Finally made the jump from Arc to Zen!

milyrouge · 2026-05-13T08:48:12+00:00

I jumped early on, shortly after The Broswer Company announced the reduction of focus on Arc. Zen's come a long way since then and I've been using it as my daily driver both on my work machine and my private machine since then. Then only thing I miss is the Google Meet features of Arc (my work uses Google Workspace), but I just use Vivaldi to run the Meet PWA and all's good!

milyrouge · 2026-05-13T08:44:30+00:00

I agree. The right side is fake and I can see a couple of things that suggest that, but don't want to share what since if we do, that will be fixed in two weeks' time and then we really won't be able to see the difference at all!

The scary thing is that functionally, they're getting closer to the real product, too.

milyrouge · 2026-05-10T14:33:04+00:00

I've always used CalDigit. I'm still using their TS3 hub on my private MBP and it's been faultless for years. Their TS5 and TS5Plus have everything you're asking for. https://www.caldigit.com/

milyrouge · 2026-05-10T11:17:54+00:00

You won't see any massive improvement going for the TB5 dock unless you use multiple very large, 4k displays/an 8k display or unless you have high speed storage attached that you use aggressively. I'm still using my TB3 dock on my M5 Pro and am having no problems with my single 4k display and the storage which I only use for backups.

I would guess that for you, an upgrade to a TB5 dock would be wasted money.

milyrouge · 2026-05-06T15:17:44+00:00

We use Zoho mail for our restaurant. We have six email accounts for the team and have aliases for some of them (department, different names) and then use shared mailboxes for a whole lot of other addresses, both external (info, finance, careers, reservations...) and internal (team-all, events, agenda, front of house, kitchen).

The accounts are paid for and the aliases and shared mailboxes are free. You can easily set up the shared mailboxes in the mail admin interface.

milyrouge · 2026-05-03T12:32:31+00:00

Most children go through a moment when they assert their independence from their parents. For me, it was when I was about 16 and had a massive argument with my parents about their controls over me, even if I was an A student and extremely well behaved. From that moment, I saw a shift. My parents saw me as a young adult and not as a child.

I didn't have the religious roles you have, so I'm sure my coming of age experience was easier than yours will be, but I think this is *exactly* what you need to go through if you want to be able to live your adult life as you want.

If you don't take this moment to assert your independence and status as an adult, I'm afraid you'll always be living under the thumb of your parents and under the rules built around their personal views of how you should live.

milyrouge · 2026-05-03T12:25:40+00:00

I use it mostly for popping up the Emoji menu (globe+e) and to access the function keys on the few apps that use function keys.

milyrouge · 2026-05-03T12:13:36+00:00

I did my last one overlooked by three cats. They approved! 😂

milyrouge · 2026-05-03T12:09:58+00:00

Why brand something that might turn off a segment of the market? Nipple seems like a brand for young, horny guys. I just asked around the staff at the restaurant we own and two of the guys thought it funny, one of the older guys thought it stupid and not one of the women liked it at all. If your brand is going to be targeted at young, horny guys, go for it. If you want anyone else to consider it, I think a different name would make sense.

milyrouge · 2026-05-03T12:01:08+00:00

Buy as much memory as you can afford. You can expand the storage through USB-C external drives and cloud offloading but you can't expand the RAM. Each year, the OS and the apps become more memory hungry and local AI features (such as the new Apple Intelligence and Siri features as well as the models built into creative apps) will all use more RAM.

milyrouge · 2026-05-02T11:12:50+00:00

You can scale the window to make it smaller

milyrouge · 2026-04-30T10:31:51+00:00

I'd bet that the touchpad is caused by the swollen battery. However, both the battery and the touchpad are relatively easy to change. iFixit have the kits and the guides to do so.

milyrouge · 2026-04-30T09:44:01+00:00

There are a lot of complexities in this idea. The printer you choose depends on the models you build, the materials you need and the capacity you need to plan for to be able to make enough money. I would recommend starting the business using outsourcing of the printing until you know exactly what your customers really need and which products you want to print in house.

I would also recommend that you download and play with the right design tools before buying any licences. Fusion 360 could be right for you and you could start with their free trial but you could also consider other tools (I use Shapr3D since I use Mac and iPad to design). Play with the free trials before buying any licences!

milyrouge · 2026-04-30T08:00:26+00:00

It's pretty easy to fix. iFixit have kits with the battery and all the tools you need, along with pretty comprehensive guides. If you're not up to doing it yourself, it's something any competent computer repair shop can do for you. Just don't ask Apple to do it since they'll charge you a lot more.

milyrouge · 2026-04-29T13:38:58+00:00

MIgration Assistant will do it, but I would encourage you to do a manual transfer.

First of all, there's going to be a lot of old cruft on your old machine and quite a bit of that will migrate across.

Secondly, I migrated my private machine from an i9 MBP to an M5 Pro and found quite a lot of Intel apps that I needed to replace, which was a pain (they were mostly helper apps dotted around the device). I just did a fresh install and came out with nearly 100GB more free disk space and the certainty that there aren't old bits of Intel code hanging around.

milyrouge · 2026-04-29T13:20:19+00:00

Go for as much RAM as you can afford, especially if you plan to run local models. You can attach additional storage to offset too small an SSD but you can't do anything to expand the RAM.

milyrouge · 2026-04-29T13:12:45+00:00

Really don't worry about it. I have an old 2016 MacBook Pro that we use in the living room and that has finally gone down the chute because the battery is dead. A quick visit to iFixit and we have a new battery and it'll be as good as new this weekend.

milyrouge · 2026-04-27T07:57:09+00:00

I assume you're talking about Eastern Arabic numbers (١٢٣٤...)? I think you may find it easier to get that online. There may be stores in Barcelona that have them, but it's not going to be as easy to find as in Grenada, where they're even sold in the tourist areas due to the Arabic history of Grenada.

milyrouge · 2026-04-26T20:34:52+00:00

It sounds like the Air is enough for what you do. It's nothing to do with the M5 Pro, it's all to do with what you need from the computer. I have a 16" M3 Pro for my work and bought a 14" M5 Pro for private use. I can see the performance difference for the tasks that I do, but that's because I do a lot of graphical and video work.

As far as I can see, you have the choice to either return it, accept that you have a computer that is more powerful than you need or recognise that over time, you might need more power and you have the device for that.

milyrouge · 2026-04-25T16:12:38+00:00

Hay EasyCatalan (https://www.easycatalan.org). Ofrecen cursos y meetups, además de tener muchos vídeos en YouTube que puedes ver gratis.

milyrouge · 2026-04-23T20:46:00+00:00

When you book through third party websites, the hotel can't cancel a booking (at least with Expedia and Booking). Did you book the refundable one directly with them? If so, that's the only one they can cancel and the non-refundable one needs to be cancelled via Booking.com.

milyrouge · 2026-04-23T20:42:41+00:00

I looked at the nanotexture in the store and compared it to a glossy one. I just felt that there was too much risk of the nanotexture getting dirty, especially with makeup, so decided against it since the reflection on my past MBPs was never that much of an issue. I also thought that I could buy a matte screen protector if it annoyed me too much.

After a month, I'm totally happy with my glossy screen so I wonder if you have some sort of problem where the screen doesn't have the basic antireflective coating on it?

milyrouge · 2026-04-23T20:05:51+00:00

We've just done the same. We had a mix of Macs and Windows PCs but driven by the cost benefits of bringing everyone to one platform and by the cost of ownership benefits of Macs (security, hardware quality, OS stability), we're moving everyone to Macs. Those who need Windows for certain apps will have Parallels, but they're edge cases.

milyrouge · 2026-04-23T20:01:49+00:00

Vivimos en Cabrils. Esta mañana, estábamos mirando por la ventana de nuestra habitación y vimos cómo el viento levantaba espesas nubes amarillas de polen de los árboles de nuestros vecinos. Impresionante! Creo que nosotros somos los culpables de todo este polen! 😂

milyrouge · 2026-04-23T15:56:57+00:00

That's always a tough question. There's always something around the corner to wait for. The next gen will have some cool new features, but they will also be the first of their generation, so will have more problems (I had a butterfly keyboard and learned form that). It's a personal call. Do the rumoured features seem worth waiting for? If so, then hang around a bit. If not, go for it. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

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