#computerz

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tinyyyy machinessss

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We're flux buddies!

YAY F.LUX! I truly can't overstate how important a role that thing plays and has played in my daily life.

I turn it off for things like editing photos or if I'm playing a game in the darkness hours that is NOT a "sleepy" game (like in the winter where it gets dark at fucking 4 pm). If it's fully on and I turn it off I'm always like AAAAAAHHH MY EYES THE BRIGHTEST BLUEST LIGHT OF 500 SERAPHIM INSIDE AN APPLE STORE. And then I'm like how do I look at this all day long?? (Then I get used to it in like 30 seconds)

And then if for some reason I forget to put it back on, it'll be 2 in the morning and I'm suddenly like huh why am I wide the fuck awake reading wikipedia about Uzbekistan and not remotely sleepy? oh. whoops

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Let’s see if these bastards can do 90.

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I love going into Activity Monitor when my fan is running and quitting out of high-memory processes and then going to my 957 open browser tabs to see what crashed, like a cop hitting my nightstick into my palm all, who among you, WHO AMONG YOU, are the CULPRITS

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am I really going to dive into this shit

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Free advice to Apple: I would be WAY more likely to run my updates, instead of clicking “later” and telling it to remind me tomorrow, if it were possible to move the little “updates available” pop-up. If I could move it out of the way, even keeping it stacked at the top of everything, and let it annoy me until I was ready to make the difficult commitment to quit Chrome and restart the computer, I would do it, eventually. As it is, I will leave it up for a while and then I inevitably give in and get rid of it because IT’S RIGHT ON TOP OF WHERE MY TABS ARE. I can’t get to all my rightmost tabs with it there. So I inevitably want to get to one of those tabs, and so I tell it to try again tomorrow (which is the only way to get rid of it), and then I close it with the intention of updating later and instantly forget about it until it pops up again the next day when I’m again in the middle of some shit and don’t feel like dealing with it right then, but maybe I would later, but before that time comes I need to get to my tabs, and on and on. In conclusion: Make a little grabby title bar thing for it and watch me actually update my OS more than once every six months. 

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scienceandmysticism replied to your post: dinascully replied to your post: ...

Oh hi are we all in the same boat? It’s a nice one! I started shopping for a new MacBook Pro but got so disgusted with the planned obsolescence-fueled peripherals and workarounds that Apple made me put in my damn cart BY DESIGN that I instead went and DIY upgraded all the easy hardware on my 2011 machine. It works fine. Fuck them for the tiny default storage and RAM. All that nonsense about how their features are “innovative and of the future” make me want to flip a big old bird at them.

I KNOW. The whole planned-obsolescence bullshit pisses me off so much, as does the obsession with making it basically the weight of a wheat thin at the expense of A FUCKING COMPUTER THAT WORKS AND DOES THINGS. Isn’t that what the freaking Air is for? A Pro should be A PRO. And what is elegant and streamlined about having to carry a fucking ziploc baggie of dongles plus an external drive with you everywhere you go. Ugggghhhh Tim Cook. 

Also yes, we are in the same exact boat. Mine is also a 2011. And I used to be a FANATIC about prolonging the life of my machines as long as possible. You’re familiar with OWC, I presume? (I saw this last night and cry-laughed for like 10 minutes. They are truly the XKit of Apple.) That was my fave place. I would get RAM, processor accelerators, and once a new internal hard drive from them. It used to just be my standard to switch out my RAM every couple of years. But it’s a lot easier in a G4 tower than with a little stupid skinny laptop. I have fought that battle many times of, upgrade/prolong? or start over? 

Mine officially kicked the bucket last night, unfortunately. Luckily I did a backup like, an hour before that happened. My current plan is to get a 2015 refurb, with either 512GB or 1TB, which is at least somewhat cheaper than a new one and BONUS, still has the magsafe thing and NORMAL PORTS OF NORMALCY THAT NORMAL PEOPLE CAN PLUG THEIR SHIT INTO WITH NORMAL PLUGS. Also it doesn’t have the TOUCH BAR, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT, every time I see a picture of it I want to throw rocks at it. 

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This is computer ranting so it’s under a cut because it’s very boring and self-indulgent. 

So...am I to understand that, now that we have flash storage everywhere, I can pay a MINIMUM of THREE MOTHERFUCKING THOUSAND ASS DOLLARS for a new 15-inch MacBook Pro in order to get a terabyte of storage? MY FIVE-YEAR-OLD LAPTOP HAS 750GB. And it did not cost three motherfucking thousand dollars. I HAVE LIKE 650 GIGS FILLED. 500 gigs on a NEW COMPUTER, FIVE YEARS LATER, WHICH IS STILL AN UPGRADE, IS NOT GOING TO CUT IT. 

And the stuff I’m reading is along the lines of “do you have a shitload of movies saved to your computer? Then you might need more storage!” YES, I KNOW WHAT STORAGE IS. I just can’t believe that those are actually the storage options that a NEW GODDAMN COMPUTER comes with now. I’m accustomed to like, tripling the size of my storage every time I get a new computer. Wtffffffffffffff? I had seen those specs and LITERALLY assumed that there was like, some kind of new measurement for storage, or it got compressed, or SOMETHING. Not that literally your 650 gigs of stuff was still going to take up 650 gigs on a solid-state drive. MIND BLOWN. These things start at 256 gigs. WHAT KIND OF CAVEMAN STORAGE AMOUNT IS THAT???

From what I can understand, the SSD storage is more expensive, but also, Apple is being a bunch of stingy buttholes (AS USUAL) and basically playing a game of chicken while they continue to overcharge for it. 

I would HAPPILY take a slightly heavier laptop in exchange for more storage. I thought the whole point of flash storage, in addition to speed, was that it took up less space. SO USE THE SPACE. 

And yes, I can get an external drive. I HAVE an external drive. That I use FOR BACKUPS. (And to store old camera raw files.) Most of my shit is game-related. The reason I like having a laptop is that I can TAKE IT PLACES WITH ME. Now I have to cart a hard drive around as well?? Or put it in the cloud? I AM NOT PUTTING MY SHIT IN THE CLOUD. I DO NOT TRUST THE CLOUD. KEEP IT IN REACH OF MY PHYSICAL PERSON PLEASE. 

Ugghhhh. I have always gone up a level from baseline in storage. I can’t believe I now would have to go up TWO levels in order to even get an amount of storage ABOVE MY CURRENT STORAGE, FOUR FREAKING YEARS LATER. THREE. THOUSAND. DOLLARS. 

COMPUTER RANTING