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7 points by mikestew 7mo ago|1 comments
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https://archive.is/6o3SP
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Compared to Windows? Tahoe is probably fine. Compared to previous versions of macOS/OS X? Nothing deal-breaking for me, but there are all kinds of little things that just don't have the polish long-time macOS users are accustomed
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by mikestew 7mo ago
In “recent history”, America invented EVs, and there was no competition? What kind of revisionist crap is that? Or am I just misreading your comment?
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Windows 11 is catching up to Windows XP.
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by mikestew 7mo ago
There are times when I wished our Ioniq 5 charged more slowly, like when I want to grab a bite. On a good day, back to 80% in 15 minutes, with a 10 minute grace period before the per-minute charges kick in, and there's barely time to
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Fair enough, point taken.
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by mikestew 7mo ago
I was thinking more of EU, since BYD won't be selling cars in the US anytime soon, but you make an excellent point that maybe BYD wasn't thinking outside of China for at least the short term.
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I'd be more interested in EVs if they didn't come with significant privacy and complexity trade-offs. You're going to be really disappointed when you go to look at new ICE vehicles. This "EVs are a privacy nightmare!&q
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by mikestew 7mo ago
I'm having a hard time determining if "whacking it to AI army girl" dictates more or less self-examination in comparison to "women in armed forces should look like they have an OnlyFans account". :-)
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It's not like EV owners were feeling regret when gas hit the (mythical ) $2/gallon. Gas could be free, and I'd still have no regrets. Because an EV is simply the better vehicle. And I think after over a decade of mass-produ
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by mikestew 7mo ago
See those big T-shaped things in the picture? Those are the charging stations that BYD (or someone) is going to need to build to see those charging speeds. I'm not saying it can't be done, but as one with an 800V Hyundai that has
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Short skirt, blonde hair, and the topper is the high heels. AI or not, someone needs to do some serious self-examination if that's their dream of a woman serving in the armed forces.
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by mikestew 7mo ago
I agree linux is just as bad, but at least I can fix it! I for sure see the appeal. Even if macOS desktop were open source, though, I doubt I'd do much about my complaints. For my use cases, I don't want to turn OS maintenance i
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Thanks for the correction, I should have looked harder at that page before posting. I've since corrected.
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I know NYC doesn't treat their water at all… EDIT: I'm a dork an grabbed the wrong URL. Changed URL to a PDF for lack of better. A major metro doesn’t treat its tap water? Where on earth did you get that crazy idea? <old URL
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by mikestew 7mo ago
what with the deluge of complaints and completely broken features and terrible UI their own kind have been posting about… Remind me which OS we were talking about again? Because it sounds like all of them. OS usage as a team sport is just
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Oh, it’s been this way from day one.
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https://support.apple.com/en-la/120682
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I was surprised at the claim that The Guardian leaves very little room for the article. I loaded up a Guardian article this morning on my new 14" MBP, only to find out that there was so much crap on the page I couldn't even see
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Isn’t that Apple News+? You would be correct, but...and I say this as a subscriber to Apple's "all-in-one" package...Apple News+ is in many ways garbage. Low-rent articles from publications whose time has long passed (looki
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by mikestew 7mo ago
I doubt it was an intentional change. A lot of bugs result from, "hmm, didn't think about that use case. Ooops." There's just the question of how long it'll be before they ship a fix. It seems like there ought to
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Fair enough, thanks for clarifying your distaste for macOS. Sounds like any closed source OS just isn’t for you. :-)
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No, it does not. It’ll bug the shit out of you to upgrade, but it won’t automatically do a major version upgrade. By default it will automatically do minor version upgrades (that can be turned off). That’s what makes the LLM bug report make
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Your “next question” seems very leading. Can you make your point more clear? What’s your answer to that question?
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(arguably terrible) operating system macOS has made some arguably poor design choices, but it makes it hard to take someone seriously when they state the whole OS is terrible.
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You go to these sites as a free user, you get exactly what you paid for. Yeah? How about when I go to the site as a paid subscriber and get the exact same experience ? Did the number or obnoxiousness of ads go down when I gave NYT money?
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by mikestew 7mo ago
I despise trackpads. And yet I'll use nothing else. Conversely, I have never gotten along with pointy sticks, all the way back to the original 1993 Toshiba Portégé[0] despite their apparent popularity. [0] https://en.wikip
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by mikestew 7mo ago
I don't know, does a trackpad count? In one sense, no, it's not a mouse. In which case, I guess I'm in the same boat. I don't know if I even have any mice in the house anymore. OTOH, I thought this might be a post from a
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by mikestew 7mo ago
I don’t think TFA said Windows is better overall, but c’mon, even a diehard Mac user like myself can see how stagnated, say, task/app switching is on macOS in comparison to Windows. And things like Mission Control always seemed like a

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