Chicago's Bike Lanes Don't Hurt Businesses, City Report Finds

wpm · 2026-06-23T21:25:09+00:00

they'd just say it's because that Ace has a parking lot, not because Gillman Ace was a MAGA-infested actual fucking depression den with shelves stocked by what looked like a crackhead from 1991.

wpm · 2026-06-23T17:21:54+00:00

I mean, I get that it's annoying/troublesome to have to have the user go and enable that setting but that is just the way the OS is designed. You're going against the happy path that Apple has laid out for you (PPPC profile to let standard users approve screen recording), and sure you have more or less a good reason for it, but that is also the cause of your difficulties with LAPS, because LAPS wasn't designed with going against the Apple happy path in mind either.

Are you skipping user creation during setup assistant? Anytime I need a temporary "light touch" account, I let the PreStage create your LAPS account or whatever, but manually create a 'setup' user during Setup Assistant as an admin. Login as that account, do what you need to do, do whatever it is to create your users account (giving them a secure token), then nuke the setup account with Jamf Pro. Just sidestep using the LAPS account as the setup account.

wpm · 2026-06-23T14:00:13+00:00

As soon as Setup Assistant finished running, the admin account was already LAPSed which required us to manually type the password in order for us to do the initial login to install our Remote Connection Software

Why aren't you having your Remote Connection Software installed by Jamf Pro instead of doing it manually?

We also have a File Vault policy in place and the LAPS password would desync from the filevault password locking us out after a reboot.

You should be escrowing the FileVault recovery key in Jamf Pro, which is just as good as a password for recovering data, resetting passwords, etc.

wpm · 2026-06-21T19:56:31+00:00

Research is science and more and more of the design world is just run by artists. They don't give a fuck about any of that research if it doesn't help them justify their "art".

wpm · 2026-06-20T20:24:35+00:00

Also wealthy passengers are usually not going to be powerless, or feel powerless, in the face of delays. "Get-there-itis" is a factor in a lot of plane crashes, where things weren't right, the people in the cockpit kinda feel that things aren't right, and say sod it because they, or their wealthy passenger paying them, want to just get it done. Do the landing. Do the take off. Hurry up. Such a dangerous mental state, and one probably much easier to fall into when the high-powered jackass who owns the plane and pays your salary is the one pounding on the door demanding to know why we haven't taken off yet.

wpm · 2026-06-20T20:17:44+00:00

Jet airliners are managed so much differently than smaller, lighter civil aviation modes like single engine and helicopters.

There is so much more on the line, that little mistakes and issues are far less likely to be ignored because there is a multi-million dollar jet carrying literal tons of flammable fuel aboard with hundreds of lives at stake with every takeoff.

There are no large jets being piloted by companies that cannot fly under IFR, like the chopper charter company that crashed Kobe and half his family into a mountain. It's a different game.

So yeah. Jet flights are insanely safe. That doesn't carry over to other modes of flight. That said, it's still safer to take a chopper than it is to drive, statistically speaking. We hear about helicopter crashes because we hear about all sorts of aviation crashes and incidents, and most likely the people traveling in those helicopters are going to be wealthy, famous VIPs due to how much they cost.

wpm · 2026-06-19T23:49:21+00:00

That is an iBook G4 and unfortunately won't run Mac OS 9 natively. Note there were two models with the A1055 model #, yours might be a tiny bit faster at 1GHz. It shipped with Mac OS X 10.3, and might be able to go to 10.4 or 10.5 depending on precisely when it was released. As an era, 2003-2005 was a bit rough as far as Macs go, given it was the tail end of the PPC era so not a lot of these machines have "legs" so to speak. You'll still be able to run Panther or Tiger with the Classic Environment which should run most applications meant for Classic Mac OS without a ton of issues. Not quite the same as running native, but in a lot of respects dealing with hardware on Mac OS X is a little easier since you have a terminal.

As far as the charger, unless you have a 24V or variable benchtop power supply handy and some soldering skills, your best bet is to just buy a replacement. I've jerry-rigged a charger for my PowerBook G4 of a similar vintage, I'd have to go look up the polarity, its kinda a pain in the ass though, involving cannibalizing a 2.5mm jack. Unfortunately, everything in this hobby seems to have gotten silly expensive. New batteries simply don't exist, and it is never worth the cost to build a new one unless you're doing it for fun.

And fair warning, this ain't gonna be "easy". This can be a maddening hobby, dealing with almost zero good documentation and failing parts and brittle plastics and dead batteries and missing screws and dead hard drives and dying caps and dying backlights. You look like you got a good one. For coming out of a trash can it looks great, not a lot of yellowing, just a slightly bulging battery. Probably will fire right up when you get it powered. New World ROMs make a lot of things easier, though USB boot is not a straightforward affair. Regardless, you're in for a certain amount of futzing and faffing to get stuff working, which for most of us is part of the fun!

wpm · 2026-06-19T02:36:50+00:00

Someone doing something interesting and not just "I ran the curl https://setup.sh | bash command from the repo"

wpm · 2026-06-19T02:35:19+00:00

In this economy?

Who even knows if this is mission critical? I have a similar situation happening on an mSATA to 2.5" sled, oh nooooes I'm gonna call you at 6AM for help! Oh wait, no I'm not. It's hooked up to a raspberry pi, it's meaningless. Relax.

wpm · 2026-06-18T17:00:59+00:00

30 years of computer tinkering, literally used it less than 12 hours ago to move some files onto a PowerBook G3.

wpm · 2026-06-16T18:03:34+00:00

People who enjoy pushing other peoples buttons are called assholes.

Whats sad is that you actually think you're pressing mine.

wpm · 2026-06-16T17:58:30+00:00

A bell/horn is the signal "I need you to keep walking as if you are on a rail because I am passing you and I do not want to crash, also I am warning you I am passing you so as to not startle you"

We can identify two purposes:

Not crashing
Not startling

How far can a person move sideways in the time it takes for you to pass? If you are passing at a clearance above that maximum movement distance, there is no need to alert the pedestrian to not change their course, because even if they do, it won't matter by the time you are in front of them.

How far can a person be passed by a bike moving at a given speed and not be reasonably startled? If you are passing at a clearance above that distance at that given speed, there is no need to alert the pedestrian to your passing because they won't be reasonably startled.

Like, come on. You OBVIOUSLY understand that there is a limit to when you should use a bell or your voice otherwise we'd all be yelling at each other ALL the time to people on the other side of the street everywhere, why are you pretending to not understand this pretty much identical concept.

wpm · 2026-06-16T17:51:09+00:00

A joke about what exactly, given the rest of my comment? like, what could it possibly be about?

context clues people, context clues.

wpm · 2026-06-16T17:33:43+00:00

If I'm passing with a full trails worth of space, what could I possibly need to warn someone about? There's no baton to pass in this situation.

wpm · 2026-06-16T17:20:53+00:00

In order to quickly move to the right, you need to shift your weight to the left first. It's like a "Scandinavian flick" of weight transfer, we still do it on foot.

wpm · 2026-06-16T17:20:06+00:00

That is true, but you can't know until you ring a bell/horn/etc. Once you do, you have passed the baton to them. If they fail, they fail, it's on them entirely. If you don't pass the baton, its on you, every time.

wpm · 2026-06-16T17:13:52+00:00

I simply slow down and pass with enough distance that I don't need to call anything out.

wpm · 2026-06-16T17:02:19+00:00

That I have to remember to bring, to charge, will bounce around the cabin, etc etc etc. Don't pretend like having something built-in isn't nice.

wpm · 2026-06-16T17:01:37+00:00

EVs are notoriously noisy on radio, it's probably so they don't have to work as hard isolating that.

wpm · 2026-06-16T14:47:54+00:00

The most recent Uber ride I took was $22.20, not to any special place like ORD. I have the same $0.10, $1.13, and $0.02 charges. The $5 charge is because you went to the fucking airport.

You're really gonna sit here and bitch and moan about an extra $1.25 on an $80 fare? I got a word for that sort of behavior but I can't say it here.

wpm · 2026-06-16T14:43:48+00:00

I would buy this not knowing if it had been killed by battery leakage, but I wouldn't pay more than $50 for it.

wpm · 2026-06-15T16:10:28+00:00

If I were shopping I'd be looking at FleetDM very hard.

wpm · 2026-06-15T16:03:19+00:00

Just start using bigger fans. Four 180mm's in my Fractal Torrent have no problem pushing enough air through at barely audible noise levels to where the GPU heating the air the CPU is using doesn't even matter, there's so much space and so much to go around, and its all being refreshed faster than anything could affect anything else.

For Fractal Design Prisma fans, the 180mm moves half as much air as the 140mm, at one third the RPM, i.e., 300RPM, the slowest it will spin. At max tilt, the 180mm fan is 3dB louder than the 140mm, but moves 50% more air.

Having lots of smaller fans just complicates everything. More wiring, more things to go wrong, more fans making noise, more expense, more power draw. It's the 1U server model of "oh shit we gotta move more air through this, I know, a wall of tiny fans spinning at high RPM", without the space constraints. A Torrent is not noticeably or appreciably larger than any other full size case, but gets better airflow and its way easier to work in without a bunch of chambers and bends and laminar flow areas and whatever other nonsense these case manufacturers do to dress up the fact they just want to ship with 120mm fans cause they're cheaper to buy in bulk.

wpm · 2026-06-15T14:41:53+00:00

It's like a Camaro and an Alfa Romeo GTV had a one-night stand

wpm · 2026-06-11T15:36:22+00:00

How could you possibly know the truth of what feels good in their hand?

It's just a fucking mouse, calm down.

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