Using Microsoft Edge on an iPhone. Novel concept.
Migrating all movie and audio streaming from Apple devices to something else. Their two factor authentication may no longer be removed and it has rendered my Apple TV useless.
@matigo What's fun is seeing one in a certain routine that has been ported from version to version since the late 1970s.
"Wait. The logic here is wrong. If this happens…it blows up. How has this remained undetected since the Carter administration!?"
-rw-rw-r-- 1 katy katy 66176191 Jun 21 12:41 Firefox 60.0.dmg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 katy katy 53110007 Jun 21 13:59 firefox-60.0.2.tar.bz2 "Linux is Unix. So is MacOS. Kinda. This should totaly work!"
I normally have a snappy analogy that describes things people do to Linux workstations.
Here, I have nothing.
It was ugly. Well, fruits of the second download was. The first was just..precious.
@matigo I still have one of the original 8 bit Soundblaster cards laying around somewhere. Had it hooked to a 300 watt Pioneer amp and Polk Audio Monitor Series 12 speakers. When the doors opened and closed in Wolfenstein 3D, the house shook. Loved it.
// @joanna
@joanna The early mp3 encoders were a hoot.A 33MHz 386 and, eventually, a 66 MHz 486 would be brought to their knees. The former couldn't really create a 128kbit sample without the operator aging visibly. (It certainly couldn't play one without stuttering. The latter could barely do it)
The Pentium came out around that time and was a joke compared to what we were told we could expect from it. Little toaster ovens that couldn't be trusted to "math" properly.
"This isn't going to go anywhere" -- Me in 1992/93
// @matigo
@matigo Memories of downloading a beta of Borland Pascal 7.0 (Connections..I had 'em) at 9600 baud.
Apple Watch Update: I suspect the software learns the user's routine fairly well and manages it's power accordingly because the battery life has actually improved. It's an impressive little device. I continue to find it useful as taking calls and responding to texts without taking my eyes off the road of hands off the wheel has been a godsend. There is the occasional delay with the speech recognition but I suspect it has to do with it's communications with the iPhone.