Synaesthesia

And their conduct in Lebanon is just appalling. It constitutes outright terrorism.

They have no right to be there.

It's a very impressive phone and will likely be the case that Apple and Samsung dominate western phone sales. But you can get way better phones from China right now with these new silicon carbide batteries which is just a game changer.

I still think it has a lot of potential, and is the logical next storage system, because of its performance advantages over NAND flash. Because input costs can come down.

They definitely did collaborate with the NSA.

It's all about trust at the end of the day. And given that it was exposed that Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Google etc all collaborated with the US government to provide surveillance (PRISM) by Edward Snowden, how we can trust them ever again?

Yeah I came right. Just a minor annoyance.

I'm one of the people who actually mostly likes Tahoe. Funny to see how new versions of MacOS always get piled on, in such a groupthink manner.

For me personally, once in used to the new UI, going back seems crude.

Today when cropping an image in Preview.app on Tahoe I ran into an issue where you can't use the bottom of the crop selection rectangle because the rounded corner of the window blocks it.

Europe was getting cheap gas from Russia. It makes a big difference, the US gas is much more expensive.

China is deploying more nuclear and solar than anyone, and their coal use actually went down last year.

India is still developing and per capita uses a fraction of the western world.

But globally solar and battery use are exploding. We really are living in the green revolution that was so talked about in the 90's and 2000's

Absolutely. It's totally doable. But Apple is swinging a bit too far into the minimal aesthetic right now.

It can be good to reduce chrome and focus on content, and have minimal UI's but there's a limit. Your UI still has to be discoverable, and intuitive. With everything hidden away it's unfriendly, particularly for new users.

Ironically paying huge amounts for medical care is a tax. A much higher tax.

Have you heard of even tempering, on piano?

>sfba.social

Seems pretty cool TBH

Iranians are not rebelling against the IRGC because why would they? Generally an outside attack makes the government more popular, not less.

>I want news I don’t want your endless meta commentary on the news.

I want commentary on the news. We should be critiquing the news and it's way more interesting that just uncritically accepting mainstream narratives.

I hate this glorification of war.

M4 is basically an upgraded version of the A18.

M1 was A14, albeit upscaled.

People say things like "don't expect to do hardcore content creation on these" (Ars Technica)

We used to do hardcore content creation on Intel processors and spinning hard drives that were way shittier. Heck even my M1 still 100% suffices for everything I wanna do.

I wonder if I'm gonna be able to flash my existing Edge 70.

I thought Anthropic had sophisticated AI, but I am not an expert.

AI was always particularly well suited to military use and mass surveillance. It can take huge amounts of raw data and parse it for your, provide useful information from that. And let's face it, companies exist for profit.

Yeah but China is a low cost economy, rent, food and things like transport and electricity are cheap. That means employers simply can pay workers less than the USA because the cost of living is so high in the USA.

They do, the state permits a free market but they also coordinate strategically to make decisions which benefit the country.

Altavista search engine is a throwback for me.

PRISM. The agreements which Google and other major tech companies have with the government.

I only use old.reddit.com

Reddit is the epitome of enshittification.

Funny how South Africa has a way more sophisticated banking network than the USA.

Well yeah that's the problem. The Google monopoly. Google and Apple are the only one out there, in the West at least. It's a huge problem. We have given all the power to two giant corporations. Really the only institution which can compel a change is the state.

The government has to step in and regulate. In China the regulation specify that Google cannot preload a whole bunch of apps on the device. It's perfectly reasonable. The government is picking the side of huge corporations ahead of people. So the people need to make some kid if a mass movement to rebel.