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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Well, now they just make you throw out the old Mac hardware and buy new for $1299 (8gb RAM lol) because it’s now out of support for the latest MacOS and the newest versions of Adobe Suite/MS Office/insert productivity work related proprietary software suite here is on board with Apple’s bullshit and won’t run on older MacOS versions.

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.



  • Yeah, totally.

    Just imagine trying to do this with Windows Powershell, without a package manager like chocolatey to make it simple like linux…

    $workdir = "c:\installer\"
    
    If (Test-Path -Path $workdir -PathType Container)
    
    { Write-Host "$workdir already exists" -ForegroundColor Red}
    
    ELSE
    
    { New-Item -Path $workdir  -ItemType directory }
    
    $source = "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=win64&lang=en-US"
    
    $destination = "$workdir\firefox.exe"
    
    if (Get-Command 'Invoke-Webrequest')
    
    {
    
         Invoke-WebRequest $source -OutFile $destination
    
    }
    
    else
    
    {
    
        $WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
    
        $webclient.DownloadFile($source, $destination)
    
    }
    
    Start-Process -FilePath "$workdir\firefox.exe" -ArgumentList "/S"
    
    Start-Sleep -s 35
    
    rm -Force $workdir/firefox*
    








  • Wordpress.com sites are trash.

    Wordpress as a CMS otherwise is fine.

    Yes, you need to use Oxygen Builder, Divi, or Elementor to WYSIWYG effectively.

    Yes you need to have daily backups and a security tool like Wordfence or WPMUDev’s Defender.

    But it works, its easy to build and migrate, it integrates with everything you want it to, and the content creation and management is super simple for an end user to manage. You can also get support for it from everywhere and anywhere at this point.

    Reality: Everything sucks and you have to adapt and adjust to bullshit on any and every CMS you work with.