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by seec 10mo ago
At least the good part about the US situation is that people are still free to choose for themselves. The cost isn't redirected to the whole population at large via taxation. In the EU it's much worse, because the same reality is
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by seec 10mo ago
Yep, that's the major problem with Apple hardware nowadays. It is very good in term of quality (at least if you don't need too much RAM of storage) but for the price you are entirely at the mercy of Apple for long term support. An
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by seec 11mo ago
For marketing reasons (and App Store predatory capture) they decided to make the iPhone more like a computer. Yet I do not know a single "normal" iOS user who actually make use of all the stuff. They all ask me to do stuff on a &q
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by seec 11mo ago
I wish they would rethink the Apple Watch altogether. The smart parts are useless and just not practical. The health tracking is good but it has poor battery life because of useless smarts. The sport stuff is just OK but viewing/using
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by seec 11mo ago
Most Apple apps are somewhat bad nowadays. It largely defeat the marketing/purpose of the "ecosystem" because the 3rd party stuff doesn't necessarily integrate the "special sauce" (like sharing for passing stuf
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by seec 11mo ago
Imagine what macOS is on an Intel Mac nowadays without dedicated GPU. Not the latest version either. I'm pretty sure they do it on purpose with their Metal APIs. There is no reason the same computer can become laggy doing the same exac
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by seec 11mo ago
When it comes to freedom, France definitely has it backwards. Now that it is in deep trouble economically, the bureaucracy is claiming for even more soft communism in a very totalitarian way. One needs to understand that the system made som
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by seec 11mo ago
As an Apple Watch user for over 7 years, I find this focus on heavy app to be completely stupid. The "smart" part of the watch is mostly useless, I've learned to use it the least possible. It is just rarely worth it to fiddle
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by seec 11mo ago
Better efficiency of X86 mobiles CPUs does negate much of the advantage of ARM laptops. It's just not worth the trouble of going through a major software transition. One thing that I find suspicious is the large delta in single thread
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by seec 11mo ago
This is just part of the bureaucratisation of everything. The bureaucracy always try to extend its power and find ways to self-justify its existence, accaparing ressources to extend the control and bring ever more people into the fold. It&#
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by seec 11mo ago
On my iPhone, even though I'm not on the latest "upgrade" (I made sure to avoid the Liquid Glass crap), the widgets just refuse to update most of the time. I have to tap them to get an update. Which completely defeat the purp
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by seec 11mo ago
I very much disagree with your point of view. If you have authoritarian parents with narrow world views, being exposed to other ways of thinking/living in school will only raise your expectations and create resentment against the paren
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by seec 11mo ago
In my opinion you are just more likely to run into bad influences that not only won't bring value but might as well send you a pretty bad path. The socialisation aspect of school is very largely bullshit, just like the diversity propag
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by seec 11mo ago
I have been doing all kind of strategies since I have lived largely alone for over 15 years. I have also worked in restaurant kitchens that were on the premium side. I can do very sophisticated pastries from the Ferrandi book. If there is o
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by seec 11mo ago
Cooking legumineuse notoriously take a long time and you very often need to soak them before hand. Even the simpler stuff like lentils have at least twice the cooking time of regular pasta (20-30 min at least) unless you like eating stuff h
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by seec 11mo ago
Yes and even before that they had PowerPC. The only reason that even stopped is because R&D was done by Motorola and IBM and they ended up going in other directions which made working for Apple has a sole client not much of good deal. I
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by seec 11mo ago
Yes software bloat and lack of optimisation is the problem. But this is exactly why Apple is full of shit. They pretend to do and know better by forcing updates and locking down your ability to install/manage software as you see fit; y
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by seec 11mo ago
Yes. The kind of people who use iPhone minis are generally more reasonable and won't spent too much time doomscrolling on them or overusing them for random stuff (like pretending you are a good photographer). In that sense they are ver
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by seec 11mo ago
It's the leftist typical obsession of appearing virtuous and "empathic" by constantly praising those who are lower than them and end up in the lower strata of society. Of course even those people are not really duped and they
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by seec 11mo ago
Yes they are poor because they make bad decisions. If you are unable to avoid repeatedly making bad purchasing decision, you are poor not just because of unfortunate circumstance but because you are unable to not be poor because of personal
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by seec 11mo ago
Keeping stuff around and refusing to fix things are not necessarily correlated to being poor. Both my parents have been in the top 15-10% income bracket, yet they pile up all kind of useless garbage, very often refuse to invest in proper st
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by seec 11mo ago
Yes, I can believe that. We have the same problem with tobacco in France because it is too heavily taxed (black market is massive nowadays). But that's really a government problem. They always pretend to tax stuff because it will slow
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by seec 11mo ago
Yep, Apple has lost its way. Looking at the release of the latest OnePlus 15, the only reason to keep going with an iPhone is basically ecosystem lockin. In my opinion they are losing on all front but the chips, and those have become of sec
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by seec 11mo ago
Couldn't agree more about Gore tex. It's mostly marketing genius. On the surface it does what it says, in practice it won't work as you expect it. In the end it's kind of useless, especially considering the price. But t
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by seec 11mo ago
I don't know enough about US states subculture to infer that, it's just the opinion I formed watching him. I agree that KitechnAid is more on the higher-end side, he even said himself that it's kind of a premium device. It do
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by seec 11mo ago
Yes, this is a best virtue signaling or an idealistic point of view, in fact it may be some form of humble brag: "I am so good, that I don't need to keep leverage to advance my career". The hilarious part is that clearly his
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by seec 11mo ago
Yes I don't understand what he means. On Windows you can basically tone down the security to the point you basically tell it to shut up and let you do anything you want, including shooting yourself in the foot (which is fine by me). O
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by seec 11mo ago
It looks like it but it's quite sad. We need another commercial desktop OS to compete with Microsoft. The problem is Apple is shooting itself in the foot with their greed on hardware pricing. This is the reasons many heavy/high-du
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by seec 11mo ago
I think you are at least partly right. The period after Jobs left was pretty bad. The Mac was too expensive and not providing enough advantages to be worthwhile. But the work that happened at NeXT basically enabled the Mac to make a comebac
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by seec 11mo ago
Yeah, I think one has to understand the man to really get something useful of what he says. He is kind of a cheap man and much of what he says really applies to low-end devices. Some expensive devices may have similar problems to the cheape

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