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by Bud 5y ago
I expected the knee-jerk lazy downvotes from the usual suspects, so: Apple admits mistake, says it’s back in EPEAT https://channeldailynews.com/news/apple-admits-mistake-says-... Apple Admits the Mac Pro was a mess ht
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by Bud 5y ago
Could we please not say silly, easily-disproven things like Apple "never admit[s] they're wrong", when 10 seconds of Googling instantly gives the lie to that assertion? It might not happen every day, but it happens frequently
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by Bud 5y ago
You're missing the point. Folks are advocating not having Apple policing the app store and allowing other app stores, instead, which will be magically better-policed somehow, which is of course total bullshit. Thus my comment. FSF want
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by Bud 5y ago
Apple doesn't "sneak in" stuff like this. That's complete bullshit. Could we at least discuss in good faith?
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by Bud 5y ago
That may be, but with regard to every single issue that FSF is griping about here, it's unquestionably worse than Apple.
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by Bud 5y ago
To Software Candyland, where Richard Stallman will supervise everything instead of naaaaasty bad Apple people.
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by Bud 5y ago
Have had an Apple Watch since 2015. Took me about 30 seconds to permanently disable all unwanted sounds and notifications then, when I first got one. It's been six years now. They're all still disabled. So frankly? This isn't
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by Bud 5y ago
"Investigation"? Lol. I don't even see a faint whiff of a claim of any real "investigation", here.
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by Bud 5y ago
Thanks for the correction; it does have kernel support for the latest Linux kernel, but yeah, it's not a mature port yet. I do expect that it will have full support very soon, however.
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by Bud 5y ago
Yes, you can run the latest Linux. Linux now has native M1 support. Yes, Apple did finally fix the awful keyboards on its laptops from 2016-2020, and their keyboards are once again quite good. The trackpad is what it has always been: the be
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by Bud 5y ago
It's actually applicable to 99% of all "popular" music, as well. Obviously not just to "Western Art Music". Which is why all this stuff is still taught. What do you think is "appropriate for a globally-aware 21
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by Bud 5y ago
The same way it's taught if you go to music school. Practice. Have music played to you, and write it down. Start with very short pitch sequences; this will require you, of course, to learn to recognize intervals accurately. Then move o
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by Bud 5y ago
Is it that hard to figure out? Choosing a name like that, on purpose, obviously connotes a certain innate disrespect for the judicial process. That kind of obvious, blatant disrespect would not be tolerated in a traditional court proceeding
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by Bud 5y ago
Um, except Apple has actually been, throughout its history, more aggressive in supporting universal standards, and not less. First to implement WiFi in a mainstream consumer computer, first in pushing USB-A in place of legacy connectors,
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New China restrictions limit minors to three hours of gaming a week(appleinsider.com)
7 points by Bud 5y ago|0 comments
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by Bud 5y ago
I'm not sure that civilization's problems (especially given our massive overpopulation problems) can be ascribed to a general lack of "empathy" on the part of people who don't have children. Actually, I am sure that
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UGA professor resigns mid-class after student refuses to wear mask(redandblack.com)
12 points by Bud 5y ago|2 comments
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by Bud 5y ago
"Roughly doubled"? You might want to double-check your research. Apple is worth about 11x what it was worth 10 years ago.
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by Bud 5y ago
My wedding ring is tungsten; my wife and I decided to go with, shall we say, non-standard metals for our wedding bands to keep the costs down. I got her the usual gold/diamond sort of ring for engagement. We figured we could always get
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by Bud 5y ago
They weren't opinions. I stated facts about what "free speech" applies to, and what it doesn't. You pretending to not understand it does not change those facts. Neither does your repeating your contrary-to-fact, silly as
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by Bud 5y ago
Please don't spread confusion about what "free speech" means. I'm sure you are not actually confused about this, so please do not pretend to be. Having some people not appear on a given podcast is not a "free speech
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by Bud 5y ago
FYI, no, he makes about an order of magnitude less than that, total, from all sources. He made $30M last year.
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by Bud 5y ago
Being a comedian does not magically relieve a person from their responsibility to not credulously spread around dangerous pseudoscience during a pandemic. Plus, that's simply not very funny. By the way, GP did not say "be more ser
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by Bud 5y ago
Honestly, I think the best alternative in this case would have been to degrade performance (btw, it's a very very slight degradation that most users would not even notice in routine use) and also inform the user. But I agree with you,
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by Bud 5y ago
No, they do not, and that's an outrageous, silly, completely unsupported accusation. Apple also does not "intentionally throttle" older iPhones as a "feature of the update" for some sort of nefarious bullshit "
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by Bud 5y ago
No, it's not laziness. Nothing about the internal design of the Mac is due to "laziness". Apple has clearly decided that the battery is better held in place by adhesive than by a "system of tabs". This could easily
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by Bud 5y ago
Lobbying is simply the practice of petitioning the government to adopt a given policy. That's a foundation of democracy, really: the right to petition the government. I think you might want to re-examine your view a bit.
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by Bud 5y ago
Useless? It explains the error you're making.
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by Bud 5y ago
Every part of this is bullshit. First, Apple is driving innovation, obviously, not "shitting on it". Second, no, Apple should retain the power it has over how software works on its platform, the vast majority of users emphatically
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by Bud 5y ago
Even without the fundamental error of calling aspartame an amino acid, this argument is also similar to saying that chlorine and sodium can't be toxic since they are "in" sodium chloride, and salt is perfectly safe. Betrays a

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