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Comment Re:The M4 mini (Score 1) 43

It lacks an appropriate number of ports and doesn't support DisplayPort.

USB DisplayPort alt mode says hello. Every rear USB-C port on the Mac Mini is also a DisplayPort. Just as it is on all of Apple's laptops.

Thunderbolt is a garbage, proprietary Apple standard.

Thunderbolt is an Intel standard. And in the case of Thunderbolt 4, it's just an additional set of feature requirements over base USB4, where those features are optional. In other words, TB4 is a superset of USB4.

Comment Re:The age of ecosystem (Score 1) 57

Have you even looked in Settings? There's a "Leave Bixby" button on my S25. I've never accidentally invoked either Bixby or Google Assistant on mine but you can probably remap things like the long press on home or the double click on the side button that often tell your devices to open whichever assistant you have.

I have Bixby turned off completely, my double click side button is set to open Google Wallet and I have circle to search turned off under Settings > Display > Navigation Bar. These settings seem to be sticky between devices; I've never seen Bixby on my Tab S9+ or my last few Samsung phones.

Comment Re:The age of ecosystem (Score 4, Insightful) 57

Apple's ecosystem seems to be focused on preventing users from doing what they want with the powerful general purpose hardware they sell. Android users can at least take steps to mitigate how much access advertising systems have on their devices, even to the point that they can use their devices entirely without a Google account. There's no way to get a fully functional third party browser on iOS and iOS users who refuse to sign in to Apple have no way of obtaining any software for their devices.

Tell me again who has half an ecosystem.

Comment Re:I thought everyone upgraded to iphones (Score 1) 32

Agreed, really.

I do make use of the SoC on my costly S-series Samsung; it makes an excellent video recorder and monitor while I primarily shoot photos on my Canon mirrorless camera. But Apple brings nothing but restrictions to the table, even to the point that their devices can't be used for arbitrary file storage and don't allow third party web browsers. There's nothing they're doing that's worth dealing with the lock-in from having one.

Comment Re:Manufacturing Constraint, You Say? (Score 1) 47

Not sure what you're on about there. Samsung has offered seven years of updates on its mobile devices since 2022 and Google Pixels have had a similarly long support window for the last couple years as well.

I find iOS unacceptable. I'd stop using mobile devices entirely if it were the only available option.

Comment Re:It's almost 2026 (Score 1) 35

Thank you for calling this out.

The fact that these one-liner installers are becoming an increasingly common method of installing software is utterly insane - and even more dangerous.

The solution (probably) isn't to lock down OSes to prevent this. But at a minimum, developers need to be tapped with a pitchfork for trying to officially distribute their software in this fashion. Doing so is normalizing bad habits.

One of many examples: the official installation instructions for the Deno JS runtime are one-liners for all three OSes: Linux, Windows, and macOS. It's equally stupid on all of them.

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