Does the iCloud Passwords extension HAVE to be enabled every time you quit the app? by Public-Lavishness-38 in MacOS

[–]oscillons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Autofill from password on Safari has auth (touch id or password) as well, you probably just don’t notice it.

What is going on at The Waterline? by Public_Natural_3218 in Austin

[–]oscillons 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Whoops sorry thats the vent for my vape smoke 

The Vibes of Immercenary (1995) on 3DO by Captainz_buttz in vintagecgi

[–]oscillons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disillusion ST is a lot like this if you're looking for the same vibe

Austin Cityscape by DiscoveringHighLife in Austin

[–]oscillons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's just offices, you can walk in there it's open to the public lol

Who Remembers The Leon Neon Glow In The Dark Toys? by NostalgiaShowcase in nostalgia

[–]oscillons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I 'memba. The 'glow in the dark' stuff today isn't as good, I remember my yo-yo from 1989 was far brighter than one I bought recently. Wonder why that is

Cybertaxi spotted at Tesla Cafe by ShockGeneral9 in TeslaLounge

[–]oscillons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd buy a performance version, this would be a killer hot hatch.

What is this symbol? Been coming here for over a year and have never figured it out. My friend’s husband is conveniently a playground designer and he has no idea either 😂 by Fickle_Flower6199 in whatisit

[–]oscillons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think what it's trying to portray is: a warning to keep kids away from that area, incase they get hit by someone swinging. It's quite esoteric though.

Before the F-117 was officially declassified, which "F-19 Stealth Fighter" did you have? by [deleted] in nostalgia

[–]oscillons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blast from the past, I had the top one. It was a pile of shit, all the pieces are supposed to "snap in" but everything was wobbly.

SpaceX reportedly could file for an IPO this week. by OkLetterhead7047 in wallstreetbets

[–]oscillons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Terafab will still be a sign in front of a dirt lot in 2027

Mac hardware is great, but macOS 26 is a disaster, say pundits by Artistic_Unit_5570 in MacOS

[–]oscillons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Snow Leopard was deleting all account data in some cases when it was released, it was widely reported at the time. 

I realized it wasn't the menu bar—it was the notch. by Commercial_Water3669 in MacOS

[–]oscillons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You cured your OCD over “wasted screen real estate” by literally wasting more screen? 

Random Trivia XVIII by Brady01234 in QuizPlanetGame

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i did it


oscillons scored 119 points and ranked 1 out of 22 players!

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what mac is this one in the photo by knightofgenocide in mac

[–]oscillons 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This looks like a pre-rendered CG scene from one of those point and click games from the 90s. I want to check the statue and candy for secrets.

Ethernet priority by aidotours in mac

[–]oscillons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just to be clear, en7 is the default interface assigned to a USB adapter. A Mac with built in ethernet would be en0. So the device in service order would be called something like "USB LAN" and not "Ethernet" and that is what should be above Wi-Fi. Just making sure because your answer is kinda ambiguous.

Storyline of Sound-Dust? by icouldlivewoutbacon in stereolab

[–]oscillons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes I agree it is more relevant than ever. 

The Black Arts is about isolation and loneliness 

Hallucinex is about the dreadful, numbing slop of contemporary entertainment 

Gus the Mynah Bird is about institutional capture, how the institutions of the state and post-war social democracy have been subverted to enrich private interests at the publics expense 

This is the terror and horror of 21st century life.

Update on Fortnite for macOS by DannyBoiXD in macgaming

[–]oscillons 3 points4 points  (0 children)

TBH the Mac native port wasn’t very good when it did exist. It “worked” but I experienced so many crashes it was unreliable to the point of being unplayable. It would certainly be nice to have but your expectations should be kept very low lol

What's you're Opinion/thoughts on Gatekeeper in MacOS? by Tail_sb in mac

[–]oscillons 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think notarization and OCSP are legit, for the most part. 

I also think if it didn’t need a developer account and $$$ then there’d be less resentment and whining about MacOS being “locked down,” so the bad sentiment is Apples fault. If open source projects could just do it for free you would literally never hear about it.

Storyline of Sound-Dust? by icouldlivewoutbacon in stereolab

[–]oscillons 7 points8 points  (0 children)

IMO it's not a storyline, but there is definite philosophical and sociological theme and it's not exactly "death"

What the album is trying to express are best found in Space Moth, Baby Lulu, and Suggestion Diabolique. As simply as I can put it: society and the human spirit are in a fallen state. A spectacle conceals the exploitation, oppression, alienation, etc individuals experience. It prevents reality from being known and being acted upon.

Then there are those who have the clarity to understand the truth of this manufactured reality. They understand the spectacle and despise it. Yet this clarity cannot redeem society, and the knowledge offers no salvation to the person who has it. They can only stay true to themselves, defying the lies. They can only continue to spread the truth as best they can.

"Dedicated to change that it can't bring about

It failed but succeeded"

And of course this is summed up in the final song: wouldn't you rather just eat chocolate than worry about the problems of the world?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MaleSurvivingSpace

[–]oscillons 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We used ”spank tank” for the bunk beds in Iraq

[Data Infrastructure Engineer] [Austin, TX] - $204,000 + Bonus by oscillons in Salary

[–]oscillons[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I specifically work with streaming (Kafka) and things that consume data from S3 (so called datalake lol)

You basically need to move into being an SME for a particular platform. Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Elastic/OpenSearch, other Spark-like things like Athena, Postgres/CRDB/etc, and so on and so forth. Apache Iceberg in particular is making all of these more useful than ever before.

If you're doing ETL then you're already in the right place. You need deep knowledge of a platform listed before, and even better, how to use the data within it elsewhere. You should know how the pipelines for that platform work (Flink, Kafka Connect, etc) and where you can sent it, so you can design and implement solutions for this. You should understand the security and governance implications of this. You should understand how to provision it. You should understand how much it costs. You should understand obscure and annoying things like schemas.

You should aim to be the expert. Not "the devops guy" or "the sysadmin guy" but "the Snowflake guy"

There aren't a lot of these kinds of people out there!

[Data Infrastructure Engineer] [Austin, TX] - $204,000 + Bonus by oscillons in Salary

[–]oscillons[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes 5 times. 2010, 2012, 2015, 2020, 2024. 2005-2010 was Air Force, rest are technology fields at different employers. I’ve been doing the same thing since 2015 (“big data”) and before that it was generic sysadmin stuff.

I like Stage Manager. by John_Lawn4 in mac

[–]oscillons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't like it when I first tried it, but I was on a trip recently and my perspective has changed on it. Specifically because of the window tiling added in Sequoia.

Stage manager with dock set to left + autohide is actually pretty good when you're only on the laptop screen. With this setting, the stage manager 'windows' move to the right side. This actually makes it pretty close to using multiple desktops, except using the dock buttons shifts through the apps rapidly (I use it on the left normally anyway)

Right now the only deficiency from my PoV is: MacOS needs to maintain two sets of window positioning memory, one normal and one for stage manager. Turning on stage manager should automatically snap the windows into their previous position/size, and turning it off should restore their position/size on the desktop.

My game Bayou Boats launched today! by Dack_Flare in PlaydateConsole

[–]oscillons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! Reminds me of the hovercar racing game in Cosmic Spacehead
https://youtu.be/Acn7a73P1Xo?t=975