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Yeah you could tell immediately when you opened it up. It was just a copy of others work.

Actual journalism is difficult and costly to try and ensure speedy and accurate as possible reporting. The wiki model doesn't work like that.

They are using the usual techniques. All successful negative things always have a claim to virtue.

Highlight the positives, hide the negatives.

Can run at 77Mhz... very nice!

Other than that, the design looks a lot more appealing than the all clear cases they have with most of their other versions. It is a good mid-ground between beige bland and LED madness.

True, in avoiding starving today, we take short cuts unaware they are bring more starving to tomorrow.

I am surprised it was still running. But it does feel like it has finally had its lunch eaten by automation of these tasks.

I fear that the US is burning through the most valuable resource of them all, Trust.

Not surprised that the Apple Vision division is getting hit. With Ternus coming in, he will both be wanting to show to investors that the hard cuts can be made, but also use it as a chance to clear out some of the lesser products while saving face for the company.

I suspect we might see a 3rd revision of the Apple Vision but I'm not sure there will be a 4th unless there is a significant change to the overall product.

As many said when it first came out, it is brilliant technology but it has struggled to find an question for it to answer.

There was a great episode of the show/podcast 'If you're listening' from just last week all about the secret service and how the amount of plots and attacks on the US president is increasing as the amount of resources available is diminishing. This is another one to the list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps3gKzxSp3o

I mean it is good advice but I suspect that the happiest people around, you would never know about them. They are quiet and content.

I have said this about Monk's, yes you do give up a lot of worldly attachments to take on that role, but at the same time you also gain an additional identity. That of the robes and the role. This is not to say "They are just putting it on!", it is to say that they haven't escaped the trap entirely.

Maybe 'The Dude' in The Big Leboski is far closer to those that are content than we would like to believe.

Exactly. In a broad sense, 'Linux' is an idea not a specific thing. I mean, yes, there is a specific kernel but beyond that it is flexible beyond reason.

I have stuck with distros that are not trying to chase the latest trends but keep a ethical high ground.

"When the Tao is present in the universe,

The horses haul manure.

When the Tao is absent from the universe,

War horses are bred outside the city."

Tao Te Ching Chapter 46

Unfortunately, looking at the last few years, one can see which way the wind is blowing. The world is preparing for war. A more tribal, isolationist and smaller world.

I'm not surprised that even decades later they have not recovered. It is like old growth forests on the land, once you clear them it can take centuries to recover.

It is easy thus people will do it. Convenience is the single most potent drug we have ever invented.

Man kind - If we can, we will.

That makes sense. I also think that we are at the point where maybe the expectation of a yearly refresh on everything should be reconsidered. They can end up on a Tick-Tock schedule when the Pro/Max/Ultra can be done every second year.

Absolutely, I am in a hold pattern for the next few years. I suspect in another 3-4 years you will be able to build an absolutely stacked machine at a reasonable price. Probably won't go back to what was before but it will be decent.

I'm going with 2029 just so that it can be exactly 100 years from the Great depression. ;)

I had a great run with the Lumia range devices but I could see it vary wildly depending on designer/manufacturers.

I end up on Android simply because of file drag and drop and an open App ecosystem which they are now trying to lock down.

At the time when they killed Windows Phone they had a $7 billion write off and that was huge. A decade or so later they would buy Activision for $69 billion without blinking. I would happy swap those in an instant.

It felt like once they dropped mobile, their whole direction become misguided. Also UWP made sense when there was also a mobile/tablet side to it, could even deploy those apps to the Xbox and it kind of worked. But then they kicked out that supporting support and suddenly they got working on trashing what good Windows still had.

This weeks fun example of 'What will Windows 11 do today?' is that it suddenly wants to max out the Ethernet adapter with nothing. No packets are actually going anywhere but it just ends up hogging the entire data bus until you restart it once or twice.

This is the kind of nonsense we have been putting up with for years.

iTunes was great in the beginning. If you can, find someone with a G3/G4 and OSX 10.4/10.5 and see just how snappy that thing feels even with a 100th the RAM of today and a spinning disk. A real nice piece of software.

But then they just started dumping everything onto it and it eventually crumbled under the weight.

There is a youtube channel 'Dank Pods', he was going on about his Framework laptop and was talking about how modern OS's have this ark to their usability.

He was arguing that Windows is well past its best years and that OSX is now starting on the downward slope and that is why he was moving to Linux. It was a interesting take on the whole thing about the life times of OS quality.

But with a new CEO for Apple, they have an opportunity to turn things around and blame it all on Tim Cook, but only time will tell if they do that.

Nope, nobody I know has ever called it that. Don's latest spat has him wanting to change Lake Ontario to Lake of America. I did get a good laugh out of that because of how petty it is.

Alas, that kind of bravado doesn't go far.

Also what if that complaint comes back in the form of a Nuke as they see it as an act of war?

When things become existential, a lot of things that seems unlikely end up on the table as moral corruption sets in. "Either they go or we do!"

> My point is: my carbon footprint is pretty low, and I try to be mindful about not wasting resources.

While it might be low by western standards, it is probably still very high by global averages. For instance it is estimated that roughly 80% of people have never flowing in a plane, and that 10% of the remaining have never flown more than once. Flown 4 times last year puts you right near the top.

This isn't saying "You are a terrible person!", it is saying that we all have a habit of normalizing the world around us even if it is wildy unsustainable.

And even then, the planet doesn't care about were you sit in terms of other people, it just cares about your impacts.

Statistically, the homeless in my country (Australia) have a carbon foot print 3 times greater than the average African. What looks horrible here, resource wise, is far ahead of many in this world.

Yep, get in balance with nature or it will do it for you. And you don't want that.

The term 'Hyperobject' summarized it perfectly. Essentially the problem operates at such a large scale and requires such a level of systemic thinking that it becomes the scope of most people. Not because they are stupid but simply because just a side effect of it being such a large subject.

Also the multi-decade latency means it move slow enough that many can ignore it but it move quick enough that unaddressed it causes major issues.

Bingo. A lot of what passes for solutions are fairly anemic. We will swap out any technology for a similar less intensive alternative but the instant we have to actively change our lifestyle it is largely ignored.

It isn't because people are malicious, it is that people tend to normalize the conditions they are raised in even if they are wildly exceptional.

Multiple fishery collapses are probably incoming in the next decade or so. For as much as we have and do catch from the ocean, it is as a whole a fairly nutrient bare place by comparison to the land. Its scale and exploitation beyond recovery has allowed it to look far more prosperous than it really is.

Pretty much this.

While each action is tiny, collectively they add up.

The rain drop doesn't blame itself for the flood.

Yeah, in Melbourne here. It feels like Winter never really got going. Yeah, there is some rain and there have been a hand full of cold mornings at best. I do wonder how this summer is going to go, it is going to hit right at the peak of El Nino and they are anticipating some very dry conditions.