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This is the story of being a tech giant where you can't stop running a creepy digital surveillance business model that depends on expensive but poor performing hardware vendors so you partner with an ungodly expensive hardware vendor that can perform well but doesn't solve the underlying problem of being a creepy digital surveillance business that snoops on your customers and sells ads to show them. Friends don't let friends or family they care about use Windows 11.

Any centralized solution like GitHub is going to suffer the same fate as vibe coding chokes these services. The only option to have high uptime is to self host and most organizations can't do that easily. Time will tell if GitHub can scale up enough to meet demand.

There is no reason to trust any big tech company. Folks should be using containers in their browser if they care about privacy. I previously published a LinkedIn container extension for FireFox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkedin-cont... although as many know you can achieve the same results with Firefox containers without a specific extension like mine if you configure it manually.

I will work on an improvement to that extension so that it can block these scans if they attempt them in firefox.

I think the Mac App Store has been a terrible distribution system for indie devs... I never even think of going there for apps, nor do the non-technical folks I know.

The iOS App store is a monopoly that is breaking down in Europe. I expect the landscape will continue to evolve globally and it will fall in other markets as well.

As a retro gaming enthusiast myself, I think the issue of the system not having a DVD drive is only potentially surpassed by the ease of which piracy was possible on the system.

What seems craziest to me of that era is that Microsoft didn't just buy Sega to enter the market and instead made a huge bet on Halo. Seamus Blackley should be better known for what they pulled off in Redmond.

Until the tether fraud collapses the market hasn't corrected.

I always hate to say we need regulation around something but then someone evil does something evil and the need for regulation emerges again...

Anyone who remembers that era of Internet Explorer with positivity must have been on an island of consumer facing websites like Geocities and never had to deal with ActiveX websites.

Yes, because China is a bastion of good information...

I switched my ex off my Verizon plan to Visible. It cut costs by 60+% for service they haven't seen a difference with.

They lost the ability to go into a store for support, lost phone support, and get deprioritized but they use it for personal use and don't care.

I use my phone to run a business. I will spend the premium to have the best service I can afford to run my company. I pay for the top plan on Verizon as a result.

Choice is good. An MVNO is not for everyone but it is a much lower cost option for those who want the downsides.

I thought they tried that already with Windows Vista. I mean... it seemed to at least share a lot with Blockchain since the initial release had more variations than anyone cared to track, was slow, confusing, expensive, and hardly anyone used it despite all of the hype....

If you only need a single copy you are best suited buying from Microsoft directly.

If you need multiple copies you can work with a VAR (Value Added Reseller) to get better pricing.

CDW.com is the big name in VAR's but they have enormous turnover in staff. I try to build relationships with smaller VAR's. I like these guys: https://greenbeetech.com/ it's a small company with two guys running it who have decades of VAR experience (former CDW people).

Navigating the process of compliantly licensing Microsoft as you scale up is quite a job. Having a good partner to help your organization stay compliant is very valuable.

I've seen SaaS products like this before. https://truthantowers.com/ had one about five years ago.

Selling into the government is not just organizing the data to make the sales process more approachable but it's knowing the process for each sale.

I have a consulting business in the space (https://www.govsoft.us) and won't blind bid on opportunities. We only work on a bid where we know some of the stakeholders.

I went from a 2017 MBP 15" to a 16" 2019 MBP late last year and the keyboard is clearly a big selling point but lets not forget how much better the audio is either. It's under played in most reviews but it's a night and day difference. I feel like I'm in a home theater every time I use it.

There is money to be made if user acquisition costs are non existent. Just a billionaire boys club game these days...

Adobe bought Macromedia and killed off fireworks. I still run the last version they made.

I know your pain.

Once you learn how to do everything in an editor and they stop supporting it you need to either reinvest time into learning a new editor or in supporting the obsolete one.

I’ve chosen the latter for now mostly because there doesn’t seem to be a clear winner in the market and I hate to keep investing time in learning new workflows every couple of years to do the same task when I can just keep a VM operating to support an obsolete editor.

How can it not be less expensive? The private companies don’t have to offer/fund the insane pension benefits that public sector employees get.

The public sector pension scandal is insane.

I’d buy more cash flow generating real estate.

As others have noted, we are printing cash and all assets valued in our currency are likely to be impacted.

Unlike gold, real estate should be able to generate cash and not cost you cash to hold.

They aren’t making more land. With rising sea levels there will likely be less land.

Midwest is a great place to invest. So is the south east.

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This is why mainframes running COBOL still are a thing.

If it works why muck it up?

People forget how dependent we have become on computerized automation.

The Congress makes the USPS fund it’s pension. No other part of the government has funded itself properly so lots of debt.

We all know public entities would be exempt. What’s the point then?

Government will just leak more important info.

I think a shift toward identity as a service is underway for the market to solve this. Auth0 and the like are offering a solution.

What’s depressing is the de-evolution of Evernote performance.

Every year it seems to get worse.

I was a Macromedia fanboy. Photoshop is still a second class citizen in my mind to Fireworks. Even though Adobe felt different and nuked their best editor I still run it.

Corporate bankruptcy fueled by private equity?

That goes together like peanut butter and jelly.

Touchpads on Mac are stellar but have gotten too large. They often detect my palms as I type and move the mouse into the wrong spot.

If they provide the ipsw, modify the ipsw, and don’t have permission from Apple to do that, then it’s all over for them.

Didn’t work for Psystar and it won’t work for them.

I’m a partner in an OZ Fund and we created the OZ Score to help measure the impact in these communities. http://www.oz-score.com

Would love to talk with Congress about this.

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You can point your own domain to mailinator mx records for free.

Don’t have a domain to throw spam at? Pick a sub domain and use that.

Makes sense. MacOS X 10.4 was the best version I’ve ever used.