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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

I honestly don't get why the Amiga crowd gets so smug and defensive (or, as @Daniël so aptly put it, difficult). What makes the Amiga so much better? Given relatively equal amounts of incompetence and mismanagement at both Commodore and Apple, the Amiga died out and the Mac didn't. Doesn't...

I have a Rev. A I think (is that the one with the bondi-colored plastics that look similar to the Rev. A and B iMac?), and while it worked last time I tried it, it needed a new backlight (it was bright pink, a telltale sign of impending failure). Now it probably needs new caps too. *sigh*...

Blue Garlic???? I've seen some strange names on Amazon and elsewhere, but that one takes the cake! c

I figured as much. c

Beats me. I'm sure there's lots of useful stuff that can go in those slots, but for the average user, being able to upgrade the GPU is a helpful feature. Non-upgradeable RAM is a problem too. Why have such a large, fancy, expensive machine if you can't upgrade anything? At least the SSD...

And who says this stuff is obsolete! What is "cantbearseds"? Do I want to know? c

I was just looking up the specs on the 2013 Mac Pro, and I just noticed that apparently there's an Apple Silicon model now. How did I miss that? Goes to show how uninteresting Apple has become. They release a new system and nobody seems to care. c

Yeah, I sometimes feel sad that I missed out on those early days of the hobby. As I mentioned, I did catch the tail end of it, and I found some pretty decent stuff. Had I known what to look for (I was only just then discovering that many of these machines even existed), I probably could've...