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Already use sponsor block to stop the meat flavoured AI promoting shitty VPNs in the middle of their streams.

Too unreliable. I just use yt-dlp and throw it on VLC on my iPad with airdrop.

If it's not worth that effort it probably wasn't worth watching anyway.

Yeah YouTube are getting shittier by the day. I keep getting banners telling me that ad blockers aren't allowed on YouTube. Stuff is pretty unwatchable now without them.

Well fuck you I'll just download the videos with yt-dlp instead. If that stops working, I'll not bother.

I don't understand it either. Anybody I know recently in the UK only got one for political reasons or to stick it to the system in some naive way. I wish I was joking. This is even more sad.

It doesn't. I work across both Windows and Apple stuff and have zero issues moving things back and forth on a regular basis. Hell even their email is plain IMAP+SMTP. Try that with O365/Microsoft.

As for the repair? You can literally buy parts here and repair them yourselves. I have actually had to replace a USB-C port on my last M1 MBP and it was dead easy. https://selfservicerepair.com/ . I see this everywhere I go: parroting the same misinformed garbage about their repair situation.

You just dislike Apple and can't wait to tell everyone about it.

Markdown export would be appreciated. My number one concern with Notes is that it is 100% opaque file formats (weird serialisation inside SQLite and no api). Backup to markdown would be great.

Correct. They don't. They're throwing cash in because they're running on faith and marketing. There's a lot of TSLA promotional noise from influencers (Lutnick included) to buy buy buy. This is of course because the institutional investors are getting out and want you to buy so they don't make the loss when it collapses.

The whole market is totally insane at the market, inflated on promises not delivery. There's only one way it's going.

Every time someone ships an Electron app to my computer it feels like I am paying for their reduction in development costs with my hardware.

Nope. If I shop around I can get a Korg Nautilus for the price of the left hand of that slide.

P/E ratio says meme stock all over it. Private equity are pulling out. They are selling off to ETFs (who don't care) and bag holders.

Well I have some hope in time that they stop getting away with it and are punished for getting away with it for a long time.

As a former Model S P100D owner, buy another Prius.

I'd rather see him lose all his money and protection and be as vulnerable as his users are.

It’s because they are assholes and think they can get away with it. There’s no other reason.

Now imagine what would happen without any regulation at all…

Gnome is just fucking horrible. I considered that but I know she's going to have problems with dragging title bars an accidentally clicking something.

I did just consider buying her a Mac Mini and be done with it. That seems, to this day, the most suitable solution.

This is a pretty big straw man. While there are cons, you overstate all of those.

It’s because Java and c# are so commoditised we don’t have to pay people as much.

Also it’s about short term balance sheet not long term product management in the SME and small SaaS space. I don’t think anyone other then the developers give a shit.

I read that as "We feel the customer be happy with mediocre"

What happened to the customer in that line of thinking?

No - support was the problem. I was spending an hour a night helping her through things. It's not just "stupid users can work it out" situation. It's like moving to another country. And there isn't a lot of information out there to solve a lot of problems. And it's even worse trying to do phone support with someone who doesn't understand what they are looking at because it has all changed.

One cost me a 100 mile round trip to turn airplane mode off after I assume she'd accidentally whacked the mouse wheel button on the icon instead of the browser which for some completely unknown reason does that?!?!?!?! I'm not sure that was even what she did but I spent ages trying to work out how she could have even done that in the first place.

That would have been my post on here exactly two days before I was rebuilding it with Windows 11 LTSC...

At the cost of a generally worse end user experience and no offline ability.

I am glad Apple didn't do that and stayed native for nearly everything. This is a big selling point for me.

Tried this with my mother. I had to rebuild the machine with Windows 11 LTSC afterwards. Which she hates but less than Linux which was totally unusable for her.

YMMV but this isn't a real option for a lot of people.

Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Nf8VLCtSw

Clearly the solution is to obtain anti delivery drone drones and bag all the free stuff that falls out of the sky into your property.

I think that argument is down the line. We haven’t established if there is a productivity gain yet. And it’s not just about productivity; there is quality too.

This was a favourite for me at school. Had a great chemistry teacher. Always had something that blew up available.

This was motivational until I did A level chemistry a few years later. He vetoed my attempts to make RDX out of hexamine tablets and normal nitric acid. He got suspicious when I was trying to dehydrate nitric acid with sulphuric acid.

Good job I gave up on chem or I’d probably be dead or in prison.

Not everything is a tractor. Sometimes it’s a gun or a Pinto.

I learned years ago not to ask existential questions in a religious arena. The faithful get a little annoyed.

HP had proper deterministic decimal arithmetic since the 1970s.