The Coffee House

[Cortian]

You pay a premium, Smoke, for sure...but it always works when I need it to, and the components don’t crap out the way that my precious Windows machines have.

This ^^^^^

I'm a retired IT guy. I had enough exposure to MS-Windows in the business world to make me feel anybody who voluntarily uses it must be a masochist. The laptop the employer from which I retired let me keep dual-boots MS-Win7 Pro and Linux. My wife's desktop dual-boots MS-Win7 Pro and Linux. Neither of them hardly ever gets booted into MS-Win.

My desktop is also the home network server. Runs Linux. Home server/my desktop before that ran Sun Sparc Solaris (Unix). I've never used MS-Win for a primary operating system, either at work or at home.

When it comes time to updating desktop hardware I think this combined desktop/server is going in a room in the basement to serve as only a server and both my wife's and my desktops are going to be Apple Macs of some kind. Current thinking is a pair of Mac Minis.

Though I have to say: Apple's repeated missteps with iOS 11.x have me wondering if Apple hasn't lost its way.

 

[waday]

Apple's repeated missteps with iOS 11.x have me wondering if Apple hasn't lost its way

While I like Apple, they're starting to get on my nerves with the repeated issues. iMessages for me still show up out of order, despite Apple "fixing" it with an update. An example thread with my wife will look something like this:

Wife: I'm hungry, too!
Wife: What do you want for dinner?
Wife: Sounds good, I'll pick it up
Me: Just got out, I'm hungry! Picking up kid from daycare
Me: What about Thai? Can you pick up?
Wife: You're welcome!
Me: Thank you!
Wife: On my way home
Wife: Should be home in 15 minutes, no traffic
Me: What's your ETA? Any traffic?

 

[SquarePeg1]

The local meteorologists are starting to froth at the mouth while talking about the coming storm for Thursday through Saturday. That usually means crushing snow, incredible wind, inches of rain, etc. Based on the current forecast, looks like we will get all of the above.

Sounds fun.

Ugh. I have plans to drive up to mid coast Maine to UNE early Saturday morning. I hope this is more ratings talk than actual storm...

I have an old Toshiba laptop running Windows 10. Just did the forced "upgrade". No noticeable issues or improvements... Princess has a macbook pro which I love and will probably be my next move when the Toshiba dies. I was going to get a Mac for myself last year but decided to get the iPad Pro instead. I'm happy with my choice to be more mobile as I rarely sit at my desk anymore when I'm not working.

My iPhone is having the message order issue. Very annoying as if I don't hear it come in then I may miss the text as it's showing above my last send.

 

[waday]

My iPhone is having the message order issue. Very annoying as if I don't hear it come in then I may miss the text as it's showing above my last send.

I miss texts all the time, too! It doesn't happen on all phones, or all the time, so it's extra annoying. Argh!

 

[Gary A.]

Gary is running all Apple stuff: watch, tablet, laptop and desktop. No problemas whatsoever. Gary likes Apple because he doesn't have to hold his breath with every update. (knock on wood)

 

[Gary A.]

It is freezing out here. Yesterday Gary had sleet at his house. 39F this morning. Fortunately the orchids are sheltered but the Plumerias took a beating. (Gary originally spelled beating/beeting. Beeting: When you hit another with a vegetable.) Back to processing. Gary has about 300 more images to go and a day to get them finished. Miss Maggie is simply wonderful.

 

[davidharmier60]

I had 5.5 hours. Trish bought my box of pennies. The second bank in town had a replacement. From what I can tell so far it's almost entirely copper pennies. All rolls are marked one year one mint mark. Only 1983 are not copper although a few examples are known to exist.

Killing time until I can get my check.
And time is crawling.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

 

[JonA_CT]

Gary is running all Apple stuff: watch, tablet, laptop and desktop. No problemas whatsoever. Gary likes Apple because he doesn't have to hold his breath with every update. (knock on wood)

I’m also fully initiated. No desktop, but only because I don’t have a desk top to place one on.

I’m also a Google certified educator, but Chrome runs much more nicely on my MacBook vs a Chromebook.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary is running all Apple stuff: watch, tablet, laptop and desktop. No problemas whatsoever. Gary likes Apple because he doesn't have to hold his breath with every update. (knock on wood)

I’m also fully initiated. No desktop, but only because I don’t have a desk top to place one on.

I’m also a Google certified educator, but Chrome runs much more nicely in my MacBook vs a Chromebook.

LOL ... Gary runs on Chrome also.

 

[Cortian]

I actually run three (3) different browsers: Firefox, Chrome and Vivaldi (a Chrome fork). Why? Separation-of-browsing-data, you could say. Firefox is used for most things. Chrome is used only for Facebook and Twitter. Vivaldi is used only for various secure admin-y type things (router and WiFi Access Point Admin, VoIP account admin, server UPS admin, iCloud and Dropbox access, etc.).

 

[smoke665]

Last fall Wife bought an HP Chromebook - she HATED IT. Right before Christmas she went out and bought a ssmall Dell PC that she loves. Partly what you're used to. I've used Chrome browser for years, partly because of it's synch between devices, and mainly because of Google Finance (It was great). For some reason though they did away with Google finance. Now I fluctuate between Chrome and Edge.

 

[terri58 1]

I like coffee. mmm, coffee....

 

[Cortian]

On the subject of web browsers: From one of my IT security newsletters comes this:

Private Browsing Lacks Privacy
(February 26, 2018)
Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) delivered a paper at the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium describing a framework to improve the privacy of private browsing modes. The framework is necessary because even in private modes, browsers can leak information.

Ref: SANS NewsBites Vol. 20 Num. 016 : Think Tanks Breached; VPN Apps Flawed

So, just in case you thought that "open in private window" option afforded you privacy, well, maybe not so much.

 

[limr50]

I will resist Apple products until - and including - my dying day, and all days afterwards.

 

[smoke665]

I will resist Apple products until - and including - my dying day, and all days afterwards.

I don't have anything against Apple, and suspect that it would probably work better, but I HATE CHANGE IN ANYTHING. I don't like going through the learning curve, I don't like searching for how to do something a different way.