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Episode: 3234
Title: HPR3234: Apple products I have owned
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 19:16:45

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This is Haka Public Radio Episode 3234 for the 24th of December 2020.
Today's show is entitled Apple Products I Have Owned.
It is hosted by Swift 110 and is about 23 minutes long and carrying a clean flag.
The summary is, I talk about Apple products that I have owned over the years.
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Oh, this is with 110.
I am back and pretty much I'm really impressed with using Catalina on this MacBook 2010 mid-2010
model.
Yeah.
I don't know the whole song but it would be epic if I did.
I really, really, really light this machine.
I keep saying it over and over but you know, it is what it is.
Today I'm going to be using Libri Office on this MacBook.
Do I expect it to be some kind of amazing experience that blows your head off?
Not exactly.
I expect it to work as Libri Office always works.
I'm cool with that.
I'm down with that.
It's all good so this is what I'll do today.
So what can I randomly just start talking about right now?
What do I like about Catalina?
In order to really speak on what I like about Catalina, I'm really speaking about what
I like about Mac OS.
Being one of these persons, one of the persons that is really into Linux for the last 10 years,
I've used Apple products kind of one and off in that period of time with one of my times
when I got started actually being one of my good buddies.
He had Apple Gear galore because he's been using this since the 80s.
Not what he gave me of course, but different generations of Apple, you know, starting from
when his grandparents got him something nice back in the day.
And so you can imagine how I feel in the spring of 2012 when he gives me all this Apple
stuff because he's getting new gear.
I end up getting a Mac Pro 1.1, which is pretty cool machine.
It came with a whole lot of RAM.
I think it had like 32 gigs of RAM, which you can imagine how awesome that would be for
me.
Being that the machine that I had at that point would have gone up to 4 gigs of RAM.
Yes, that Fujitsu Lifebook 42-15 that I've spoken of before, probably several times on
here by now.
Yeah, that machine was my first laptop.
And I'm grateful for that experience with that particular laptop.
However, it's nice to be able to move beyond 4 gigs of RAM.
And so getting that Mac Pro setting up a virtual box on there was absolutely cool because
I got to play with different operating systems using that particular machine.
I thought that was amazing, thought it was cool.
Well in addition to getting that Mac Pro, just a base system along with it came a 30 inch
Apple cinema display.
And I think that had like 2600, 2400 or something like that by 1600 aspect ratio.
Can you imagine what it's like to get a monitor that big with that big oven or that nice
of an aspect ratio, that nice resolution I mean when you're coming from, and this isn't
on the laptop, but this is why I use my PC at the time when you're using a machine that
well, I mean the monitor that goes up to 1440 by 900, heck of a difference, right?
Oh my word.
Can you imagine playing a super touch card in a 30 inch screen?
Yes, that was beast mode.
I spent time playing on it.
My goodness, that was awesome, awesome.
And by the way, thanks for the memories.
Yeah, I really like having that machine.
Sadly that machine is no longer with us and also maybe even more sadly that screen is
no longer with us and hasn't been cool for a good long time.
Yeah, it's been a long time, long time.
Yeah, I'm not finishing, but it's been a long time.
I guess you could more so appropriately say, go on too soon.
Yeah, no, thanks Michael.
But let me continue talking about the stuff that he gave me.
He also gave me the iPad 3 and the iPad 3 that I was given in spring of 2012.
I still have hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray.
Looking at it.
It's got a nice black outer box case to it.
And the screen has been repaired twice since I've gotten it.
I had it for a good long time.
Actually I had it up until 20, from 2012 into 2014, I mean, let me back up, wait a minute,
let me finish, 2012, spring of 2012 to spring of 2016.
This iPad is fine, pristine, perfect condition, you know, the screen wasn't damaged, but then
one day I'm on the bus.
I was headed to taking care of one of my friends.
His brother has severe autism and so he asked me if I could come over and take care of
him, you know, so that the family, you know, different brothers could be available to
go to work and they'd have somebody to take care of him because he was having problems.
They had moved out of DC into a neighboring county and they were trying to get, you know,
care taken care of.
It was easier to do in DC than it was where they moved.
And so I pretty much came in to take care of him and then enter him time.
Well taken care of him meant that I went from upper North West, close to the service
spring, actually, all the way to the far corner of DC, yeah, all the way to the eastern
corner of DC.
And so I had a considerable commute each day that I went over there back and forth.
For nine months, this was my life back and forth.
And one day I was on the bus headed over there and a pregnant lady got on the bus.
I was sitting in the front, so I got up as any good gentleman would do to give her
a seat.
Well, at the moment, I happen to be plugging in my headphones into my iPad because I'm
going to listen to a Linux podcast of all things.
It's not ironic.
Well, I got up so quickly that the iPad fell on the floor of the bus.
My heart dropped instantly, just like the iPad did.
And so I'm like, okay, it's okay.
It's okay.
The screen is just fine, no problem, no problem.
Pick up my iPad, I sit in another seat, and then I flip the iPad over because it fell
face first.
Of course, it always falls face first.
If you've ever dropped the phone, you know how that goes.
Initially, I'm like, oh, it's okay, not a problem.
Oh, Lord, then the sun hits it a certain way, and I see crack saw in the screen.
Oh, my goodness, so instantly I'm on my phone, like, how do I repair the screen?
And I saw there were so many steps to take this thing apart, I was like, oh, no, I'm
not going to do this.
I was very upset.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to keep a straight face because I don't want her to look at me and
feel bad and then realize what just happened and feel like it's her fault and feel bad
or whatever.
It was like, no, need for that.
I'll work it out.
Yeah, about that.
That iPad set for several years before I ever got around to repairing it.
Yeah, I know.
Epic feel, right?
Epic feel.
I feel like two years, I think, before I even got around to repairing it the first time,
which wasn't even that much.
It was like 80 bucks to get a new screen that even gave me a new button to fancy that.
Very happy about that.
So what did you do?
Now, the funny part is that a few years before that, it had been snowing a lot and I slipped
in the snow.
Well, I slipped on ice, probably.
Landed flat on my back.
iPad was in my backpack.
If you've seen my episode of What's in my bag, you know that I always had my iPad in my
bag.
Landed flat on it.
It slightly curved the case, but it did not damage the screen.
So it wasn't nothing noticeable.
Big whip.
But anyway, that's the iPad 3 that I end up having that I have right now to this very
day eight years later.
And I don't really use it all that much, to be honest, which in these days, I just don't.
Has a great camera.
I love the angles.
I love how that runs.
But sadly, all my data that was on it got wiped because like an idiot, absolute idiot.
I was in a hurry to get it repaired and it was during COVID, while we're still in
COVID.
But it was during a time where a lot of those repair places were kind of shut down for
the moment.
And so it was hard to get a place to get repaired.
And instead of just being patient and waiting a minute, yeah, lost all my data.
Talk about a bummer, you know, chances are nothing's in my eye cloud.
I don't even know.
Stuff happens.
Okay, so it is what it is.
So that whole, the iPad, the iPad I used a lot over the years before that second time
it got damaged.
I would plug it into my Linux machines and I would pull pictures off of it and videos,
which is how I still have certain stuff because I was smart enough to back up some stuff
but I didn't back up all my stuff like a boom.
It happens.
That's why you always want to back up your stuff.
Always.
If you don't have it backed up, it can be gone and blink of an eye at snap of your fingers
due to stays.
Nothing.
Not going to sing the song.
Promise.
Hey, but that iPad, very useful.
Using it for different documents, using it for Linux podcasts, like I've mentioned.
I love the audio quality of it.
So it's nice, even now.
It's still pretty good.
On its age now, but it's still good.
What I was also given in that spring of 2012 was an iPad, I already talked about the iPad,
iPod Classic 160 gig hard drive.
It was anything.
It had so much music on it because he just gave it to me, had all his music, whatever was
on it.
Oh, good.
I love that thing.
And I was trying to put Linux on it.
Yeah.
I was trying to rockbox it, never got around and do it now.
I don't know what a darn thing is.
At all.
I don't know.
And I said darn.
I don't know where it is.
I don't know where it is.
At all.
It is.
It might be in my house in there, I don't care.
One day we'll be reunited.
And then I'll go ahead and rockbox it and see what I can do from there.
That'll be great.
What else do you give me?
Think that about, does it?
Oh, he gave me an iPhone 4S, which was really cool for podcasting, you know, for my podcast
because it's convenient having that little phone that I could just listen to music on
my podcast.
It was convenient to use that instead of my phone.
So yeah, I had all these gadgets, but what happened to that phone that I was quite salty
about for a long time afterwards was that to the movies one day, what movie did I go
see?
Because that will help me place it.
I think I want to go see Jurassic Park Lost World, the first one.
Yeah, that one where the ladies run around and heals from a dinosaur and I'm like, you're
stupid.
Why are you running in heels?
Why?
Why are you even wearing heels at a dinosaur park?
Okay.
That is, that is the damsel in distress, truth that that's been done a billion times.
Can you come up with new material people?
Come on.
So anyway, I'm in the movies and it's one of those movie theaters where you have the
chairs that lean back, lean back and headed in my pocket.
You know, it kind of fell out one pocket and I never got it back, but that thing was
useful.
It was useful having another Wi-Fi device.
And it's been a long time and you know, it's one of those things.
But yeah, that's the Apple stuff that I was given.
And I have to say I liked each of those items.
I had written blog posts that were very critical of the Apple company and I stand behind
what I said at that time because it was true.
Like the time they went after this little, was it, I think it was like this sandwich
shop in France or something and I thought that was being lame and it's other stuff.
I kind of got on them about, but you know, years ago I started on this blog post that
I never finished.
It's still a draft on my WordPress and it's entitled different strokes for different
folks.
And I know if that theme song, the different strokes is playing in your head, that's intentional
because that's what I had in mind at the time.
And I'm very tempted to start singing that song right now.
And I think I'll do it.
Now the world don't move to the beat of just one drum.
What might be right for you may not be right for some.
A man is born, I'm done, I'm done.
But different strokes, you get the point, why do I say different strokes because you
have people that use windows, you have people that use macOS, you have people that use Linux.
Well I always had this idea that I would be that guy to use R3.
The best of not just two worlds, thank you Hannah, but the best of three worlds.
Where I would have systems running each of these operating systems and critique them and
compare them.
Well now, all these years later, I think I'm going to do that.
I'm going to finish that project.
And I have one big dilemma, I can't stand Windows 10.
I've had the sad misfortune of trying to use it on other people's computers and I hated
it.
Hated it.
Goodness, I hated it.
I was like, what is this?
What is this?
Who is this?
Oh, and I just, that might be something I just leave alone.
I did like Windows 7 and I did like Windows XP.
I liked Windows XP because it was relatively lightweight.
It wasn't a big ISO, whereas I think that was like a gig that it took up.
Whereas with Windows 7, that was like 17 gigs, yeah, not a fan of that.
You know, it just gives me the idea of being this big bloated mass that just sits there
and just conceals nasty, right?
I don't like it.
I've been using Linux for the last 10 years and it just became what I prefer to use.
So I think I'm going to, instead of worrying about Microsoft Windows, in this case, I may
just use what I remember from using it because it can be somebody that I used to know,
beyond switch you.
I'm not, I don't have any intentions on ever installing Windows 10 on any of my machines.
Yeah, I'll do it in a virtual machine environment, just to kind of tinker with it and do a critique
of it and explain why I hate it so much.
Maybe that'll be fun.
Okay, I'll reconsider that, okay, I'll do that.
But other than that, I really want to focus on Linux and macOS, what I like about each
and what I dislike about each and kind of do that comparison.
And I'm willing to do the comparison on one equivalent or at least close to equivalent
hardware, if that's at all possible, if that even makes any sense.
But I think it'll be an interesting journey, a new project, something that's been in the
works for years that I'll finally, finally, finally finish.
So that is what I got going on, coming up in the future, I've done a bit of a history
of my usage of Apple products from my first acquisition of them back in 2012.
Most of those objects I have either lost, or they stopped working, it is what it is.
But today's a new day, what can I say?
What was I about to say?
I forgot.
That's okay.
I've been yarring for 21 minutes, and I promise it won't be much longer.
So in conclusion, I also, I'm going to go ahead and go into this story, one of the same
body I actually let me use.
He had a later.
He had one of those 17-inch MacBook Pros that Junko was huge, it was a really nice screen.
He let me use it for, he gave me the laptop for an entire week, and that was, I tinkered
with it.
To be honest, I really didn't care for it that much, I just felt so restricted, and the
reason I felt so restricted was because I didn't know what I know now.
And so now that I'm a little older, a little wiser, I, yeah, that's interesting to consider,
because now I have my own MacBook, it's not a Pro, and it's not a 17-inch screen, so
13-inch screen, and it's not a Intel processor, it's a Core 2 Duo processor.
So I'm actually using a machine that would have been older than a machine that I was using
at that time.
But the interesting part is, I'm using an operating system that's newer than anything
that's ever been on that machine.
And I'm probably using about the same amount of RAM that you could ever install into that
machine as well, funny how that works.
But it's all good, yeah, I'm running out of things to stay right now.
So anyway, this has been Swiftfront 10, I hope you enjoyed listening to this recording,
and I look forward to doing something soon on Hacker Public Radio.
I hope you guys have a fantastic night, and until next time, goodbye.
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