"NT; big difference"
I don’t think this one’s been written yet…
“Reborn in another world as a tentacle monster, I defy hentai stereotypes by living a quiet life as a potato farmer, rebuffing the unwelcome advances of every kind of horny otaku waifu.”
User workarounds for Apple’s failures
Oh, look, now iCloud’s down!
Apple’s really having a great week. Looks like all iCloud services went offline around 4:45 PM PDT.
Can I at least parry?
Microsoft Loops
I bought the new, well-reviewed Flight Simulator, because it was half-price thanks to my old MS Alumni discount. If you’ve paid any attention to this launch, you know that someone thought it was a great idea to make the downloader play a short music clip, over and over and over while it downloads more than 100 GB of data. Even in the background. Even minimized. Fortunately you can use the mixer to silence a single app, so I was able to sleepwalk through the Diablo 3 campaign while FS downloaded the world (because I’d only finished it on seasonal characters from a now-closed season, so the progress didn’t count when they became “normal” characters).
On the bright side, at least their QA only missed something annoying, unlike Apple’s spectacular screwups with their latest Watch and Mac OS releases. (no comment about the massive Azure auth & Office outage yesterday… 😁)
A few years ago, someone acquainted with the relevant VP tried to share the spin he’d received from his friend about how well QA is handled at Apple. He simply wasn’t technical enough for me to explain how everything he was parroting was a bad idea. Honestly, I think the real reason they’ve moving the Mac to ARM is that they ran out of disposable 23-year-olds who know what the words “CPU architecture” mean.
Amazon Filing System
Using urban fantasy novels to navigate the real world generally doesn’t work out particularly well…
Toothpicks at Dawn
This is the sort of home decor that gets you banned from air travel.
🎶 There’s a ringin’ in your brain…
(classical reference (sadly-censored radio version))
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