I’m being such a BOFH with regard to Adobe Flash inconveniences at work.
Yes, there are ways to make it work still.
No, I won’t implement them.
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When every entry in a hundred-volume series is listed by (1) series title, (2) not by volume number, (3) by the year of publication of the 1st volume.
For example:
I think that volume covers Sherman’s campaigns to Atlanta and Savannah. William’s report notes how many refugees, mostly escaping slavery, accompanied one corps on the march.
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I was watching Hanna on Amazon. I had just discovered the show, so was still on series one.
Midway through the show, I paused it to make some tea. This takes longer than a minute, because good tea takes time. The TV’s screensaver kicks in and when I return, pressing play resumes right where the TV thinks I left off-- the beginning of the first episode of season 2. Arghh!
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The US weather service’s radar animation has used Flash for like 15 years. I kept sending emails asking for them to upgrade, but never got an answer. And I abandoned Flash when I got a new computer in 2017. Of course it never worked on any Apple products, like my 2013 iPad.
Well, finally they’ve transitioned. And it’s slow, buggy, baffling, and nearly unusable. Just try clicking the “run” button at the lower left. Apparently it runs on old government equipment.
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I think they have been just using a Sharpie lately.
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Wow. That is terribly terribly bad. Especially in a vehicle control system. For eyes-off, hands-on use, the controls need to be touch-sensitive in the sense that the user can tell what they’re doing by touch, not that the machine just does random things whenever you touch it. And if you lost one dial/gauge/lamp, that was just one control or instrument. For the touchscreen version, if you lose one thing it’s all gone.
In the early 90s, as a teenager, I used to play those Microprose flight sims - the ones with the big cardboard keyboard overlays to show you which keys did what. I had a cool futuristic vision of some future keyboard that was actually a flat touch-sensitive screen, so each program could relabel and recolor the ‘keys’, or replace unused ones with sliders, dials, etc. to fit the controls it needed.
Many years later, the first time I used a touchscreen I realized what a dumb idea that was. And now touchscreens are everywhere. It was so funny when Mac started replacing keys with the ‘touchbar’, which was so disliked that they’re removing it and replacing it with keys in the new ones.
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javascript: void(0)
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Painfully animated accessibility sites… this one smooth scrolls on page down:
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It does look different, the link font’s changed, I think. I don’t see the same thing on my tablet, but I’m using a non-standard browser.
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I’m seeing the same font, Firefox on iPad.
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It has changed recently. I don’t care for it either. Google’s gunna Google I guess.
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My 2014 iMac 5k won’t power on.
I suspect my usb hub managed to deal serious damage somehow. my usb drives also seem to be dead,though I’m pretty pretty sure that the ssds are “fine”.
theoretically,this is the right time to replace a Mac (probably with a Mac mini), but I’ll miss the 5k monitor, burn in and all.
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My sympathies. Are you going to go through the motions of fixing it or is it a write off for you at this point?
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Probably a write off. It is what Apple likes to call “vintage”. also depends on whether the replacement fills the niche, so to speak.
Before Christmas, I had purchased a cut price license fo CorelCAD because I had this daft idea that I would be using AutoLisp as a “new” and “exciting” addition to my arsenal.
I doubt ithe license is transferable…
silly thing to worry about.
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big oof. all of the USB ports are on the main logic board and have pretty poor shielding. some models of the iMac have a… capacitor? fuse? thingy that tends to go boom, located near the RAM mount.
replacement main logic boards are really expensive. even if you live in a remote area of Canada, importing a used iMac will always be cheaper to the tune of $200 less.
(source: working at an Apple Authorized Repair Partner)
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$250. Used If it’s in stock.
Plus my palsied hands aren’t great at repairing electronics.
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the pricing listed does not include CPU, which means you’d need to transfer your existing one and pray it wasn’t fried when the USB Hub went nuclear.
the part, CPU included, from an apple partner would be around $399 USD + labor. most partner shops bill part installs like this as one count of labor at $100 or so.
;-;
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I’m actually kind of surprised that they still allow someone to repair them. I thought they had cracked down hard on that and their slogan was “If it isn’t brand new, buy a new one, with fewer ports and a worse keyboard. Then also buy a bunch of dongles so it might still work with some of your other hardware.”
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