I've been to Silver Crest Donut Shop. Once. I was disappointed that they didn't have donuts, or at least things you could legitimately refer to as donuts. Or much of anything, really, except a dirty 70s Bunn-O-Matic and a griddle and some bread and eggs. The diviest of dive bars, a strangely seedy and disturbing place. A sort of place you really don't see any more. I'd say it was Lynchian, but more in the Black Lodge sense than the Double-R.
I thought this was going to be an article about one of the classic banes of many a marriage, intestinal gas. Try vibe coding your way out of that one, Tom!
Even MacTracker, the Apple specifications database gold standard, confirms this.
And they invariably point out where the official Apple specs fall short of real-world options, such as the RAM limit of the 2018 Mac Mini -- officially Apple says it’s 32Gb (and for the longest time even sites like Crucial.com offered only 2×16Gb sets for that model), but MacTracker very quickly pointed out that it can take 64Gb. IIRC this was right after iFixit did their teardown and realized that the CPU did not have a 32Gb memory limitation, and successfully booted that model with 64Gb.
Now, from what I understand the M1 only allowed 16Gb as the max addressable memory - I dimly remember a video where someone tried to resolder with 32Gb of performance-identical chips that had twice the capacity, and it could still only see 16Gb of it - so it appears to be a hard limit either in the memory controller or as a direct feature of the CPU cores themselves.
MacBook Pro. And it’s only an M1 - not an M1 Pro or M1 Max, but base M1 like you were abundantly clear on. And a maximum memory of 16Gb. Straight from the MacTracker app.
It pays to carefully proofread what you write before you submit a post. You never mentioned your M1 being a Pro or Max, only an M1. It was your MacBook which was a MacBook Pro, not the M1 chip itself.
MacBook Pro. And it’s only an M1 - not an M1 Pro or M1 Max, but base M1 like you were abundantly clear on. And a maximum memory of 16Gb. Straight from the MacTracker app.
It pays to carefully proofread what you write before you submit a post. You never mentioned your M1 being a Pro or Max, only an M1. It was your MacBook which was a MacBook Pro, not the M1 chip itself.
It totally would have been normal to have a custom shirt like that back in the day. I had a few.
In the late 70s and early 80s, there were custom "iron on" T-Shirt shops in most malls. They would have a wall of larger iron-on decals, primarily logos of sports teams and rock bands, but they also had custom letters, usually in the Cooper typeface. You'd tell them what you wanted, the size and color of your shirt and lettering, and they'd go in the back room and iron what you wanted on your new shirt for a few dollars. This was especially popular with youth sports teams in lieu of professional uniforms, families who wanted to match for a big trip (often with custom names like this), and, as you can see here, jokey custom workplace team shirts.
If you watch a late-70s or early-80s episode of The Price is Right, you'll almost certainly see contestants or audience members in these custom iron-on shirts - same font, same slightly disjointed look.
The left-hand text on Dave Compton's shirt is slightly blurry and unreadable given the resolution, not garbled. But it's not some AI nonsense.
DAVE
COMPTON
(King?) OF PACKERS
(He'll?) PUT IT IN ANY BOX
This isn't just a rah-rah team spirit shirt or something obscure, it's a peculiarly '70s innuendo combining thoughts about his job... and his sexual prowess. Sure, that kind of shirt would cause a modern workplace to, uh, send him packing. As they say, it was a different time.
I was hoping the comments would be full of similar stories, in which a demon makes a half-hearted effort to pull you into his clutches, only to be naively blown off, then not thought of again until his true nature was revealed.
Our story of this sort comes from when my partner interviewed at Theranos (!) long before the collapse or any public recognition, related the super-creepy interview process, and I was like "sounds like a big no to me." When the Theranos story blew up it was like "oh boy".
One observes that all the stories about the cloven hoof being found out and the devil shooed away always seem to have peasants or naive every-men as their protagonists, mayhaps the upstairs strata are just less bothered by a bone or two leaking from the closet, maybe it is just table stakes for them.
Keeping in mind that I wasn't the interviewee and this happened over 15 years ago, there was apparently a combination of extreme secrecy about the organization and a massive disconnect between the largely military experience of the interviewers and the company's supposed product space. Partner left wondering "black ops or bullshit?"
I interviewed and had an offer from Theranos. They were super slimey, and this was before they were known as a fraud.
- Sunny asked me why I went to such an unprestigious academic institution for undergrad
- Sunny flipped out at an extension cord going to the table AV setup in the meeting room. He called in 5 IT people and yelled at them during my interview about the extension cord and yanked it out of the wall.
- Elizabeth and Sunny parked their Lamborginis in the handicapped parking spaces directly in front of the office
- When I got the offer, the fine print noted the location my office would actually be located in was NOT at the fancy HQ in Palo Alto where they had recruited me at and showed me that I would be working, it was at a trailer park on the east side of highway 101 in Menlo Park (um, no thanks. Part of the reason I passed).
- part of the hiring process was to go get your blood tested by them and my lab results were discordant with my lab results from Stanford so it showed their testing didn't actually work
- security stood outside the restroom stall while I peed before the interview and came in with me while I washed my hands.
- Elizabeth rescheduled my interview with her 4x, once with 18 minutes notice. Their entire process took 3 months and 7 rounds.
If you want to see the story of creepy, and what monster Epstein was and Ghislaine Maxwell is, watch this interview from today: https://youtu.be/xSkzN7R5VAM?t=57
It is from an extremely articulate and intelligent Epstein victim, that is only speaking out after the DOJ, either trough incompetence or most likely via malicious compliance, had her personal information in the released files.
Linux user for decades, but headless since the early aughts. Decided to dip my toes back into the desktop space with Mint Cinnamon.
I can mirror or run lots of phone apps on Windows or macOS, but ironically, not Linux. I decide to run an Android emulator so I can use some phone-only apps.
I read up on reviews, then download and install Waydroid as the top contender.
Does Waydroid work? No. It fails silently launching from the shortcut after the install. Run it from the command line, and, nope, it's a window manager issue. Mint Cinnamon uses X11, not Wayland, and Waydroid apparently needs... Wayland support.
OK, I log out, log into Mint with Wayland support, then re-launch Waydroid. My screen goes into a fugue state where it randomly alternates between black and the desktop. Try a variety of things, and I guess this is just how it is. Google and try any number of fixes, end up giving up.
Yes, that's my old pal Linux on the Desktop. Older, faster and wiser, but still flaky in precisely the same ways.
You can't run X11 programs on Wayland without Xwayland.
Likewise you cannot run Wayland programs on X11 without a wayland compositor like Cage (a wayland kiosk) or Weston. Both run as a window on X11 inside of which Waydroid works just fine.
It's an odd complaint that incompatible software is incompatible.
I did. I agree it's not obvious.
But you cannot run OpenGL, Vulkan, Glide or DirectX on Windows either without having the proper hardware and software installed.
So yeah. Waydroid needs wayland. Anbox runs on X11.
> OpenGL, Vulkan, Glide or DirectX on Windows either without having the proper hardware and software installed
Windows will run at least basic OpenGL and DirectX in software if you don't have hardware to accelerate that, and those software renderers are included as part of the OS. It'll run like garbage, but it will run.
Bluestacks works fine for this on PC and Mac, and I've seen casuals use that because they want to play their gacha game on a bigger screen.
Waydroid compleatly fails in comparison, while giving you no pointers on what the problem might be or how to solve it unless you're already a Linux power user.
Headless daily driver? Hardcore. What do you use for a browser?
I've tried it as a challenge for a couple of days (lynx, mutt, some other TUI stuff) and it made some things like Vim stick (although that may have as much to do with that challenge as Tridactyl did). But I couldn't last longer than a week. It does free you from the burden of system requirements. CPU: Optional.
w3m can even display images in a linux console if you have the proper drivers or use KMSCON. It unwieldy but surprisingly usable. And my laptop battery runs for 8 hours which is quite amazing for a Zen1.
I imagine your display is almost entirely black for the majority of the time, with your (most probably) LCD backlight blasting away, trying its hardest to get a few thousandths of its light output through the few pixels on the screen that it can escape! XD
Brightness down, LAN card disabled (the media sense on RTL cards sucks about 1.5W with no cable plugged in, wtf? Thats more than the Wifi needs)
And powertop (great piece of software, thanks Intel) tuned to the max + powersave scheduler.
All that on Windows or KDE results in about 4-5h of battery though. So fbdev must be somehow really frugal.
> That's cause you're using a distro like mint which is using older builds of stuff.
The context here is that I was commenting on the parent's assertion that one "can just use a pre-configured system like Mint Cinnamon and never know about any of these things." Nope!
> It will continue to degrade for you unless you fully switch to a Wayland DM. Anything built on X11 is basically deprecated now and no one is building on it anymore.
That's my impression as well, and again, with the 2nd most popular Linux distro using X11 by default and with "experimental" Wayland support, that only reinforces my rebuttal of parent's claim.
I hadn't run desktop Linux in several years now. (I've run it server-side for decades.)
Out of the increasingly loud outpouring of support for desktop Linux over the past year, I went ahead and installed some distros to get back in on the action. I came to four conclusions:
1) You can play games on desktop Linux now other than Tux Racer. Cool!
2) There's less weird X11-wrangling. Thank god.
3) It's otherwise still pretty much the desktop Linux I've always known and felt mildly annoyed by.
4) The current versions of Windows and macOS have gotten to be so unbelievably annoying for no good reason that a mildly improved desktop Linux now actually seems far less annoying than the mainstream options do.
Good job, Microsoft and Apple, for giving us the year of retreating in disgust to the Linux desktop.
Unfortunately, you can only replace it with whatever is readily available... which AFAICR is not much, or just nothing. And even for that you have to be aware of it being replaceable and how to perform that replacement :-(
It's the title the author, a war journalist, chose for his article. It may be a mistake of his, or, my interpretation, it may well be a wordplay, given the content he is discussing.
It's gone now. https://sf.eater.com/2024/7/31/24210535/silver-crest-diner-d...