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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • I don’t really care that I’m getting downvoted, but I am surprised?

    I probably could have given more context, but I made this comment in good faith and genuinely think this will be an issue for him given the last several days.

    Even if the majority of the country is in support of supporting Israel at this time, the IDF is committing verifiable war crimes against civilians, which the UN is criticizing. Supporting that both in words and funding is going to make it hard for a lot of people to vote for Biden who would have otherwise just to avoid any chance of Trump getting elected.

    There’s been pro-Palestine protests all across the country this weekend. I’m seeing a lot of anger for him in other areas online from people who claim to have voted for him; more than I’ve seen since he was elected. I’ll be interested to see how support for him is in polls and surveys in a few weeks.

    I could be wrong, but I think this will be one of his biggest hurdles next year when running for reelection.



  • I like this and will probably end up using it for things I can’t find online.

    I’ve been building up my collection via buying the content directly on the iTunes store, and am slowly moving copies of everything onto SSDs for long-term. I’m subscribed to cheap charts alerts so I get emails when anything on my wish list is on sale, and basically price watch so I don’t pay full price for anything. You can get pretty custom with the alerts. I haven’t looked in awhile, but there’s also a buy sell trade subreddit for digital codes where people will sell their content really cheap.

    For now, I can stream my entire library via the Apple TV app which is pretty convenient. Eventually I’ll want to add more to my actual library/storage that isn’t available via iTunes, so I’ll probably search online and use the method you shared when needed.

    Agreed on it being really convenient once you have your library set up. The first month or two felt a little sparse as far as exploring, but once I had a decent base of my favorite content, nothing beats having it consistently there all the time. I don’t miss streaming subscriptions at all.



  • I primarily use Firefox, but the big one for me and the reason I haven’t completely deleted Chrome is being able to create shortcuts with the “Open in a new window” option for specific URLs. Granted I’m not very tech savvy (just a little more aware than the average user) and primarily use a mac for my personal computer atm, but that feature is a game changer for me. As far as I know, other popular browsers don’t offer it currently.

    It’s really useful for when there isn’t a download or iOS app for a specific site/service, or when the web app is much better than the app or download option and I still want to be able to use it like a separate app from my browser.

    I also wasn’t able to download any software that wasn’t on the Apple App Store with my work computer for my previous employer (super annoying, but I kind of get it). So it was essential if I wanted to have a separate and dedicated app/window at all for my work calendar, email, etc.

    I love how I can visually organize the web apps I like to use separately from my browser, to save time and energy for daily use. I can customize the name and shortcut icon, pin them to my dock, organize them in folders in my launchpad, and even set them to launch on startup if I want. Not sure if there are reasonably easy ways to mimic this with Firefox, but I haven’t found any yet.