You do not understand others buying the Apple stuff, so they must be fanatics. Totally nothing to do with you understanding that your needs differ from the needs of others. Nope. They are crazy. Yup. That's it.

And also, after the iPhone introduction no Apple product failed because of those fanbois. Nope. No failures. Move along.

I marvel at the mental gymnastics required to -in the same post- reconcile the idea that Apple fanboys will buy 'anything with an Apple logo slapped on it' with the fun fact of Apple products actually failing in the market.

"He has no reason to criticize Vision Pro. There is nothing beneficial to Netflix by criticizing Apple."

Ah, but 'he' != 'netflix'. For Netflix it may not be beneficial. But a CEO is the big guy/gal on the top of the rock. The alpha (fe)male! It may feel as a benefit for an overblown ego to push others down. Remember how Steve Ballmer laughed at the iPhone, stating it did not appeal to business customers? Same thing. Overblown ego combined with the inability to see what the future may bring, and then mitigate feelings of uncertainty by laughing at some competitor to make oneself feel better. Scott McNealy, idem.

But I think in the basis we agree: this should not be CEO-like behaviour, since it is not beneficial to the company at large.

True. But it used to be more or less assumed that if you did the stupid, you paid a penalty and learned better. (Bet you never touched another hot stove. And learned a valuable lesson about impulse control.) Now we're protected from the penalty, so there's no downside to stupid, so there's a perception that we must be protected from stupid...

It used to be normal to learn, quite young, that some stuff was not ours to fuck with. We could look at it, maybe (depending) handle it, but it was not to be eaten, played with, dismantled, or anything else. We were then trusted to have the sense the gods gave a turnip, and abide by those rules. I expect the teaching and the trust are much the same element.

Even dumb kids learned that much, so I won't buy that kids have declined so much that they can't understand the rules.

A lady of taste and discernment. The usual-nowadays bucket or fitted seat enforces a particular position, which I find tiring in the extreme. Bench seat... can move around to however is comfortable at the moment. And sleep on it, cone the need (I actually prefer this to a motel). Back in the day I'd thought I'd like bucket seats... then sat in one for a while. Ugh. NO.

I carry a little MP3 player, and regular PC speakers on an inverter. Entertainment aplenty. Prefer paper maps, tho I see the point of GPS if you're in Where-Da-Fuck?, or have no location sense. -- My sister has a newish tricked-out Audi -- she loves it; I find it both unattractive and uncomfortable.

Yeah, I actually do not much like the "modern amenities" -- it's for getting me and some load from point A to point B, it's not a mobile entertainment center. Also greatly prefer bench seats, and dislike how front wheel drive handles. Narrows the options. Curmudgeon? Me?? :)

I really don't give a flip one way or the other. Drive what you like. But don't try to dictate what I should drive -- that's where I start having a problem with it.

And don't come whining to me, or worse to the gov't, when whatever you choose isn't suitable for the environment.

And, right, I have absolutely no use for an EV. I drive an F350 because that's what I need, it's paid for, and it's reliable. For all of last year I only drove three hundred miles (the wonders of living a mile from the feed store) but I still need it.

I am looking for a little run-around truck that's 4x4 and up on legs (we get enough snow there's good reason for more clearance, and yeah, the -40 now and then) and older, because suits me better, but thanks to the wonders of the EPA, they're scarce as hen's teeth.

The difference is that with ICE engines we can do reasonable things to get them running. (Tho I've never had to do anything more complicated than a block heater, and the '63 Olds would start without it, even at -40. With the block heater, I got into a warm car.)

What do I do when an EV says -40 is fuck-you temperatures?

When I was rehabbing PCs that formerly belonged to middle schools, I trawled through some of the educational software, just curious.

Concluded that the software did not teach the topic. Rather, it taught how to get the software to spit up the desired answer.

Well, I can tell you that the whole damn site is so slow in SeaMonkey, with no adblocker but minimal javascript, that it enforces using Chrome (at least for me) ... tho videos aren't affected, just everything else. (Just had reason to fight with it on not-the-usual-PC, so was reminded... it was faster to hie myself to the usual-PC, root up the link I wanted, and email it to myself from there.)

But yeah, interacting bugs are a thing.

Yeah, all problems. The djinn is out of the bottle.

Who cares, if you're the marketing department, and the person you need to convince to pay for the advertising is the manager who approves the new campaign?

There is the trouble with most ads nowadays. They're no longer aimed at selling product, only at selling ads.

Okay, that's good to know. I was wondering if something could be done with a hash and a server that would not have touched the image, so anyone could confirm it; same principle.

You're not the customer. The customer is the manager who buys the ad campaign from the marketing department.