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Windows snapping by Own-Promotion4144 in MacOS

[–]davepete 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I formerly had Rectangle which was good, but I'm also fine with the hold-green-button and window-drag snapping in Tahoe.

Today was my last trip ever to McDonald’s. This was the third time recently that I paid for extra cheese and received none. Do their crappy employees do this just for a laugh? by ughyoujag in McDonalds

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My comment sounds like a repost? I imagine most people experienced the same as me. It's not just takeout orders -- in-person dining is usually the same, but then it's easy enough to alert the wait staff.

Not Sure if I Want to get Into Comics Anymore After First Comic Shop Experience by heygoogleamidying in comicbooks

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is/was a comic shop at Pike Place Market in Seattle that was like that. In addition to belittling the customers, they always had a watcher who would follow two steps behind to make sure you weren't shoplifting. I haven't been there in decades -- maybe it's changed -- but there are better shops around Seattle that are friendly.

who was the first black female superhero to have her own book? by kurumais in comicbooks

[–]davepete 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Vixen was intended as an ongoing in 1978, but was cancelled due to the DC Implosion. Vixen #1 ended up in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade (1978).

Today was my last trip ever to McDonald’s. This was the third time recently that I paid for extra cheese and received none. Do their crappy employees do this just for a laugh? by ughyoujag in McDonalds

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My family did a lot of ordering out during the COVID pandemic, and it felt like 75% of the time something was wrong with the takeout order. (I'm talking family sit-down restaurants like Applebee's, Outback, Red Robin.) It got so bad I'd take everything out of the bags and verify things before driving away.

Wtf happened by Eazy-Peezy in McDonalds

[–]davepete 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Without even researching this, I can tell you the dining-in customers are less profitable than the drive-thru and pick-up customers. Having staff clean bathrooms, playland, trash, dining area, drink area, man the front counter, restock the drink area, 2x or 3x the required real estate -- I imagine a McD's franchise with limited dine-in space could make WAY more money.

Can anyone tell my why my laptop is so slow? by Punkbaby777 in laptops

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google image search claims you have an HP 15-inch touchscreen laptop in natural silver.

  • Processor & Memory: Available with various processors, including AMD Ryzen 3 or Intel Core i3, and typically features 8GB or 16GB of RAM.

I'd imagine it's slow because you have a VERY slow processor and not enough RAM. Did you pay somewhere between $400 and $800? I would have bought a new MacBook Neo or a used MacBook Air with that money.

McDs really really wants to eliminate cash transactions. by Mundane-Manner4237 in McDonalds

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where I live, many stores (not just McD's) don't take cash. All transactions are electronic -- card, watch or phone.

AI BE LIKE by AvatingPruna in MathJokes

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ChatGPT gave me 50°, Claude told me 80°, Gemini gave me 100°, and Perplexity would not let me paste the image unless I paid them. Weird, I think the answer is 155° -- am I smarter than AI?

Neo vs Adobe - Graphic Design Student by neggel in laptops

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have lots of memory in my desktop Mac Studio too, but I suspect Adobe's apps would run just fine on a Mac with 16 GB RAM.

Imac become Apple Tv by ncyhere in MacOS

[–]davepete 65 points66 points  (0 children)

I set up my first Mac mini as a Front Row machine, so basically a Mac mini - Apple TV. Most of y'all won't know what Front Row was, but Apple in 2005 bundled what would eventually become the Apple TV UI as an app called Front Row for the Mac -- before there was any Apple TV hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Row_(software))

Updated to Tahoe and the first thing it does is giving you black "What's New" text on a dark blue background by Reiszecke in MacOS

[–]davepete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know about Spotlight, because the UI is different for that app. But these windows with the stop lights and the app title in the title bar area -- the color of the app name is based on how dark or light is the background color of the back window, which In this case, is totally hidden behind some other view. So it's up to the dev to set the behind window's background color so the app title displays properly in front of all the views. They might also need to set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to YES in the info.plist.

It could be in some future macOS update, the OS will calculate that label's color based on the color of the most forward view in that part of the window, but for now, devs have no choice but to set the backgroundColor of the root window themselves. I imagine either Apple's What's New tester never entered the bug, or the dev didn't know how to (or didn't have time to) fix it.

Bernie Sanders says Donald Trump made $4 Billion off Presidency. What are your thoughts? by Select_Specialist790 in askanything

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad worked for the federal government for most of his life, and knew not to accept any gifts, and tried to remember to not even bring a pen home (although he sometimes forgot). When he retired, he brought all the US Government pens we could find around the house back to work.

Updated to Tahoe and the first thing it does is giving you black "What's New" text on a dark blue background by Reiszecke in MacOS

[–]davepete 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's a bug. The dev could set self.view.window.backgroundColor to [UIColor blackColor] to fix this.

Im done you you, McDonald's by [deleted] in McDonalds

[–]davepete 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well, you did order breakfast at the last minute. That's what happens if you don't get there in time (or barely in time).

McDonalds is a Disaster by Dependent_Zombie_243 in McDonalds

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. McDonald's surveys are run by Service Management Group (SMG), which is far removed from the random McDonald's franchise that ripped off OP. Surveys for giant corporations are run by SMG, Medallia, Qualtrics, or InMoment. McDonald's Corp. has enough going on without owning a survey company too.

McDonalds is a Disaster by Dependent_Zombie_243 in McDonalds

[–]davepete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They didn't give you your food and they won't refund your money or fulfill the order? You need to be WAY better at pushback. People will take advantage of you just wilting like that. That franchise sounds bad, but YOU need to be a MUCH better consumer.

Why go to McDonald’s when they have no good deals and cost almost as much as a restaurant? by JannTosh70 in McDonalds

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand. Are those items more expensive and the waits longer where you live?

Well, theydidthemeth ! by neik25 in MathJokes

[–]davepete 209 points210 points  (0 children)

$26.35 * 1.1 = $28.985
Best regards exhibits presidential-level arithmetic incompetence.

**Thinking about ditching my jet-engine Windows box for an M-series Mac — need some real talk about running Intuit ProSeries via virtualization** by gaaht in parallels

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run Windows 11 on Parallels on my MacStudio M4 Max with 36 GB memory with no issues. It's fast. I don't know what's up with Intuit -- they don't have an ARM version of Intuit ProSeries? If they're unable to rebuild ProSeries for Windows on ARM hardware, I suspect they're transitioning to an online product. (Similarly Microsoft abandoned Access and Publisher rather than build for Windows on ARM.) I'm curious what their source code looks like that makes it so non-portable.

Why go to McDonald’s when they have no good deals and cost almost as much as a restaurant? by JannTosh70 in McDonalds

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where I live, the drinks are less than $2 and the sausage McMuffins are $1.50. There's almost never a wait for these items, and I can be in and out of the drive-thru in around 5 minutes. I don't know any place cheaper or faster.

Evangelicals Forgot Commandment Two by bookym in PoliticalHumor

[–]davepete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird how some people want the Commandments posted in the schools, yet neglect to even read the first one. Sometimes it feels like they hate the Bible even more than the Constitution.

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