Well done. I've done battery and SSD replacements in a couple of MacBook Airs. With a good instructional video from Other World Computing, it's pretty simple, though complicated (I used to tell my residents that heart surgery isn't necessarily hard, just complicated, don't confuse the two). The hardest part is keeping track of the tiny screws and remembering, or noting, where each one goes. As a matter of fact, I remember taking apart some "jellybean" iMacs and installing larger hard drives in those (It's that German pr0n, you know).

@lufins-dad wow!

@jon-nyc great list and glad to hear! I posted some of this in a thread @Aqua-Letifer started a week or so ago but my list: son born no major COVID deaths around me lots of time with 2 year old daughter (almost every day for 6 months) at the creek or on walks/runs...this will be by far my favorite memory of the year multiple good things regarding my job (pay, contract, etc)

What a great word for him to say! 55555

The government has maintained the same policy now for minutes. It is a time-honored process. It should not be discarded lightly.

I thought this might be a good excuse to toy around with Maple a little, which I have wanted to do for a while. Works nicely. [image: 1609434234867-89d30b43-eed3-4c22-a3bb-1e2b1fcb2429-image.png]

Cool

@lufins-dad said in Getting swabbed again...: @mik That may not have come out like I wished. I just meant with all the precautions taken (social distancing, masks, washing my hands like crazy, and vitamin supplements that I am peeing the alphabet) I have managed to avoid the Coronavirus. I’ve had several contacts that required isolating and testing... Hell, it was even in my house for two weeks and I still avoided it. Yet I still managed to catch a cold.... I know. Just busting balls, brother.

Trump has been in the running for decades per the article and number 2 several times. No anomalies here. It is what it is.

@george-k said in Got aging parents?: Talked to the management about it. We decided that, if someone's going to call and say "I want a video call," it's just as easy for them to call and for her to get her laptop and answer a FaceTime call. I can certainly see its utility for a lot of people, but for us, it's not worth the $200 for the smaller version, and we don't need another digital photo frame. Agreed. I see this however as a potential game changer in personal care units, memory units and nursing homes.

@mik said in Illinois to provide lodging for New Year's Eve: We drove to Indy today to install the ViewClix at MIL's place. Very curious about the experience .

Dictionary comes from the Latin word Dictionarium. Latin was THE language of Colonial Imperialism. To continue to use Latin is to use the language of the oppressor.

Seen him live at the Beacon. Still remember the night fondly.

@jon-nyc Choke and Stroke died? Was it COVID?

@george-k said in Half-billion: Knowing that the guy who dropped off the computer signed an agreement stating that if he doesn't retrieve it in 90 days, it becomes the property of the computer repair guy, would you ever trust that guy to be on the board of an energy company? Sure, why not? I’m not going fire someone from a Board of Directors just because that some one forgot (or even deliberately decided not) to pickup a computer from some repair shop. If you want to talk information security in a business setting, the security is already breached when you (1) store confidential information on computer where you’re not supposed to, or (2) give a computer with confidential information to a repair shop outside the business’ established IT process. A Director forgot to pickup his kid’s old Mac or his own old gaming PC from a repair shop is not a problem. That Director storing confidential information on his kid’s Mac or gaming PC and give that Mac/PC to an outside repair shop — that may be a problem.

Greensleeves has been around since the 1500's. As with many other folk songs or music based upon old folk songs, much of it is played today. I daresay music theory entered into the production of none of it. The sheer volume of today's music means that most of it will be thrown on the ash heap of history, but some will survive. It always does.

@aqua-letifer said in Play stupid games: That was a sick hit. You said that right.

Oh bummer.