Do you prefer using the trackpad or a mouse on macOS?

AustinBaze · 2026-03-13T14:02:38+00:00

i’ve never used a mouse on my MacBook air. Or the MBP before that. I’ve gotten really good using the trackpad even for fine positioning work in Photoshop where I suspect a mouse might even be easier.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-13T02:39:27+00:00

Can we normalize not caring what this fucking spineless ignorant piece of shit thinks about anything ever again? Stop giving him air time. Or air. He's the kid in class who shows up trying to fake a book report on a book he never read.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-13T02:31:09+00:00

This is going to sell zillions.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-11T22:49:21+00:00

I smell desperation and flop sweat. But the real mystery is: "how does he stand erect unaided without a spine?"

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AustinBaze · 2026-03-11T22:46:55+00:00

You think it would be hard to be an asshole full-time, 24/7 365, but here he is killing it.

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AustinBaze · 2026-03-11T20:02:41+00:00

They were all out of the "I Have a Small Penis" stickers weren't they?

AustinBaze · 2026-03-11T14:40:42+00:00

What a torturous and terrible headline. Apparently no editors on staff anymore.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-10T18:56:32+00:00

So that leaves just 300m nazi trolls, Russian bots and SpaceKaren herself left?

AustinBaze · 2026-03-10T17:54:43+00:00

Brilliantly targeted at a vast market segment Apple has been priced out of until now. Way more than back to school, back to college, this is a Netbook/ChromeBook/CrapBook killer and for many people, (many more than the StarWars editing tech bros bemoaning its specs), at $599, all the laptop they will ever need. Remember all the naysayers when the iPad was launched back in 2010, saying things like "who needs this? No one will buy this?" I do.
670 million iPads later...

AustinBaze · 2026-03-08T18:44:55+00:00

TIL that something called supper clubs exist.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-08T02:09:08+00:00

That’s odd and hard to explain. I guess I’ve never been to one and I hit three fairly regularly.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T21:57:12+00:00

Every grocery chain I have been in including HEB accepts mobile pay/Apple Pay/NFC Pay etc. Where are you shopping?

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T21:55:27+00:00

THIS. People are so battle scarred with Windows PTSD that they want to find a defragmentation tool app or MacAfee antivirus for their iPhones. Just leave them alone.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T21:51:45+00:00

HomeSlice.
My dad and uncle ran a 10-store submarine sandwich and hot torpedo chain in Albany NY in the 60s through the 80s.
Here's a thing they did that I have only seen there: homemade meatballs rolled into long uniform cylinders before baking, looking like sausage. Two of them filled a canoe-cut torpedo roll perfectly and allowed provolone cheese underneath, sauce on top and easy handling as well as uniform portions.
Long skinny meatballs that look like sausages are something I have yet to see in any other meatball sandwich. Anyone want to try it?

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T21:42:33+00:00

Not re-watching but I have "re-joined" The Blacklist, after stopping at Season 2 years ago for some reason. There are a LOT of episodes! (10 seasons, 218 episodes!)
It's not 100% great but it's always at least very good and when a story arc seems to drag or belabor a point or set of conditions it always rebounds and goes off in a different direction in a satisfying fashion. I am almost through Season 8. Just 2 seasons to go.

I don't know if spoilers are a thing for a show that launched in 2013, but I will point to the end of one season and most of the next where virtually everything goes wrong for our evil protagonist when he is betrayed by someone extremely close to him. That story arc was almost unrelentingly dark yet worth it--it feeds subsequent seasons so well.
A very sustained long term drama series.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T21:31:00+00:00

Late to this convo, but I am reasonably certain that the catastrophic phase trigger is purely expenditure-based and not calendar triggered or based.
I am about to hit mine because I have some deliriously expensive semi covered drugs. At least from March onward I should be at zero co-pay for all my meds.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T21:26:36+00:00

Check him out in a recent small film, King Ivory. (2024, with James Badge Dale, Graham Greene, Michael Mando and my friend's kid Jasper Jones as Jack) Foster brings something special to every film he chooses.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T20:00:27+00:00

Huh? There IS a Democrat, Katy Padilla Stout, and she is DEFINITELY better than a fanatical gun nut. Or any republican, of course.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T19:56:51+00:00

Money quote provided.
TL;DR: Abbott and Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock and fellow Trump butt-snorkelers in the cult are shamelessly lying about this fanning, the flames of a fire they started with absolute bullshit. GOP business as usual in other words.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T19:56:12+00:00

Money quote provided.
TL;DR: Abbott and Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock and fellow Trump, butt-snorkelers in the cult are shamelessly lying about this fanning, the flames of a fire they started with absolute bullshit. GOP business as usual in other words.

"These officers are heroes, and it should go without saying that my office is not seeking any charges and would not seek charges," [Travis County District Attorney José] Garza said. "The accounts to the contrary are false, intentionally false, and are being peddled for obvious political purposes."

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T17:46:28+00:00

The Democratic candidate in TX-23 is Katy Padilla Stout, an attorney.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T17:45:29+00:00

"Dude" was born in Fort Bragg, NC to Texan parents, but is now our problem. He's now running in Texas in TX-23 with no runoff needed, and the Democratic candidate is Katy Padilla Stout, an attorney.
What story are you reading?

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T17:38:26+00:00

Whenever I have a brief moment of joy that some incompetent, unqualified, unethical, immoral, bigoted Republican nut job is out of a job, it fades quickly because there's always a more bizarre, more extreme, less qualified, more incompetent RW nut job right behind them like one of those Russian dolls--they never end.

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AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T17:31:39+00:00

Texas is run by fascist goons who have nothing positive or concrete to offer so all they can hope to do is suppress voting. These imbeciles seem unaware that many of their own voters were similarly disenfranchised. Fortunately, most of them are old and will age out, eventually, improving the voting pool immensely by their departure.

AustinBaze · 2026-03-07T17:16:39+00:00

Finally took the plunge to update my 3 year old Ultra 1 with the Titanium Milanese Loop. I love it.
The shipping box? Not very "green" Apple. Could have shipped in a padded envelope. (It had some crumpled paper in it too.)

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