Being that its a mac, Apples Pages and Numbers apps are surprisingly functional software and I havent found many Doc or XLS files it cant open and work with.

Obv not going to be great for folks who use the more powerful features of office. But I *believe* they are free.

And yeah Libreoffice is reasonably functional too, even if it does feel a little arcane at times.

It's a great speech. Here it is in full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Wozniak is wrong. We live in a time which punishes non-conformity through jobs and social standing. It's bad advice for the majority of graduates. For every Amelia Earhart, there are ten cat lady Janes. Most people want to believe they're unique while they read and write the same social media and get the same tattoos.

Our current systems are overwhelmingly unsustainable. Maintaining the status quo means ensuring our collective demise.

("Lemme tellya a story about Eve & the REAL Apple 1" is supposed to be the title. Slashdot's UI let me put in the whole thing, then cut it off.)

The summary left out his best line. Something like:

"Our engineers figured out how to create a brain. It takes 9 months."

Woz truly is one of the greats. And I am going to leave this here: the $2 bill story: https://www.coinbooks.org/esyl...

This guy is a class act. It's no wonder he had "less success". The people who most people praise are really not good people.

Better local on your phone than in a data center.

"Siri should finally be able to understand more personal context, have on screen awareness, and be able to take action in apps for you. This'll finally be made possible thanks to Apple's new partnership with Google, where Apple will be using Gemini-diffused models hosted on Private Cloud Compute to power Siri"

So, basically Apple is marketing existing tools as Apple and Siri? The good thing about selling AI is that most consumers don't understand what's happening underneath the chatbot interface, so Apple can claim to be making AI innovations, and some people will believe it.

Laugh and say that we should use our Actual Intelligence.

With AI, the mismanagement that leads to human trainwrecks is built right in! They can hit the wall faster than ever before!

Apple doesn't actually have a product that directly competes against the Surface Pro tablets. Despite some of the recent improvements, iPad OS is still quite limiting. That being said, some people do manage to perform "real" work on iPads, if everything you're trying to do is compatible with Apple's ecosystem.

Here's the harsh reality: AI doesn't work. You can spend days cajoling AI into doing something correctly and spend days reviewing the bad code over and over until it gets it right or you can spend days writing the code. On average, the time savings are minimal, and the cost in terms of code understanding is enormous, resulting in less and less maintainable code over time until you eventually end up having to throw the whole thing away and rewrite it from scratch at an enormous cost.

If they weren't ripping people of with every purchase there would no need for a "discount". I was the "guy" who was forced to replace our really nice Commodore Pet computers with that crApple BS in HS. Apple never did anything for the schools that they didn't get paid for. Their software SUCKS, their networking SUCKS. In an effort to be "cool" and trendy apple has made supporting their stuff annoying time consuming.

$100 off for education on the hugely popular Mac. Seems like that's just too tempting even for honest people.