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PSA: New abbreviation to enter common usage: ai;dr

Sorry Mr. Beast, but your plan on influencing teens by buying the 'Step' banking app isn't going to work.
"Dad, he's the Elon Musk of Youtubers, I don't want anything to do with that."

QTP with a trio of awesomeness!

Canard! Pato! Anka! Ow!

America, you're so screwed.

Pretty much.

Are yas gonna come quietly, or do I has ta rough yas up!

Telstra warns older iPhones may be unable to connect to Triple Zero Customers are advised to delay software updates on affected devices and find alternative ways to communicate if needed.

Australians still sporting an iPhone 8, 8 Plus or iPhone X are advised *NOT* to update to iOS v16.7.13, released Tuesday by Apple.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

A chart from 2023 giving a breakdown of car colours by percentage in the USA.

... then there's this. The Trout, as so named by @nanoraptor.danamania.com

Over three quarters of all cars in America are either white, black, or one of fifty shades of grey in between.
Meanwhile in Australia ...

PS: Bonus points (and an extra mention in the official acknowledgements when the book comes out) if he can get the sound of an original 400k 'Hippo' drive and an 800k (DD) drive in action reading and ejecting a disk.

Calling all floppies, calling all floppies ... David Pogue needs some help. He wants to include an audio file of a Macintosh floppy drive in action, but so far hasn't been able to find anything on the web. Can anyone help? (FB shortlink: tinyurl.com/yevdashe )

Khaby Lame Sells Company In $975 Million Deal The equity-driven deal will see Lame becoming a controlling shareholder.

Why you should never EVER subscribe to media influencer channels on YT, TikTok or other services: They can collect AND SELL your personal data.
www.forbes.com/sites/martin...

Native Instruments is in preliminary insolvency An administrator has been appointed for the brand behind the likes of Maschine, Traktor, Massive and Kontakt, according to reports

Scary news for electronic musicians as one of the best-known names in the business faces closure: www.musicradar.com/music-tech/n...

Remember when people started putting their iPhones up on FBM/eBay because they still had Fortnite running on them? Same thing's happening again but now they're advertising "Still runs iOS 18", according to a segment on NPR.
When mainstream media goes "iOS 26 sucks" it's really bad.

The tough part about improvising a home cinema on the #ISS was finding a spot where everyone would be comfortable ... for varying degrees of comfortable.
"There's not much space out in space!"

So you want to work in IT, do you?

The built-in battery level display was always a much-appreciated feature, too.

Y'know what I miss most on MacBooks?
Socketed RAM & storage?
No, 98% of laptops go to e-waste with the config they shipped with.
Glowing logo in the lid?
Close; it's not a Mac if the logo doesn't glow.
What I miss most is the sleep LED.

I herb you people like puns.

A metal sign that reads: Did you know that "Dammit I'm Mad" spelled backwards is "Dammit I'm Mad"

Now I do.

The latest issue of PALEBOY - The Magazine of Dirty Archaeology - has just hit the rock-stands.

It won't be long before they unveil Microsoft Copilot Copilot, a service to explain which Copilot-branded product is the one you're actually looking for.

"The novelty of Seiko's first color TV wrist watch palled after learning it required surgical alteration of the wrist to accomodate the CRT."

Mac OS X Panther displayed on a Seiko LVD TV Watch ... except the OS X image has the tell-tale curvature and artifacting of a CRT.

If this isn't a @nanoraptor.danamania.com special, then it is definitely inspired by her work.

If you hate Al you probably just hate art and expression. It's an infinite mashup of all the best art ever made by humans. If you hate the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster you just hate food and cooking. It's an infinite mashup of all the best food made by humans!

Today's juicy truthiness:

They left the protective film on the LCD panel when they put it back together. How could you NOT notice this?

There are usually good reasons for not having some third-rate PC shop repair your iMac.

A full-page advertisement from Johnson Smith Co., purveyor of cheap novelty toys & gadgets. During the 70s ads like this were to be found in practically every US-made comic from DC, Marvel, Gold Key, Archie and many others. The two Star Trek items mention are at and near the top of the page. Every pre-teen nerd wanted a pair of those X-RAY VISION glasses.

Item 7662 STAR TREK EXPLORATION SET $3.29 Authentic replicas of Star Trek instruments. Detailed models. With assembly instructions.

FLYING STAR TREK SPACESHIPS Scale Models Really Fly! Flies Up To 1000 Ft. High! These "flying replicas of famous TV spaceships" were powered by twin Estes model-rocket engines, and are "from official plans with modifications to permit atmospheric operations."

Back in 1975, if you read the right comics, you could buy a Star Trek communicator, hand phaser AND tricorder for a mere $3.29. There were flying models of the Enterprise and the Klingon battle-cruiser, too, only $6.95.

Fixing Electron App Rendering Issues on Legacy Macs: A Comprehensive Patcher for OCLP Users If you're running macOS Ventura or later on an older Mac using OpenCore Legacy Patcher (OCLP), you've probably encountered the dreaded pink screens, graphical glitches, and random freezes in apps...

Are you running #OCLP on your old Intel Mac? Sick of the pink-screen lock-ups that happen with Chrome & Electron apps? An explainer & a comprehensive patching tool for over 150 apps (inc. Discord & VS Code) is here:
marcosfermin.com/electron-ocl...
#OpenCore #macOS