there’s Stage Manager too, but honestly, I’ve never really seen the point. Not on a Mac anyway.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 3 weeks ago:
I’ve used apps in fullscreen for as long as it’s been possible, and I’ve honestly never found it confusing at all.
You can move them across displays. Just open Mission Control then drag it from one screen to another. Or drag it to a desktop if you want.
As for maximising; just double click the bar at the top of the window. No extra software needed.
Now that macOS supports window tiling there’s a number of ways to lay out app windows. Fuck Stage Manager though. I’ve never been able to work out the point of it.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 3 weeks ago:
Unless I misunderstand, you’ve been able to do that since around 2011.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation 3 weeks ago:
And somehow those prices won’t really drop when the tarriffs are quietly removed.
I’m looking at you, energy prices.
- Comment on example of radical politics 3 weeks ago:
Actually, this is radical.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 weeks ago:
I’ll test Linux on a Mac this afternoon and see how it goes, but I’m optimistic it will just work also.
I have Mint running on 2011 and 2014 Mac minis. It’s basically flawless. The only trouble you might have is finding the wifi driver, depending on which model you’re using. Iirc, the minis were fine, but the 2011 MacBook Pro I put it on was a little more difficult to track down. But ethernet worked right out of the box, so it wasn’t a huge deal.
Linux on Apple Silicon is a trickier proposition, but getting less tricky all the time.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Bonjour!
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 4 weeks ago:
I got an LG OLED a few weeks ago. Hands down the best TV screen I’ve ever owned.
Fuck knows what the stock OS does because I’ve only watched Apple TV through it.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, like several other people on the internet I’m not American, so I have no idea what this is about.
- Comment on Do it 5 weeks ago:
One man…
- Comment on Do it 5 weeks ago:
Mercury Rev - In The Wilderness In My Arse
- Comment on Michael Gove gets lifetime seat in UK’s House of Lords 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if Michael Green or Corinne Stockheath will turn up to collect Shapps’ award?
- Comment on Toilet seat detects atrial fibrillation 5 weeks ago:
Does it incorporate Smart Pipe™ technology?
