Friends Don’t Let Friends HDD

If you have any friends still banging their heads into a Macbook Pro (the non retina variety) – and you probably do given its longtime popularity – do everyone a favor and ask them if it’s because it’s so slow and then when they nod knowingly, ask them if they are still using the stock 5400 rpm Hard Drive.

Help them into an SSD. You may need to coax them. They won’t want to open up that unibody. But as nerds and geeks, we know they should. So convince them.

SSDs are cheap now; even a 1TB drive is very affordable.1 And that drive bay is user accessible with a Phillips #00 screwdriver. Send them the ifixit link and talk them through it.2 Get them to smack the old HDD in a $10 USB 3 enclosure and use it for Time Machine or whatever.

Bonus Tip: Apparently, those 13-inch Macbook Pro can handle 16 GB of RAM even though Apple claims they max out at 8 GB. The RAM is also user-replaceable.

For $300 dollars, they will feel like they bought a whole new souped-up computer. Sure, it’s not super thin and light and it isn’t retina. But it will probably be a nice box and for a few more years still.

  1. “Crucial’s is less than $250.” ↩

  2. ❤️ is holding a friend or family member’s hand over iMessages while they nervously upgrade a computing device # ↩

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If Only HRC Were Like Stephen Malkmus →

David Rees, writing for The Baffler, stands against Chuck Todd, his tweets, his overalls aura, his goatee:

[I]t sounds like Chuck Todd wanted Hillary Clinton to be more like Stephen Malkmus: all floppy shirtsleeves and flawless indie cred.... Did he see Clinton’s relentless, suffocating citations of facts and figures and talking points and data sets as a betrayal of the late-’90s indie-rock code: Never Let Them See You Try? Was her ostentatious display of competence the oratorical equivalent of Neil Peart’s preposterous thicket of drums and cymbals and who-knows-what-the-fuck-kind-of-ethnic-windchime-he’s-plinking-on-now?

It’s Time to Stop Talking About Racism With White People →

Zack Linly for the Washington Post:

If Colin Kaepernik’s decision to stand against social injustice by sitting during the National Anthem has shown us anything else, it’s that much of white America is more bothered by our methods of protest than they ever will be about the injustices we’re protesting. Let’s dispel the notion that if we only protested better, white people will miraculously become more receptive of our message and less scornful of our audacity in speaking out.

The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver →

I was big into Taoism in college, and the paradox of duality, and how it’s always one thing and the other — you can never have one thing without the other. So it’s 22 being me and a million being the Other. That was a way to look at it as a circle.

Justin Vernon or Rust Cohle?

Marvel, DC and the Current State of LGBT Superheroes →

Brett White for Comicbook Resources:

[Marvel] needs a solo series with an unapologetic queer lead whose sexuality is a vital part of the storytelling — just like the love lives of Spider-Man, Daredevil, Superman and so many other heterosexual heroes. … LGBT kids … need stories that reflect their lives. I need to see stories that reflect my life. Don’t sideline queer characters. Don’t cut their stories short.... the world needs to know — to see — that we’re superheroes too.

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