What’s on your mind?

[kazmac]

^Nice case.

A smaller (female)? Blue Jay just stopped by our pine tree outside our kitchen window. I saw its wings as it was coming in for a landing on a branch close to our window. 🙂 I froze as it cocked its head a few times to look at me before flying away. So happy to see it (and a peer on the opposite side of the tree too). 💙❤️💙

Waiting to hear about being rehired for this job, probably late next week.

Mom is at least having an okay day as far as pain today.

Hope everyone is okay.

 

[Erehy Dobon]

On a positive note, this case I got for my V60 has gold flecks that are really pretty in the light. I can't seem to catch it as well in a photo though.

Ah, good old Starry Night.

There are no gold flecks in the actual painting so think of them as a bonus.

 

[MacBH928]

Er, yes, but I am not entirely sure that it actually feels that way.


Yes and no.

I think people associate time with change. If things change a lot in 5 year times, its a long time ago. If nothing changes for 40 years, they feel it was recent.

This is a lot... I am shook more and more every time I think how much time has passed since the 20th century. I was recalling some of my college adventures recently to some younger fellows, had to stop and think that they were 40-44 years ago...

To put things in a scarier perspective, to the future generations we are currently living the "Roaring 20's" just as much as the people from 1920's are for us.

 

[kazmac]

Yay, another Jay sighting! Maybe the same Blue Jay? from lunch in the front tree squawking away, hopping from branch to branch.

Glad it is Thursday night.

 

[Clix Pix]

I really miss seeing "my" birdies -- Sparrows -- on my deck, but since putting out birdseed for them and then the lightweight birdseed flying around and landing on others' decks, which I hadn't realized, was (unsurprisingly) bothering the neighbors, I had to stop. I do occasionally see and often hear my little feathered friends when out walking around the neighborhood, though. I have birdseed on my grocery shopping list to pick up again, though -- this time to distribute in the common grounds area of my community. That way, they'll still get their treats.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Yay, another Jay sighting! Maybe the same Blue Jay? from lunch in the front tree squawking away, hopping from branch to branch.

Glad it is Thursday night.

Indeed. I'll be even happier when its Friday night! The sparrows and Tits are eating us out of house and home at the minute. Mrs AFB fills up the seeds and mealworms daily. The nuts last about a week. She also puts out some peanut butter and biscuit daily. I swear they eat better than I do!

 

[Mefisto]

I'm officially closer to 40 then I am to 35. Or well, technically I guess I was that already six months ago, but still.

Not sure how I'm supposed feel about that, other than slightly inebriated and more than slightly amused. Time flies, and although I would probably believe you if you told me today's date is March 156th, talking with some friends earlier today it dawned on me that despite this year seemingly having been a decade long, pretty much has still happened. And despite everything, today having once again been my favorite day of the year, things seem pretty good.

Tomorrow's going to be a tough challenger for that favorite day of the year stuff, though. The UPS man is delivering some fun guitar toys and I have a whole weekend free from any and all obligations to play around with them.

Oh, and it's the first time ever that I'm not jumping on a macOS update on day one. Feels weird.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I'm officially closer to 40 then I am to 35. Or well, technically I guess I was that already six months ago, but still.

Not sure how I'm supposed feel about that, other than slightly inebriated and more than slightly amused. Time flies, and although I would probably believe you if you told me today's date is March 156th, talking with some friends earlier today it dawned on me that despite this year seemingly having been a decade long, pretty much has still happened. And despite everything, today having once again been my favorite day of the year, things seem pretty good.

Tomorrow's going to be a tough challenger for that favorite day of the year stuff, though. The UPS man is delivering some fun guitar toys and I have a whole weekend free from any and all obligations to play around with them.

Oh, and it's the first time ever that I'm not jumping on a macOS update on day one. Feels weird.

I never download Mac OS updates on day one. Let someone else be the Beta testers.

 

[Mefisto]

I never download Mac OS updates on day one. Let someone else be the Beta testers.

Yeah, but see that's been (a small) part of the charm, and never have I ever had any problem I couldn't solve after updating immediately. I realize, especially after reading the forums here and elsewhere, that my experience is not necessarily the norm.

And if there wasn't this one specific company that I received an email from earlier today, whose software I happen to need tomorrow, I'd be on Big Sur faster than I can type Big Sur.

Like I said, weird stuff.

 

[Clix Pix]

I always check in with MR before attempting any sort of software update or upgrade.....and today seems to be a really good reason to have followed my usual procedure! I'll hold off a couple of days, wait and see what happens, before I move forward with downloading and installing Big Sur on either of my machines.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I always check in with MR before attempting any sort of software update or upgrade.....and today seems to be a really good reason to have followed my usual procedure! I'll hold off a couple of days, wait and see what happens, before I move forward with downloading and installing Big Sur on either of my machines.

That’s how I normally do it to. Only had an issue once when I didn’t do that!

 

[Septembersrain]

I always check in with MR before attempting any sort of software update or upgrade.....and today seems to be a really good reason to have followed my usual procedure! I'll hold off a couple of days, wait and see what happens, before I move forward with downloading and installing Big Sur on either of my machines.

That’s how I normally do it to. Only had an issue once when I didn’t do that!

I don't have a Mac but I used to do this with iOS. Always a problem for me updating right away. Now I don't update at all. I get everything the way I want it and leave it alone.

 

[Jessica Lares]

Going to just stay on Catalina for at least another year. It would be nice to have Darkroom on the Mac, it's just that's what it's all going to be this next year - Which iOS apps are actually usable on the Mac to begin with? It's the whole dongle thing again and USB-C is still rolling out.

 

[Stephen.R]

It's the whole dongle thing again and USB-C is still rolling out.

It's an easily fixable minor inconvenience that gives huge flexibility in return, but is blown out of proportion by a vocal minority?

 

[Jessica Lares]

It's an easily fixable minor inconvenience that gives huge flexibility in return, but is blown out of proportion by a vocal minority?

It might be a vocal minority, but then there is only a minority of people who even need to be plugging things other than their phone or an external drive into a machine to begin with.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Mac Mini user so I get the best of both worlds. USB A and C.

 

[kazmac]

Mac Mini user so I get the best of both worlds. USB A and C.

How is your Mini holding up?

I needed a laptop, so I ordered an M1 Macbook Air. Cannot wait to receive it and am glad I stuck with Apple. 🥳

Hope to see a more powerful M chip Mac Mini coming at some point as I want to replace my 2013 iMac too.

It is Friday! Yay.

Hope everyone has a nice one.

 

[Apple fanboy]

How is your Mini holding up?

I needed a laptop, so I ordered an M1 Macbook Air. Cannot wait to receive it and am glad I stuck with Apple. 🥳

Hope to see a more powerful M chip Mac Mini coming at some point as I want to replace my 2013 iMac too.

It is Friday! Yay.

Hope everyone has a nice one.

All good. I’m working a lot at the moment so probably not using it very much.

 

[kazmac]

Yay! More birds visible in a neighbor’s tree: a lady Cardinal and two Blue Jays. 😍

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Winter, dinner, beer and politics - but not necessarily in that order.

 

[Clix Pix]

Mac Mini user so I get the best of both worlds. USB A and C.

All USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 household here. I simply bought a couple of cables with the appropriate connector on one end plus USB-C connector on the other end in order to keep using the older external drives which didn't have USB-C cables provided with them. My external SSDs came with two cables: one a USB-C to USB-C and the other a USB-C to USB-A, and that worked nicely during the time I was transitioning between machines with different ports.

As for using some of my iOS apps on my Mac, I don't see myself doing that, and I don't really have that many apps on my iPad or iPhone anyway. I am concerned, though, yes, about how long it may take for my photo editing software programs to become native on Apple's new SOC machines, though. I figure that probably by the time I get around to replacing my current 2018 15" MBP that there will be an "M" equivalent of it and that my editing programs will be functional and native to the new platform.

 

[MacBH928]

Apple releasing so many great products and technologies they will shatter the stock market ceiling. I never thought they can grow much larger than $1T, but here we are at $2T.

They have new CPU to grow their 15% mac market share, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Watch, Apple Maps, Apple Pay, Apple card, new speakers, HomeKit...where does it end? How big can you grow? Is it a good thing to grow so big?

 

[D.T.]

How is your Mini holding up?

The last time I power cycled mine (which was by design, a "travel shutdown"), the reported uptime was just short of 90 days

I'll likely be replacing it when the second gen M series product is released, assuming it allows for 32-64GB RAM and bumps up to a 16+4/16 (or more) core configuration

 

[kazmac]

The last time I power cycled mine (which was by design, a "travel shutdown"), the reported uptime was just short of 90 days

I'll likely be replacing it when the second gen M series product is released, assuming it allows for 32-64GB RAM and bumps up to a 16+4/16 (or more) core configuration

That is awesome. You use the Mini for software development right?

I would love to jump to a Mac Mini and am waiting on the more powerful/RAM second gen M series desktops too. Eagerly awaiting my MBA.

Happy Saturday everyone!

 

[D.T.]

That is awesome. You use the Mini for software development right?

I would love to jump to a Mac Mini and am waiting on the more powerful/RAM second gen M series desktops too. Eagerly awaiting my MBA (Hoping UPS are correct with my delivery date).

Happy Saturday everyone!

Yeah, it's for development, as well as all sorts of general computing, personal use, on any given day I've got 25-30 apps open, a number of Containers/VMs, it just runs and runs, rarely makes much noise, never needs restarting.

I'm about 98% sure I'm going to order a new M1 MBA as well, looking for a machine for the little G, and something I can use for the few times I need something portable, and the software needs are pretty basic, so expect most things to be ASI-native or easily handled by Rosetta 2 (until the native version is available).