Yeah, this is the point where I think I'll try to get a model that's a year (or even 2) old, because I still don't need Thunderbolt ports but I do need USB ports.
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Steph L. - Oct 28, 2016 11:05:53 am PDT #24901 of 25505
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2016 11:18:54 am PDT #24902 of 25505
hwæt
Well, they're both Thunderbolt ports AND USB ports (it's a dessert topping, and a floor wax!), but you still need all kinds of cables and dongles to get it to all work with your old USB peripherals.
I'm gonna stick to my present set-up for a couple more years, at least until the USB 3.1 infrastructure is built out a little more.
meara - Oct 28, 2016 11:20:59 am PDT #24903 of 25505
Well yeah--the Thunderbolt/USB-C ports are only useful to me if I can stick my current USB things in there. Which my understanding is, I can't. But like I said, four years from now, will I only be able to find USB-C stuff, and not have any of those ports?
Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2016 11:25:29 am PDT #24904 of 25505
hwæt
Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2016 1:28:32 pm PDT #24905 of 25505
hwæt
Six pairs of earphones in the past 15 months. Sigh.
Seven pairs of earphones in the past 17 months. Cheap Radio Shack phones this time. I just can't be bothered to take my damn iPhone out of my pocket every fucking time I sit down.
Jesse - Oct 28, 2016 5:16:14 pm PDT #24906 of 25505
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Did you get the Radio Shack warranty? It would be especially worth it for you, apparently.
beekaytee - Oct 28, 2016 6:38:03 pm PDT #24907 of 25505
Compassionately intolerant
I need to, for reasons, permanently block a game url from my system. Like, forever. All browsers.
google tells me to use terminal, which scares me a lot.
I've been using Self Control, but it is not permanent enough.
Any suggestions? Or positive experiences?
Gudanov - Oct 29, 2016 9:26:00 am PDT #24908 of 25505
Coding and Sleeping
My home desktop now has 32GB of RAM. It's nice to have plenty of memory.
omnis_audis - Oct 29, 2016 9:31:28 am PDT #24909 of 25505
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I just can't be bothered to take my damn iPhone out of my pocket every fucking time I sit down
I can't recall if you ruled out Bluetooth headphones?
tommyrot - Oct 29, 2016 9:35:14 am PDT #24910 of 25505
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I want one of the fancy new MacBook Pros, but my current one is working fine and I've declared a moratorium on "expensive shit I don't really need" until my job situation is clarified a year from now.