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An update on all the updates
I finally got Subversion installed [1] on Belial, the annoying Mac Laptop
[2], not via MacPorts [3] but with Homebrew [4] (suggested by several people,
both at work and elsewhere). I did end up installing OpenSSL [5] from source
when I coudn't seem to install the headers for development, but then, I'm an
old grey beard so I'm used to installing packages from source (I have both
OpenSSL and LibreSSL [6] installed on my home development system for example,
but the less said about that, the better). But I get to keep the old Mac
laptop around, just in case.
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The new Mac laptop just doesn't quite feel like a Mac. I'm not sure what it
is, but it just feels a bit … off, as a Mac. I'm not sure if it's the
corporate big brother software installed on it, the gratuitous changes Apple
has done to the UI (User Interface), or the other subtle changes that have
been done over the years, but it just doesn't have that … fun feeling it did
back in 2005 [7] when I started using Macs. I'm finding it hard to articulate
why I feel this way. At least the updates don't require a reboot.
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Satan, the useless Windows Laptop [8] has been packaged up, the mailing label
[9] slapped on the box, and tomorrow it will be dropped off so that FedEx
[10] can send Satan back to whence it came.
Woot!
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2022/02/23.1
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2022/02/17.1
[3]
https://www.macports.org/
[4]
https://brew.sh/
[5]
https://www.openssl.org/
[6]
https://www.libressl.org/
[7]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/08/16.1
[8]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/08/22.1
[9]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2022/02/23.3
[10]
https://www.fedex.com/
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