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- Comment on Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages 3 days ago:
Reminds me to increase my monthly contribution
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 4 days 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' 4 days 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' 5 days 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' 6 days 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' 6 days ago:
People who buy Apple buy the whole package, not only specs.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 6 days ago:
here’s a whole ass laptop for $360
You’re absolutely right, that is an ass laptop.
- Comment on A modest proposal 1 week 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 1 week ago:
I don’t think Vietnam is views as easy nor was it successful.
- Comment on no gag reflex / talk too much 2 weeks ago:
Funny, works for my wife too. And I consider her speaking to me to be the ‘pro.’
- Comment on The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection 2 weeks ago:
If this is the way forward, I’d very reluctantly accept some central organization (Apple, Google) to provide a Boolean isOfAge = true that you can use across the web. To be clear, I don’t like this either, but it’s just barely more stomachable than providing my ID to every fly-by-night poorly-secured website.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
Inconvenient ≠ impossible.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
The answer (IMO) isn’t to succumb to their demands, it’s to cease using their platform. I promise you, you can do without Facebook (or insert any other problematic platform).
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
While I think your intent is fine, there’s no way I’d trust a for-profit company– Facebook no less– to be the gatekeeper. Their priority is and will always be to wring every possible cent out of your data/privacy. That it might align with children’s safety is coincidental at best, and in any case temporary.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
Genuinely curious, why do you think this is a good thing?
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 2 weeks ago:
As an aside, I’ve been toying with the following idea:
I like to refurbish bicycles for my own use. The idea I’ve had is to buy cheap Facebook marketplace / Craigslist bikes, disassemble, grind off the serial, and paint in a uniform and non identifiable (or at least less so) and reassemble, replacing wear parts. Put them into the community to use however they see fit, cheap enough to ditch without caring.
- Comment on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo would like a word.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps. I guess my point is they no longer are as out-of-line with the rest of the market. Comment meant as a backhanded “compliment” toward Apple.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 3 weeks ago:
Apple over here not raising their RAM prices because they’ve always been massively and unjustifiably inflated. Now, they’re no longer unjustifiably inflated.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 4 weeks ago:
This particular sleaze is definitely male perpetuated and worth calling out. But shittiness knows no gender (or age or ethnicity for that matter.)
- Comment on Emotional Support From Social Media Found to Reduce Anxiety 4 weeks ago:
To paraphrase Homer Simpson:
“…the cause of, and solution to, all life’s problems.”
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 5 weeks ago:
I legitimately cannot tell the difference between 1080 and 4k, however I do wear glasses.
But 720 feels like garbage to me.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 5 weeks ago:
I feel like that was implied in my comment ;-)
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 5 weeks ago:
Hell, OLED and high bitrate 1080 is probably good enough for me for the rest of my life.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 5 weeks ago:
Kagi AI is opt-in. As in, you don’t go out of your way to use it, you won’t.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 5 weeks ago:
There is one, Mobilizon
- Comment on Who farted? 1 month ago:
Just as funny as when Scrubs did it.
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 1 month ago:
That was the opposite. The FBI got in, but without Apples help.
- Comment on How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5? 1 month ago:
The verge Vergecast podcast did a piece on RAM, and it’s well worth a listen. They talk about all sorts of RAM related things, the RAM in a Cybertruck being one of them. Sorry, I don’t remember the details but I remember it being lower than I thought; 8GB, maybe 16gb. Give it a listen.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 1 month ago:
8 years ago: buy Hugo Boss and Mercedes