Watching Plur1bus would be so much better if Apple TV didn’t log me off and lost all subtitle settings every single day on my TV. And I can’t blame Google TV since this doesn’t happen on any other app. Come on Apple.

Apple Music suggested a generated "Get up!" playlist this morning. So I tried it. So far it has played Megadeth's “À tout le monde” and The Cranberries’ “Zombie". Great songs for convincing anyone to get out of bed on a Christmas morning! 😂

12 reasons the private car should not be allowed in city streets. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hirrgj3gs4mkftk5oopdeekc/post/3mamroltn4k2o

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

It’s great that Apple Maps driving indications tell me to make an illegal turn. Designed in California, I guess. When will tech companies be liable for stuff like this?

Does anyone I know near Lisbon have an old Apple Studio Display with DVI or ADC plug? If so, please ping me!

Very sad news, Ben Versteeg from ByteDelight passed away. His store sold a lot of really cool stuff for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum world, including the Harlequin kits that I didn't get to buy. :( You will be missed. RIP.

“It looks like the gift card I tried to redeem, which did not work for me, and did not credit my account, was already redeemed in some way (sounds like classic gift card tampering), and my account was caught by that.” So does this mean anyone who, by mistake, tries to redeem a gift card that […]

I finally took the electric bus doing the route home that’s usually done by diesel buses. This thing is driving up the hill on the highway (A5 for those who know it) and it’s almost dead quiet. Love it! Hope they keep buying more of these. ⚡️🚌

#retroapple peeps, do I have to do anything special when switching graphics cards on an AGP PowerMac G5? I have two cards of the exact same model (the Mac version), the original one is detected, the other is not. I don’t remember having to do anything when I managed a pool of these things but my […]

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

The bad news is the graphics card I bought on eBay to replace my G5 original card doesn’t work at all. It’s not even detected. The good news is my original card seems to work perfectly via DVI with the Asus display as long as I set it to 50Hz! But I’m […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Have to reboot an M4 Max because Tahoe, even with all this ludicrous computing power, can’t play audio without dropping frames as soon as anything hits the CPU. After rebooting I have to unplug and replug the audio jack of my wired headphones because Tahoe fails to check if the headphones are […]

Question for designers and developers, does anyone know a font similar to this with a license that clearly allows integrating into a free software application (without any changes to the font itself)? Ideally free but paid is ok if cheap […]

Most people bring back from a concert a combination of memories, hear damage and illicit substances. I bring… an AirPort card? Yes! Thank you @v3louria! 😁 Let’s see if it works!

These have been a few weeks from hell to me. But I already had the tickets, and it was amazing to watch Kruder & Dorfmeister playing the K&D Sessions live in Lisbon today. ❤️ Thank you guys, I needed this.

Something I wish hospital staff understood is turning on the TV is *not* a quality life improvement for patients.

Since the Timex Sinclair interface has a RAM chip intentionally made to have the same pinout as the ROM, adjusting my circuit and code to test the RAM was quite easy. Look at that 1 KB of RAM being tested! 😁 The first chip is all good, will test the chip from […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I ended up coming to Inércia festival! Lots of cool things here as usual. Starting with a Mac LC III restored by @luisfcorreia and my own Spectrum being tested (and it’s working perfectly so I guess I have a bit of a challenge ahead figuring out why the FDD interface won’t boot 😅).

I haven’t posted a lot about #retrocomputing on my timeline. Between some professional changes that I’m still adapting to, and a family health problem that is finally better after a rushed surgery, there has been a lot of stress and not a lot of time (also, an enormous THANK YOU to all the […]

Good riddance. https://pxlnv.com/linklog/dye-out/

The integration between Swift package manager and Xcode makes me want to be a farmer. I don’t understand how is it possible for a company like Apple to ship something so broken (well, I do). This after spending time I don’t have trying to understand why I did the exact same steps on two new […]

Is there a built-in way in #swiftui to have some kind of List, LazyVStack, whatever, that gets its content from a lazy sequence? As in automatic lazy and potentially infinite scrolling based on a lazy sequence providing the values as needed?

Cold or whatever got better during the weekend. Getting some air, finally!

Every library should do this!

I may have bought a graphics card for the G5 from eBay by a really great price, and shipped from the EU, described as tested and working, just before going to bed yesterday. Let’s see if it’s up to the claim! It’s the same model I have now, the Radeon 9600 Mac version. I’ve read the DVI synch […]

Another good one: the RPI 5 is not able to connect to Wi-Fi if the output resolution is set to 4K? Wow. That's some bad HW design.

My G5 DVI output doesn’t work with anything except a HDMI to USB video input thing. Out of curiosity, I tried to plug it to this new display. It almost works! Any DVI expert out there? I expect to see this in an analog video signal, but not digital. Very curious about what may be causing this.

Update regarding display settings: apparently, turning on HDR on the Mac system settings is what restricts the display settings dramatically. If I turn off HDR again, and keep the display on the native colour profile (using its OSD controls), it allows me to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Os jornalistas em Portugal são uma absoluta miséria. O JAC age como se fosse um mero espectador em vez de impor as regras do debate correndo com o facho do estúdio se for preciso (e era). Este fingimento de que ficam muito incomodados com o comportamento do facho quando na realidade o promovem e […]

Being sick with a cold/flu is such a waste of time. 😩

Ended up going with the Asus 5K display. So far it seems nice and the matte layer doesn't seem to blur the image at all. However, it's unusable without Monitor Control. Make sure you enable "Avoid gamma table manipulation” in the Monitor Control settings, and disable Dynamic Dimming in the […]

Reading the morning news on the public broadcasting service teletext as one does.

I can’t stand the current Apple incompetence. I just got home and I got an important call from my mother. Tried to answer on the phone. The phone kept switching to be a remote Mac camera and would not allow me to answer the call. My Mac has the lid closed and has been sleeping all day. It’s a […]

I noticed the retro Mac community was working on #globaltalk and although I'm not working on anything, I thought I'd contribute this suggestion: If you're using AppleShare on Mac OS 7.6 or later, you might want to use the AppleShare client extension that shipped with Mac OS 9.2.2. That's […]

Very quick review of Paris: I loved it! Much more than I expected. Last time I was in Paris I was 7yo and I don't remember anything, so this was like my first trip there. I don’t have a term of comparison, but based on what I know and was told, the work of Anne Hidalgo is very visible. Lots of […]

The amount of dust that accumulates inside an iPhone lightning port is insane. Had to clean it up again since the cable was not snapping and charging would stop. Makes me wonder how people clean their USB-C phones since the plug on the phone is male and has no space for inserting a thin object […]

Did anyone on my timeline get the BenQ 5K 27 inch display? If so, what do you think about it? Specifically, does the matte coating make text look blurry? Both black text on white background and vice versa. (If you have the Asus 5K, let me know as well)

CDG airport introduces a new concept for food labels: low gluten! As in “You can ALMOST eat it lol” Even better, sliced fruit packs are classified as low gluten. I would LOVE to have a conversation with the person who came up with this. I almost don’t hate you.

Mandatory post I forgot Thursday night. It’s beautiful! 😁

Charles de Gaulle security check instructions say people should put everything on the trays and THEN show the boarding pass to the agent. I guess they didn’t get the memo from 10+ years ago saying nobody uses paper passes any more? This is going to be interesting. Also, about time they upgrade […]

Unpopular opinion, apparently: companies like cloudflare and Amazon provide very high quality services people and enterprises actually need, with a level of uptime and security vastly superior to what most of their customers would achieve on their own or using traditional providers. Their […]

New gig sent me for training in Paris and I can’t complain. 😁

Is there any app for Linux to display video input that has more video settings than Guvcview? Specifically, black point control.

Apparently it's not possible to carry bags larger than cabin luggage in Lisbon metro area buses. So I suppose if you're travelling to the airport or a train station, fuck you. The criminal incompetence of every single person who manages Lisbon transit, and the politicians responsible for it, is […]

View from the train… and from the station.

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

@lorentey You might be the right person to ask this: am I missing something, or does lazySequence.flatMap { try somethingThatTries($0) } break the lazyness of the sequence? Meaning, if the body of the flatMap throws, the entire sequence is generated right there at declaration time, and not only […]

Is there a macOS app, free or paid, for editing audio somewhat like Audacity, but with an UI that doesn't make me want to throw away my laptop and run to the woods? I don't need a Logic Pro level app, as this is not for music.