Tim Kane (ⵜⵉⵎoⵜⵀⵢ ⴽⴰⵏⴻ) 🏳️‍🌈

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@_sorrengailll @Apple Finally. Fuck yes.

@_sorrengailll @Apple Actually.. shit I think I can turn that off.

Dear @apple, I don’t know what is going on with your damn keyboard, but I have NEVER in the 19 years of owning iPhones, had to backspace, retype, start over, correct words as much as I am now! And what happened to autocorrect!? Is that not a thing anymore? Please fix this!

lol @Qantas on board wifi can’t resolve booking.jetstar.com All I want is their flight tracker, why would they even block their own budget subsidiary? @JetstarAirways And yes, I have other ways.. but super lol

Fuck me… 4 years later this app is still such a buggy piece of crap..

@ArloSmartHome hooray, my battery kicks.. Default initialisation to 0xFF ?

@igvolow @adamgordonbell @mattgodbolt It was how those drivers self-described, they seemed happy with the change of pace, wasn’t my place to argue.

@Tim_Rex_ @adamgordonbell @mattgodbolt DoorDash, Uber, etc work isn’t really self employment, because they call the shots on how much you can earn, and they force you to take losses that make no business sense.

Kate Gregory is back. She has been asking a simple question: what happens to programmers as they get older? She talked to hundreds of developers and to people on the other side, including former engineers now driving for Uber.

@British_Airways @MikeSalmon1402 £100 each is an obscene amount of money for seat selection. Are they arm chair recliners?

@MikeSalmon1402 Hi Michael, we understand your disappointment. Free seating is a benefit for our higher BA Club members, rather than based on the cabin of travel. You will be able to select seats free of charge from Rio 24 hours before departure. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. Chris

Hi @British_Airways My wife & I are returning from holiday in May, flying Rio to London. We have already paid to upgrade to Premium Economy. Is it fair to want to charge us £100 EACH to choose our seats so we can sit next to each other! ?

@autovate @SebAaltonen @thiojoe Heck, enterprise grade servers can take 5 minutes (and then some) just to POST… consumer hardware these days takes an age just to negotiate ram speed/profile

@SebAaltonen @thiojoe There are delays waiting for bits of hardware to initialize (some of these devices might be running with 100MHz processors or less), and some fixed delays involved in bring-up proceses too. Compare resume-from-hibernate vs cold boot up time to get a rough idea of the OS overhead

Anyone else think it's weird that computers take even multiple seconds to boot up? I feel like they should take milliseconds

@MonashFODMAP app says I’m offline. I’m not.

@SkyNewsAust That says more about the cost of a pint than anything else. Who the fuck wouldn’t have a pint? Fuck it, I’ll have one in solidarity!

After taking the day off work to beg the Australian taxpayer for more money, ABC staff have been spotted day drinking in a popular Sydney pub, where a pint of beer will set you back $15 a glass. skynews.com.au/business/media…

@andkon @zacbowden Imagine… deprecating W11 and re-committing to W10 😂

@zacbowden LOL, why not just improve on Win 10 indefinitely as was the original plan?

For those who like to keep track of codenames, this entire effort is codenamed "Windows K2"

@tomwarren Microsoft has never done me a better service than to declare my CPU as unsupported for W11 from the outset.. It’s funny, I railed at this at the time.. but honestly W10 is just a better place to be right now

🚨Microsoft has a plan to fix Windows 11 🚨 Lots of changes are coming to improve Windows 11 performance, reliability, and UX. "Unnecessary" Copilot buttons will be removed and Microsoft wants to get rid of the annoying "noise" from Windows. Full details theverge.com/news/897834/mi…

@decruz @SebAaltonen People might like to occasionally play games on their MacBook Neo outside of their primary purchasing objective

@SebAaltonen People are not buying a MacBook Neo as a game machine.

I am vocal about 8GB RAM laptops because I am a game dev. We were also vocal about cut down 10GB RAM in Xbox Series S. Steam Deck is a 4 year old $399 gaming device with 16GB RAM. It's the modern min spec for gaming. I would love to see more games on Macs, but 8GB alienates devs.

@tipheret That said.. if you don’t want to mess around.. nothing *wrong* with Synology really. Quite functional and my little ds218j has just done what I needed it to do (if slow)

@tipheret You can backup Time Machine to a regular SMB network share. For me that just happens to be on an old Synology, but it need not be FWIW, I don’t think I would get another Synology tbh.. reliable though it has been, they’re overpriced and drive lock-in was a bit of a sour note

I've been using MacBooks for 20 years. Never had a serious issue. Until now. My MacBook Air M4 is in service for the second time - two weeks after the first repair. The symptom: stops charging. The fix: full logic board replacement, which means complete data loss. First time I recovered everything via Time Machine — slow (24h+), but it worked. After the repair, Apple quietly blocked new backups to my Time Capsule. Machine ID changed with the board, old backup couldn't continue. A workaround I found online didn't help. A week later — dead again. This time with no backup. Time Capsule discontinued in 2018, never replaced. Is Synology the only real option now, or is there something simpler I'm missing?

@rekdt Except the contacts almost never align quite right and the lightest jiggle causes one or both channels to drop out. Fucking hate.

The correct answer and I’m furious they did this to us

Been just absolutely racking my brain trying to think of a use case for this 2 male, 1 female audio adapter I found in my audio box I’m at a complete loss, I think it might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen

@tim_cook Despite the lack of more recent rumours.. refreshed Apple TV pls

A big week ahead. It all starts Monday morning! #AppleLaunch

ICE officers stopped by our farm yesterday. “We need to inspect your property for illegal aliens,” one of them said. I replied, “Alright, but whatever you do, don’t go into that field over there.” The officer in charge exploded. “Mister, I have the authority of the federal government behind me!” he barked, reaching into his back pocket. He yanked out a badge and shoved it in my face. “See this fucking badge? This badge means I can go wherever I want on ANY land. No questions asked, no answers given. Am I clear? Do you understand?” I nodded politely and said, “Be my guest.” Then I went back to my chores. About ten minutes later, I heard screaming. I looked up and saw six ICE agents running for their lives, being chased by my big, mean, old bull. And with every step, that bull was closing in fast. It looked like they were about to get gored for sure. So I dropped my tools, ran over to the fence, and shouted at the top of my lungs: “YOUR BADGE! SHOW HIM YOUR FUCKING BADGE!”