Dungeon Chibis, episode 9

This one has everything: Shota power! New skills! Rich-girl mansion! Jealous Crush-chan! Easily-distracted Adventure Girls! Soaking wet Crush-chan in clingy outfit! Girl bonding! Cold showers for boys who really need them! Insert song in implausible voice! Victory in battle! …and a payoff on last week’s foreshadowing, as Our Rich Mage Princess collapses. That didn’t take long.

Verdict: I’m pleased that Our Chibi Devil Shota did not get weird and gay this week. Also that Our Chibi Devil Devil is out for another taste of that sweet sweet life-drain that powers up her bustline, er, “powers”, yeah I meant to say “powers”.

Pom-Pom Girls, episode 8

In which Our Cheer Gals discover that turning your hobby into a job creates exhaustion, friction, conflict, and social-media haters. They still live in an idealized world where outcall cheer delivery does not result in being sex-trafficked to Saudi Arabia or Hollywood, and where the haters are mildly rude and don’t make a single lewd comment. But it’s not that kind of show.

Verdict: the summer slump continues.

Pete’s Adventures In MacLand…

I’m amused at the culture shock. I’m actually surprised that Safari isn’t remembering his tabs, since my usual problem is getting MacOS to not reopen everything I had open when I logged out, rebooted, or an app crashed; it’s done in a way that is not useful. The primary thing I remember about configuring Safari is uncheck ‘Open “safe” files after downloading’; this should never have been on by default.

The menubar follies were likely related to one of those settings I carefully disabled years ago and it’s followed me from Mac to Mac ever since. There’s a whole bunch of stuff hidden vaguely under “accessibility”, like not making things translucent to show the colors in your background screen.

I have no idea how he’s getting screencap to launch Photos, since I’ve been using Cmd-Shift 3 and Cmd-Shift-4 since before Macs ran Unix, and the most annoying thing they’ve done to that is put some stupid preview image in the lower right corner for several seconds before actually saving it to the Desktop like Tog intended. Tip: open /Applications/Utilities/Screenshot.app once, select the options menu, and disable “show floating thumbnail”.

As for dingus-click, I hesitated to google that one, but it sounds like Ctrl-Left-Click in Terminal.app. That’s another app where I’ve been using it for so long and copying config files around that I had no idea what the default behavior was like until I got my new work Mac.

(I think I spent about a week de-iPadding that machine and getting it to work sensibly; somewhere there’s a Github page that documents “Macs for Engineers” or some such, but I did it by hand again)

(Update: macOS Setup Guide, a subset of this github repo)

Meanwhile, in a dusty archive…

…I’ve discovered that I still have a double-fuckton of resource-fork Type 1 fonts, and while there are a number of “free” “converters”, they always seem to leave out the part about extracting the metrics files. Converting them to PFB format isn’t terribly useful unless you have the matching AFM or PFM files.

Anyway, I found an abandoned project on my NAS where I was trying to clean up the mess. The files have timestamps from 2002…

(“What’s that”, Frieren asks, “You think 22 years is a long time? Amateur.”)

Surprisingly, the resource forks have somehow not been deleted in all that copying around. Although some of them are in AppleDouble format, some are in the modern MacOS’ vestigial file/..namedfork/rsrc format, and I even found some BinHex and Stuffit files crufting up some directories. Blech. NextStep was the best thing ever to happen to Apple.

(why was I looking through old fonts? because the Adobe suite I pay for that lets me use a pornucopia of fonts for free does not include Barmeno, and Berthold wants $367.99 for the complete family, or $45.99 per weight. Not having won the lottery yet, I groveled over the NAS and managed to find a backup of a backup of a Windows box that had Adobe Type Basics installed on it, with four weights in PFB/AFM/PFM; it also had all the fonts from Illustrator 7 and Corel Draw 4 (the Bitstream/URW collection that replaced their earlier lower-quality pirated shovelware fonts).

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