Em Adespoton

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 4th, 2023
  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.catoBuy it for Life@slrpnk.net•Portable speaker with aux inEnglish
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    6 minutes ago

    I’ve got a Tribit Maxboom and it’s great. Water resistant, line in plus Bluetooth, has a handsfree button (triggers Siri on iPhones) and volume up/down, plus a bass boost mode that uses more power.

    It doesn’t drive as much sound as my portable guitar amp, but for a battery based speaker, does pretty well. If you buy two of them, they’ll figure out how to work together to provide surround sound, otherwise a single one will play stereo audio to fill the area.

    Had it for around 6 years and it still holds a charge like the day I bought it (I usually need to charge it every couple of months).

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.catoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Leaving Apple behind after 18 years
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    1 day ago

    Heh… like him, I have an M1 Pro and an iPhone 13.

    Unlike him, I maxed both out at the time so they’d last me 7 years. Also, unlike him, I’ve been in the Apple ecosystem for 41 years, been in the Linux ecosystem for 29 years, been in the BSD ecosystem for 32 years, and been in the Windows ecosystem for 27 years.

    So far, so good… they still do everything I want them to.

    For anything else, I have my Linux server I can remote into. Both devices are still beefy enough to run VMs as needed for most tasks that won’t run on bare metal.

    My takeaways? Apple still has the most reliable out of the box experience for hardware. I’ve run macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD as my base OS, and get along fine with all of them these days. But I always have containers and VMs running other OSes so I can use the best tool for the job (or at least the best tool for me).

    I generally want a computer I can pick up and use to get a task done these days, without having to spend a few hours on the update and configure cycle first. My hardware on hand can’t handle it? That’s what networked compute is for — I can even set up a container locally and deploy it to beefier inline infrastructure if I need to.

    Maybe if I were a PC gamer who always wanted to play the latest games, this setup wouldn’t work — but for my actual needs, it works.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light CompanyEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I initially thought it was slop, and then I looked at who wrote it. This is someone I have a lot of respect for.

    Personally, I’ve used every Mac UI from the original Twiggy interface, and prefer the UI of Mac OS 7.6.1 with Greg’s Browser, OtherMenu and DragThing. If I could get a macOS back-end with that user interface on the front end, I feel I could get stuff done faster with less frustration.

    There was nothing wrong with the original Xerox PARC or Apple HIG documents; their findings still hold true today.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.catoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)?
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    3 days ago

    Well, my C2D Mini that I’ve been using as a backup server for the last decade just died. I’d be happy to receive a replacement :D

    A 2014 Mini should work great running El Cap Server. Stick a slow external 8TB HDD on it and you’ve got a capable NAS or backup device.

    Do note that if you have other Apple devices, Apple will be dropping support for AFS with macOS 27, so you’ll need to enable Windows filesharing to let the Mini talk to other devices.

    The pavillion? Install Linux Mint and it would make a decent entry level workstation for web browsing. Or install Ubuntu Server and make it into a media server running NextCloud and Jellyfin.