I get that apple products work for people who don't know what they are doing and only have one computer, but Apple has never been very good at anticipating the needs of the professional. I'm frankly surprised some companies use them.

No matter what the humidity, at 42.5 degrees you are cooked. It's only going to get worse too.

Apple will keep jacking up prices too, due to AI taking all the RAM and flash.

But isn't this a massive upheaval and cost for you? Switching from managing Chromebooks to Macbooks, switching software suites, dealing with all the different IT problems that arise from MacOS etc?

If I get a hint of automation, I start saying "Talk to an agent" and don't stop.

No, I mean because I care about Slashdot and having an interesting, insightful debate here. I know, I'm expected too much, but it happens sometimes.

We are going through a transition where these tools are just becoming available and a massive number of bugs are being fixed, but in future they will be standard for software developers as part of the QA process.

I fully agree, but I do think this might actually be an improvement for customers, at least in some cases.

I've been talking to some AI chatbots for a couple of companies I have been dealing with, to get stuff sorted out. They are much better than multiple choice menus or the old dumb chatbots that just scan for keywords and then print out an FAQ entry. I don't need to guess the special magic words to make them do what I want, and if they are doing down slightly the wrong path I can correct them.

The ones I have used hand off to a human when necessary. I'm sure that will get enshittified, but at least for now I find they are more reliable at either resolving the issue for me, or at least getting the right information to the right people to get it resolved.

I hate to admit it but my experience with online AI customer support bots has been the opposite - they understand my questions more quickly and comprehensively than human support and usually deliver me the answer I was seeking.

I didn't say that. I said a car wouldn't work for me. . That goes for ICE cars too. Don't make things up.

I don't have a side here. I use both Windows and Linux. Windows pisses me off, Linux pisses me off.

What I care about is how it's hard to have an honest conversation about any of this stuff without it becoming a Microsoft hate-fest or ridiculous assumptions about open source being somehow inherently more secure.

Yeah, I know, no EV will ever work for you, you simply must emit CO2 and dump pollution into other people's lungs, 6 minutes and saving time by not going for petrol is just something you can't abide. Give you convenience or give you death.

Ok but a car wouldn't work for me. Nor do I want to pay extra for "long range" since I don't have to do that for an ice.

Yeah, I'm asking which model of Ioniq have 6 seats? I thought they were all 5, so maybe your definition of a seat is different and actually there are a lot more cars that fit your needs.

Anyway, no charging at all on a day trip... Well, 6 hours of driving and 6 minutes of charging seems reasonable to me. I'd have filled up a fossil car too, maybe the day before and again after or something, which would doubtless have cost me more than 6 minutes total time. Not that it cost me any time because I needed to pee anyway.

You have to be realistic, not just arbitrarily set the bar slightly above where you think EVs are today.

My parameters were: 1. No more than 55k, 2. Seats six, 3. Not have to charge on a day trip.

I need to own a large car because I go grocery shopping once a week and bring two large dogs with me (80 lbs and 120lbs). They are really squished with groceries in the crossover.