A little update
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018 16:35![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimenaTime for a little update:
✮ The hot weather seems to be calming down a bit, so I'm starting to feel a bit better than I have been for some time. Feeling better might also have something to do with the fact that I escaped to Denmark for one and a half day recently, though. The weather there was partly overcast, and partly with a few showers of rain, and I honestly believe that humans need rain just as much as nature does. My mood is at least a lot better now.
✮ Some fun with new toys: I'm currently testing out the Vivaldi web browser. So far, I'm really liking some features here (vertical tabs, notes tab on the sidebar, bookmarks sidebar, nice show/hide system for the sidebars, nice themes and possibility of customising the colours to your own liking). It also works well with my password manager, and I've not seen any "broken" sites yet, so let's see if I'll switch to it as my main browser after some more testing? Especially the vertical tabs are amazing, and much more convenient than having endless tabs on top of the page. I tend to still move the mouse pointer to the top when I want to switch tab, though, so I guess I need to get rid of that habit.
✮ In a moment of stupid craziness, I installed cDock to change the Dock appearance on my computer. I've used it sometimes in the past as well, but it tends to stop working for a time every time a new version of macOS comes out, so I delete it then. Well, this time it wasn't that simple. No matter what I did, even after deleting the app and its obvious entries in Application Support, my Dock still kept coming up with some ugly theme on it - not even one of those I would choose if I was actively trying to use the app. In the end, I found a hidden cDock bundle in the SIMBL part of the Library folder, and that one apparently activated automatically each time the Dock started. So, put it in the trash can, emptied the trash, and finally I have a normal-looking Dock again. It's not supposed to be this complex to get rid of an app!
✮ I sold all my Playstation 2 and Playstation 3 stuff. I'm not usually one for selling games and consoles, as I prefer to collect it and replay it sometimes. I tend to replay older stuff than these, though, so getting rid of things I haven't touched in several years sounded like the right thing to do, especially now that we've started clearing out stuff in preparation for moving at some point. (Before you ask: no, there's still nothing definite about these plans). I'm especially excited about the PS2 sale, because I sold it online, and I went to post everything only yesterday afternoon, so I really hope it'll reach the buyer safely, and that he'll be happy. I'm a bit nervous, of course, but also excited, because I got quite good money for it, considering how old it is.
✮ What else? Yes, there are European Championships on in various sports at the moment. The athletics one is the most important one to me, so I'm off to watch it soon.
✮ The hot weather seems to be calming down a bit, so I'm starting to feel a bit better than I have been for some time. Feeling better might also have something to do with the fact that I escaped to Denmark for one and a half day recently, though. The weather there was partly overcast, and partly with a few showers of rain, and I honestly believe that humans need rain just as much as nature does. My mood is at least a lot better now.
✮ Some fun with new toys: I'm currently testing out the Vivaldi web browser. So far, I'm really liking some features here (vertical tabs, notes tab on the sidebar, bookmarks sidebar, nice show/hide system for the sidebars, nice themes and possibility of customising the colours to your own liking). It also works well with my password manager, and I've not seen any "broken" sites yet, so let's see if I'll switch to it as my main browser after some more testing? Especially the vertical tabs are amazing, and much more convenient than having endless tabs on top of the page. I tend to still move the mouse pointer to the top when I want to switch tab, though, so I guess I need to get rid of that habit.
✮ In a moment of stupid craziness, I installed cDock to change the Dock appearance on my computer. I've used it sometimes in the past as well, but it tends to stop working for a time every time a new version of macOS comes out, so I delete it then. Well, this time it wasn't that simple. No matter what I did, even after deleting the app and its obvious entries in Application Support, my Dock still kept coming up with some ugly theme on it - not even one of those I would choose if I was actively trying to use the app. In the end, I found a hidden cDock bundle in the SIMBL part of the Library folder, and that one apparently activated automatically each time the Dock started. So, put it in the trash can, emptied the trash, and finally I have a normal-looking Dock again. It's not supposed to be this complex to get rid of an app!
✮ I sold all my Playstation 2 and Playstation 3 stuff. I'm not usually one for selling games and consoles, as I prefer to collect it and replay it sometimes. I tend to replay older stuff than these, though, so getting rid of things I haven't touched in several years sounded like the right thing to do, especially now that we've started clearing out stuff in preparation for moving at some point. (Before you ask: no, there's still nothing definite about these plans). I'm especially excited about the PS2 sale, because I sold it online, and I went to post everything only yesterday afternoon, so I really hope it'll reach the buyer safely, and that he'll be happy. I'm a bit nervous, of course, but also excited, because I got quite good money for it, considering how old it is.
✮ What else? Yes, there are European Championships on in various sports at the moment. The athletics one is the most important one to me, so I'm off to watch it soon.
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Date: Wed, Aug. 8th, 2018 15:50 (UTC)I was a loyal fan of Opera for years, but eventually got tired of it always lagging behind and failing to render most of the sites properly, so I switched to Firefox. I wonder if Vivaldi is worth it... should give it a try someday.
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Date: Sat, Aug. 11th, 2018 13:54 (UTC)It's been very hot everywhere this summer, I think. And too dry, but we've had 3 days of rain this past week - what a relief!
Vivaldi sounds interesting.
Good for you selling your old systems! Have you bought PS4? Do you have Xbox? I'm surprised you would get a good sum for PS2 but then what do I know? You can probably always find a buyer for game systems.
We have a Wii and a WiiU here that are hardly used. I should try selling them.
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Date: Mon, Aug. 13th, 2018 09:08 (UTC)no subject
Date: Sat, Aug. 18th, 2018 14:45 (UTC)Is only for Mac OS or is multiplatform like Chrome or others?
Enjoy the hot weather... while in Norway because here in Chile you can't handle with it because it's an oven LOL.
A propòs I finished the fanart I posted on insta stories... you can check it out ... peace out there.