Short answer: Contempt. I feel nothing but contempt for Apple and its products. They aren’t evil but they also aren’t good (not the opposite of evil but in the “I think this is worth using” sense).

Long answer: Apple earned their place in my mental category of “polished turd” decades ago with their single button mice and their tendency to pick form over function. Those colourful iMacs back around 2000 were easily the worst computers I’ve ever used, between the mouse that was perfectly round (so you couldn’t tell its rotation without looking at it or at least feeling for the wire), the slowness (simple assignments took forever), and instability (I just avoided using them at all after the nth assignment was lost after an hour of work).

And then they added “trendy walled garden” with the iPhone and serve as a reminder of how many people fall for marketing bullshit with how many people seem to prefer the shittier locked down option while also acting smug about it.

So personally, Mac was labelled irrelevant back during the Win vs Mac wars, before MS really embraced the enshitification and thought they had to make something people wanted to use to sell it rather than do whatever and most people go along because inertia. And now that MS has embraced the enshitification, my own mental model for them is basically “just like Mac except Mac seems like they are trying to be good but just have a very different idea of what ‘good’ is, while MS isn’t even trying to be good and pursue other means of revenue”.

While I don’t think that the next console generation will flop entirely, I do strongly suspect that it won’t be as successful as previous ones have been and will lead to a shift where consoles are just cheap streaming boxes that support a subscription to a cloud gaming service, which will eventually be replaced by a single device that can connect to whichever services you want.

PC gaming will be similar for most AAA titles (and in fact will be one of the devices that can support these services), though indie devs will hold out until the requirement of owning a PC leaves only a tiny market.

Humans don’t work like that. Geographically, some trends finish in the area they started before they even reach other areas, though the internet has reduced the time lag. But there will be people who get into it before it’s a trend, people that get into it because it’s a trend, and people who continue to repeat it after it’s a trend because they either like it or miss the time when it was a trend. It only dies off as those that hold on to it die off.

So 6-7 will be with us for a long time, though it’s frequency of use could be on a downward trend.

Doubling down instead of being embarrassed we didn’t notice there was a way to do it without needing to turn the calculator upsidedown?

That’s how it should work for all shifts IMO.

Though it does suck that attention is being diverted to LLM development because it’s so good at giving the illusion of being smart while still getting so much wrong.

Makes me wonder how many laptops seemed to randomly get bricked because it tried to update but then ran out of battery in the middle of it but the user just sees that their laptop had no battery left and then won’t boot properly after that, never realizing it decided to update itself.

Or my old windows 10 machine would wake itself up in the middle of the night to run updates that the group policy wouldn’t even allow it to download without my permission and then just sit there. If I hadn’t fallen asleep yet, I’d notice the monitor light up the next room and get up swearing at Microsoft until I tracked down where the wakeup timer was set and disabled it. Only to find it re-enabled after some updates.

Fuck Microsoft.

Search results: klitoris not found.

Yeah, it’s a bit of a double edged sword. On the one hand, you’re less likely to binge on food you find too salty or sweet, but on the other hand, it’s harder to find a treat you’ll actually enjoy when you do indulge.

He’s helping with the mathematical aspects of the emergency. He’s doing the best he can!

Maybe he was trying to get a job at Microsoft and showing off his relevant skills.

No one could possibly figure out what’s really going on, everyone knows error messages are confusing and intimidating and everyone just ignores them!

One factory job had a couple days of orientation in a classroom before we started on the floor, but on day one we ended with a tour of the work areas. As we went around, someone working recognized one of the others in my group as a local methhead/rampant thief. We found out that’s why he didn’t come back when we started working with the others.

Canada, if it’s day one. There’s a 3 month probation period where the requirements before you can fire someone are non-existent, though you still can’t fire someone for illegal reasons.

Narrator: It wasn’t the last time.

She get it real cheap used? They had a decent reputation because the new ones were mostly owned by old boomers that didn’t push them very hard, so they were reliable (relative to the rest of the used car market), though that didn’t help the way they looked or performed.

The Prowler didn’t look quite as lame but got extra lame points for following the trend set by the PT Cruiser.

Apparently the turning radius of the PT Cruiser was comparable to some large ships.

I bet he browsed with toxic mode enabled. Or maybe a special mode that just flagged the word blocks so he could promote them to user blocks.

Which also is what led to it being found, since db0, being a good dev, saw his whole instance was “incompatible” and dug into it to resolve it and figured out what was really going on.