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Hey, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with having fun however you find it. I’m just really intrigued what you’ve got in store for a Windows XP box that looks like OS X. As in, once you’ve got it skinned/themed, then what happens?

It’s a really intriguing project!

But why, though?

WinOSX used to be a thing, back in the day, but no idea if still works or if the downloads are now riddled with malware. But worth looking into.

But seriously, what’s got you looking to do this? I’d totally get reskinning XP a couple of decades ago but now, especially given how many security vulnerabilities riddle XP, I’d only use that thing entirely offline.

Bizarrely I’ve had zero issues with overheating on the 15 Pro Max, even when playing games while charging or during initial installation. Does anyone know other scenarios in which it overheats?

I feel the issue with AI models isn’t their source not being open but the actual derived model itself not being transparent and auditable. The sheer number of ML experts who cannot explain how their model produces a given result is the biggest concern and requires a completely different approach to model architecture and visualisation to solve.

That’s totally understandable. And I’ll admit, I’m still writing a fair few #!/bin/sh headed scripts as I to work on too POSIX systems. I think we’re a long long way off of the POSIX standard being superseded by something else.

You’re absolutely right. Fish isn’t really for scripting but is great for purely interactive use.

Nushell however offers a totally different approach to “scripting” and I can achieve far more in a nushell one-liner than I ever could in a POSIX shell as it’s far more comparable to Python Pandas than a shell.

For instance I can plot a line chart of file modifications over time directly in the shell with a single line of nushell. It’s mind blowing.

Finder > Go > Home

Been that way for decades. Or you can add it to the sidebar by dragging and dropping, or just edit Finder prefs:

Finder > Preferences > Sidebar

Microsoft only started showing the Home folder by default in 11 I believe so it’s a pretty common pattern to not reveal the home folder (for some asinine reason).

First thing I do on any OS is build my own folder structure under my home.

Ico on PS2 by Fumito Ueda.

I binged the game over a long weekend whilst suffering from flu, my partner at the time picking it up from Blockbusters based on the box art alone.

The mood of the game, its lighting, the mysterious setting and circumstances, paired with being ill was already quite the experience. But what completely caught me off guard was a simple but rather genius mechanic.

As to not spoil the game (too much), throughout much of Ico, you lead another character around the game by holding their hand. This is implemented as holding down R1.

I can’t explain it but it was an emotional experience when you had to get go of R1. The risks, the worry, and the longing to hold your follower’s hand once more.

Binging the game, you do a lot of hand holding, but you truly feel it in your hand too; that comforting tension of gripping the controller, squeezing R1, and holding a digital hand.

I appreciate it’s not an accessibility friendly mechanic but I still think about how meaningful holding a single button could be in a game.

Ico proved to me that “games” can be art, designers can be auteurs, and that the medium can be more impactful and evocative than absolutely any other.

The My Documents / Documents folder on Windows is a dumping ground for game saves and random applications. I no longer use it for saving my documents anymore…

It’s incredible, isn’t it? I’m already working on plugins for a variety of tasks so I can fire things off for malware analysis, push tables to data stores, and more. It’s such an obvious evolution of POSIX, I’m surprised it’s not already a standard across all shells.

Here’s a slightly better list. Call out to nushell and fish, my two modern shell favourites.

Stellar advice, and that’s a fantastic set of apps you’ve suggested.

You totally win that point! And to anyone who hasn’t watched Dropout TV’s “Um, Actually” and enjoyed this thread, you’re going to love that show.

“Um, Actually” Han didn’t turn up with Vader’s daughter, he came to rescue her from her father who had just obliterated her foster parents.

Timed exclusives suck. Thank goodness Valve don’t attempt that nonsense. I’d love to see Epic sales figures on how popular TH1+2 actually was and whether the exclusivity was worth it.

It’s on Android?!? I need to share that with my partner - huzzah for Family Sharing.

I LOVED Google Play Music. Hands down, one of the best music streaming services I’ve used. And then they killed it. And replaced it with a totally not-fit-for-purpose YT Music app that couldn’t even load the full list of artists in my library (scroll, wait for load, scroll, wait for load).

And now this.

Having used Android as my daily driver since the HTC Dream, I moved over to Apple a year ago. I miss many things about Android but the constant death of great but poorly/zero marketed products and services isn’t one of them.

This or a gist. So much easier to find and great for cloning and referencing too (others can link to specific lines for instance which Medium isn’t as great for).