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  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.comtoTechnology@lemmy.worldRIP Mac Pro, I guess.
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    5 days ago

    On one hand, bummer. But on the other, sort of a waste of hardware anyway.

    I was a big time pro user. G3 tower with DVD card, G5 dual, Mac Pro 5,1 with dual X5690’s and other upgrades. But I had to drag those systems kicking and screaming out of Apple’s walled garden to do what is second nature on the PC side of things. Loved the OS back then, but not all users were braindead drones.

    “Pro” stopped being a moniker for advanced capability, instead the most expensive, least hobbled version.

    I hope whomever replaces Cook (rumor has it) once again remembers what it was like to be a nerd under all that businessman authority.









  • I’ve been self hosting since 1998. My first non-website service was a VCR hooked to a firewire capture card running QuickTime server so I could watch TV in the computer lab at school.

    Your internet radio thing was neat. Mine was called Green Frog Radio. No, it didn’t go anywhere. Definitely not licensed whatsoever.

    I bought an Onkyo NetTunes amp that had Internet streaming built in, but it sucked and didn’t have any of the cool stations I liked. I got together with other nerds and we wrote a simple NetTunes proxy running mono that inserted our list of stations into the NetTunes server response. I hosted that for a while. All users had to do was configure their IP settings to add my address. It was a fun little project. Actually, I guess that was my first open source collaboration. Haha.