psst 98% of Metas money comes from selling marketing dorks lies and scamming the larger economy.

That’s why they’re still afloat regardless of not having a product worth a damn.

I like their christ, less the christians.

I was just imagining that situation and thought to myself that if only people were both cool and smooth enough to make casual unjudgemental conversation with the preacherman in the checkout line in that moment…

What a world we could live in, if only everyone could stop being shitty to one another.

And that’s where the T2 chip keeps its firmware so when the soldered-on storage goes bad, the whole computer can’t boot and must go directly in the ewaste…

I hate it so damn much.

🤡🌎

The default is zsh, I’m not a fan. Bash 3.2 is present by default, however, and is as old as the hills.

You’re arguing the wrong points. You didn’t really read what I said.

I don’t care about Javascript. I don’t want my computer catching dependency hell or cryptominer herpes.

I don’t want that shit rawdogging my system, go package it up into something sensible. I don’t want its entrails all over my system and I don’t want it breaking something elses dependencies.

Ha. Eventually, the bottom will drop out the market as low-cost NPUs pick up the model running. A good enough open model will emerge and there wont be a market for a paid model.

We’re already kinda seeing it on the hardware side. Eventually it’ll all dissolve into the hardware like how MPEG2 decode hardware for DVDs was once upon a time an expensive addon accellerator card, but is now fractions of a square mm of gates laid out as part of a larger assembly within the silicon of your GPU.

Previous employer gave me an m1 pro and it just lived in a drawer until I quit.

I’m sure some salesrep got a nice nearly new linkedin machine after that.

The hardware is nice to touch but it is unethically designed by assholes who hold you, the device “owner” in complete contempt.

That was my first reaction until I noticed its object-orientated.

Then I baulked at having to rawdog node and npm on my machine.

no thank you.

Eventually the circus has to go away because the cost of tokens is too high - its literally cheaper to train software developers.

Also, the cost to business from having business-continuity-ending events is gonna eat some of these businesses.

I recently got allocated an m5 macbook.

They last like 15 minutes before they’re chipped and scratched, the version of Bash they ship is a million years old, the UI is a fucking mess. Package management is a mess. The walled garden is a mess. I have had to brew this and fix my path for that just to have a working environment. This is ignoring the soldered on RAM bullshit. Can you even do memmap= to recover from bad soldered ram on a macbook or does it just become ewaste?

They sound nice and they feel nice until they’re scratched.

Also the keyboards are heinous.

If Jobs was alive, he’d be punching people for re-inventing Vista Aero.

I thought the UI was supposed to be good.

Fuck these devices.

I’m glad it smelled as suspect to someone else.

Its threads like this that make me glad that these people are running around making infinite work for me to be doing, fixing the messes these people are making.

Alas, noody wants to pay for the work to be done

The world is full of clowns and I don’t want to be in their circus any more

Not only in R&D but market development… Like, finding out what people want and selling it to them, exporting them… The Americans are trying to push pickups on europe…

They have been trying to murder the US and EU auto industry and dumping biblical shittons of money into battery technology. the EU and the US aren’t trying to compete.

Its still an advancement for all mankind, even if my countries leadership wont let me have one.

It is strange seeing the physical manifestation of a web endpoint, to me, in 2026, after decades of cloudslop.

Its just a computer! on a shelf! you can go hold it!

How dejected could you be when you can bring someone such joy?

No, I mean it. If you’d indulge me, I’d love to know more about your background, how you’ve ended up this way.

Wow. You’re cooked.

I’d love to know more about your life, your living situation… how you got this way.

Please inform yourself of the adjacency of lobbyist centers and capital hill.

Politicians don’t write shit, they get given frameworks and proposals from lobbyists and “industry leaders”, sometimes they get made into law directly without edit, especially when it comes to smaller ordinances.

There are designated handlers from the larger lobby groups for designated politicans and congress-critters.

They should wear jumpsuits like nascar, maybe you and the public would understand it better.

Edit: Looking at the rest of your replies you’re getting downvoted to oblivion for denying reality.

pfft sure buddy enjoy your binary logs