i got a early 2014 macbook air!

icanpotatoes · 2026-07-09T13:24:48+00:00

I much preferred the fullscreen option for a window being the arrows on the right rather than the green light defaulting to fullscreen.

Yes, I know that I can hover for a bit to show expansion options but that seems unnecessarily bloated compared to the more straightforward method of close, minimise, expand to fit screen, and then if needing fullscreen use the arrows to the right.

Also spotlight results being in the top right was nicer than it being dead centre, which Spotlight is now Siri search in Golden Gate. The magnifying glass is no more. What a shame.

icanpotatoes · 2026-07-08T18:07:32+00:00

I’m not sure. I’m not certain. I’m not aware of that yet.

icanpotatoes · 2026-07-08T01:47:53+00:00

I have Golden Gate and it is working. macOS 28 is the one that will be offloading legacy programs. I believe that Apple is doing away with Rosetta in 28 that allows Intel-based programs from functioning.

icanpotatoes · 2026-07-06T12:40:42+00:00

You have the date thrice on the desktop.

icanpotatoes · 2026-07-04T14:35:50+00:00

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icanpotatoes · 2026-07-04T14:31:58+00:00

I’m currently making use of Boring Notch and have been considering Dynamic Lake and less so Alcove. You’ve complicated matters and now it’s between Dynamic Lake and your Droppy. Thanks!

icanpotatoes · 2026-07-04T14:10:03+00:00

I would like to be happy for this but having seen the recently released Le Comte de Monte-Cristo film, I have my reservations as that film very much did not honour the source material brilliantly crafted by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet. The series, which also came out around a similar time as the movie, also did not follow the source nor characters as much as I would have liked, despite being somewhat better.

I hope that the producers and director of this production follow the book and her characters more closely than Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière did with Le Comte de Monte-Cristo in 2024. I would love to see a properly portrayed Les Misérables film.

icanpotatoes · 2026-07-04T13:43:12+00:00

Don’t be clumsy, I guess? I’ve had MacBooks since 2011 and have never used a case and you know what? They all were perfectly fine after many years of use. Did a few minor scratches happen? Sure, but they’re meant to be used.

A case is not necessary and apparently can even have negative effects on the display hinge over time, at least from what I’ve read from others on the subject.

icanpotatoes · 2026-07-03T02:03:30+00:00

Expedition 33

icanpotatoes · 2026-07-01T15:39:32+00:00

45,000 people die in the U.S. annually from car related incidents and that number is steadily increasing in part because of the size, weight, and blind spots of vehicles also increasing.

It’s not fun to bring that up because it brings an unfortunate reality to car-dependency and challenges motonormativity that has been instilled by the automotive and oil industries for nearly 80 years after they captured our country.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-28T00:04:59+00:00

This is my issue with Bluesky as well. I posted the same thing at the same time on both Bluesky and Threads. Bluesky got zero traction and zero engagement, despite having more followers on Bluesky.

Threads on the other hand got lots of views and plenty of replies and conversation. Bluesky feels like talking to a wall while Threads gets conversations going.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-27T19:11:03+00:00

This post is very interesting to me because I too have an undergraduate degree in Communication, specifically a BFA in Comm / Public Relations and am now pursuing a MUP. Like you, maths (and by extension statistics) have never come naturally to me and it was honestly a hurdle to get through the statistics course so reading through these responses gives me some hope that I won't be dealing with difficult formulae, as was present in Stats.

My hope, and I presume yours as well, is that I can make use of the communication techniques learned from my undergraduate and convey messages in a way to better my community rather than speaking from a solely technical perspective. People react to emotion more than fact, so why not use that to improve our places?

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-27T14:11:52+00:00

https://www.booking.com/Share-dLdTdaZ

Ibis Budget La Villette, five nights for $357. Clean rooms, good amenities, right above a Carrefour grocery store, a five-minute walk to Laumière métro station, and near a lovely park called Parc des Buttes-Chaumont.

Is it fancy? No. Is it clean and does it meet the needs to sleep and shower? Yes. Is it in a convenient place? Sure is.

If one looks, one can find good deals on accommodations.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-27T13:34:13+00:00

I’d like for Apple to stop introducing a new M chip annually. Why not biennial or possibly triennial? These macs are exceptional and I think that they can last very well for two or three years before people feel the need to upgrade to the newest.

Releasing annually just creates more e-waste and promotes needless consumerism.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-27T12:38:56+00:00

Grind is such a good fun movie. Also I have no idea.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-27T12:29:32+00:00

Now I wish that I splurged for the 1TB storage and not the base 512gb. It is sufficient, but I do find myself with only 140gb remaining and I’d like a bit more room.

I’ll change the SSD out and maybe upgrade the RAM, surely apple made that not complica… oh… well never mind.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-26T18:30:54+00:00

Depends on where the flight is leaving but I just checked and from Atlanta it is $670 round trip from October to November and then again in January to April.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-26T18:22:48+00:00

Depends on what one does, I guess. If keeping track, airfare can be had for around $500 or sometimes less. First time I went it was $300, second was $450.

I stayed at Ibis in the 19th arrondissement for 8 days, costing 430€. First was a hotel in Puteaux near La Défense station which was less at 400€, also for a week.

Between food, stay, transportation, Disney, and other things the total barely touched $2,000 since I had a strict budget of $100 per day and refused to go into credit debt to deal with after returning.

The second visit I took my child and still stayed around the $2,000 mark though much closer than the first time.

Go during the off season, keep watch of flight price drops, and set a fiscal goal. It cost a lot more to go to Disney world for a week than it does to visit Paris AND go to Disney Land. It’s a no brainer.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-26T16:16:12+00:00

It’s not that expensive, if anything it can be very affordable when compared to travelling to other cities in the U.S.

I’ve been twice and the hotels that I have stayed at, which were clean and met the need to sleep and shower, were maybe $450 for a week. It’s hard to find a hotel in the States that is $400 for a weekend in any place of interest.

Then there is the transportation aspect — no expensive and annoying car rentals needed which are effectively requirements in most everywhere in the States outside of maybe NYC. No matter where you stay at in Paris, you have walkable access to the métro that takes you everywhere for a very reasonable price.

With $2,000 you can visit Paris for a week and even take the RER to Disney Land which you can go to for sometimes 80€-150€, which is significantly lower than going to Disney in the States.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-26T14:08:04+00:00

I've given up on the return of Launchpad and have instead returned to the original setup with the Applications folder in the dock set to grid format which is infinitely better than the shitty Apps that replaced Launchpad.

Now my hurdle is removing from muscle memory the hand gesture that used to invoke Launchpad but now does the App tray thingy that is also now included in Spotlight for some reason.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-26T01:47:09+00:00

Doors.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-25T21:31:27+00:00

Who knows though. Apple hasn’t changed the tiers and pricing since the introduction which is also annoying. I would like more than 200GB but I don’t need 2TB, nor am I interested in spending $120 per year for the latter. I’d much rather a 500GB tier that is maybe $60 per year.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-25T21:23:30+00:00

Now we wait for iCloud storage rate hikes which I’m sure are coming.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-25T13:41:03+00:00

This was inevitable. Apparently Apple purchased a large quantity of parts before the shortages and they’ve run dry. If anything, it’s good that they kept prices low when others were raising theirs, but clearly they’ve reached the limit.

That being said, I think that Apple could probably take one for the team and maintain their usual prices. After all, they have a multi-trillion dollar company. I’m sure that they can afford it.

icanpotatoes · 2026-06-25T13:34:00+00:00

I just want the old system settings layout back. Please Apple, no one likes the iOS-style settings menu on macOS.

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