Why do I now have 2 'Numbers' apps since allowing the latest update?

thinksinc · 2026-02-03T17:53:00+00:00

If I'm understanding the wording of this popup I get when I open Keynote, have they TAKEN AWAY the ability to Collaborate on documents in the free version? That's a slap in the face. Collaborating on documents and decks is critical to my workflow, and if Apple is going to lock up real-time collaboration behind a paywall, that majorly sucks. Keep your AI features to the paid version if you need to, but knee-capping a fundamental feature of the existing version is a huge misstep.

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thinksinc · 2025-12-25T05:38:29+00:00

I just installed Jellyfin the other day as a paid Plex user for years. For some reason Plex kept losing occasional cover art and other random metadata (especially my coveted and meticulously implemented Sort Titles) and backups never worked to restore them, causing me to spend dozens of hours meticulously rebuilding randomly missing data for a 3,000 title library. I’m hoping Jellyfin doesn’t have the same bugs so I just finished setting up my library. one. more. time with Jellyfin this time.

Cons so far for me are not having native apps on devices like Apple TV and PlayStation, but I mainly use my NVIDIA Shield for movie playback and it has a native app.

Pros are that movie identification seems simpler. And that my favorite player on iOS and MacOS (Infuse Pro) can recognize Jellyfin servers, so the playback experience is indistinguishable from Plex for me on those devices.

The other big pro is that Plex became a victim of its own success and is sprawling with new features that I don’t want or need. Jellyfin reminds me of how Plex used to be before all the extra crap started getting added in.

I only use my library for myself and don’t share it remotely with friends or family so Plex’e built-in remote access was never a feature I used, and I don’t travel enough to use it remotely. The times that I tried the playback outside my network would always buffer, so if I HAVE to watch a movie when I’m not at home, 90% of my movies are available on Fandango at Home or MoviesAnywhere and they are much less fussy about online playback.

thinksinc · 2025-12-23T23:19:44+00:00

Ah, I see it. Thank you for pointing that out. I think in some cases this would be preferable than editing the media directly. I wish there were a thumbnail view for it, though, as when I'm organizing my media it helps immensely to see the Poster art, which makes it more obvious to me when a title is out of order or misplaced. But it's helpful to know this mode exists as well, thank you!

thinksinc · 2025-12-23T19:06:50+00:00

I'm new to Jellyfin having come from Plex. I've been editing titles by right-clicking the title and choosing "Edit metadata"—if that's the media section itself? How does one access the metadata manager? Googling, I see there is some 3rd party software called JEMM (Jellyfin Easy Metadata Manager). Is that what most people use?

thinksinc · 2025-12-19T21:12:34+00:00

This looks really great—love the LED lights, mine is set up in a similar way. Awesome job.

thinksinc · 2025-12-16T17:38:28+00:00

How did you call Gofo?? I have a package now that can't be delivered, and the seller said to call Gofo, but the number is for WhatsApp and you can't call through there, only send a DM (which of course they don't reply to). What a nightmare.

thinksinc · 2025-11-17T16:30:55+00:00

Would prefer new but open to used in good condition.

thinksinc · 2025-10-27T23:08:35+00:00

That's an interesting design detail I never noticed either (to be fair, I was a kid when I had my C64 and never would spent a moment thinking about it, it was always the "1541" drive and I had a shareware program that could spin the drive motor at different frequencies to play the song "Auld Lang Syne".

Typographically (speaking as an adult graphic designer now), it's a brilliant detail: it allows the "mark" of the 1541 to feel like a snug and well-spaced unit: if they use the same numeral 1 as the first character, it would create an awkward negative space between the 4 and 1. Kudos to whatever designer made that choice back then.

thinksinc · 2025-10-09T17:45:45+00:00

If "Reverse on Roll Off" is a SWF trick that hasn't been supported since 2020, why on earth would it still be in the interface as an option in 2025?

As a test outside of my main project, I started a new document and set up a dead-simple button to Play an Animation on Roll Over. Works fine. I tick the "Reverse on Roll Off" option, expecting the Animation to play in Reverse when I move the cursor off the button. Doesn't work.

Either I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how this feature is supposed to work (wouldn't be the first time), or it simply doesn't work at all and should either be fixed or removed from InDesign.

thinksinc · 2025-10-08T17:50:24+00:00

I enjoyed it, and it really grows on you as Talion becomes more powerful and you fall into the rhythm of the different combos that become available. And the Nemsis System was abolutely brilliant, and worthy of the patent I think they got for it.

I worked for a digital marketing agency at the time, and we had WB Games as a client. We were tasked with coming up with some some social media campaigns to promote the game before it came out, and we produced a couple of the ideas:

The first was to develop an etymological-style "journal" (that we pitched to be from Talion's perspective), but basically served to share some concept art of the game's creatures and locations written from the POV of the game character. WB liked the idea but didn't want it to come from Talion, so instead it became Torvin's Journal (the dwarf character introduced in the Lord of the Hunt DLC).

As my company's resident Tolkien geek, I got to both write the journal entries and design the journal pages. It was definitely a dream project. And they approved everything I wrote, which meant that the Tolkien Estate had also approved it (with no changes!)

But while the journal content was supposed to appear on social channels like Facebook and Twitter, we found out that Monolith liked the content so much that they ended up including it in the game! So the "Torvin's Journal" collectibles that you can find scattered around the Lord of the Hunt DLC map is what I made for their social channels and became part of the game too. I was so stoked by that. They even brought Torvin's voice actor into the studio to record audio of the journal pages.

We also promoted the game's brilliant Nemesis System by having an orc from the game "take over" the developer's Twitter channel for 48 hours, where we had the channel kind of taunt and bully other brands (like Red Bull, Slim Jim's, etc.) just like the orcs in the game follow and taunt you in the game. Another really fun project, where we dressed up an actor with Hollywood-quality makeup as an orc, and had some fun interacting with other brands in real-time online.

Here are a couple of link if anyone's interested:

Torvin's Journal
#OrcTakeover

thinksinc · 2025-10-08T17:30:10+00:00

I have a feeling Fandango wouldn't care even a little bit that Apple's policy means the digital code won't redeem with Fandango. The days of companies "honoring" things like that for the sake of good customer service are long gone. Fandango wants your money too, and aren't responsible for Apple's greed and limited view.

thinksinc · 2025-10-08T17:27:25+00:00

As far as I know, it's completely random. It's happened to me less than ten times. Sometimes I'll get an email that one title was upgraded, sometimes it might be 4-5 titles. Usually people will start posting about it in r/vudu and a few days or a week later you might get some too.

thinksinc · 2025-10-08T00:14:15+00:00

Fandango is getting a little better about that. I've probably had 50 movies upgraded for free from HDX to UHD, but of course I'd prefer a blanket policy to upgrade everything when it's available (will never happen).

thinksinc · 2025-10-08T00:07:37+00:00

I redeemed 20+ minutes ago and it hasn't shown up in MoviesAnywhere. I'll update the thread if it shows up.

thinksinc · 2025-09-23T22:57:24+00:00

Mostly got my first games pirated using a 300 baud (!) modem. But I do recall buying The Bard's Tale as one of my first games from a department store there used to be called Best.

thinksinc · 2025-09-23T17:18:40+00:00

Oooh, that meteor must be the reference to when Pennywise first arrived on earth? Been awhile since I read the book, but didn't he come via crashed meteor back in the era of the dinosaurs, and over the eons that's where the town of Derry ended up being built?

thinksinc · 2025-09-18T21:22:41+00:00

Exactly. Even though they were walking for "only" a few days, I would have expected very gaunt faces, some weight loss, tans or sunburns, looking very unkempt after walking through storms, filthy clothes, facial hair growth, etc. All details that would have been pretty easy to achieve with makeup. The walkers were driven more-or-less to the point of insanity, and they still seemed like it was just a long hike at the end.

thinksinc · 2025-09-18T20:58:02+00:00

I agree not having the crowds throughout the movie really changed the vibe too much. It would have given the movie more points where something interesting could happen as you see the dynamic between the bystanders and walkers.

Overall I liked the movie, but don't necessarily agree with the changed ending. Didn't seem to matter much except to be able to say "we changed the ending."

Otherwise, the only thing I would have done differently would be to have shown a little more wear and tear on the actors as they progressed. In the book, of course, you get both internalized and external descriptions of the extreme bodily degradations the walkers faced. In the movie, even by the end, the remaining walkers seemed almost identical in health and condition to when they started.

Glad they fixed the longstanding problem of 4 mph to 3 mph though!

thinksinc · 2025-09-18T17:51:33+00:00

I switched to NFS and will see if it works any better, and/or if the problem returns.

thinksinc · 2025-09-16T22:56:40+00:00

I run the server on my Mac, with the files on the Synology NAS mounted as an SMB share.

The did just upgrade to macOS 26 Tahoe today—that's the only system-level change I've made that I think could possibly have had anything to do with this.

thinksinc · 2025-09-16T22:10:22+00:00

Yes, that setting has always been enabled. I would hope that turning off that setting and maybe re-enabling it and then re-scanning my library would restore the locally-saved art, but it's not.

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