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This Apple "Upgrade" is an almost perfect example of real world Doublethink as George Orwells defined it in the novel 1984. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubl
by Sammi 8y ago
This Apple "Upgrade" is an almost perfect example of real world Doublethink as George Orwells defined it in the novel 1984.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
- AriaMinaei 8y agoI also noted the Orwellian tone. We live in troubling times when the value of tinkering is lost to the tinkerers themselves.
- coldtea 8y agoTinkering was never important to real hackers. It's the script kiddie analogue to hacking.
- coldtea 8y agoNo, it's a real example on "focus on what matters" and dropping support for bike-shedding (all too popular with tinkerers). Many users are not college students discovering the world of UNIX and customization and tinker happy -- they're people that want to get something (not "how the computer works" related) done.