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This is exactly how I feel. It's like "Haha, what are you going to do? Go to Windows?". Linux would be an option if the software options were there.

Reports like this make it sound like there aren't serious flaws and bugs in MacOS. The things he's listing are trivialities.

I started writing a list of UX and software bugs in Mac OS, but honestly, I don't have the energy or time, there are so many. Mac OS has become an absolute travesty of an OS.

Once they factor in my current budget for buying a car which is up to £2,000, insurance around £70pm, (relatively) inexpensive repairs and ease of finding spare parts/mechanics, we can talk.

All this kind of spin does is turn people who were on the fence, off electric. Just treat people like adults and say "whilst there are still lots of reasons to prefer a traditional car, electrics are the future, and here's something that shows the progress".

I've never understood why people even _generate_ from the docs folder. If you've written it in markdown (which they nearly always do) then it's already rendered properly in Github. Or is it because they then publish those docs somewhere else?

It's like HN has been taken over by Redditors. Nobody's interested in facts, just righteous indignation.

They mailed me too, and I did read it in full. There's a link right there in the e-mail. I read it, and understood it's not at all what everyone here is claiming.

No it doesn't.

The changes are intended to cover the ads that are in pre-existing non-removable content. Nothing is changing, they're just making it clear that this is happening (or perhaps more unclear, judging by the response here).

Why do you say it's written by AI?

Do constitutional rights apply to non-citizens? I always thought the constitution of the USA was for USA citizens, but then I'm not from the USA and am watching all this from very far away.

The bootloader is unlockable.

I don't watch Apple's events, ads, or any other marketing. When the actual devices or "inventions" are released a few days later, it's very obvious who watched the marketing material.

At best, this guy is brainwashed, but more likely he's just complicit in the ~lies~ marketing.

They haven't been sold for three years so they suddenly don't exist? Really?

Both are true. At a certain point, choosing to do the bear minimum when you know it's going to hurt users _is_ malice.

I heard the novel term "Golf Driven Development" the other day. Essentially it's where software/services aren't sold because people wanted or asked for them, they're sold because one CEO played golf with another CEO (with the express purpose of making this happen).

Salesforce, Microsoft, Atlassian, and co. are obviously sold on their merits.

Would have loved to have tried this, but it still bizarrely lacks Apple Intel support.

No, IPv6

I and others I know would. Granted we're not the vast majority, but my feeling is that people don't do it nowadays because they've been trained not to. If bands went back to their own sites, I'd say people would follow.

I'm old enough to remember when bands did everything on their own sites, complete with message boards. I _really_ miss that. Twitter is just a middle-man nobody wants when you're talking about artists.

I made no claims that anything got better. Just that people are exaggerating its effects to support their politics.

> Polls show the population regrets Brexit

57% is what I said and would have expected to see. Aside from that, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that a poll on "do you regret brexit" is looking for a particular answer.

> The UK took a big hit to GDP as a result of Brexit

During that time period, we had Covid, global supply chain disruptions, Russias invasion of Ukrain, central banks raising interest rates, energy and food prices going up globally. Brexit was just one of many factors effecting the UK GDP. To say "GDP went down because of Brexit" is disingenuous.

> ordinary people have faced steeper household bills ever since

This one's the biggest clue that Brexit isn't as bad as people are making out. The EU country I'm living in, and those I've visited on holidays in the last years are also complaining of exactly the same thing. It's across EU (the world?), but people look at the UK and say "See, Brexit was bad".

Popularity ruins things?! NO!

It's become serious in German, Austria, and Czechia. The sentiment in France is not insignificant either.

I hear a lot about how the UK has suffered after Brexit, but none of my experiences there support it. Not the people I talk to, not my own experiences from before vs. after. I think people _want_ it to be true, which I find ugly.

Depends who you talk to. I have a mixed bag of UK friends, and it's about half-half.

One thing I think myself is that there was an ugly _hope_ that the UK would suffer as a result. A hope which, as far as I can see, wasn't realised. Living in Europe, I saw a lot on the news about how the UK had shot itself in the foot and things were going badly, but when I visit friends, not so much.

What do they gain by joining? Seems like they already have all the benefits they could want, but lose their fishing rights if they joined?

> A Yes vote would not be a final decision on joining the EU. It would mean backing a move towards an accession agreement. Any deal would then have to be approved by a second referendum, as well by parliament

Makes sense. Which is why I was baffled when the UK just up and left after a referendum, as if it were legally binding or something.

Government, municipalities, bank, large corporations, the list is endless. A curated RSS feed would work, but someone would have to do the curating.

I hear this sentiment a lot from people in the USA. They deeply distrust their government and can't imagine it being different anyway else in the world.

> For starters, every country would insist on having its own ChatsApp

Fine, let's say the Netherlands should do it for their own citizens only (but in a broad way to keep the door open for EU adoption)

> to satisfy strict security and compliance regulations it would be restricted to devices passing Google & Apple hardware attestation checks

Banking apps are already restricted to locked Android and iOS devices, and they are all but mandatory, unless you want a very difficult life.

> And once everyone is finally forced to be on board, any confidentiality guarantees can go out the window to catch pedos and terrorists

I don't see how. We all already have the Digid app?

Here in the Netherlands, WhatsApp has the defacto communication tool. Everyone is expected to have it installed, not just by friends but also municipals and companies. Same level as having an e-mail address.

It's a missed opportunity for the digital soverignty the EU says it so badly needs. The code for a government backed WhatsApp competitor is there, in multiple instances even. Launch a WhatsApp clone and put all governement communication through it so everyone has to have it installed, and you have an instant EU-wide userbase. From there, people will naturally start to use it between themselves.

People who who "cringe" as an adjective are cringeworthy, and I hope we hear less from them.

Standards. It's the same thing in some European countries. Wages are down, unemployment is up, and yet the standard of living hasn't changed because there are certain standards people take for granted as being obvious and basic.

You'll still hear people complaining about things like a crack in the road that hasn't been repaired in a timely manner (timely being less than 2 weeks).