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Tiny Bug Child posted:*presses a little too hard and a bunch of arbitrary unhelpful things happen* yeah. it's real bad
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it'd actually be better if instead of designing new hardware they just made tap-to-click the only click and made press-click the "force touch" like how it is on the phones. it wouldn't be good, but it would be less bad than having two separate amounts of click
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this happens a lot and i don't know why i bet it's because OSX is Dog poo poo Garbage 
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Mail.app doesn't open on my work mac anymore and apparently the only way to fix it is to reinstall the OS. lomarf
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Powercrazy posted:Mail.app doesn't open on my work mac anymore and apparently the only way to fix it is to reinstall the OS. lomarf OSX is Dog poo poo Garbage
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Powercrazy posted:Mail.app doesn't open on my work mac anymore and apparently the only way to fix it is to reinstall the OS. lomarf it's real easy. tim stores a copy in the cloud for you and the new os copy slides right under the old one. good to go, friend
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May 11, 2016 02:07
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bump this thread every time macs are gay
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Powercrazy posted:Mail.app doesn't open on my work mac anymore and apparently the only way to fix it is to reinstall the OS. lomarf this is easy to do though and doesn't destroy all of your apps and files and whoops almost careposted lmao Smythe posted:OSX is Dog poo poo Garbage
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BONGHITZ posted:bump this thread every time macs are gay thats all the time
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im going to quote this post every time my wife's macbook crashes while she's listening to an NPR stream
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yard salad posted:im going to quote this post every time my wife's macbook crashes while she's listening to an NPR stream
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BONGHITZ posted:bump this thread every time macs are gay
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BONGHITZ posted:bump this thread every time macs are gay
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yard salad posted:im going to quote this post every time my wife's macbook crashes while she's listening to an NPR stream
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Apple is very much like NPR in that it's predominantly used by white people as a power totem, and it's got a few nice points (Car talk) surrounded by dog poo poo garbage (18 hours of garrison keillor a day)
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i like keeping an osx vm on hand so that entitled tech havers get to see their precious os for babies run on non stebe hardware nothing funnier than to have an argument go from "osx is far superior and much more exclusive than windows" to "yeah, well at least my macbook is thinner than your dell precision"
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Sagebrush posted:Apple is very much like NPR in that it's predominantly used by white people as a power totem, and it's got a few nice points (Car talk) surrounded by dog poo poo garbage (18 hours of garrison keillor a day) how is npr a power totem? it's just a friggin radio station, it's not like it requires any social cache or wealth other than "having a radio"
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some white trash yokel is listening to Fresh Air in their domestic pickup a Frasier cosplayer throws him mad shade and tells him to go back to RURAL AMERICA
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Marzzle posted:how is npr a power totem? it's just a friggin radio station, it's not like it requires any social cache or wealth other than "having a radio" ok i'm just going to post a whole pile of statistics here from npr.org itself, and let you fill in the blanks http://nationalpublicmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/NPR.org-and-On-Air-Audience-Profiles_comScore-Oct-Dec-2015_MRI-2015.pdf NPR LISTENERS: quote:
now i'm not saying "rich white hell fuckers", but
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Sagebrush posted:ok i'm just going to post a whole pile of statistics here from npr.org itself, and let you fill in the blanks this is ad copy to sell underwriting. any further aids infected derails deviating for the nature of OSX will be met with punishment
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ok, imagine instead of "npr listeners" I said "OS X users" and it all checks out just the same (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sagebrush posted:ok i'm just going to post a whole pile of statistics here from npr.org itself, and let you fill in the blanks I guess you can say "wealthy people like to be informed" and NPR has some of the best reporting, certainly the best on radio. Mac poo poo is literally like buying a gucci bag or some other status symbol. please don't lump a totally free radio station in with an OS constantly adding HOT NEW EFFECTS for swirly genie windows to trick rich retards into shelling out cash. on a more OSX note: why the hell are they always adding dumb animation stuff if not to just planned obsolescence all their old products. I used to really like apple but the march of (dubious) progress between software updates has really shoved in your face that they don't want you using your computer for more than 2 years. what happened to the good old OS 9 style reverse compatibility stuff that nearly destroyed the company? BRING IT BACK YOU FUCKERS! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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i will never stop using powerpc
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HorseLord posted:i will never stop using powerpc Nobody gives a single gently caress, dude.
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except you who replied to it (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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heh, he cares so much. it is ok to care
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surebet posted:i like keeping an osx vm on hand so that entitled tech havers get to see their precious os for babies run on non stebe hardware is running os x in a vm supposed to prove something (other than your exciting social life)
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Toady posted:is running os x in a vm supposed to prove something (other than your exciting social life) im checking my flowchart here and it appears him running osx in a vm proves that you're a loving n00b who needs to gtfo? ionteresting
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HorseLord posted:except you who replied to it shut up bitch
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Smythe posted:I'm eager for the mentally ill fucktarded corporate white knights to come into this thread and post 99999 graphs, essays, and sales figures - to which I will reply: OSX is Dog poo poo Garbage. Anyways, without further ado *gestures to the stage and exits* yeah os x sucks poo poo op
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surebet posted:i like keeping an osx vm on hand so that entitled tech havers get to see their precious os for babies run on non stebe hardware 
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Sagebrush posted:more likely to spend $2500-$4999 on traveling online We used to call it "surfing the net" but haha drat I need to start listening to NPR more often
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Today I woke up and thought OS X is Dog poo poo Garbage
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lol OS x. Charlie brooker wrote a good thing on it a while back: Unless you have been walking around with your eyes closed, and your head encased in a block of concrete, with a blindfold tied round it, in the dark - unless you have been doing that, you surely can't have failed to notice the current Apple Macintosh campaign starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, which has taken over magazines, newspapers and the internet in a series of brutal coordinated attacks aimed at causing massive loss of resistance. While I don't have anything against shameless promotion per se (after all, within these very brackets I'm promoting my own BBC4 show, which starts tonight at 10pm), there is something infuriating about this particular blitz. In the ads, Webb plays a Mac while Mitchell adopts the mantle of a PC. We know this because they say so right at the start of the ad. "Hello, I'm a Mac," says Webb. "And I'm a PC," adds Mitchell. They then perform a small comic vignette aimed at highlighting the differences between the two computers. So in one, the PC has a "nasty virus" that makes him sneeze like a plague victim; in another, he keeps freezing up and having to reboot. This is a subtle way of saying PCs are unreliable. Mitchell, incidentally, is wearing a nerdy, conservative suit throughout, while Webb is dressed in laid-back contemporary casual wear. This is a subtle way of saying Macs are cool. The ads are adapted from a near-identical American campaign - the only difference is the use of Mitchell and Webb. They are a logical choice in one sense (everyone likes them), but a curious choice in another, since they are best known for the television series Peep Show - probably the best sitcom of the past five years - in which Mitchell plays a repressed, neurotic underdog, and Webb plays a selfish, self-regarding poseur. So when you see the ads, you think, "PCs are a bit rubbish yet ultimately lovable, whereas Macs are just smug, preening tossers." In other words, it is a devastatingly accurate campaign. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui. PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC). PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension. When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, "I hate Macs", and then I think, "Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?" Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot. Cue 10 years of nasal bleating from Mac-likers who profess to like Macs not because they are fashionable, but because "they are just better". Mac owners often sneer that kind of defence back at you when you mock their silly, posturing contraptions, because in doing so, you have inadvertently put your finger on the dark fear haunting their feeble, quivering soul - that in some sense, they are a superficial semi-person assembled from packaging; an infinitely sad, second-rate replicant who doesn't really know what they are doing here, but feels vaguely significant and creative each time they gaze at their sleek designer machine. And the more deftly constructed and wittily argued their defence, the more terrified and wounded they secretly are. Aside from crowing about sartorial differences, the adverts also make a big deal about PCs being associated with "work stuff" (Boo! Offices! Boo!), as opposed to Macs, which are apparently better at "fun stuff". How insecure is that? And how inaccurate? Better at "fun stuff", my arse. The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye. For proof, stroll into any decent games shop and cast your eye over the exhaustive range of cutting-edge computer games available exclusively for the PC, then compare that with the sort of rubbish you get on the Mac. Myst, the most pompous and boring videogame of all time, a plodding, dismal "adventure" in which you wandered around solving tedious puzzles in a rubbish magic kingdom apparently modelled on pretentious album covers, originated on the Mac in 1993. That same year, the first shoot-'em-up game, Doom, was released on the PC. This tells you all you will ever need to know about the Mac's relationship with "fun". Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. Of course, that hasn't stopped me slagging off Mac owners, with a series of sweeping generalisations, for the past 900 words, but that is what the ads do to PCs. Besides, that's what we PC owners are like - unreliable, idiosyncratic and gleefully unfair. And if you'll excuse me now, I feel an unexpected crash coming. This week: Charlie watched some episodes of Larry Sanders (on his PC). He played the customised Fawlty Towers map for Counterstrike (on his PC). He listened to the Windows startup jingle every 10 minutes as his PC repeatedly rebooted itself.
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Amethyst posted:Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC). stopped reading here because doctor who is bad but OSX is Dog poo poo Garbage 
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Amethyst posted:. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. heh
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As time has passed I've come to accept the wisdom of Stymie on a lot of stuff, particularly that computer-touching isn't real work or particularly, labor.
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