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Cake day: September 27th, 2024

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  • Huh, I already got VLC, but no harm in trying out IINA.

    Homebrew is … ridiculously good. I mean sure, I’m not a terminal guy and the last time anything remotely terminal I’ve touched was probably MS Dos era as a kid (and that is OLD) but the more I get into homebrew the more I appreciate its goodness. Sure it takes some time to rewire my brain to read through all the data on the screen, but it is very straightforward, and whatever pops is whatever pops (basically no need to reinterpret or guess the problem), and I like homebrew as possibly one stop to do anything and everything. And update --all LOL, that is MASSIVE.

    thanks again! :D

    You’re all kind folks and I hope to pay it forward / play it forward!



  • Hi there!

    Oh right, VLC. Yeah I forgot about this good old servant. I’ve used parsec before, and yeah I think I’ll give it a whirl. I don’t do coding, but I’ll definitely put visual studio code into the list Aha. I’m mainly a firefox guy, but I’ll give Orion a whirl. I mean no harm trying new stuffs. I mainly use it as a “bring as much work as possible”. So i also had to install Google suite and Microsoft suite (because my work relies on those).

    As for other things, I’m probably toying around with Local LLMs, so I’m using JAN AI (they have an app that really utilizes metal, but the app is not written in apple’s language, I think, or I may be wrong, but it is one of the fewer LLM frontends (and backends) that really makes use of Apple hardware (such as MLX). I also use a lot of Lumafusion, and I’m also using that on the MacBook, but maybe I’ll try using something like Da Vinci, until I can justify buying or needing Final Cut Pro and other Apple creative suite. (I’m just using that because in the past i had an iPad Pro, and it was the best “on machine” video editing device I can use with almost no downtime.

    Thanks again!