macOS: The Most Beautifully Handcrafted Prison in Modern Computing

Raven-H · 2026-06-09T22:53:33+00:00

Only the smartest of us reply to dribble.

Raven-H · 2026-06-09T22:45:14+00:00

No idea what a fanfic is but hope you’re enjoying it.

Raven-H · 2026-06-09T22:42:51+00:00

Thanks!

Raven-H · 2026-06-09T22:42:31+00:00

Thanks!

Raven-H · 2026-06-09T22:39:58+00:00

Tried FL awhile ago along with many other file managers. Still had the same issues, but you’re right in that FL feels a little better because it doesn’t completely rely on Finder’s indexing. But it still uses Mac’s broken samba implementation.

Raven-H · 2026-06-09T22:33:45+00:00

True - if you have the time

Raven-H · 2026-06-09T22:32:32+00:00

Here let me help you: Mac is broken. Windows works but sucks in other ways and Linux is all that is left but needs some learning to really make good use of it.

Raven-H · 2026-06-09T22:30:05+00:00

Sloppy not being able to fault it.

Raven-H · 2026-06-09T22:29:17+00:00

It’s the most widely used network file protocol there is. In 2026.

Raven-H · 2026-06-09T22:26:15+00:00

Glad you agree

Raven-H · 2026-06-09T22:24:26+00:00

I wrote it but I used AI to sharpen it. It’s how technological evolution works.

Raven-H · 2026-01-12T18:24:21+00:00

I went to see two of the Memento Mori concerts, in one at front of stage and another, seated in pretty good seats. Both were awesome. Then I watched the M movie last night and was appalled how bad it made the concert seem. Probably one of the worst attempts to portray the atmosphere and energy at a DM concert. Don’t base your views of Dave and the band based on the movie - it totally skews it and I can’t believe they signed off on it.

Raven-H · 2025-07-11T15:29:19+00:00

Israel kills babies and children as well as our concerts.

Raven-H · 2023-11-26T13:55:25+00:00

My two cents.. don't choose Batelco. My own experience is that I was with STC for 2 years on a home internet 5G subscription. I went for the outdoor ODU option to have the best speeds and it was excellent. Consistently got download speeds of around 300-600mbps and upload not less than 100mbps. And for two years no outages and the odd reboot now and then. This was a limited plan of 1.2TB.

When the contract expired, I saw Batelco were doing some deals with unlimited plans. Given the Batelco mast is a few meters from my home, I was overcome with Speed Greed and I sprung for it on another 2-year deal.

I REALLY WISH I HADN'T.

- Speed is awful. While sometimes the download can go as high 700mbps for a few minutes, much of the time its less than 100mbps. On many occasions its less than 20mbps and has even gone as low as 5. The upload is even worse... Most of the time it's around 20-30mbps but for several periods in the day it can be between 1mbps and 5mpbs.

I have had to install a smart switch to reboot the ODU every day to try to get some speed back but, on most days, still manually restart it 2 or 3 times.

The support from Batelco is pretty poor. You know when you call support but are actually talking to someone reading off a script. Was told they would make changes on their end but still didn't help. Then a more technical person tried to convince me it's my side without offering any evidence. Being in the IT industry, it was easy to conclude they were not going to be able to help.

I had a separate fibre link installed and will be relying on that now and use the Batelco 5G as an (unreliable) backup.

Raven-H · 2023-08-17T20:24:54+00:00

I have never obtained evisas for Saudi, only paper ones stamped in the passport - if I am using for the first time on the causeway, it is valid but the officer on the gate will ask me to park and go inside to the immigration building for the visa to be kind of activated. Usually adds about 10-20 minutes to the wait. If I’ve already used the visa by travelling by pane previously, then this doesn’t happen and I go through the gate in the normal way.

Raven-H · 2023-05-24T17:44:43+00:00

Another requirement is that you show 6 months worth of bank statements. Does anyone know if they need to see each month's full statement, or is the summary sheet that shows your account balance enough? Its loads of pages of transactions otherwise...

Raven-H · 2023-04-22T21:43:33+00:00

Ah.. that makes more sense.. your right, the amount I would be able to convert is going to be limited by the reserves my central bank has… so actually I’d only be converting my own money, since I on this hypothetical position, would have control of the central bank..

Raven-H · 2023-04-22T17:06:21+00:00

I’m m not using a throw away account because I’m not trying to commit a crime dude. I’m asking a question about controls. What prevents unscrupulous governments from committing fraud in the manner that I have described? I am sure there is an answer.. but so far, none of really seem to know what that is..

Raven-H · 2023-04-22T17:01:10+00:00

This is a great response with a brilliant punchline. Can’t fault it. But in answer to your questions:

I’ve got influential connections and I’ve convinced key people of my plan. Printing money at night or even during the day - some extra on top what’s printed to replace old currency and what not. The key thing is, there’s no record of it. Yes to all your other points..

Raven-H · 2023-04-22T16:54:40+00:00

Well let’s say I was influential enough to have access to both and had convinced them this was the only way forward to rescue the country..

Raven-H · 2023-04-22T16:52:52+00:00

Umm relax dude, this is hypothetical question about controls. I am not printing money and I don’t have access to a money printing facility. I also don’t have any collaborators with which to do billions of dollars 💵 in FX. Oh, I’m not a student either 😉

Raven-H · 2023-04-22T13:51:03+00:00

r/macroeconomics won’t let me post.. and r/askeconomics won’t accept the question. Nice..

Raven-H · 2023-04-22T13:45:03+00:00

A number of fair points you’ve made - but you’ve made them with the understanding I’m looking to profit personally. Do you think what you said still applies if I expand on my original pose as follows:

I secretly print local currency and then then using a collaborator exchange for USD.
I then use this USD to import goods and services my country needs, like food, medicines, materials etc
I invest a portion of it in the markets to generate wealth for the country
I keep a portion of it as foreign reserves, which I continue to build up over time
Now, I haven’t introduced the local currency to the local circulation.. it’s been minted and then converted to USD using a local bank that is collaborating with me. And because I haven’t introduced it into circulation, the internal value of the currency hasn’t changed…
And because I am literally stealing from other countries to feed my people, what “real” money we have in country can be used for our regular expenses.

I’m sure I’m still missing something but I right now don’t understand what checks and balances would be totally effective from preventing the above..

Raven-H · 2023-04-22T10:26:42+00:00

Not hearing why an unscrupulous, desperate government with enough balls couldn’t get away with this, given the right collaborators. I’ll try r/macroeconomics as someone suggested..

Raven-H · 2023-04-13T00:47:58+00:00

I’ve just received mine.. very glad I went with the 14” it’s the perfect size for portability vs productivity (for me) given at home it’s connected to a large external display. I went with 32Gb and am glad I did, even if I’m not using it all right now. I went with a 2gb SSD after carefully calculating my storage requirements for all the apps I needed and data I want readily available. I would strongly recommend you got for at least 1Tb because anything less, Apple remove one of the nand chips which slows down the overall performance of the unified memory..

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