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by havaloc 4mo ago
Agreed, the only time I did upgrades on boxes is swapping out spinning disks for SSD, that saved me a whole upgrade cycle it was such an improvement.
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by havaloc 4mo ago
What's sad is that in my experience supporting 80 users, Word et al work with fewer issues on Mac. The stack integration on Windows is fine, until it isn't.
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by havaloc 4mo ago
Yes! iOS 27 needs to categorize notifications using AI. Apps aren't supposed to advertise to you, but some don't allow for that distinction. I want notifications on for when my sandwich is arriving, but I don't want push noti
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by havaloc 4mo ago
Strongbox already got bought out, but it's still very good and you can store the file wherever you want.
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by havaloc 5mo ago
I use it more and more as a primary, and it doesn't feel like I've made many tradeoffs at all. I even like the keys better, they aren't transparent, so the plastic feels different, but in a good way.
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by havaloc 5mo ago
I think I would cut the line at M3 or above. I think M2 uses an older architecture and it doesn't have WiFi 6E in it, and of course single core is a bit lower. Also M2 batteries are about maybe halfway done already unless the refurb re
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by havaloc 5mo ago
I bought a Neo as an out of the house computer and it really is a triumph. If the Air is good enough for 99% of the population, the Neo as is approaches good enough for 90% of the population at half the cost.
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by havaloc 5mo ago
I really don't understand why more companies don't emulate Apple in terms of line simplicity. Look at Dell for a great example of a sprawling product mix. I can't imagine having that many product varieties helps with profitab
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by havaloc 5mo ago
The MacBook Neo proves that gadget "shrinkflation" is largely a choice. I own an Neo and I continue to marvel at how capable, nice, and yet inexpensive it was.
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by havaloc 5mo ago
I own a business and I go out of my way to respect other businesses, because I know how hard it is to own one.
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by havaloc 5mo ago
Maybe California should ask Brightline to take a look at it. They've had some pretty good success in Florida, although it's a totally different model.
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by havaloc 5mo ago
I bought a Neo to "replace" an M3 MacBook Air "travel/out of the house/outside" laptop. Are there drawbacks? Most certainly, but it feels like something special, and I enjoy the slightly smaller form factor. Th
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by havaloc 5mo ago
However bad you think 65+ users are on social media, it's way worse than you think. Imagine being scammed by ads and grinding the remaining years of your life away with that. Yikes. I've seen it with my own eyes. It's awful.
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by havaloc 5mo ago
> The fundamental problem seems to be that screens as a basis for learning how to learn, study, and retain information in kids appears to be detrimental to developing that core skill we have already developed. As I like to say, AI is gre
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by havaloc 5mo ago
> Why are they so powerful in the hands of a curious person, yet making everyone dumber? Curiosity level varies per individual. I find certain things fascinating that many others don't. AI has been a boon for me and others who may b
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by havaloc 5mo ago
Much ink has been spilled in the comments already, but as a child of the 80s, computers were a class, and not a lifestyle. If I had gone through school with what's available today, I doubt I would have done as well as I did. Most thing
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by havaloc 5mo ago
Cook seems to be dragged for some of his decisions ( like China ), but he was the right CEO for the time. Ternus in turn seems to be the right CEO for this phase of Apple. I'm excited to see what Ternus does in the role! It's a ho
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Tesla March car registrations soar in key European markets(reuters.com)
41 points by havaloc 6mo ago|6 comments
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by havaloc 6mo ago
You sort of have to admire what a clever purchase Vizio was for Walmart.
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by havaloc 7mo ago
Exactly. If some sort of random Dell model has a failure, you'll never hear about it because there's only a few thousand or so in circulation. But if any Apple product which sells in the tens/hundreds of millions has an issue
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by havaloc 7mo ago
Missing the A18 Neo! :)
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by havaloc 7mo ago
There was quite a bit of discussion about that when the M1 first came out, but none of it really seemed to have happened six years later. The target audience isn't in danger of wearing it out and the ones that will push the limits will
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by havaloc 7mo ago
I think this is a great generalization, I'm not sure I would have bothered with a PC if I had a smartphone as a child/teenager, but I also have no regrets about the smartphone free era I grew up in.
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by havaloc 7mo ago
My boomer dad does more things on his phone than I do and I'm Gen X. It's actually astonishing how much he does on his iPhone. I'm dragging out the laptop and he's on his iPhone happy as a clam.
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by havaloc 7mo ago
That's not what the video insinuates.
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by havaloc 7mo ago
I bought about 20 flash drives in 2019 at work to parcel out when needed, once or twice a quarter for users. I needed one last week, and had to throw most of them away, they had all died from presumably dormancy, even new in the package.
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by havaloc 7mo ago
Exactly, this is good news, it'll force them to keep 8gb in mind. It essentially restarts the clock on 8GB machines for the next five to seven years.
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by havaloc 7mo ago
If a restaurant runs on a 9% net margin and pays around 3% in card fees, then roughly one-third of its net profit is going toward payment processing.
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by havaloc 7mo ago
The Stripe rate is a careful blend. There are many cards that are cheaper to process and there's probably a few that are more expensive to process at that rate, it works out in the wash in favor of Stripe. Also, that 30 cents is a larg
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by havaloc 7mo ago
I don't get it either. I've rolled out well over a hundred of these in a higher education setting and I have never had one have a hardware issue or needed to retire it other than wanton damage. I still have a ton of M1s in circula

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