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I see. I wonder if it could be lightly sandblasted or something? c

That's a good point. The glass in the CRTs isn't transparent either. It's kind of this translucent grey. An acrylic lens to match that would actually probably look even more authentic, especially with a matte protector (the glass on the original CRTs isn't high gloss, either, but rather a...

What about DECember? Or SPARCtember? c

Perhaps you could put a matte screen protector on it to cut the glare? As an added bonus, it ought to protect the lens from scratches, as I believe acrylic is fairly soft and gets scuffed and scraped up rather easily (proof: many used Power Mac G4s get their glossy (acrylic) plastics scuffed...

Or perhaps they worked either at an accounting, bank, investment or law firm, or at some other, related industry where privacy is important. c

Agreed. I'm not sure I share your optimism, however, and on behalf of all sensible people in the US, I feel like I need to apologize to everyone else for all the nonsensical whipsawing 😞 Pretty much, unfortunately. Life must go on, no matter how costly it gets. If you have the means, it...

This stinks. I was looking forward to possibly investing in one of these once done, as it seems to be one of the first genuinely outstanding developments I've seen in quite some time. It's on par with @dougg3 's custom ROM SIMM and @bigmessowires ' FloppyEMU (both of which were first developed...

It's kind of ironic that Linux used to be (and in some cases, still is) known for being lighter on resources. GNOME and KDE Plasma seem to both value the "everything and the kitchen sink" approach. Why do I need almost 2 gigabytes of libraries and other supporting bits just to use a modest...

To add some seriousness: I wonder if someone can somehow put a small ATM's innards inside a modified SE shell, and then create a Mac-like UI for it (or better yet, have an emulator run real Mac SSW (or ideally, somehow make the stock SE LB work) and make some software to communicate with the...

There is some special software that comes with most copies of the SSW which can adjust any SE to produce whatever currency one wishes. But, yes, Irish SEs shipped to Ireland produce Irish Pounds by default. c

Indeed! c

This has, as far as I know, not happened to any of my machines. The climate here in California (relatively warm to hot and dry summers, cool and intermittently wet winters) likely helps. The only cases of it I've seen are where affected displays come to me with the condition already present...

Neat! Back in I think 2011 or so (maybe earlier), I discovered the preterhuman Hotline server and found it quite interesting. it had lots of Mac and PC software which was very hard to find online back then (of course nowadays, at least for Mac stuff we have Macintosh Garden, which has almost...

System7Today has a Hotline server?! How do I find it? c

Ah, OK. My 2013 rMBP apparently has a similar issue with third party SSDs, even on natively supported MacOS versions. I disabled suspend to disk, and all is well. c

Why? c

Yes, that's exactly right! I knew it was important, but I couldn't remember why. c

Good point. I guess at this point, about the only context in which spending money on the 2013 Mac Pro makes any sense is as a collectible. c

Well, no. The fact that it's in the same enclosure is fine (it hearkens back to the PPC --> Intel switch, when the then-new Mac Pro used the same enclosure as the outgoing Power Mac G5). The fact that it has four PCIe slots is fine too. What I don't get is that, in a machine with that much...

Yes, but the 2023-present variant that is apparently AS-based. Apple has, in my opinion, become very ho-hum. Indeed, the computer industry as a whole has gotten rather boring too. Save for Google's recent quantum computing breakthrough, of course. That's worthy of getting excited about. c