Darkest hour button shortcuts5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Seriously Apple… I mean seriously, come on! ![]() If you are lucky enough to find a half-decent Mac-compatible MSPaint replacement, you will find that you have to know precisely the dimensions you want the image, and are restricted from the long established convention of having a tiny set of diagonal arrows in the bottom right hand corner with which to resize. Following on from point 4, Apple, in all its infinite wisdom has decided that we are not allowed to be able to resize image by hand. Want to make a very minor edit to an image? Want to combine two images together quickly and easily without using an expensive photo editing suite? Not possible with a Mac I’m afraid. Tell me Apple, why can we not maximise our windows? Also please tell me why – for the love of all that is good – is it so damn hard to arrange two documents side by side? Heaven help you if you have file name clashes and have to manually rename each individual file… So, if you’re say, dealing with a couple of hundred files, such as in the case where you might be organising photos from a digital camera or other such device, you soon find yourself in difficulty. ![]() Windows-PCs allow you to batch name files, so if for instance you have 20 photos you want to name ‘Reasons I hate Macs’, they will be renamed quite simply, with numbers appended to the end of the filename for each subsequent file in the group. I do not want computer icons to have personalities of their own. Computers are machines, they are not people. Apple Macs don’t have balloons, or popups or message boxes, no, instead they have icons that feel the need to bounce up and down to get your attention in a way that is beyond irritating. So without further ado, here are 25 reasons I hate Macs, and the 3 things I like… 25 reasons to hate Macs Alas, I doubt I will ever see the day Apple sees sense, as far too many people are prepared to spend far too much money on over-hyped products that look nice, but have little in the way of practical application. But even such relatively trivial tasks as taking a screenshot require the average user to dedicate far too much time to browsing internet forums to find solutions to tasks that should be easy.Īs much as I have an intrinsic loathing for Apple, and the style-over-substance that its “brand” represents, I would actually shout for joy if I came into work one day and found that my office Mac did the simple things I need it to. I work on Macs 5 days a week, and require little more from my workplace Mac than it let me do my job. Now, before I get accused of being a PC fan-boy, this blog is in no way a rant without substance. Whereas on a simple low-spec PC I would be able to do most things a writer needs to do, such as rename files and multi-task between a few Word documents, on a Mac even these simple tasks become a chore. You see my employer has kitted out our office with Apple Macs, the most un-helpful, un-user-friendly devices imaginable. Not too much to ask, you may think – there’s not much there that can particularly go wrong, or make my life more difficult than it needs to be. I don’t need much: a computer with an up-to-date version of MSOffice, access to the internet, and a few very minor stationery requirements, and I am well equipped to sit and write all day. They ambled through the stalls hand in hand, and every time they passed a staircase Hanami nudged him with her shoulder and smiled.As a writer I’m fairly easy going when it comes to my working environment. The corner of his mouth twitched, betraying him. “I could,” she said, and laced her fingers through his. ![]() “Why,” he said, when he reached the street level that wound deeper into the Firmament and reached once more for her hand. She dusted snow and grit from the palms of her gloves while she ambled over to the foot of the stairs, and huffed as Aymeric made his very deliberately slow way down the remaining half-flight, one hand firmly on the railing and his mouth in a flat line. The ground below was clear, so rather than answer Hanami tensed her calves just enough that she could vault over the rail and jump to the street below with a thunk of boots meeting stone. “Hold on,” Hanami said, and Aymeric paused in his walking and talking both, feet on different steps and arm held out for her to tuck her hand into his elbow, until she drew away to brace on the railing and peek over the side. Or: ways to know you’re dating an rpg protagonist. ![]()
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