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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:only one person in the universe has ever said the mac pad is bad and it is of no surprise to me that it's fishmech sorry about stebe-induced brainwrongs causing you to like the terrible apple trackpads.
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*slides two fingers softly to the left, watching the screen scroll in perfect harmony with their velocity* Aghast, tis vile! Where be mine Winblows machine! *frantically scrabbles at lovely Thinkpad touchplate* Ah, much better. Narrowly avoided a fate worse than death just now.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:*slides two fingers softly to the left, watching the screen scroll in perfect harmony with their velocity* congrats on using your lovely touchpad, and pretending its good to justify buying your bad computer. macs are bad, they've always been bad.
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fishmech posted:congrats on using your lovely touchpad, and pretending its good to justify buying your bad computer. I didn't say anything about macs being great, I said they have a great touchpad. I don't even like macs very much. you're the jill stein to my clean nuclear power, fishmech.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:i won't dispute this because it's subjective and I don't really like using MacOS that much but the mac pad is great
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:I didn't say anything about macs being great, I said they have a great touchpad. I don't even like macs very much. they don't have a great touchpad, they don't have a great anything. because they are bad. if you think they're good, it's because you have rdf-induced brainwrongs or possibly some sort of weird crippling disease in your hands. anthonypants posted:i thought people hated them so much they were justifiably called the "tragic macpad" yep
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fishmech please use all the charts and wiki articles at your disposal to prove your point. also, please use at least one train analogy.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:fishmech please use all the charts and wiki articles at your disposal to prove your point. sorry you're mad about your terrible input devices meant for terrible computers, bro. perhaps some day you can break your addiction to terrible hardware.
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fishmech posted:sorry you're mad about your terrible input devices meant for terrible computers, bro. perhaps some day you can break your addiction to terrible hardware. what is a good touchpad input device, fishmech? what do they use on the island of sodor?
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Hello Spaceman posted:I quickly ghetto-crimped some RJ45s using a flat-tip screwdriver and hammer – my crimping tool wasn't in the tool box. there's no excuse to crimp when toolless keystone jacks are this cheap https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=310
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:what is a good touchpad input device, fishmech? sorry about your smoothbrainism.
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tragic macpad
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trackpads: for when you want to control your computer by tickling a robot's taint
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Stymie posted:trackpads: for when you want to control your computer by tickling a robot's taint don't kink shame
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:what is a good touchpad input device, fishmech? what do they use on the island of sodor? there are no good touchpad input devices touchpads are flawed conceptually
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COACHS SPORT BAR posted:there are no good touchpad input devices yeah but you can at least have the decency to have left and right buttons provided separately, instead of literally having the entire touchpad tilt at the bottom to simulate having buttons. i.e. don't do the dumb apple thing.
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anthonypants posted:i thought people hated them so much they were justifiably called the "tragic macpad" I call it that 'cause it's fun I like to play doom with it
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hide fishmech threads ignore fishmech posts do not reply to fishmech
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my goth gf posted:hide fishmech threads sorry about your refusal to exit Macintosh Hell
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macintosh is the most advanced computer in the world
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fishmech posted:yeah but you can at least have the decency to have left and right buttons provided separately, instead of literally having the entire touchpad tilt at the bottom to simulate having buttons. i.e. don't do the dumb apple thing. they haven't tilted for a few years now
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Shaggar posted:using any mouse in osx is like ur dragging the cursor through molasses yeah its fuckin sweet
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Shaggar posted:using any mouse in osx is like ur dragging the cursor through molasses i have a desktop PC and a macbook on my desk and i use a software KM switch called synergy. if you set your windows computer as the server and the mac as the client, the mac inherits windows cursor speed and acceleration. it's p sweet and needs suiting.
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polyester concept posted:i have a desktop PC and a macbook on my desk and i use a software KM switch called synergy. if you set your windows computer as the server and the mac as the client, the mac inherits windows cursor speed and acceleration. it's p sweet and needs suiting. I do the same thing with a windows and linux box and it's a godsend
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hello thread, i have some fixed width markdown output that i want to add emojis to. Emojis are not the same width of everything else. Theyre not fixed width!!! what can i do to make emojis fixed width so my ugly markdown table lines up? help me with computer !!!
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obstipator posted:hello thread,
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literally never done web stuff for myself before (and i regret the decision that made me do it), what is the good domain registrar, or is it one of those where you pick whatever and it is fine?
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get a cheap one that isn't godaddy. i like moniker but everyone's got their preferences
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:literally never done web stuff for myself before (and i regret the decision that made me do it), what is the good domain registrar, or is it one of those where you pick whatever and it is fine?
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I used 1&1, it was very cheap for a domain, like $1 USD cheap.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:gandi is god's own registrar ty all, this was the cheapest and nicest-looking suggested on my first refresh of the thread, so i went ahead and grabbed a domain name there
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anthonypants posted:get a cheap one that isn't godaddy. i like moniker but everyone's got their preferences what's the issue with godaddy these days? i'm curious, I don't spend much time on domain registrars
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:what's the issue with godaddy these days? i'm curious, I don't spend much time on domain registrars
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anthonypants posted:really incredibly lovely turnaround on change requests can't possibly be worse than networksolutions
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:can't possibly be worse than networksolutions
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anthonypants posted:our primary domains at work are on netsol and we bought a customer that was on godaddy and this is false networksolutions told us that the domains we were transitioning from an acquisition had to be registered to a person, not an entity/business, and in order to successfully transfer them we'd have to assign an owner then wait the mandatory 60 days after such a change in order to process them
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I had a domain stuck on NS for years because I kept doing 1-year renewals and they didn't allow transfers if the domain was going to expire within 6 months kept renewing, forgetting to start the transfer, then remembering only once it was too late
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hifi posted:indentation is annoying to get working in emacs. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CPlusPlusMode#toc2 has some more knobs you can touch there are lots of loving knobs, often one per mode. i never stop finding new ones goddamnit my coworkers are fanatics about using spaces instead of tabs so this was the magic incantation to get their preferred behavior on all files. quote:(setq indent-tabs-mode nil) i assume tabs instead of spaces is just quote:(setq indent-tabs-mode t) this poo poo seems to fix it for the modes i use routinely: java, scala, c, perl, js, ruby, shell, and yaml. god knows how many other bandaids are required once you get outside my safe harbor
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