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@blitzen@lemmy.ca
- Comment on ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users 1 week ago:
FWIW, your first comment was a blanket statement about “people,” not simply about you.
- Comment on ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users 1 week ago:
I’m not here to make people care.
But I do care, and lots of other people do too.
- Comment on ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users 1 week ago:
You got that backward, chief. Not caring who controls these companies are keeping people glued to Meta, X, and the like.
- Comment on ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users 1 week ago:
People who pay attention care.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
Was sometime before that. It’s been close to, if not fully, a decade since the switch to what they euphemistically call “unified” memory.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter really what laptops you’ve owned, what matters is the landscape of new models.
Pretty much every car I’ve owned is gas powered, but we agree the future of most cars is electric.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
A used (aka older) version of a product whose biggest selling point is repairability is hardly indicative of where the industry is currently. And being used, the price you paid doesn’t mean anything either.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
It’s not my opinion.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
All it takes…
That is perhaps the silliest thing I can think of regarding these chips. Can you name even a single phone whose RAM is not soldered? Heck, most laptops these days don’t have upgradable RAM.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
Not allowing a 1TB option certainly is a choice, and one that can be criticized. But I don’t think it’s fair to say they could have “easily” made the RAM upgrade (certainly not user upgradable) at that price point. It used the A series because they make billions of them, and ram has not been upgradable in them.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough, enthusiast laptops do. I can’t think of a sub $1,000 mainstream consumer laptop that is.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
This model is absolutely short-circuiting the brains of the Apple haters. It upends everything they’ve been complaining about for a decade; all the same arguments that had merit 10 years ago but were mostly resolved 5 years ago (meanwhile, little said about the things Apple currently is terrible about.)
This laptop is:
- cheap
- repairable
- runs a full os
It is not:
- upgradable, but what laptop is these days.
Seriously, it address three of the biggest complaints against Apple historically, and we’re supposed to be mad the phone doesn’t runs desktop OS? Was under the impression the phone didn’t run a full OS because of technical limitations?
Apple could’ve launched a $599 laptop that ran iPadOS, but they didn’t and yet there’s still complaints.
- Comment on Israeli tech CEO calls to 'limit the First Amendment' to prevent spread of 'lies' on social media 2 weeks ago:
Fuck this piece of shit.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
This model has absolutely fried the brains of the ardent Apple haters, perhaps including yourself, and I’m here for it.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
If you’re buying based on specs, this isn’t for you.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
That’s Canadian.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
RAM is RAM. If you take issue with it being unified say so, but it’s still RAM.
He sounds like he’s grasping.
The neo is going to eat his lunch, and he knows it.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
or what amounts to its RAM
You can criticize the amount of RAM, but it’s still RAM. Clown.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
What are you taking about?
- Comment on Cheapest 14x4tb NAS 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I bet it would be cheaper to replace a few of the 4 TB drives in your current set up with larger drives.
- Comment on Cheapest 14x4tb NAS 2 weeks ago:
Why 16 drives? Do you already have 16 4gb drives?
- Comment on Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me to increase my monthly contribution
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 3 weeks ago:
That chassis hasn’t been for sale for 4 years, so judge repairability on what they sell now. And regardless of sourcing it from Apple or not, you can easily source the battery.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 3 weeks ago:
That discussion is nothing more than a forum post, as much anecdotal as something posted to reddit. Whoever told him the top case had to be replaced is in error; the battery is glued to the top case, but with special adhesive that releases when pulled (like a strip of tape). iFixit calls this a “moderate” on it’s scale of difficulty.
It is glued, but designed to be replaced.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 3 weeks ago:
You “apple haters” are just as dogmatic as fanboys, but you act superior because of it.
Don’t know where you’re getting either of those criticisms. You most certainly don’t need to replace the topcase when replacing the battery in any modern apple laptop, and the pairing of the LAS is for calibration purposes.
Insofar as there’s no ethical consumerism under capitalism, I agree. Is Apple better than most or as good as they say? Hardly. But don’t act like you’re some ethical tech warrior because you avoid Apple hardware.
Now, we can have a serious dissuasion about the questionable-to-downright-wrong decisions Apple (the business) is making, and I would think we are 100% aligned on that. I cannot wait until Cook is gone when maybe some sanity can return. Any criticisms of how they’re handling the App Store, their bending of the knee to Trump, and/or the sneaky upsells they’re including in the OS and default apps are fully shared.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 3 weeks ago:
Now that the neo has been announced at $499 for students with twice the storage of your example, care to reevaluate the overall value differences?
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 3 weeks ago:
People who buy Apple buy the whole package, not only specs.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 3 weeks ago:
here’s a whole ass laptop for $360
You’re absolutely right, that is an ass laptop.
- Comment on A modest proposal 4 weeks ago:
No doubt. In response to such a joke, boomers would take credit for a time when the military was successful. My reply is an attempt to preemptively take the wind out of their sails.
- Comment on A modest proposal 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think Vietnam is views as easy nor was it successful.