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New comment by paozac in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

paozac — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:04:19 +0000

Yes, some features now require a subscription - it's clear where this is going

New comment by paozac in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

paozac — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:02:08 +0000

Mac office suite is moving to the subscription model, too

New comment by paozac in "Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)"

paozac — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:25:19 +0000

A good article on jet engines: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-its-so-hard-to-bu...

New comment by paozac in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

paozac — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:47:55 +0000

In the 80s it was fairly common to consider C64, Amstrad 464 and ZX Spectrum 8 bit, while Amiga and Atari ST 16 bit. In Italy we even had two separate video game magazines: Zzap! for 8 bit and The Games Machine for 16 bit.

New comment by paozac in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

paozac — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:15:08 +0000

Same here, I tried all combinations with BetterDisplay but kept getting fuzzy fonts. It was very frustrating on a large 5k2k display

New comment by paozac in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

paozac — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:24:04 +0000

Buy second hand books if you can: wider selection, good for the environment, lower price (usually), supports small businesses (usually).

New comment by paozac in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

paozac — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:51:33 +0000

Yes, I've seen that, too. The rails way of doing things can feel like a terrible limitation to some developers, while others enthusiastically embrace it

New comment by paozac in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

paozac — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:48:45 +0000

Javascript handling in Rails was easy in the early versions, then became messy with the asset pipeline and webpacker, and is becoming simple again with the latest versions

New comment by paozac in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

paozac — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:23:05 +0000

I love rails and the recent improvements are great.

I have the impression, though, that these days it only appeals to those who picked it up before version 3 or 4, when it was smaller, maybe more understandable, and incredibly better than all the competing frameworks (except Django maybe).

If your first contact with rails is version 7+ and you’re only comfortable with JS/TS, then you’re not going to get it and might actually strongly dislike it

New comment by paozac in "Apple Used to Design Its Laptops for Repairability"

paozac — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:36:28 +0000

Planned obsolescence is sure at play here, but I blame the design choices of Jony Ive and his team (thinness above all).

New comment by paozac in "Jj v0.39.0 Released"

paozac — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:47:19 +0000

Nice improvements. If you like a clean revision history and hate messy git rebases then you should dedicate a couple hours to jj.

New comment by paozac in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

paozac — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:13:41 +0000

Asus ProArt

New comment by paozac in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

paozac — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:11:49 +0000

I've got that display, too, and quite like it. Matte finish is essential (IMO) if you're annoyed by reflections.

New comment by paozac in "Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead”"

paozac — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:26:26 +0000

As a kid I spent a lot of money with the arcade version, finding it very difficult. Reaching the second or third stage was quite challenging, I was always hoping to find the knives as a weapon.

New comment by paozac in "President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems"

paozac — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:14:31 +0000

This might actually make Anthropic very popular among those who do not support the current US presidency, a significant market share.

New comment by paozac in "Calendar"

paozac — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:36:27 +0000

Very nice, but on an A4 sheet the last row is cut off and you need to manually shrink it

New comment by paozac in "Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back"

paozac — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:00:28 +0000

Mazda owner here, love the physical controls but using Google/Apple maps with the joystick is painful

New comment by paozac in "Studios: Please don't spoil the movie we are seated to see"

paozac — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:24:40 +0000

Trailers give away the entire film these days. No surprises allowed

New comment by paozac in "ScummVM on the App Store"

paozac — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:57:48 +0000

I’ve always wondered why they didn’t use the Fate of Atlantis script instead of the awful crystal skull

New comment by paozac in "Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former prime minister, dies at 86"

paozac — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:31:14 +0000

He's been the most polarizing figure of italian politics of the last 30 years. It will take decades to reach a balanced assessment about the guy. IMO future historians will not be kind to him.