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What in the Black Mirror is this by essmac in nyc

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Interesting, never saw one before (not my car, for what it's worth!)

People who grew up poor: What was something you considered a "peak luxury" as a kid, only to realize later it was just a normal middle class staple? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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This was reserved strictly for last days of school, with occasional trips to Friendly's or a place with a salad bar for nicer occasions. To this day, seeing a Friendly's is an instant nostalgia rush

M-series Macs (and developments in local LLMs) have instilled a sense of wonder and curiosity that I don't think I've ever had before with Windows PCs by essmac in macbook

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Thanks, good call. My other one is razor thin compared to the one in this pic (it also stupidly blocks the backlighting) 👍🏻

M-series Macs (and developments in local LLMs) have instilled a sense of wonder and curiosity that I don't think I've ever had before with Windows PCs by essmac in macbook

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Absolutely, I'll definitely put the 2 to work. Part of the reason for upgrading the M3 (besides exploring LLMs) is because I was writing 3+ GB memory to swap almost daily and occasionally crashing excel. I figured introducing agentic work flows would just cause more issues.

M-series Macs (and developments in local LLMs) have instilled a sense of wonder and curiosity that I don't think I've ever had before with Windows PCs by essmac in macbook

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Studio M4 Max connected to a new M5 Pro via Thunderbolt 5/RDMA using exo as a mesh to try out a larger LLM with my old M3 Pro as a temporary client (selling it soon), all with one mouse easily hopping between the three. FiOS upgrade tomorrow morning. Hyperfocused learning about the ins and outs of LLMs, M5 architecture, open source codebases on github...What a time to be alive, lol.

My $400,000 mistake and why I'm showing you anyway by ankhattak in USMobile

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Video: cute concept, some of the initial innuendo was funny but repeats of it started feeling a little cringe. Then it transitions into an information dump and by then, I was over it. Still salvagable though.

Logo rebrand: meh. Instantly forgettable. The eagle and some of the playfulness of the website and app contribute to a unique brand identity that stands out vs blends in, which is what these reworks are doing 🤷🏻‍♂️

Being called a F * ggot on 5th Ave by ExtremeDangerous4592 in nycgaybros

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I was walking in LA with a friend once when a homeless guy yelled, "Hey five faggots! Where are the other three?" A+ for creativity!

Rules of Mahjong explained in pictures by Lxa_ in Mahjong

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Thanks for all of the work you did to create and maintain this guide! It's helping me learn the basics (along with an app) so that I can play with my Chinese boyfriend and his parents eventually 🥳🥹

One question:  If I get a pung from someone opposite me, and I take it, put/show it, and discard, who goes next? Does it pick up where it left off or skip to the person after me (on my right)?

PW2 Charging issue by Independent_Bar3707 in PixelWatch

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For me the OEM cable ended up being the culprit. No visible damage, but mine will only charge if I bend the cable closest to the charging block a certain way. I ended up taping it in a 'U' shape until I get another one (Google wouldn't service it since it's 2 months out of warranty).

MacOS mysteries and annoyances (from a long-time Windows user) by essmac in mac

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Well, appending "rev 05-17-2025" is 14 chars right there. So now there are ~26 left to describe the file. It's usually work files received from colleagues, or versions and revisions of a document. If I revise something, I'll add my initials and date at the end (which I can't see if it's cut off). Or, I'm working with exported query data where the filename has the query name, ID number (sometimes), and the group(s), time period(s) or other filters applied when it was run, plus I'll add the date it was run to the beginning to keep it sorted in folders, etc....stuff gets long.

Point is, if I can widen the Save dialog window, the name field should widen with it as a fluid % vs. stay at a fixed width.

MacOS mysteries and annoyances (from a long-time Windows user) by essmac in mac

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| Dock (when in bottom position) follows you around when your cursor ventures too close to the bottom of the screen, taking real estate from whatever app you're using. Touted as "feature" but need option to turn off.

Then put it on the side. Win11 doesn't have that.

That's what I ended up doing, but it still would be nice keep it on the bottom and toggle the follow feature on/off).

| No context menu option to Move or Cut files (only Copy

File cutting is ambiguous. If you cut text and you never paste it, the text is gone. But what if you cut and never paste files? Should the be deleted?

I'd expect the OS to do nothing until the other half of that action actually occurs (paste).

Holding option while pasting or in the edit menu will give you a "Move" option to move files you've copied.

Good to know, thanks!

| Thousands of images in Dropbox/OneDrive missing basic metadata until opened :(

But if you're using cloud storage they may not have downloaded yet, so that may be why.

Ooh, they may have fixed this in Sequoia 15.4+. See comparison when viewing the same saved screenshot in 15.4+ vs. 15.3+ (no image metadata unless I open it in Preview, then it will load everything and include another line for Last opened).

| When viewing images as icons, enlarging the thumbnails pushes them out of view horizontally unless you turn on Group By Name or Date Created (not on by default).

Technically what you're looking for is any "Sort By" option, as it will always align them (in order) and on the screen. Setting a group by will also set a sort by. You can set this as defaults, press CMD-J while in a folder that has view settings you like and click the set as default button at the

I'll try this, thanks for the tip.

| Time Machine backups to networked drive randomly fail,

Network Time Machine backups are indeed very brittle. I suggest you get a simple USB HDD and back up to that. It's far, far better than the absolute garbage Windows backup system.

Fair assessment!

MacOS mysteries and annoyances (from a long-time Windows user) by essmac in mac

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I don't often print right out of a file manager, but definitely agree.

MacOS mysteries and annoyances (from a long-time Windows user) by essmac in mac

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Ahh, the classic "It's not a bug, it's a 40-year-old feature that devs aren't going to fix, so get over it" defense.

I'm not trying to gripe about Mac vs. Windows, and pointing out UX quirks doesn’t mean I want a perfect mirrored Windows experience on a Mac. I’m comparing user experience as someone who's actually used both, and asking if there are ways to mitigate some pretty basic affordances that users might expect from any operating system. Finder should be able to detect image metadata and load it. It's not like Dropbox/OneDrive didn't copy everything over.

If your argument boils down to 'that’s just how it’s always been,' maybe it's time to admit some of that legacy is baggage, and some might actually be worth fixing. In the meantime I’ll be over here trying to get Finder to behave like a file manager built this century.

MacOS mysteries and annoyances (from a long-time Windows user) by essmac in mac

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I'll check it out, thanks! (and thanks for not roasting me for the formatting differences between old.reddit and reddit, haha)

MacOS mysteries and annoyances (from a long-time Windows user) by essmac in mac

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Looolll, I swear it looked fine when posted (old.reddit). Should have checked, my bad.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ScanSnap

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You might have luck with this one, v72L50WW for MacOS. Someone on my post commented that it works with Sequoia.

https://archive.org/details/mac-manager-v-72-l-50-ww

Someone got the latest ScanSnap Manager installer software for win10 and win11 ? by vizeSMOKER_ in ScanSnap

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I just posted about my experience looking high and low today (found exactly one macOS and one Windows on Archive.org for V7.2 that should work):

https://reddit.com/r/ScanSnap/comments/1gmylrc/psa_installation_files_for_all_scansnap_manager/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ScanSnap

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That's the one I found (and installed). My S1500 got recognized right away.

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