What's wrong with passwords. I can type mine in while I'm driving. I sure as hell can't scan the phone 2 orbits around my head under ideal light conditions in order to satisfy the face/selfie unlock crap.

But honestly, why do we have accounts at all? 99% of the crap we do on our phone doesn't actually need it. Forcing people to log into web sites in order to post seems like a good idea, but really it's still full of bots and sock puppets. Tear off the bandaid and lets all just go fully anonymous. If I don't need to receive phone calls or emails on my smartphone, then let's not even bother with logins.

If companies are going to insist on tracking all my activity, I feel like we're pretty close to running AI agents sufficient to bullshit their way through registration pages, captchas, throw away SMS sites, throw away email sites, etc. How much effort remains to make an Android fork that is just a platform for anonymous browsers and apps, where I don't need to login, and if the border agent goes through it, it's just whatever trash is still in RAM since I last booted it. Hell, if someone steals it I'll have to buy a new phone, that's fine the screen on mine is cracked.

(I know, it's a fantasy. human beings want to hand all their personal information over to tech companies. It's like an addiction for most people)

A good 2/3rd of the Slack apps at my job are in-house ones. And I wrote a few for Discord for my own personal use, I have make 6 hours invested into that project. And that was without any AI. With something like Claude or Copilot, it's a 30 minute job.

Slack is going to die pretty quickly. I don't see how it will survive. I say this even though the Fortune 500 I work for uses it for everything and have almost entirely abandoned email. It's just too easy to replace now, even with our technical debt. Because again, I can just say "port this to that" and in a day the stupid plugins and bots I have that only act as glue to the actual back-end run on a new system that isn't Slack.

Not really. It's not like Company X running Service X for me is going to get a better rate for hosting than my own company can get. Why pay a third party to run software on another third party's computers? I can cut out at least one layer of middle-man and pay the CSP to host and I'll just point Ansible at it. And let AI update the playbooks.

Desktop apps. You mean where half my corporate apps are Electron and JavaScript ? Well maybe not Microsoft, but we just ditched Outlook this year. So even the MBAs are going to be using the same weird stuff that HW and SW engineering teams here.

I no longer believe that anyone has to do those things. Or rather, substantially fewer people are needed in order to do those things.

I think that it does, because most people in history bought a PC from an OEM, and the rest of us could get an OEM copy if we wanted to. Having been a Mac user up into the 040 days, and then slightly again after that, I did always appreciate the fact that Apple wouldn't even in theory hassle you about making your own copies of the System disks. But: Apple wasn't giving you anything that it didn't make sense for them to give you, and they for most of history they've charged a substantial price premium and provided inferior performance. Even today, when they actually have impressive hardware for a time longer than the moment the G5 had in the sun, they still only excel up into the mid-range, but I have to admit they're killing it there.

I paid $100 for the last version of Windows I bought (the absolutely peak Windows 7 Pro x64, for what it's worth) and I got a legit system builder's license as I was building a potato of Theseus which has evolved into the big black cube-shaped 5900X I'm using now. I could run that Windows 7 in a VM today if I want to, and I occasionally do when I need to run some kind of programmer or something — just attach a hub to the VM to solve all the awkwardness. But I haven't run either Windows or MacOS except under protest since I discovered AmigaOS and Unix at nearly the same time, in 1991.

It seems to me that there is a general lack of sanity in the world. This is only one of the most personally irritating personifications.

That's fair in general, but that still doesn't mean that you should chase every CVE immediately... I know, see above

Both things

He has the same plan for America. He'll make a few billion and everyone else is going to pay.

My favorite is the times it's told people to make a right angle turn off the side of a bridge. That's not an instruction very likely to cause harm because there's not an exit there for some idiot to take, but it's especially hilarious because there's no excuse for that.

PS2s didn't come with HDDs so devs couldn't rationally require one.

Most games after that install

Are you trying to sound like geekmux or did you forget not to?

It's hard to get that evidence, which was the point of creating a coin to profit from the presidency.

If I accept a cookie from a customer I can be cashiered, but if the president sets up an entire automated bribery SYSTEM you will make excuses for him

Die mad, cucks

That's why my Dad voted for him the first time. So run this country like Trump Entertainment Resorts or Trump University.

My family gifted me the board game Trump: The Game, back in the late 80's or early 90's. I played it five or six times. Not the worst board game. At least the components were cool, lots of plastic buildings and vaults where you could put secret bids into. Which I assume represented the illegal kickbacks and bribes necessary to operate a business according to Trump.

From TFS:

Can't manage it yourself? Pay a company for support, or "just use Debian or Yocto as their security practices are amazing."

They suck a huge amount of money out of the court system and then We The People who paid for that don't even get to find out what the outcome was? The courts sure as fuck don't work for us.

No, it isn't. We know that's not the explanation because historically, Apple did NOT give you tools and free software other companies charged for. That was not true until Mac OS X, when they finally gave away a development environment. Prior to that you had to buy a compiler from a third party, as Apple didn't even offer one.

Apple did give you hypercard for a while with classic MacOS versions, but they failed to execute on that and it eventually died. It might have been popular, but all the extensions you needed to make it do anything interesting were commercial (like you couldn't even send serial characters) so it was inferior to BASIC which you got with DOS, Windows, Amiga, Atari... well, pretty much from everyone but Apple.

Which Apple are you thinking of?