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This has been a thing long enough for online guides to exist that explain how to get rid of it. Fortunately, because setting the default program in a second place to get rid of a security barrier wasn't my first guess. When does a bug start to become an undocumented feature?

Those examples are very reasonable. However I also had Mac OS suddenly treat all m4a files on the system as potential malware and it blocked any attempt at opening them. Why did it do that? Because I checked the "set as default app" option, one minute after I had already opened the same file using the same application. The only way to open the files was by entering the password in the settings app each time - but re-setting the same app as default in the file's Get Info dialog got rid of that "protection" system-wide without any password prompts or extra permissions. I don't see how that was supposed to help with security.

> engineers work for the company, not for users

Honestly I don't see a big difference between that sentiment and "I was just following orders".

That kind of mindset eventually leads to situations like yesterday's headline about the Artemis astronauts finding out that their computer inexplicably runs two instances of Outlook which both do not work [0].

Situations like Windows updates causing data loss by updating and rebooting without the user's consent.

Or situations like one year ago when I had to help an elderly person after MS suddenly replaced the easy to use Mail app with an enshittified one that wasn't just much more complicated, but also had an untranslated English interface because MS couldn't be bothered to translate it before forcing it onto users worldwide.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615490

And if the AI bubble is still going then with datacenter construction going as planned, the RAM shortage will be even more extreme than today despite higher production capacities.

The only two changes that matter to me are: no more iPhone Mini and no more hardware switch to mute the phone. Instead they got a new "thinnest iPhone ever" that's actually thicker than my 4+ year old one when measured honestly.

I don't see myself replacing mine any time soon.

> he was just going to bomb all their infrastructure

That's usually the idea ever since bombs were a thing. It just so happens that it's harder to actually pull off than to say it.

You could say the same about the Dock in Mac OS.

When a computer doesn't boot you don't need to compare it to another to see that it's broken. Some things are just obvious without comparison.

The border radius would be less jarring if the UI was actually designed for it. But it just cuts off elements like the scrollbar, which looks quite janky.

I don't maximize windows because it means a 1 second delay, as for some reason Mac OS still does the hardcoded workspace switching animation even for that. Which means entering/leaving fullscreen in a video player is also delayed every time. I don't get it, not even the accessibility settings can disable this waste of time.

> compared to the Windows style where almost all windows are maximized and people use Alt-Tab to switch between windows

Or just use the taskbar, which is literally made for switching between windows. Or it was, before Microsoft forgot its purpose.

> full screening a single app is a waste of valuable space

Any space not used for the task I'm focused on is wasted. For me the actual problem is that switching apps/windows is too slow because of UI animations.

> I am frequently fighting with the window manager as I rearrange my windows and it automatically maximizes them because I got too close to an edge of the screen

Strange, I constantly get annoyed by how slow and unresponsive the Mac's tiling is when dragging windows to the edge. At the top it has at least half a second delay for no reason. But at least the newest version now has caught up with Windows 7.

On Mac OS Settings is located in the menu named after the program, left of File and Edit. For example Firefox > Settings.

As someone who uses both that's news to me. For some reason its AI based image recognition doesn't seem to work anymore but it actually finds files based on their name, something that hasn't worked in Windows since at least Windows 10.

> I think it was in 23/24, after an apple launch event, I saw a video of Tim Cook talking about a crypto coin

I think around that time there was a trend of phishing large YT channels and uploading deepfaked crypto ads. The channel's popularity ensured the recommendation algorithm showed it to many people.

Meanwhile I had to pirate Dark Souls 1 because Microsoft's own DRM prevented the legitimately purchased game from saving on Windows, and download official no-cd patches for two other games because their DRM stopped working.

The problem with DRM is the DRM.

And yet if you asked that barista if you should walk to the car wash or take your car there, they would never respond with "you should take a walk, it's healthier than driving" like almost every LLM did in a test I saw.

That is as basic as everyday reasoning gets and any human in modern society solves hundreds of problems like that every day without even thinking about it, but with LLMs it's a diceroll. Testing them with leetcode problems or logic puzzles is not going to prove much unless you first made sure none of those were in the training data to prevent pure memorization.

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It's one thing to have trouble with the Intel CPUs, but that they still cannot sufficiently power and cool their ARM chips, especially in the most expensive models, is disappointing.

Assuming apps for which this is relevant respect users and specifically children in this day and age sounds naive. It's another free datapoint to collect, in the best case for targeted ads.

Meta seems to be behind a lot of lobbying for this and they're the kind of company who does nonconsensual psychological experiments on their users: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

Assuming that these people (like me?) are "illiterate" and evil and didn't speak out about worse problems because they happen to disagree with this specific (also terrible) development is not a very charitable interpretation.

But I agree it's not worth trying to engage with that kind of rhetoric.

> The feature doesn't seem to justify the cost. All I can see is added marketing 'value'

You think marketing value does not justify added costs?

> Why not clean the tongue with the bristles!

Same reason you don't use the bristles to brush your hair. It doesn't work as well as a solution made for that purpose.

> Government officials know that children's hormones are being disrupted and they not only let it happen

Government officials define exact safety thresholds and rules for product materials to prevent health problems. That's why today we are debating trace amounts of something in plastic instead of lead in paint causing nationwide crime spikes and cognitive decline.

Why would they report on it if it was a safe amount and the study said "everything's fine"?

Quality silicone is probably the least worrying plastic material they could use considering it's used in implants and other medical applications.

The former will be mandated by law, the cookie law requires a way to opt out. Why would you not prefer avoiding a privacy violation over a guaranteed one that is smaller...for now?

That is a very dishonest way of framing these laws. Parental control does not need violating the privacy of every computer user.

Also sharing the user's personal information does not prevent gambling or protect children, it does the opposite.

Evidence says otherwise: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313125244/https://old.reddi...

One thing I don't see mentioned about wired & wireless is volume limitations.

With wired headphones the number of steps in volume - or if there even are discrete steps - is only dictated by the device driving the headphones. With wireless I can usually only choose between "a little too quiet" and "a little too loud". To this day I am puzzled why devices are arbitrarily limited in that way.

Not to mention some wireless headphones are simply too quiet even on max volume and there is no way to change that. The manufacturer decided you can't have loud headphones and so they never will be, too bad.

If UBI is so high that people can afford paying extra without working for it then maybe, but I don't think that is the idea behind UBI. There still needs to be an incentive for people to work, they should just be in a place where they actually have a choice instead of living in survival mode every day.