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That’s maybe the most important thing. Is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that you’ll never be the same again.

-Steve Jobs

I love any article claiming x or y or z product is a MacBook killer, while being about a device that doesn’t run MacOS.

I’m not fried, but today I’m supercalifragicrispy around the edges.

Ah, “Progress”

I’m in IT. This is a metaphor and all metaphors fail.

Progress bars or status messages introduce a wierd alternate time, feels like travel when you have never been at this particular departure gate before and have never been to the destination, before.

There are some landmarks on your installation/update/removal journey. Someone has decided these landmarks are percentages, but of what? We would like to assume it’s the amount of time elapsed relative to the time remaining, but folks who have been around the block a few times know this is typically not the correct reckoning.

And so we wait and hope that the train doesn’t go off the rails. We bought the ticket and took our seat, but we are not driving.

Sometimes we arrive at our destination before we expected.

Sometimes we are told we are already at our destination, but nothing has changed.

Sometimes we stop the train and go back to the station because we aren’t sure if everything was in order before we left.

Sometimes we find there is a bridge out. No matter how many times we restart the journey, the path to the destination is blocked. We don’t know how badly the track is damaged beyond the point where we keep stopping.

Sometimes, nothing happens. You never leave the station. Or maybe you can’t even get on the train.

Sometimes, you are in a dark tunnel. You can’t even tell if the train is moving.

Long moments of boredom punctuated with moments of terror.

May all your progress bars complete. Successfully.

I don’t know why but every now and then I get fair to partly obsessed with some part of linux. For a while my Lenovo laptop of choice wouldn’t update to the Ubuntu 26.4 beta release from 25.10. I’m that guy. Today I used a daily build ISO and got it running. Feels like a victory.

And then revisiting the topic of the half-century, Apple incorporated 50 years ago on April 1st.

A weird thing I have noted, post OS 26.2, is that Shortcut automations for pulling up a note (with the day and date in the title) no longer works. The same automation still works as it always has on older Macs that don’t support OS26.

It seems to have been reported, but wasn’t addressed in 26.3 or in the betas for 26.4

The automation is important in the Forever✱Notes scheme and the frustration is enough to make me consider alternatives. Though, the scripting part would a concern if I do something more along the roll-my-own methodology.

I remember when Valley Fair first opened. And this year will be their 50th. And that makes me feel… not very young at all

I really enjoy experimenting with Linux, and it feels amazing when I get into a stable situation that works well—especially giving life to machines that other operating systems have left behind.

But then I keep experimenting and get to a place where I hit a problem I can’t resolve on my own.

In those days and times, it’s a relief to come back to MacOS. I realize it’s the OS I hate least.