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Great, thanks for driving up the price and thus making the market more attractive. This is a never ending waste of time, money, energy and life.
Great, thanks for driving up the price and thus making the market more attractive. This is a never ending waste of time, money, energy and life.
Rotate the left display 90 degrees clockwise. Now they’re both in landscape. Ta-da!
Sorry, I’ll see myself out.
Why bother with X? Just do l33t CLI h4xx0rs
I’m a schizophrenic that switches between Apple and FOSS regularly. It’s gotten to the point where I have an iPhone and a 14" M1 Pro MBP, and also a FairPhone and a Thinkpad T480 upgraded to the gills.
Yes, the Apple ecosystem is like a warm blanket. If you use it the way Apple intended it’s smooth as butter, a completely seamless experience that generally does what it says on the tin with a great user experience. The screens, speakers, build quality and integrated software experience are the best on the planet if you ask me.
However, you live in Apple’s fortress and they can turn that into a prison any time they want. Also if you’re not particularly happy with some way MacOS, but especially i(Pad)OS, does a thing, you’re either shit out of luck or you have to install a paid app that breaks standard workflow. I guess a good way to put this is that Apple has been making appliances of late, rather than computers. Less so for MacOS which is still pretty open to configuration.
The reason I keep switching to FOSS is idealism; I want my hard- and software to belong to me and only me. That also means I am responsible if things break or they don’t work as well as they should. It’s up to me to fix or improve. That sometimes annoys the hell out of me at which point I will switch back to Apple until such time I read a post or view a video that rants about proprietary bullshit and how surveillance/late stage/attention capitalism is ruining the world and round and round we go.
For this latest stint I bought the Thinkpad and upgraded the hell out of it (I figure if Linux is going to run well on anything it’s a Thinkpad). Hope it sticks this time.
Much cheaper, no electricity required, no ChatGPT generated clickbait horseshit AND you can kill flies!
Remember kids, the market does not aim to produce food but profit. If it can get you to pay for eating sawdust or forever chemicals it will and it has.
Funny, I’ve always thought of them as terms of honour. At least that’s why I called my father old man. He called his captain that back when he was a sailor. (second edit: fun fact, his last captain was my grandpa on mom’s side. Guess he liked the captain’s daughter.)
edit: I guess it’s a way to acknowledge seniority.
Ah yes, the market. Known for it’s agile flexibilty so that it can adjust to demand at will and efficiently. I’m sure this will turn out well for everyone. By which I mean the peasants will be forced to commute to keep the status quo or they’ll lose their house while governments bail out the class that took on the risk for this real estate.
Except for the larger companies you still need a bunch of trained experts in house to manage everything.
No issues here, I use it for banking almost daily.
You could clean one very specific part of you for a few minutes with some nature documentaries playing in the background is what they’re saying.
I recently ordered a display and a battery for my Fairphone 4. Replacement took me about 10 minutes. She’s still humming on /e/OS!
The MBA shitstorm continues.
Yeah that’s my point. The elite assholes that run this world happen to be white, heterosexual men with Western sensibilities.
I also have those characteristics but that does not give me power or invalidate my problems.
This is needlessly divisive. Just because men share characteristics with a subset of people who opress and live life in easy mode does not mean they can’t be disenfranchised.
Install Terminal and NeoVim or WSL
The minimum requirements are there for them to set a lower limit on what they’re willing to support.
I agree and they’re free to do whatever they want. I get to have an opinion on their actions though.
What I take issue with is they are enforcing minimum specs because they’re choosing to put a bunch of stuff in the operating system that won’t run (well) below those specs. In other words they are choosing the job that the operating system has to do (GenAI in this case) and I think that is up to the user, not the OS vendor.
If the GenAI stuff they want to build in were optional then you could choose to purchase a cheaper computer or upgrade your existing hardware to a current OS. By going this route Microsoft is artificially inflating hardware requirements.
Anythjng that can’t do the job is literally 8+ years old.
So what? How about Microsoft lets me define what ‘the job’ is and I will decide for myself whether my machine is up to it? In my opinion the job of an operating system is to expose computing resources to whatever the user wants to do and then get the fuck out of the way.
Am I reading correctly that ARM is required?
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