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For testing, yes, but it’s also my primary development system, so for dogfooding, and for providing a local dev environment for the things that we’re deploying from ARM-based CI/CD to ARM-based servers.

> Could’ve added more gpu or cpu or cache and people would’ve been happier.

I actually wonder about this - my regular dev workstation is a Qualcomm ARM laptop - by-and-large my bottleneck for CPU-bound tasks is thermal. Would adding more CPU or cache instead of the NPU help with performance/watt?

> Who is buying these?

I needed a Windows on ARM device, so no real other options available.

FWIW, the last-gen iPod Nano had Bluetooth already.

> Otherwise Hermes would probably have 30,000.

It already does!

> Seeing popular projects (like hermes) having 5k issues and 5k pull requests is madness.

It's actually got nearly 30k open pull requests!

> However, in the end most people just end up buying it from top 2-3 marketplaces anyway, not because its cheaper, but also because they can trust it, it arrives in 2 days, and you can easily return it if you don't want.

I've got enough complaints about the amazon customer and user experience that I'm not going to list them here, but returns are so easy.

I click the button, and then I don't need to print off a shipping label or even package the item back up, I just drop it off at the convenience store by my house, they scan a QR code on my phone, and take the bare item from me.

I suspect it's not a real crash you're seeing, but rather a deceptive anti-adblocking script that redirects to a page that fraudulently claims to be a crash.

It's less the mandate that matters, but the fact that they can be removed from power.

> You don't speak for anybody outside of your borders, so please stop trying to.

FWIW, I'm not American and refuse to step foot within American borders while Trump is in power.

You can have an arbitrarily low opinion of Trump and still trust in democracy as a form of government over autocracy or oligarchy, which is what the AI labs have.

My Sony with Google TV is pretty good in "Basic Mode" without an internet connection though.

Yeah, I would... but also a search engine works even better than a map if it's a restaurant I'm already familiar with and just want a link to restaurantwebsite.com/dinner-menu

> Yes, most of society is online nowadays, or at least is hard to engage in if you can't access the online stuff that organizes it.

I think there's an analogy to physical roads there. Most of society is connecting by roads and adults driving cars, but that doesn't prevent children from participating in the things between the driving.

Yeah, there's the obvious analogy here to physical automation methods and tools.

Kids don't go to gym class to determine who can stack crates most effectively with a forklift.

Whenever I've tried this, it seems okay if you need an answer to a question, but plain bad if I'm looking for a specific page.

e.g. I'm just now looking for the menu for a local restaurant. "restaurantname menu" in Kagi (Google would presumably be similar) returns a link to the menu as the first result in about a second. Or "restaurantname menu !" goes directly to the menu in about a second.

Meanwhile, searching "restaurantname menu" in chatgpt takes about 5 seconds to return an embedded map from mapbox showing the location of the restaurant. If I click the restaurant pin on the map, there's no menu link, the 667 reviews have no link or way to view, and the restaurant description literally says "I don't have enough information to identify which local business <restaurantname> refers to."

Below the map there's some text: "If you mean <restaurantname> in <place>, here’s the current menu. <restaurantname>". The <restaurantname> link just opens the same card as clicking the pin on the map.

After that there's a bullet point list of the menu that ommits a ton of detail and options.

After that there's finally a link... that I can click to open up a popup at the bottom of the page with an actual link to the menu.

This was literally the first thing that popped into my head, I didn't have to put any effort into finding a query where chatgpt falls on its face.

How would this even be tenable? Like there's no way for Apple to stand up production of hundreds of millions of iPhones per year in the US.

Like say Apple invests billions of dollars into American iPhone production to at least produce the tens of millions to sell in the US - then what? Apple just accepts the the US market is basically a wash where profits are a fraction of the rest of the world with Chinese/Vietnamese/Indian models? And you anticipate that other countries won't mandate the same thing?

In theory, sure, but in practice devs who care about package size correlate to those who care about launch times.

TBH I don't think I've ever bought a new phone because there was something new and fancy that I could justify. Every phone I've bought has been because my previous phone stopped receiving software updates, or in the case of my Pixel 6a, had a hooped battery.

Well the argument is that Quebec has certain laws in place, e.g. French labelling requirements that either increase costs for companies, or make it infeasible for companies to sell to the Quebec market if they've only got marginal profits there.

Some companies would prefer if French labels weren't required.

I always think of this piece: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/doing-a-ted-talk-the-full-sto...

The best presenters are those who have the natural affinity (or enough practice) to do method 2 really well. What we get from Apple (and most other professional-level speakers who aren't willing to take risks) is method 3C.

> Plex also defaults to transcoding which fixes a lot of gaps with clients that don’t support certain codecs.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but as far as I can tell, Plex defaults to direct play enabled, and will direct play unless it's not supported by client. (Or other constraints, like limited bandwidth settings, etc.)

> Feels like it's the only music client around these days that has a functional "shuffle by album" option

foobar2000 has this!

After trying dozens of music clients (including PlexAmp) I eventually settled on simply using foobar2000 pointed to an smb share - nothing else seems capable of properly handling playback by folder structure. (e.g. I've got all my Led Zeppelin albums in the "Led Zeppelin" folder, and I want to just select it and play their discography in album release order.)

Best Buy no longer produces dumb Insignia TVs.

Keep in mind that trademarks are registered independently in different jurisdictions, so IP offices and courts are likely to not align in different countries on that point.

Yeah, I don't mind using an account, but when/if they take away old.reddit entirely, I'm done replying.

I'll keep checking my city page every now and then as long as my self-hosted eddrit instance keeps working.

I'm kinda dumping my thoughts in this reply to a bunch of the parent/sibling comments - but to me non-fiction isn't the problem, it's specifically the self-help genre that by and large seems incredibly intellectually shallow, e.g. the fast food of non-fiction.

> if I start a business, social media is a good way of promoting the business.

I've had the thought that if I were to start a business, social media manager (or a comparable outsourced gig) would be one of my first hires.

Like I'd far rather deal with tax minutia and skip on hiring an accountant in favour of being able to outsource social media use.

> When it comes to the doom part of doom scrolling, Reddit especially can be even worse than traditional social media.

It can be, but it can also (still) be sanitized.

I typically visit old.reddit.com once every day or two on a desktop browser without ads to check the subreddit for the city I live in. No doomscrolling is really possible.

There's no way to consume meta/tiktok content in a comparable way.

It's a bit awkward where newer Intel models with T2 chips don't support OpenCore, so e.g. the 2019 MBA is going to run out of security updates with macOS 14, sooner than a 2008 MBA that OpenCore will update up to macOS 15.