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What are you referring to?
by neumann 8mo ago
What are you referring to?
- LeoPanthera 8mo agoDo you want to know how I can tell you didn't read the article?
- jb1991 8mo agoDo you want to know how I can tell that you did not read the hacker news guidelines.
- Der_Einzige 8mo ago[flagged]
- areoform 8mo ago(Yes android users are discriminated against in the dating market, tons of op eds are written about this, just google it before you knee jerk downvote the truth) If someone is shallow enough to write you off for that, is that someone you want as your partner?
- r14c 8mo agoImo using android is a great way to filter out extremely boring and vapid individuals from my dating pool.
- velcrovan 8mo agowho's "afraid" of green bubbles? it's like saying a toyota corolla driver is afraid of the ford pinto
- antinomicus 8mo agoNo it’s like someone owning a Ferrari and looking down on someone who drives a Corolla. Or that’s how they see it, anyway. Plus there’s the annoyance with interoperability: it’s not just about status, it’s about all your iMessage group chats that don’t play nice with android
- elcritch 8mo agoApple chose the colors well. For whatever reason the shade of green they chose just gives a bit of ick.
- mlrtime 8mo agoIt's a real thing, you're either too old and/or not dating young people. Some do care a lot.
- wolvoleo 8mo agoIMO it is pretty shallow to pick dating partners based on their mobile OS but yeah it does happen.
- velcrovan 8mo agoI'm confused, I thought we were talking about people who are installing and running openclaw. You're right, if this is now a thread about teenage dating habits, I'm out.
- sneak 8mo agoiMessage lock in is a huge thing. When it was new and was still e2ee I ended up buying iPhones for everyone I regularly messaged. These days it is insecure however because they backdoored the e2ee and kept it backdoored for the FBI, so now Signal is the only messenger I am reachable on. Blue bubble snobbery is presently a mark of ignorance more than anything else.
- xp84 8mo agoI agree that it’s stupid to judge people for it, but you do have to admit that especially with not all people having RCS, the feature set of SMS and MMS that you have to deal with when not using iMessage is pretty barbaric. From the potato-quality videos (ironically, I recall QuickTime was heavily involved in that spec, lol) to the asinine way Apple lets you apply a reaction and then sends it as a verbose text… From an iPhone user’s point of view, a “green bubble” means “this conversation will work like it’s 2003.” Yes, I know 99.999% of Android users are on WhatsApp (or WeChat, Line, or Telegram depending on cultural background) but at least half of iPhone users aren’t on those, so we still have to keep using Messages for a lot of people.
- albedoa 8mo ago"Nissan" might have fit better than Ford Pinto here.
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- jrflowers 8mo agoPeople are buying mac minis so their openclaw instances can date?
- majormajor 8mo agoI assume the suggestion is that they need to run their bot on a machine that's up 24x7 (and they don't want to do that with a laptop since they probably carry it places and such), AND they want it to manage their texts by interacting with the Mac version of the Messages app. But if you connect those dots you've got people trying to date by having an AI respond to texts from potential dates which seems like you're immediately in red-flag-city and good luck keeping that secret for long enough to get whatever it is you want.
- rrdharan 8mo agoI don't follow this logic. Forget about dating. If you want the AI to be able to send texts from your number, and you own an iPhone, I think your only other choice would be to port your number to Google Voice?
- jrflowers 8mo ago> But if you connect those dots you've got people trying to date by having an AI respond to texts from potential dates Yeah I’m trying to wrap my head around what sort of reads like “It is messed up that people avoid talking to eachother because of software because it messes up people’s ability to use software to avoid talking to eachother”
- usefulcat 8mo agoYou're saying I might have trouble getting a date if I don't have a Mac mini?
- Tagbert 8mo agoSo you might be discriminated against by some ignorant teenagers? Probably for the best.
- lanakei 8mo agoProbably the Mac Mini. A few OpenClaw users are buying the agent a dedicated device so that it can integrate with their Apple account. For example: https://x.com/michael_chomsky/status/2017686846910959668 https://x.com/michael_chomsky/status/2017686846910959668.
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- koolala 8mo agoWhy would it need more than 1? Couldn't they do this with any Mac with an Apple account?
- vovavili 8mo agoMac Minis are perfect for locally running demanding models because they can effectively use ordinary RAM as VRAM.
- hjoutfbkfd 8mo agobut people dont use OpenClaw with local models
- paunchy 8mo agoThey definitely do. A common configuration is running a supervisor model in the cloud and a much smaller model locally to churn on long running tasks. This frees Openclaw up to lavishly iterate on tool building without running through too many tokens.
- garciasn 8mo agoUnless you're running a large local model in 192GB+ this just won't be ideal, based on real-world experience.
- whatsupdog 8mo ago
- ajcp 8mo agoMac-Minis
- jb1991 8mo agoThe entire point of the article is about the Mac mini sales flying through the roof because of this.