It can be done, and if my 2016 IMac dies then I am going to do it. An amazing display.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Convert+an+iMac+Intel+27-Inch+E...

There’s a Mac version coming (very exciting!)

https://x.com/linqpad/status/1820379112651026587

Thanks, edited

I’ve been a Mac user for more than 20 years and I may be in a minority of one, but I prefer the new settings. When I use my old Mac with the old settings I find myself thinking “so which image do I need to click to do what I want?” but in the new settings I can find what I need from the text labels.

I was a Mac user for about six years, went back to Windows through necessity, and returned to Mac four years ago. I don't hate the new Mac System Settings, but for me it's not as intuitive as the old version. Nor is the iPhone/iPad settings app easy to navigate. I don't completely understand the reasoning for the order or grouping of things. Then I realize I have no control over it, shrug my shoulders, and get on with finding and using the options I want.

A bash script to set a config value…?

I’ve been blocking ads in Firefox since you used CSS to do it [0] but let’s face it, advertising isn’t going away.

Advertising is annoying, but tracking is evil and I hope initiatives like this can pave the way to having ads while not compromising user privacy.

I’ll still block them, though.

[0] https://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/css/ad_blocking.cs... (love it that site is still up!)

> Advertising is annoying, but tracking is evil and I hope initiatives like this can pave the way to having ads while not compromising user privacy.

This is wishful thinking. As long as ads exists they are going to grab as much information about you as possible. All this does is give them additional information to add to whatever they are already doing.

The actual change-commands aren't actually that much longer than its worrisome instructions telling you to download unpredictable arbitrary data from an internet URL and blindly execute it.

"Concerned about your privacy? Don't worry, just pipe this code right to your shell"

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Setting the flag in about:config is simple enough, I don't understand why anyone would do anything else. Who's seeing this page who is also unable to make an about:config change?

A picture-based guide seems both safer and more effective. e.g. many Firefox users run Windows, where curl | sh doesn't even work - clicking on the right buttons also requires less technical expertise.

You don't even have to go to about:config - it's got a checkbox on the user settings page!

http://archive.is/QX8wm as accepting all cookies is the only option available

I just ordered another copy of Seveneves as I have given up on getting mine back from the person I lent it to. It’s consequently been a few years since I read it, but I feel it will be hard to do the book justice on TV. Much like any Stephenson book, really. One can only hope..

They mention one reason in the release notes:

> unintended SSE CPU requirement present in previous releases has been removed.

Removing that requirement makes sense to me (in the current release or the previous releases), but I'm curious why the previous releases are deemed worth maintaining alongside the current release.

What did they do feature-wise in newer versions that makes the old versions desirable to some people, to the point that a user would prefer to upgrade them rather than upgrade to the newest version? It's not about system compatibility: the 2.x line supports Windows all the way back to Windows 7.

I'm content to dig into the docs but I was wondering about people's personal experiences with it. One hint in the release notes is that some, but not all, old plugins work in the new version...

1.5 is the last version that supports Windows XP.

1.6 is the last version before the big rework.

> It's not about system compatibility: the 2.x line supports Windows all the way back to Windows 7.

I wouldn't be surprised if a decent amout of people were still running Windows XP, esp. on old hardware.

I don't know how many, but it's a decent enough choice for a jukebox machine or something.

Yeah almost certainly plugin ecosystem