A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.
March 7
The Journey
has been on my watchlist for a while and we finally got around to
it this evening. It's flawed but fun. Meaney's McGuinness is
pretty good; Spall's Paisley doesn't have the look quite right but
the accent and mannerisms seem to work well enough. Blair's
bumbling soundbite-heavy approach is wonderful, and their
Bertie Ahern looks more like his predecessor and isn't given any
useful screen time anyway. Overall I really enjoyed
this.
March 6
The Holcroft Covenant
is pretty much straight-up 80s cheese. It's funny looking at
well-made movies from this period because then you see something
like this movie and the difference is a bit stark. Anyway, Michael
Caine runs around with a bunch of different people and the movie
does a good job of keeping you guessing who's on which side, but
that aside this is fairly forgettable stuff. Also that parade in
Berlin was entirely gratuitous.
March 5
Noticed that tonight's ST:Voyager blurb didn't match the episode
we were watching, so checked and ... yep, Virgin Media has found a
new and interesting way to stiff us on season
recordings. It looks like we're missing the end of S5/start of S6
episodes which I imagine is a cliffhanger plus resolution
setup.
March 3
Managed to recover a time machine backup from the dreaded 'Time
Machine has arbitrarily decided that fsck no longer fixes things'.
March 1
Finally got around to upgrading my Mac to Tahoe. First
impressions: I can no longer tile 9 terminal windows on my laptop
screen using default settings. This is mildly annoying - I don't
usually use the full 3x3 layout, but I had been using 3 across the
bottom and 2 or 3 on the right edge, neither of which works
now. I'm not sure if this is font changes or chrome changes -
possibly a bit of both. It occurs to me that it'd be handy to have
a gadget I could feed in my desired geometry to and get back a
list of settings that would allow that (font size, whatever tuning
I can apply to window trim, etc.)
The upgrade itself: I shut down all my apps prior to running the
upgrade. When the laptop rebooted, it appears to have reverted not
even to the pre-shutting-down-apps session, but an older session
from our weekend in London where I had a couple of
camera-monitoring apps open. I have no idea. Also the
"your laptop has been upgraded to Tahoe" box that popped up on
first login after the upgrade was kinda jarring - looked
unfinished, almost blunt by comparison to the usual Apple
fare.
My ssh connections are warning me about "post-quantum
cryptography". Clearly I'll need to read a manual or
two.
Hmm. Bumping the resolution from 1710whatever (???) to 1920 gives
me back lots of room for my terminals with not much appreciable
difference in other things. Maybe I'll need to do a bit of font
tweaking since it now looks like I could fit 3.5x3
terminals.
Definitly not enjoying "everything is round". I mean, look. The
screen is a rectangle, mostly. Making huge rounded corners just
wastes space.
The Markdown "support" added to Notes leaves a bit to be
desired. Exporting as Markdown creates a folder and puts your note
inside it; importing creates a new folder in Notes called
"Imported Notes" (and Imported Notes 1, and Imported Notes
2...). I'd really much prefer if it supported Markdown via
copy/paste.