Good riddance to 2020 and all it brought... here's to a new start and a great new year!
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Happy New Year everyone. Here's to a much better 2021!
macOS Big Sur took a bunch of huge farts, so I spent my night rolling it back. Did a recovery all the way back to Mavericks.
And here we go onto Catalina.
And here we go onto Catalina.
From a recent beach trip w/ a good friend:
This is my back yard security cam in Ontario. I attached, to this post the full 1080p single frame jpg, incase anyone want's it.
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Mavericks was the ultimate refinement of Mac OS X. I was just thinking about it earlier today actually. I thought of how much I missed the old interface. Everything was just perfect. Yosemite and Big Sur will never really be able to compare to it. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer Skeuomorphism over flat design any day.
I love the OS X Snow Leopard and Leopard background and they work extremely well with dark mode. If most of the web wasn't still light-mode stark white I'd use this combo more often, but I had having a dark environment and then doing any web work.
Mavericks remains my favorite OS X release to date. It focused on refinement for things like CPU usage and RAM utilization, fixed longstanding bugs like the multi-monitor full screen spaces issue, and (in my opinion) struck a near perfect balance between excessive skeuomorphism (Mountain Lion) and a generic OS. I know some people love Big Sur (including me somewhat), but I don't recall ever hearing about usability issues before macOS took it's iOS 7 redesign after Mavericks.
Oh, how I miss iTunes!Never really learned to like the new Music-app.
On a Mac, I've never understood the hate for iTunes. Yes it did a lot, but I only ever used the Music, TV, and Movie mode and had no issues. On an SSD it opened in one bounce and was less buggy in the 9 years I used it before the Music.app than the Catalina/Big Sur Music app has been in the last year.
Oh, how I miss iTunes!
You can still use iTunes on Catalina and Big Sur with Retroactive.
I too, miss iTunes. For me the peak of iTunes was when they added movies and video podcasts. The app was great then. I did everything it needed to quickly and looked great. Shame those days didn't last. Apple ended up bogging it down like it was developed by Adobe.
If I could stay on Mavericks I would, but alas, technology moves forward. Plus none of the applications I use on the daily work with it.
If I could stay on Mavericks I would, but alas, technology moves forward. Plus none of the applications I use on the daily work with it.
Not literally I assume? Unless you slept on the road?
No literally. Not the actual villa, but you get the gist. Check out Rottnest Island - ABC
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Now that I am settled in... finally got out of the stock OS wallpapers, and found something a little more fitting.
My desktop currently - basically a mashup and mockup of a work in progress of making Big Sur something let's say .... else?
Working theme btw. For Retina Macs because I don't have anything else. Btw. If you're ready for a little testing then don't hesitate to write me a letter. Or a comment.
I have some things with the dark mode in particular on Big Sur that doesn't work quite as I expected it - meaning Graphite takes, but not Blue(Aqua) If Accessibility is turned on then dark mode for Blue appearance works. So there's that. A headscratcher.
Working theme btw. For Retina Macs because I don't have anything else. Btw. If you're ready for a little testing then don't hesitate to write me a letter. Or a comment.
I have some things with the dark mode in particular on Big Sur that doesn't work quite as I expected it - meaning Graphite takes, but not Blue(Aqua) If Accessibility is turned on then dark mode for Blue appearance works. So there's that. A headscratcher.
Here is my freshly "upgraded" Late 2007 15" MacBook Pro. I just swapped the upgraded keyboard and the multitouch trackpad from a dead Late 2008 17" I had lying around. The trackpad makes everything so much nicer to use.
I actually prefer this over my 13" 2013 Retina MacBook Pro!
I actually prefer this over my 13" 2013 Retina MacBook Pro!