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Please point out where I said that

This overlooks power consumption

For single-core performance, yes. Anything that can make use of multiple cores, no

Because only your experience matters

We're talking "out of the box" here, and while I'm not a fan of a lot of the UI changes in macOS it still "just works". Linux doesn't i.e. the wifi on my laptop dies after sleep & the only "fix" is a reboot. I've tried everything the internet can suggest, to no avail. You say you can "actually fix it in Linux", but this isn't true; sometimes the "fix" requires a level of technical knowledge that ordinary users don't have.

I tried KDE and had different but equally frustrating issues. People say you can "just fix it yourself" with Linux but that's not always feasible or worth a person's time.

Funny. Coming from macOS to Linux Mint, I find I can make many of the same or similar arguments but against Linux.

The UI is inconsistent, esp. wrt the menu bar. Keyboard shortcuts are inconsistent across different apps. macOS remembers window positions, GNOME doesn't. macOS can use different backgrounds for different monitors, GNOME can't. The GNOME Panel is a poor substitute for the macOS Dock (which itself is severely limited) i.e. doesn't offer any visual cue that an app is launching. I could go on.

OSes are a tool. Use what works best for you.

Turns out there is a way to report it, it's just incredibly convoluted. Check the post above yours.

And what happens when Google decides to move in a different direction and drop development of Chromium? It's highly unlikely but Google does have a track record of dropping projects and products for the most obscure and obtuse of reasons.

Relevant: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/02/25/...

It never ceases to amaze me how so many people only consider their own experiences as relevant

"btrfs is not stable" is coming from people for whom btrfs has not been stable. Why is that so hard to understand?

Anybody else get a "Potential Security Risk" warning for the site? Using Firefox 96.0.3 under Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon

Do you believe in the right to yell "fire!" in a crowded theater when there isn't one?

Are TOS censorship?

This is not an attack on free speech, this is free market economics at work. Spotify is free to promote and profit from whomever they please, and other creative artists are free to take their work elsewhere. Market demand will determine the outcome.

The First Amendment states "Congress shall make no law ..."; it says only what the *gov't* can and cannot do

If I had a gun for every ace that I have draw, I could arm a town the size of Abilene...

Both my wife and I had 2011 MBPs that were only replaced last year. I upgraded the RAM & replaced the HDDs with SSDs over the years, which is reasonable imo.

I'd say 10 years is a pretty good run for a laptop. YMMV

If x86-64 is "open" why are Intel and AMD the only manufacturers..?

The answer: it isn't open, it's proprietary. Check out x86 history, it's kinda interesting.

Citations?

So you don't consider falsely claiming VPN tech as your own while also including a tracking gif on every page "shadey"? Guess we have different definitions...

Been using Mint w/ Cinnamon for a while, tried Kubuntu as well and will probably switch back to a KDE-based distro at some point when I have time. Both are fine but I don't find either as functional for me as macOS (which has lost a lot of usability over time as well)

More and more I find myself using the CLI...

> What are the costs? I can buy an iPhone or an Android phone and switch pretty easily can’t I?

Software would need to be repurchased if it's even available on the other platform. Maybe you could but I know I couldn't easily or cheaply switch.

OS X/macOS used to have some serious issues with exFAT but they may have been addressed in the few years since I last used exFAT on a Mac. Something to double-check before using the pair to store critical data.

Plenty of community-maintained software for it?

So you don't do mobile? Because I don't know of any truly functional mobile platforms other than Android and iOS, neither of which is community-maintained.

Honestly this kind of behavior from Google should surprise no one at this point.

"Advertising is psychological manipulation at its worst"

Hyperbole is unbecoming.

Off the top of my head I'd say grooming someone for sexual abuse is a significantly worse form of psychological manipulation. I speak from having experienced both, and only one has had a catastrophic effect on my life.

I'm still bitter over the changes made to Preview.app post-Mavericks. Apple has hobbled some of their built-in apps for no apparent reason.

The man page on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 states:

"The tdelete() function deletes a node from the specified binary search tree and returns a pointer to the parent of the node that was deleted. It takes the same arguments as tfind() and tsearch(). If the node to be deleted is the root of the binary search tree, rootp will be adjusted."

It seems reasonable to infer that if a tree has only 1 node that node is the root node.

If I'm wrong I'd appreciate an explanation; I'm only a hobbyist programmer and my understanding of these things is limited.

This is a topic that has come up before (i.e. HN thread from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790), and while GoDaddy continues to deny this practice (https://www.godaddy.com/community/Domain-Aftermarket/Is-Goda...) I tend to think that where there's smoke there's fire. Too many instances over the years to not be at least a bit suspicious.

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