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My Sweet Setup: Mac Pro (2019)
You take one look at the Mac Pro and you just know it means business. It’s not the most Mac-like of the Macs out there by any means. The essence of the Mac as a piece of hardware has always been that of an all-in-one computer, and so if you are looking for a computer…
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Graphics Issues on the 2019 Mac Pro
I’m posting this in the hopes that if someone else is running into this issue, this will pop up when they Google it. Shoutout to Erik at AppleCare Enterprise for taking ownership of my case until the bitter end. Shortly after I got my Mac Pro at the end of 2019, I would occasionally notice…
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My Sweet Setup: The Office
Before my fiancé and I bought a house in Portland, I found myself feeling particularly stir-crazy in my apartment. I was sitting at my desk in my cramped bedroom, right next to the bathroom door, and I realized I just couldn’t concentrate. I started hunting around on Craigslist and I found myself a private office…
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My Sweet Setup
Remember how I said I was going to post more in 2021, and how I haven’t posted anything since January? Well, that’s about to change! I’m always on the lookout for the very best equipment for my work and leisure. Having great tools that you love makes you more productive (and even if it doesn’t,…
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The “Big” in Big Tech Breeds Extremism
Tech companies hit a turning point this week and have actually started wielding power against far right groups aiming to incite violence. Most dramatically, Facebook and Twitter both permanently banned Donald Trump, and Parler, a “free speech” social network that minimizes moderation and has become a favorite among white supremacists, has been removed from Google’s…
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Review: What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
I read Aubrey Gordon’s What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat a few weeks ago, and it was deeply healing for me. And if you are a fellow fat person considering reading this, it’s a great read, but this review really isn’t for you. Instead, it’s for the more conventionally sized people…
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What’s to come in 2021 on icanthascheezburger
I made a bold goal that in 2021 I would post 100 blog posts throughout the year. Given that I only posted 30 things in 2020, you might be wondering how I aim to more than triple my output on this blog. Well, it starts off with fluffy posts like this one where I don’t…
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Taking Inventory of 2020
Obviously the year has sucked big time for the world, so I’m not really going to dive much into that. I entered 2020 hoping for things to look up; I was expecting to end 2019 on a high note, having just gotten engaged to the love of my life, but just days after I popped…
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I could have built a better Slack: a story about excellence
Salesforce announced this week that they’re looking to buy the work chat app Slack, and although I’m sure this will mint a lot of new millionaires and probably help Slack avoid the pressures they’ve been facing as a public company, I’m still not convinced that a golden age of great new Slack features is ahead…
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What Am I Even Doing Here?
For a few years here icanthascheezburger was pretty light on new posts. From June 2015 to June 2020 I made a whopping eleven posts. I’m really happy that I got more talkative on here this year. Maybe it was the pandemic-induced quarantining leaving me with more time to think, maybe it was a subconscious desire…