Darren

Every operating system has steep learning curves and you will struggle with how it does things when first starting out.

I’ve been using Linux seriously for almost a year now. I felt the same way as OP back in the beginning. It took me a couple of weeks to realise that it’s not so much that the OS is tricksier than macOS, it’s that I did all my stumbling around OS X when I got my first Mac back in 07, and now I know it pretty well. Sure, macOS has better guardrails, but it’s still worlds away from Windows.

I believe macOS 26 will be the last that’ll run on Intel hardware. So functionally, a year from now, Hackintosh is dead. Well, Hackintosh running the current macOS, of course. I imagine there’ll be a thriving community working to keep existing hardware chugging along.

It’ll be interesting to see the momentum of Linux on Macs though. If Asahi manages to crack those last few hurdles with the M1/2 hardware, it’ll be a rock solid OS, particularly as ARM64 software becomes more common. Suddenly you’ll have a bunch of incredibly capable Macs going cheap because they can’t run the largest macOS.

Did you post all three of these via Starlink?

Have you been watching me at work?

Laura Shigihara - Everything’s Alright from To The Moon.

That game made me weep like a baby, so even now, some ten years after playing it for the first time, that song still stirs up those feelings.

And for much the same reason, Daniel Lanois - That’s The Way It Is from Red Dead 2.

If you’ve played it long enough to hear that song, you understand.

I saw that for the first time last year, and I can tell you that it’s bloody disturbing to a 44 year old too.

There’s (slightly) fewer cunts on here.

Thing with Vegemíté is that it’s like Marmite, but not fucking awful.

Vegemíté, as pronounced by Gloria in Modern Family.

Every time I open the cupboard that has a jar, it brings me joy.

I lay completely still. Properly, completely still. I focus all my energy on not moving a single muscle besides what I need to breathe.

Then, while doing that, I try to conjure up elaborate fantasy scenes in my mind.

9 times out of 10 I’m gone within five minutes.

First time I DJd, I cleared the floor because I really wanted to hear Angel on big, club speakers.

No ragerts.

65daysofstatic - Wild Light

But the FLAC version I have, obviously.

That album is a masterpiece, as far as I’m concerned. I will never tire of it, and it really gives my speakers a workout.

Of course!

Here’s last week’s.

I was studying for a radio production degree exactly at the point where radio station budgets were rapidly shrinking, while podcasting was growing. But obviously the degree course didn’t really have any podcasting in the syllabus because it was relatively new. Home streaming wasn’t really a thing at that point either, so we go no tuition on how to set up our own output.

Radio is massively different now than it was then. So yeah, I hear ya.

Radio production.

Got a degree, moved to London, applied for loads of jobs, and… nothing.

Trouble is, I needed to be paid, and at the entry level it’s all unpaid internships and volunteering at community stations. Unless you know someone who can get you through the door, of course.

Stuck with making a podcast in my spare time for a few years, but ultimately lost the spark.

These days I work in health and safety management and stream a radio show every Monday night that about 15 people tune into live, and 30-odd people listen to on Mixcloud. It makes me no money, but I enjoy it.