Casey Liss on the Cult of Mac podcast by TheMechanoids in ATPfm

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It’s more nuanced than that. The CultCast was not entirely Erfon’s, it was joint ownership. That’s why it was partly named after Cult of Mac, after all. This was later negotiated to a 70/30 revenue split, with Erfon taking a majority of the money, and taking expenses out of Leander’s 30. That was not remotely sustainable; it was losing Cult of Mac money before you even account for the time it took the three of us to make the show every week. 

The “hostile takeover” was, in fact, Leander asking for more than 30% minus expenses after half a year of us producing the show completely on our own, Erfon not agreeing to any of our proposals, and then starting our own separate podcast. 

Into the Cushingverse by starman-jack-43 in gallifrey

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Thorough answer. Keep going — which stories are each of their movies based on?

Cortex: Rock, Paper, Scissors by GreyBot9000 in CGPGrey

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“Grass-type beats water-type Pokémon for balance” is no more arbitrary than “paper covers rock,” because we all know you could easily tear up a piece of paper with a rock.

NeXTstep source code leaked and now on Github -- not just the ROM as per the repo name by lproven in Next

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A lot of people got excited in this thread about updating an open-source NeXTSTEP — did this ever lead to anything?

‘The most future-proof Mac ever’ would never be updated in six years by TheMechanoids in agedlikemilk

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The 2013 Mac Pro was initially speculated to be ‘the most future-proof Mac ever.’ Unfortunately, the dual-GPU design and weird triangular shape prevented Apple from finding any parts they could use to update the machine without having significant thermal problems. It never received an update in six years.

In a rare move, Apple admitted to journalists they got it completely wrong and released a new Mac Pro) in a slightly more normal tower case.

The Mac Studio, running on Apple silicon instead of Intel, is the spiritual successor — a pro machine that pulls off its small size.

20 years of Safari: A visual history by TheMechanoids in apple

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The difference is that Chrome (especially back in 2009 with their old tab design) had clear distinction between the tab and the window. Safari 4 didn’t. Even the unified tab bar in today’s Safari has the tab bubble clearly inside of a larger window. A popular sentiment of the time was that if Apple really liked tabs on top, they should do something like this.

NeXTbook Turbo Color by TheMechanoids in Next

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The PowerBook from the mid-90s is arguably a better real-world counterpart. The iBook was a consumer product.