Curious about Iran’s strategy, especially if the attack fails ..read more

Why would anyone save images as jfif instead of jpeg? I was rummaging around an artist’s website, and noticed a lot of their images were jfif and not jpeg. I get that jfif incorporates some metadata stuff not found in jpeg, but I don’t understand what advantage there is in the real world. Happily, all you need to do is change the extension to jpg and you’re good to go ..read more

Fascinating and fun video on rediscovering the technique Disney invented to produce impeccable matting in Mary Poppins ..read more

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/26...ishing-attack/ I have not experienced this thank goodness but it's unusual for apple to be the target of hacks like this ..read more

All of the images I post here and elsewhere are hosted on my personal website. Technically, they’re hosted on my hosting service, and aren’t actually part of a website, just in folders under my site. I want to reorganize (or maybe “finally initially organize”) my image files. Many of them aren’t in any sort of logical directory structure beyond “PubPics/MacNN/xx.jpg” (if that) which let me post them, but made a mess of that particular folder. So when I rename, move, and organize my images, a lot of old posts are going to have missing images. And that’s really annoying for someone who finds an ..read more

Its been so long since I've been here but once I started to embark on my new project my head starting swimming and the only place I could think of for some straight answers is right here. You fine nerds have never steered me wrong before! The Plan Build a modern computer desk workstation from the ground up, getting rid of my old desk and old computers in the process. Replace with one large screen and one keyboard/mouse to control everything. The Moving Parts My partner got a big promotion (hooray) and will also be working from home a lot more (also hooray) but her new position has put a st ..read more

Any ideas on how to fix this? This is an otherwise pristine top case - no cracks or anything, so I really hope there's something I can do. The button is plastic-riveted to the top case, and I can't say I've ever done a power button replacement on one of these - when I was a genius, we just did whole top case replacements ..read more

Anyone got some extras they don't mind offloading for cheap? Looks like I can get 32GB without the big heat spreaders for about $50 on eBay... 16GB for that price if I want the OEM heat spreaders. My current setup uses RAM with regular heat spreaders (not the Apple ones), and I've not had any problems with it ..read more

This thing's ODD is dying a slow and painful death - the eject mechanism seems to be borked completely, and it's a bit noisy when reading discs. It's IDE, and I know Apple was picky about drive compatibility. What should I get to replace this drive? Is there a particular make/model known for its longevity? This will pretty much just be to image discs as ISOs and DMGs ..read more

I haven't done anything with iOS in ages. I just got my hands on a 16GB third gen iPad (Retina display and 30-pin dock connector) currently running iOS 9.3. Is it worth jailbreaking this thing? Can I still snag old versions of apps so I can at least make it semi-useful? The productivity stuff works fine with my Exchange account, but the browser is already long in the tooth, so being able to install some apps would be nice (SSH client, that kind of thing). If it's jailbreakable, what do you all recommend? I did some reading online, but a whole ton of what I found read like it was AI-generated ..read more