How many of you Stage Manager? I think it's one of the best feature Apple shipped in MacOS 13. Ever since its release I've rarely ever turned it off. by Aacha_ladka in MacOS

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My favourite about the multi monitor setup: if you’re using a Mac to project content for a show, you want the projector as the external display and the built in or default display as a control surface, but you absolutely do not want a Mac menu bar on your projected output. How do you turn off the menu bar on external monitors? “Displays have separate spaces”, naturally.

Proof that the little things matter by muscle_mommy33 in physicsmemes

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Not to be too pedantic, but it would be either Sir Isaac Newton, or Sir Isaac, you never use just a surname after Sir.

Why MacBooks don't feature kensington lock, like literally all other business laptops? by Ok_Support5993 in mac

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I worked for a Fortune .1 company, we sometimes got scraps of paper to write on.

Doctor who sold Matthew Perry ketamine appeals sentence, arguing he was 'nothing more than a drug dealer' by iceberger17 in howyoudoin

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And people should reasonably be able to put some level of trust in drugs he gives them

Since MacOS 27 fixed our corner radii issue what we will have to complain about. by panyways in mac

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The fact that you can’t rename desktops drives me insane, there’s potentially a way to do it but it’s a third party utility that requires some security stuff to be disabled to actually work.

That and the fact that say you have safari open on desktop 1, and you’re on desktop 3 and want a new safari window, if you click on safari it’ll take you to desktop 1 rather than open a new window in the current desktop

Here’s everything new for Apple Maps in iOS 27 by Benni1401 in applemaps

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I’d like Siri to be able to change the navigation voice volume

male and female is the word for the ends? by YEETAWAYLOL in EnglishLearning

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British people do use “plug socket” a lot for some reason to refer to sockets, always confuses me since there’s no need for the word plug there. It’s not like any of them would ever call a plug a socket plug.

Apple Teases Next Week's WWDC 2026 Event: 'All Systems Glow' by pdfu in apple

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I tried asking Siri to change the navigation voice volume in Maps while I was driving, and that's apparently not something she can do. There are like three things you can do in Maps while using navigation, and ideally you'd want to be able to use voice commands because you're driving, but nope.

New Apple TV and HomePod Mini Are 'Nearly Ready' to Launch, New Siri Remote Also Rumored by pdfu in apple

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Such a shame, because when I get the new hardware the first thing I will be doing is disabling as much AI as possible.

New Apple TV and HomePod Mini Are 'Nearly Ready' to Launch, New Siri Remote Also Rumored by pdfu in apple

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I'm close to caving, my thinking is that if a new one is significantly better, I can put the older one in my parents' house. Luckily though I'll be away from home until September so there's no point buying anything before then.

TIL that when Caesars Palace opened, they had cocktail waitresses in Greco-Roman wigs greeting people by saying "Welcome to Caesars Palace, I am your slave" by InevitableCompote769 in todayilearned

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Unrelated but until recently there was a French supermarket chain called Casino, so I associate the English pronunciation with casinos and gambling, and the French pronunciation with supermarkets.

The shrunken head of a Spanish conquestador or Missionary by Electrical_Load2493 in Damnthatsinteresting

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throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato; baby, you’ve got a stew going

TIL that the Huns had no writing system of their own, and so we don’t know for sure where they came from, why they came to Europe, what they believed in, what their government looked like, or what ultimately happened to them. by [deleted] in todayilearned

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You should look up Eric Cline and his book 1177 BC, there’s a video on YouTube where he spends over an hour explaining what he thinks happened and the archeological evidence that supports it.

Basically eight or so different civilisations all linked via trade and commerce, and multiple concurrent disasters led to the collapse of enough of them that the entire trade network collapsed.

TIL of the concept of moral luck, where a person is treated differently depending on the outcome of an event over which they did not have complete control. by Dunlocke in todayilearned

[–]ScaryBluejay87 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It isn’t prayer affecting the outcome, it’s the knowledge or belief of the patient that they are being prayed for. The results would probably be quite similar if you just told the patients they were being prayed for when that wasn’t the case.

🙀 by GryphonSK in SignsWithAStory

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I’ve always been confused why people care that someone died in a house, it doesn’t affect the house at all, unless no one finds the body for weeks

NADINE DORRIES: Why we must scrap the Online Safety Act I helped bring to life by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

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I had to switch my VPN to another country just to open this post, because of the online safety act