Having recently sold my 1971 Datsun 240Z, I was left with holes in both my heart and my garage. Both voids have been satisfyingly filled by the recent acquisition of a triple-black 2001 Porsche Boxster. Let’s take a look at what my new-to-me 986 needs. Then you can decide if I’ve bitten off more Boxster than I can chew. Many of us have our “Pandemic Projects.” If you do happen to go out for non-essential shopping these days, you’ll likely notice empty shelves in the craft, home exercise and bicycle sections of a lot of stores. With more home-time than my life previously afforded I, too, have taken on a new project, though the care and feeding of a Porsche Boxster may demand a greater commitment than scrapbooking or treadmill time. Advertisement Now, I’ve never been an early adopter. I honestly have never had the finances to enjoy the latest and greatest of... well, anything. No, what I’m really all about is buying refurbished tech and taking advantage of … [Read more...] about Here’s Everything Wrong (And Right) With My New-To-Me Porsche Boxster
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Richard Kelly on rereleasing Donnie Darko in an age of political anxiety
Richard Kelly isn’t often spoken of as a political filmmaker, despite the vein of social satire that runs through the three features he has released to date. Donnie Darko , his cult paean to teenage doom, was set shortly before the 1988 election in a Virginia suburb, against a cultural backdrop of vapid self-help seminars, psychotherapy, and midnight movies; the follow-up Southland Tales presented a dystopian future America taken over by trash culture and reactionary politics; while The Box reset Richard Matheson’s classic “Button, Button” to the mid-1970s economic recession. Perhaps most importantly, all three are fantastical—and sometimes even grotesque—stories about the end of the world, destiny, and powerlessness. With Donnie Darko currently touring in a new 4K digital restoration (you can find the full list of theaters here ), Kelly spoke to The A.V. Club by phone about the film’s enduring appeal, its controversial director’s cut , the … [Read more...] about Richard Kelly on rereleasing Donnie Darko in an age of political anxiety
How to Factory Reset a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or Any Mac
With macOS 12 Monterey or later on certain Macs, you can easily erase and reset your computer using a built-in feature called “Erase Assistant” you can find in System Preferences. Here’s how to do it. Table of Contents Requirements (And Tips for Older Macs) How to Erase all Content and Settings on a Newer Mac How to Factory Reset an Older Mac Requirements (And Tips for Older Macs) Starting with macOs Monterey (macOS 12), released in 2021, System Preferences now has an “Erase All Content and Settings” option similar to the ones found on the iPhone and iPad. It only shows up if your Mac incorporates a T2 Security Chip or runs on Apple Silicon . RELATED How to Update Your Mac and Keep Apps Up to Date If you have a Mac running a version of macOS older than macOS Monterey—or your Mac lacks the hardware features mentioned above—you’ll need to perform a more complex series of steps to factory reset your Mac, such as reinstalling a copy of … [Read more...] about How to Factory Reset a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or Any Mac
How Fast Should My Computer’s CPU Be?
Your processor should be fast enough to handle your usage, but determining how fast that is can be tricky. From browsing the internet to online gaming, your computer’s CPU speed can make a huge impact on how it performs. What Does a CPU Do? Before figuring out how fast your computer’s central processing unit (CPU) should be, it’s important to understand what a CPU does and how it functions. You can think of a CPU as your PC’s heart; it requires lots of components to make it work, but without it, your computer wouldn’t be alive. The CPU gets fed information from applications and programs, decodes it, then executes it into action. This can be anything from launching a game to saving a Word processing document. RELATED What Is RAM? Everything You Need to Know While the CPU does a lot of the legwork in your PC, it also sends data to other components like your GPU and RAM . These components will respond by completing an action, such as displaying a visual … [Read more...] about How Fast Should My Computer’s CPU Be?
Women Secretaries of State Are the ‘Last Line of Defense’ Against Far Right Lies
Before Katie Hobb Primaries for midterm elections are taking place across the country right now, as this year marks the first major election year since the 2020 election sowed nearly unprecedented levels of election disinformation and, come Jan. 6, 2021, deadly violence, thanks to the former president. Even prior to the proliferation of the Big Lie and the former administration’s insistence that counting mail-in ballots was somehow fraud, secretaries of state had their hands full with keeping the ballot box accessible at the height of a deadly pandemic that seemingly swept the country overnight. They were also reckoning with the aftermath of reports that Russia had interfered in the previous presidential election in 2016, raising new, alarming concerns about election security and disinformation. For years, state-level secretaries of state largely slipped under the radar; it was an office that few voters even seemed to know was on their ballots. Yet, it was … [Read more...] about Women Secretaries of State Are the ‘Last Line of Defense’ Against Far Right Lies
NASA Releases Remixed Version of Iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Photo
A humbling photo of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 probe from a distance of 3.7 billion miles has been reprocessed by NASA On February 14, 1990, NASA’s Voyager probe turned its camera toward Unlike other photos of Earth, in which clouds and continents are visible, this photo portrayed our planet as a tiny star-like speck of light, or a “pale blue dot,” as the late astronomer Carl Sagan would later describe it. Voyager 1 delivered to us a view of Earth we were not accustomed to. Advertisement “Look again at that dot. That’s here,” wrote Sagan in his 1994 book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space . “That’s home. That’s us.” G/O Media may get a commission Save $70 Apple AirPods Max Experience Next-Level Sound Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking provides theater-like sound that surrounds you Buy for $479 at Amazon Advertisement To celebrate the 30th anniversary of this … [Read more...] about NASA Releases Remixed Version of Iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Photo