PC WEENIES
Tech Musings and Comics.
A webcomic and blog about technology, digital life, creative frustration, and the weird humor of living with machines.
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The Pleasant Feeling of a Forced Reprieve
A sobering fact: There’s not much you can do on a modern computer without the Internet. But there was a time when that didn’t matter. My first computer was an Apple IIGS. It came with a display, CPU, keyboard and a 3.5” and 5.25” floppy drive. I remember spending countless hours messing about on this…
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FrugalMac: Dipping My Toes into Making Bespoke Automation Tools
In spite of my engineering background, I’ve never considered myself to be a coder. In college, I took a few required programming courses in both Assembler and C++. Those two classes, while informative, were never my cup of tea. (I also took a Fortran class as a freshman, and let’s just say – my very…
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FrugalMac: Do I Need to Install Standalone Microsoft apps?
At work, our college uses Microsoft products, such as Word, Teams, and OneDrive. In the past, I have begrudgingly installed these items as stand alone apps on my Mac. Why the begrudgement? Simply put: These apps are big, bloated and stacked with performance inefficiencies. With my FrugalMac build, I asked myself one question: “Do I…