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MacOS can't do that? In Windows, you can open up a folder full of images, specify a type search and then use width and height to find images. If you display the folder as detailed items, you can go even further with the preset sort methods or add additional sorting column types.

Windows 7 and newer search is fairly powerful if you know how to use it. Puzzles me OSX/macOS doesn't have something as good if not better. For day to day searching, I use a third party indexer that indexes file names, whereas Windows does full-text indexing. I use it if I know what I want. I'll use Windows search if I remember a phrase or an entire sentence of text in a file and want to pull that file up but don't remember where I put it.
You can do it in the Finder, but not in Spotlight.
 
I've buckled under pressure. About an hour ago I activated my 3 month free trial of Apple Music. Something I thought I'd never do, yet here I am.

Worst part? I think I could, in time, get uset to it. Thing is, and this is what worries me and has me googling stuff with less than stellar results so far, I have a pretty big iTunes library with all my music nicely ripped and organized, a library that if something were to happen to it I would be extremely annoyed. Now I'm thinking about whether or not I should activate iCloud Music Library so I can get to making playlists and such, and what the worst case scenario following that decision would be in regards to my already existing iTunes library should I choose to cancel Apple Music sometime in the future. If I recall some people were having problems with iTunes Match wreaking havoc on their local music library after cancelling the service, but then again iCloud Music Library might not have the same problems.

I was told this was going to be easy. And it most likely is, too.
 
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I've buckled under pressure. About an hour ago I activated my 3 month free trial of Apple Music. Something I thought I'd never do, yet here I am.

Worst part? I think I could, in time, get uset to it. Thing is, and this is what worries me and has me googling stuff with less than stellar results so far, I have a pretty big iTunes library with all my music nicely ripped and organized, a library that if something were to happen to it I would be extremely annoyed. Now I'm thinking about whether or not I should activate iCloud Music Library so I can get to making playlists and such, and what the worst case scenario following that decision would be in regards to my already existing iTunes library should I choose to cancel Apple Music sometime in the future. If I recall some people were having problems with iTunes Match wreaking havoc on their local music library after cancelling the service, but then again iCloud Music Library might not have the same problems.

I was told this was going to be easy. And it most likely is, too.

Was kinda like you, a "never AppleMusic-er" and here I am, using it every day now for hours at a time. Perfect for the gym too.
 
How nice it'd be to search for image based on their dimensions in Spotlight.

Hello! …ello! …ello! …ello!

MacOS can't do that? In Windows, you can open up a folder full of images, specify a type search and then use width and height to find images. If you display the folder as detailed items, you can go even further with the preset sort methods or add additional sorting column types.

Windows 7 and newer search is fairly powerful if you know how to use it. Puzzles me OSX/macOS doesn't have something as good if not better. For day to day searching, I use a third party indexer that indexes file names, whereas Windows does full-text indexing. I use it if I know what I want. I'll use Windows search if I remember a phrase or an entire sentence of text in a file and want to pull that file up but don't remember where I put it.

You can do it in the Finder, but not in Spotlight.
I hereby redact my complaint; turns out, it's super easy.

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I was just trying width and height queries in the same argument. New complaint: why my brain gotta be dumb?
 
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I spent about 10 minutes on twitter.
Now I have to meditate for at least 100 minutes to cleanse my brain.
What an awful social platform.

Depends on who you follow and how you choose to filter material (and people).

Personally, (and professionally), I find it useful to follow certain politicians, commentators, writers, novelists, and analysts on Twitter; sometimes, you can pick up something that might not otherwise have appeared in the mainstream, or public space, and some excellent bloggers (Chris Grey on Brexit for example) write regular, thoughtful, insightful pieces.
 
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Just felt an earthquake several minutes ago! 4.4M with epicenter around Blackhawk in Contra Costa County. Saw my lamp shaking. :eek:
Stay safe. How anyone lives in an earthquake zone is beyond me.
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Depends on who you follow and how you choose to filter material (and people).

Personally, (and professionally), I find it useful to follow certain politicians, commentators, writers, novelists, and analysts on Twitter; sometimes, you can pick up something that might not otherwise have appeared in the mainstream, and some excellent bloggers (Chris Grey on Brexit for example) write regular, thoughtful insightful pieces.
I’d rather not follow the current bunch of politicians!
 
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Depends on who you follow and how you choose to filter material (and people).

Personally, (and professionally), I find it useful to follow certain politicians, commentators, writers, novelists, and analysts on Twitter; sometimes, you can pick up something that might not otherwise have appeared in the mainstream, and some excellent bloggers (Chris Grey on Brexit for example) write regular, thoughtful insightful pieces.

True. I guess that my problem is that I read the comments to popular (as in most clicked) tweets...
 
True. I guess that my problem is that I read the comments to popular (as in most clicked) tweets...

I do my very best to avoid that, and try to give a wide berth to the rabbit holes of hate, venom and vitriol sometimes found on Twitter.

However, what I do find useful is to "follow" someone (for example, a journalist or commentator whom I respect), and see who they, in turn, follow.

You can find some very interesting people and sources, and ideas - and above all, some really interesting material that way, some of it serious, intelligent, insightful, respectful and thoughtful.
 
I do my very best to avoid that, and try to give a wide berth to the rabbit holes of hate, venom and vitriol sometimes found on Twitter.

However, what I do find useful is to "follow" someone (for example, a journalist or commentator whom I respect), and see who they, in turn, follow.

You can find some very interesting people and sources, and ideas - and above all, some really interesting material that way, some of it serious, intelligent, insightful, respectful and thoughtful.

You know what, I'll try to be more mindful and see if I can put twitter to good use.
 
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Just felt an earthquake several minutes ago! 4.4M with epicenter around Blackhawk in Contra Costa County. Saw my lamp shaking. :eek:

Stay safe.

I've slept through an earthquake, (in the Caucasus), and felt the wobble of the room (and saw the water in my glass slosh & tilt slightly) as I sat in my chair at my desk (which I held) in central Asia where the ground - I was one floor above ground level - wobbled.

A strange and unsettling feeling, to say the least.
 
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I have an account, but I probably check it 10 minutes once or twice a year.

I think that just became my approach as well. I used Twitter primarily instead of bookmarks to launch into my news subscriptions from my laptop. The new format for desktop/laptop version of Twitter looks so much like something made a smartphone that it feels claustrophobic. Just ditched all my "follows" and am going back to bookmarks in a browser.
 
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