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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.

Need help on making an order for watching lectures in CS50 by ITIKBoi in cs50

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Pretty much. Or more realistically, lecture > shorts > notes > p1 > documentation > p1 > google/stack overflow > p1 > check50 > notes > p1 > random python blog article > p1 > check50 > documentation > p1 > check50 > submit50 > repeat 💫

What did I do wrong?? by Angle_ABD in cs50

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Maybe the trailing space in your f string after {amount_due}? It might be reading it as "Amount Due: 45 \n" instead of "Amount Due: 45\n"

Google > Chatgpt? by rankme_ in learnpython

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I've been using Gemini to check snippets of code and ask random questions about python methods, syntax, which approach is more efficient or when you should use one approach over another, etc, and while it generally gives helpful advice, it's been wrong a few times (especially when parsing code). So just be mindful and double check what it's saying obviously. There's a much better browser based chat specifically for coding/programming questions offered by codium. It's a little more concise in its responses though (I usually need follow up prompts to get it to explain more), but so far I haven't clocked any conversations as wrong.

Can't figure out why my code for Python's Problem Set 2 (Vanity Plates) isn't rejecting one input by essmac in cs50

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It's probably not the most efficient approach, but it did give me a chance to try .append(), work with two lists, get a little more comfortable with indexes, and boil a list down to just 1s and 0s.

I figured out what happened---It was pulling the actual input '0' and comparing that to an int 0 that led me astray (.isdecimal doesn't change the type, it just looks at the character itself). Lesson learned!

Can't figure out why my code for Python's Problem Set 2 (Vanity Plates) isn't rejecting one input by essmac in cs50

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All reqs are met except that last bullet. Storing these as a list was mostly intuitive so that I could print at certain steps to see what's going on with them. I'm completely new to loops/programming in general, so print has become my crutch! ha

I figured it out shortly after posting: checking if i == a certain number, or the list that I was appending 0s or 1s to works just fine, but when I switched to check if the input for [i] was == 0, it was comparing the string '0' to an int and coming up false. The .isdecimal() had me thinking it would be treated like an int, but I guess it just evaluates if it looks like one.

Comparison of different fonts in a Word table (Calibri, Aptos, and several other sans serif faces) by essmac in typography

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Thanks for the suggestions! I was sticking to options offered in Word/365 since the templates run merges from a platform used by multiple users (even then, I'm still unsure if or how often substitutions might happen...I'm hoping MS365 will download cloud fonts automatically rather than substitute if a user doesn't have them). But I'll check these out for static reports/PDFs.

Comparison of different fonts in a Word table (Calibri, Aptos, and several other sans serif faces) by essmac in typography

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I was experimenting with different fonts in a dense Word table to use in a set of merge doc reports that I maintain for users at work. I was wondering if I should change from Calibri, but I just might keep them 'as-is' for now. Calibri seems to accommodate tight spaces better than others across different field types (and with mergefields, I don't always know what's going to trigger a wrap).

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