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I've been using windows for 20+ years I quit owning a windows computer when I got my iPhone 4s. I should have said if I wanted to open an app in windows I would use the start menu. What I love about the macOS is that I would use finder to look for files, music, pictures or open an app.
 
Arcade said:
I've been using windows for 20+ years I quit owning a windows computer when I got my iPhone 4s. I should have said if I wanted to open an app in windows I would use the start menu. What I love about the macOS is that I would use finder to look for files, music, pictures or open an app.
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Typically, the Start menu is for all programs and apps, and a brief dive into the file system. Experienced users would use File Explorer. Common use programs can be dropped into the taskbar's quicklaunch area. You can also set up folders for shortcuts to primary or secondary disks. I appreciate you sharing your opinion but it seems you let 20 years go to waste. And again, if you had been using Windows for 20+ years, you'd known about File Explorer and how it's effectively the same as Finder.

The only benefit Finder has is it groups everything together. Which is a jumbled mess.
 
In all those years I didn't use file explorer much because all the apps shortcuts were in the all programs menu. I didn't have a reason to use file explorer unless it was to move a file or something. This is why I'm liking finder more because for anything that I need to do I have to use finder instead of a going through a menu. When I needed to save a file I would put it on the desktop to make it easier to find.
 
AngerDanger said:
All the things I'd do differently for version two.

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There was an awkward intermediate stage when I was done with the hacksaw and just had a really tiny Zippo.
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You might be interested in this thread, although the "customization" is somewhat tamer than Zippods.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...zed-their-airpods-cases-in-korean-ad.2195620/
 
chown33 said:
You might be interested in this thread, although the "customization" is somewhat tamer than Zippods.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...zed-their-airpods-cases-in-korean-ad.2195620/
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Oh YEAH! I was going to post something in that thread, but was waiting to get off work. Weirdly enough, that video I posted a little while ago that sort of went viral got really popular in Korea.

AngerDanger said:
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EDIT: It's currently at 277.4K views, 11.5K likes, and 709 comments. Just that. :confused:
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Since then, it's amassed 2.1 million views, 106.9 thousand likes, 6,573 comments, and a few terrible theories as to how it was made.

  • The video was reversed
  • You're wearing a mask
  • There's a jumpcut and then a mask
  • It's wax
  • It's a filter[… that only turns on once you move your hands?]
  • Makeup
It's funny reading the guesses considering the followup video I posted a few hours later broke down the VFX.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Brexit, Mother and tweed fabrics are on my mind.
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Ah tweed! So British (mainly Scottish, am I right?)!! ;)
As for Brexit, although I know we would probably fall at the opposite of the spectrum (admittedly, it’s easy for me to say sitting at the other side of the pond), I truly do wish you all well.
As for your mom, it’s refreshing to see such love for a parent that is gone. She must be proud of you (I do believe in heaven, so yeah - I think she actually is proud ).
 
AngerDanger said:
Oh YEAH! I was going to post something in that thread, but was waiting to get off work. Weirdly enough, that video I posted a little while ago that sort of went viral got really popular in Korea.


Since then, it's amassed 2.1 million views, 106.9 thousand likes, 6,573 comments, and a few terrible theories as to how it was made.

  • The video was reversed
  • You're wearing a mask
  • There's a jumpcut and then a mask
  • It's wax
  • It's a filter[… that only turns on once you move your hands?]
  • Makeup
It's funny reading the guesses considering the followup video I posted a few hours later broke down the VFX.
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I literally have no idea what half those things mean! Good luck with it.
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Zenithal said:
Johnson is full of ****.
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Hard to argue with that logic!
 
Apple fanboy said:
Hard to argue with that logic!
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I vote conservative, but I know BS when I see it. I called him out to people I knew in the UK when he first began his foray into politics. I had a decent grasp of his bias and opinions when he was in his journalistic phase. If you'd told me 15 years ago he'd be the Prime Minister one day I'd have laughed my ass off at you. If you had told me the early 90s he'd become Prime Minister nearly 30 years later, I would have slapped you across the face and questioned your sanity.

His cabinet is apparently aborting en masse. If little support can be gathered internally for him, hey may become another name on a list of those coming and going via a revolving door. The problem with Brexit wasn't that it was a conservative effort, because your brand of conservatives is still fairly liberal here. It's the lies and illogical arguments presented to sway public opinion. People buy into crap without researching.

On the other hand, this may, it just may, spur economic development in the form of green or similar manufacturing in the UK to compete with mainland Europe.


2019-2020 is shaping up to a weird dual year period for global politics. I'm looking towards 2021 to see if there will be any foul play by domestic or foreign parties to influence the general election that may or may not see the current Taoiseach remain or ousted. Opinion on him and his cabinet is straight 50/50 I've found. The Canadian elections in a few month are mighty interesting. With two Conservatives gunning for the PM's spot. They're a bit nutty but not Ford brother nutty or American nutty. There is also a Sikh running which some of Canada's... special people... may deem as "Muslim" despite their defense minister being a well decorated Sikh.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
Ah tweed! So British (mainly Scottish, am I right?)!! ;)
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The tweeds I have worn tend to be Scottish (from Ardanlanish, and made by my tailor) or Irish (Magee, made up by a superb store in Dublin, Kevin & Howlin).

Yesterday, I learned that the lightweight twill in cream - which I had last enquired about the day before my mother passed away and have been otherwise occupied since then - is no longer available

But, sufficient quantities of a cream hopsack fabric remain to have a jacket made from it.

yaxomoxay said:
As for Brexit, although I know we would probably fall at the opposite of the spectrum (admittedly, it’s easy for me to say sitting at the other side of the pond), I truly do wish you all well.
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Thank you.

Quite seriously, I think it a self-inflicted disaster.

yaxomoxay said:
As for your mom, it’s refreshing to see such love for a parent that is gone. She must be proud of you (I do believe in heaven, so yeah - I think she actually is proud ).
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I love her and miss her, although, in truth, in the decade since her dementia developed and claimed her, I came to realise that the woman who had been my intellectual sparring partner and companion to cultural outings (book launches, gallery openings, readings, plays, and so on, occasional concerts - but music was something my father and I bonded over), no longer existed.

But, her decency, generosity and love of laughter and fun - her essential character - remained unchanged.

Zenithal said:
Johnson is full of ****.
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Not quite how I would phrase it, but I don't disagree entirely with the sentiment.
 
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Reducing my involvement in the stock market as I approach retirement in the not-too-far-distant future.

Toward that end I’m about to make an offer on a small rental house - definitely a fixer-upper, but with good bones and a decent location - and thereby take on a new role as landlord.

If this works out, I’ll keep a careful eye out for similar opportunities and build up over the next few years.
If not, I’ll sell it once it’s fixed up, possibly for a profit, and reconsider my options.

Either way, I expect I’ll learn a lot, hopefully without having to pay too much tuition.
 
Speaking of insects, I found some nasties this morning outside. Just went out and bought several pounds of dry granules to run all over the property. Human and pet safe, of course. I wish I'd followed tradition, @rhett7660. I barely did anything this summer and it showed because I've been noticing bugs I'd otherwise never see around the property and sometimes inside.
 
Zenithal said:
Speaking of insects, I found some nasties this morning outside. Just went out and bought several pounds of dry granules to run all over the property. Human and pet safe, of course. I wish I'd followed tradition, @rhett7660. I barely did anything this summer and it showed because I've been noticing bugs I'd otherwise never see around the property and sometimes inside.
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Spiders galore! I have used one gallon so far and on my second. I have sprayed more now than I have since I started this. Almost monthly!

The mosquitoes are the nasty little buggers now. The small ones that bite you and you don't know about it until it is too late and you are covered in itchy bites!
 
rhett7660 said:
Spiders galore! I have used one gallon so far and on my second. I have sprayed more now than I have since I started this. Almost monthly!

The mosquitoes are the nasty little buggers now. The small ones that bite you and you don't know about it until it is too late and you are covered in itchy bites!
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Spiders don't bother me that much - in our northern isles, they are not really dangerous.

Now, as for mosquitoes........

Cannot abide the winged menaces; it is one of those profoundly problematic asymmetric relationships - they simply love me and I cannot stand them.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
India?

The leather in that part of the world can be excellent.
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Really? I had no idea honestly :)

Well, do enjoy it.
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Thanks. I will update after a few days. I noticed that I am becoming an office organization freak. To be honest, quite a stark contrast from my school years when my reputation as the most unorganized student of the school preceded me. And they say that people don't change :)
 
yaxomoxay said:
Really? I had no idea honestly :)



Thanks. I will update after a few days. I noticed that I am becoming an office organization freak. To be honest, quite a stark contrast from my school years when my reputation as the most unorganized student of the school preceded me. And they say that people don't change :)
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Yes, people can change.

I used to be pretty casual about time keeping as a student, and was often late for class, or late for appointments - coffees and so on - with friends; once, I even missed a plane (my father, who had driven to the airport to collect me, - and had to do so a second time - quite rightly, was furious).

That began to change when I became a teacher (after all, the classes couldn't begin until I appeared), but now, my precise punctuality would almost make a German blush.
 
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