RecluseRamble

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RecluseRamble ,

If by nothing you mean every browser and most image viewers, then you're right.

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Facebook Messenger

That's your problem right there.

RecluseRamble ,

Who cares about enshittified crap?

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Makes sense. It's like having your personal undergrad hobby coder. It may get something right here and there but for professional coding it's still worse than the gold standard (googling Stackoverflow).

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You can buy pirated software or pre-cracked consoles in stores there. They don't care.

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Yay, subscriptions for everything! Car as a service! What's not to like?? 🤮

Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough ( www.xda-developers.com )

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that...

RecluseRamble ,

I can't believe, there's no Linux reference yet!

Give your "8 gigs not enough" hardware to one of us and see it revived running faster than whatever you're running now with your subpar OS.

RecluseRamble ,

That's absolutely what I'm saying. Apple is just holding back that feature for upselling (as always) and because it's hardly possible to debloat macOS.

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As I said: feel free to upgrade your MacBook just don't throw the one with a "meager" 8 gigs away since it's totally usable with a non-bloated system.

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You replied, I replied back. That's how public social media work. It's unlikely we know each other.

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Nor are they priced like consumer grade hardware.

Apple products in general aren't.

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So it's more expensive than the competitors which also have real budget options at easily half the price but then "corners are cut".

You know, I won't even argue about the quality of Apple products - they are top tier. But calling the pricing "a steal" is just dishonest.

They have consistently been averaging at 150-200% the price of comparable hardware at least since the 90s. While there may be examples like yours where the gap is smaller, there are plenty of outrageous examples like the infamous monitor stand or some ridiculously priced chargers.

RecluseRamble ,

Even OJ without alcohol isn't exactly healthy.

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Onfuscators probably use it though, so no spec ever will be able to get rid of this crap.

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It's really not a generational thing. Every generation has their nerds and they always are just a tiny minority.

The late Gen X/early millennials may have been an outlier because they were forced to learn to get anything working but also from those years most don't care about tech.

RecluseRamble ,

Google's business model also doesn't really fit to what VPN customers are looking for. They hardly would implement a zero log policy, for example.

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Nah, it makes sense. Apple really likes their proprietary walled garden, so the interoperability requirements trouble them deeply.

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Apple does have a significant market share of 25-30% in Europe. Just because they avoided having to open iMessage (for now) because everyone in Europe uses WhatsApp, doesn't mean other Apple services are safe from regulation.

But I'm with you - it's more likely about (not so) privacy.

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Phew! Peanut butter is safe.

RecluseRamble ,

BASIC. At least VB.

RecluseRamble ,

I always enjoy the weird questions most.

what's your current linux distro?

wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...

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Debian, Mint, Arch (by the way).

Had Ubuntu as my main driver for about 2 years but didn't like Gnome and had more trouble with an Nvidia card than on Mint or Arch.

Fedora is top of my to-try-list but I'm not a distro-hopper, so who knows when I'll have a use case.

RecluseRamble ,

I totally wouldn't be surprised if there originally were people being like "So what's this so-called 'cupboard' supposed to solve? Why isn't a regular shelf good enough for you?"

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Why should we care? So address space may run out eventually - that's our ISPs' problem.

Other than that I actually don't like every device to have a globally unique address - makes tracking even easier than fingerprinting.

That's also why my VPN provider recommends to disable IPv6 since they don't support it.

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Auto-"correct". Thanks, fixed.

RecluseRamble ,

What the fuck are you talking about? My ISP supports IPv6 just fine, but following my VPN's advice I disable it (on certain devices at least) for privacy concerns. And it makes exactly zero difference in functionality.

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It's Proton VPN. Lack of IPv6 support is a downer but I wouldn't call them shit.

Edit: maybe elaborate why you deem IPv6 so crucial? As I said: everything works just fine without.

RecluseRamble ,

More like:

Computer scientist: We have made a text generator

Everyone: tExT iS iNtElLiGeNcE

RecluseRamble ,

Come on, man. Let them come to us. Linux needs more adoption.

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They also provide it by OnionShare but nobody found the link.

RecluseRamble ,

at that point reading books is more thrilling.

Tell me you don't read without telling me.

RecluseRamble ,

OK, that's excessively "convenient" for booleans. But I don't get the passionate YAML hate, seems like a simple enough language for config. Didn't have the pleasure ("pleasure"?) to work with it though, so what's why else is it shitty?

RecluseRamble ,

Wait... Is that 2020s really what it looks like now?! Or is the meme just 5 years old?

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Behind a value stock is a profitable company. Behind crypto-tokens is a hilariously inefficient database with no application in real life.

Gamble away your money, I'll take the stock - or "have fun staying poor" like crypto-token morons like to say.

RecluseRamble ,

Absolutely. That's why I always write "crypto-tokens" instead. It's a bit longer and more annoying to write but I feel we owe it to the respectable field of cryptography.

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I disagree. Git is great but we'd have done fine with Subversion or whatever. Could you imagine the whole internet running on Windows Server though? The thought alone makes my skin crawl.

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Even online crime often settles with gift cards though because it's too much of a hassle to explain to the Average Joe how to setup an account and buy and transfer crypto-tokens.

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Well, I don't know what you mean, so possibly? I just briefly used SVN in a small team for about half a year and would never claim to be an expert. It's alive and kicking though, so regardless what you say I don't believe it's a complete clusterfuck and a world without git would be doomed.

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A value stock means it's undervalued compared to its fundamentals or "cheap". It has nothing to do whether or not the company pays dividends.

The difference to garbage like crypto-tokens is that there actually are fundamentals - a profitable company you're buying a share of and for a cheap price. Of course there's risk involved but you are likely to profit from this.

Much more likely anyway than any crypto-token gamble because there's no value underneath, only wasted energy; and yes, also with PoS or whatever - it's all inefficient compared to a conventional database behind the firewall of a trustworthy organization. Your trustlessness rethoric is the actual lie behind this huge scam.

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Geese, then take whatever else if working in a remote location without upstream access is important to you (note that I originally wrote "Subversion or whatever"). It's just version control, not rocket science.

I'm a git devotee myself, love it despite its growing redundancies. But I am able to imagine a world without it and don't tremble in fear. That's all I said here.

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This is pointless. You don't even seem to know what profit and value are exactly, much less how the letter is increased.

But ok, gamble away your money for worthless crap if you believe it's the same as owning non-distributing value stock (lol). I'm not an altruistic economics teacher trying to stop you hurting yourself.

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Netflix comes around, other streaming services

The (admittedly inevitable) appearance of other streaming services was shit already since with it came exclusive content.

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I suppressed most of my former js knowledge but I guess it's a string now.

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That's how psychopaths learn, too! 👍

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brave

No.

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LotR movies were great. Hobbit squeezed more out of the book than it had in it.

Should've been a single 180 min movie as true to the material as LotR was and it would have been great, too.

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The problem is people thinking the tool is a "calculator" (or fact-checker or search engine) while it's just a text generator. It's great for generating text.

But even then it can't keep a paragraph stable during the conversation. For me personally, the best antidote against the hype was to use the tool.

I don't judge people believing it's more than it is though. The industry is intentionally deceiving everyone about this and we also intuitively see intelligence when someone can eloquently express themselves. Seeing that in software seems magical.

We now have a great Star Trek like human machine interface. We only need real intelligence in the backend.

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That was really my thought - future iterations of Chat GPT won't like spez very much.

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