Jimmy Pattison is a billionaire and got there by being a colossal asshole. His loyalties are not with you or me. He’s a net negative for BC. I avoid as many of the Pattison assets as I can, but it’s hard to track all of them. The Buycott app helps me trace ownership.

Large scale media has studiously avoided saying ‘treason’, so having a political leader say it is helpful.

many uses of sugar

Just a reminder that there are better materials to gum up an engine than sugar.

Uhh I think you are going off your peer group as representative maybe? I know a lot of determined pre-resisters with weaponry and knowhow.

Which is why Americorps rail against CanCon regulations. It has ben decades of soft invasion.

Check yer stats, even in Alaberta it’s only about 15% or so.

Probably a big difference between Lloydminster and Windsor.

Yes this, it’s real and important.

OK but no-one knows for certain.

Oh those display specs are usually pretty good. What is more of an issue is noise (cooling system) and power consumption. They are usually brighter than home units.

The retail industry generally uses NEC/Sharp and similar displays, but they are expensive as they are metal-cased and built to run reliably all day every day.

E.G. https://sharp.ca/en/product/business-displays-pnm502/

When you create the live USB installer, you can test it out before installing by booting from the USB stick.

You will probably need to have a way of establishing a wired connection, however, in order to install the Wi-Fi drivers.

I currently have it installed on a 2008 iMac and a 2012 MacBook Pro.

I also have ZorinOS On a MacBook Air that works great, and Debian on a MBPro 2014, and am about to install Fedora on another MBPro, 2013. Those are mostly server experiments, though.

Yes, I wind up with a lot of old macs that I am reluctant to recycle!

First, I hate Apple nearly as much as MS, and I am defending the common experience rather than company.

The dock does what it’s designed to do; “properly” needs to be defined. It is crappy, limited software and since it is mouse-oriented, slow and inefficient and merely one way to do things like open apps. Use spotlight or the app switcher with the keyboard instead and save time. (Spotlight has its own problems but is still much better than the dock!)

If the red button doesn’t close the window, the app isn’t using the developer interface guidelines. Also, try Command-W, it might work better for you.

Also, switching desktops (screens as you said) is trackpad oriented and one smooth gesture , no delay. Using a mouse is more clicky, yes, but normally no delay. Keyboard commands might be what you want here? Also, are you using oddball apps that are fighting the OS?

Regarding your sample set of experiences, I believe you, but trust that my sample set is unusually large due to doing user support for a long time, and few users with a healthy typical install of the OS overall have those complaints:

• setting default apps normally works consistently
• red button closes window on mainstream macOS apps, rarely otherwise
• dragging windows is pretty smooth between monitors (I have to demonstrate this after showing people how to arrange monitors)

I want it to stop hanging up when I drag windows from one monitor to the other.

That might be caused by a few things, such as the virtual arrangement of screens, but it’s not typical.

When I switch screens I want it to switch when I click on it and not click, wait, and click again.

Also unusual. Something odd about your setup.

I want the dock to disappear and stop consuming screen real estate, but I also want it to come back up when I need it.

Dock hiding is a basic setting. It could work better because I can trigger it showing by accidentally mousing to that edge. The Dock is kind of for beginners, and limited in functionality though, it won’t anticipate your needs. I advise moving to the left side and shrinking it.

I need the red x to actually close the window instead of just minimizing it.

It closes the window, not minimizes. That’s a misclick, or a broken app. On one-window apps it also quits the app.

All of these things sometimes happen and sometimes don’t, with seemingly no reason, which is the most frustrating part, and this inconsistent behavior spans iOS as well.

Again, your experience is unusual in these specific respects, so I suspect you are importing habits from other OS’s.

Are you sure you properly designated default apps?

• get info on the file
• change preferred app
• make sure you check the box indicating change for all

Edit: then close the info panel, of course.

Ignore the downvotes. Mint or Debian or Fedora can be great on Macs earlier than 2016.

Apple abandons macOS* updates after a computer is over 7 years old or so.

At that point Mint or similar distros are your primary option for running a secure OS on excellent but aging hardware.**

Sleep/wake, battery management, and trackpad don’t work quite as well, and you usually have to install the Broadwell wifi driver manually, and the camera will be fussy, but otherwise it is the better OS for an old Mac.

* (no longer called OSX since they left v.10 behind a long time ago).

** you can force a later macOS onto older models, but it’s not very stable.

It’s like living on a busy road. People adjust, while life degrades.

The article addresses this. Data must be fresh to be valuable. Yes old data can be useful, but can it be sold? That’s the main vulnerability to surveillance capitalism that hiding exploits.

Consider this: every record I play has a faint recording of the room, every time it has been played, since no turntable or cartridge is perfectly isolated, and, being diamond rubbing against vinyl, will leave some trace of the room sound behind.