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Apple, the forbidden fruit
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Yeah, so, attempts to sell the MacBrick Air having failed (2017, "too old") I'm stuck at the library trying to fix it. Fortunately my brother has some expertise there and provided me step-by-step instructions on how to patch (OpenCore via Github) and update the OS.
At the library because of the free wifi and this is not proving to be a quick procedure.
TO make matters worse my HP Stream (HP Scream, more like) is wanting to update itself. Only there's nothing can be done, it's out of memory, it's a fucking brick as well. And so I'm forever dismissing messages like:
This upon attempting to login. Shameless attempts to sell me solutions to problems of their own manufacture.
Once I've logged in I'm directed to the Microsoft Store:
Well played. At least there's consistency.
Followed by intermittent messages and pop-ups that advise me:
and:
Now, I use this computer to go on the internet. Slowly. I mean fucking slowly, I use my phone more, really, it's notepad or nothing. There's no upgrade that will save this other brick I'm using to write.
And the Apple, the forbidden fruit, slowly, hours now it's updating itself. My patience is vanishing, here goes my day off...
I'm tempted to go full Bonobo on them both, doing an ad for both HP and APPLE, but I still have slight hopes that when the new OS is installed (and I'll need to rinse and repeat, you can only upgrade in increments) that it will serve my purpose. But that waits to be seen.
Meanwhile, whittle at time in the library...
Veritasium on Game Theory
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This was an interesting watch. Verisatium creates good content.
The Anunnaki
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Mark, a cafe acquaintance, friends of the Big-City Blonde, of late abandoning me to sit with her and her coterie, she's beautiful and single and ...
He doesn't need to apologize, I'm laughing. I've never been introduced, but I've never known so much about anyone in my life, friends, even, let alone strangers. She lives her life out loud. Her fashion sense, cutting edge, today it's tight denim cut-offs with rhinestone bedazzled cowboy boots. Fun, maybe, but should things go wrong the whole world will know and the world always sides with a beautiful woman.
Mark, himself pretty dry, is talking to me about the Anunnaki.
Secret masters of the Universe. Or something. It always amuses me when you meet someone that appears to be relatively straight laced and then they confess to some sort of whack-doodle belief. I promise to look them up, and I do, and am surprised, the sources are interesting, and I've an interest in Classical Mythology. And despite all my listening to Dr. Irving Finkel (still listening, still damned interesting) I've not heard mention of this. Yet.
Link: Wikipedia on the Anunnaki
His take, of course, is that they're space aliens or some such nonsense, and as he's preoccupied with Big City Blonde I'm off the hook for my response, not that I should worry, I'm really there just to listen...
Watched over by demons
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This, a cool detail from an antique bed. I don't need two. But I want it...
I settled for a picture. See how I'm growing?
You know, strip off the bad gilding and do it again better and it would be a very cool thing. And I wonder why the Pan motif, but most probably there's a reasonable explanation.
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