If a company builds touch-screen support into their OS, you expect affordances to the UI to support actually using the touch screen. If they don't want to do that, they shouldn't support that feature, that's why. This is the dumbest comment I've seen on slashdot in a long time.
I don't think everyone hates touchpads. A lot of people likely prefer them (at least the Apple ones) because they've spent so little time at desktop computers. A lot of (most?) computer users that don't JUST use touchscreen devices are on laptops. The Macbook is Apple's best selling mac, after all.
At nearly every price tier, Macs are competitive with PCs, at least when we're talking about laptops. If you spec out a $3000 Macbook Pro, you'll be hard pressed to find a PC laptop that performs as well for less money. The real difference is that Macs only come at quite discrete price points, so you might not be able to find something that's going to match your budget.
Or more like "cloud infrastructure running within physical and legal jurisdiction of the EU is running locally to the EU" if you prefer
"The only way to ensure sovereignty and control is with software running locally with NO cloud dependency."
They're not talking about personal sovereignty. Cloud infrastructure an organization owns is "running locally" to that organization.
that particular amendment was voted down, bozo - the system works, no hand wringing required
doesn't mean hate speech doesn't exist
I'm pretty sure corporations are worse for the environment than people.
You're confident in suggesting that corporations don't cater to the demand of the market, the customers of whom seems to be waiting for the heads of those corporations to take the bus before they can be bothered to stop pissing in their own pools?
Tragedy of the commons to a tee.
I don't disagree with your first point.
I don't admire billionaires at all. I don't think they should exist. Wealth disparity is unchecked.
But that doesn't prevent me from operating within my own set of principles rather than in a sort of "you first" manner, which strikes me as quite child-like.
If every wealthy person on earth did the right thing, our environment would still be fucked, because they're vastly outnumbered by non-wealthy people.
So you're stuck on a sinking boat with a rich person, and you refuse to plug a hole until he or she plugs a hole.
The funny thing, by the time you smugly drown, they've already left the boat on a helicopter. The wealthy *be definition* will not feel the effects of worsening climate. You (and your kids) will.
I think it'd be far more intellectually honest to admit you just don't care. Nothing wrong with that, per se. It's a hell of a lot more logically defendable than your stated position.
The rare AI enthusiast
Hey, I know this is the site for devs who are so old that they're out of the game or enthusiasts who wish they could call themselves developers, but AI assisted coding is just plain normal today. It's not even controversial.
In all the projects you love, hate, or don't care about. If you're developing today and not using AI at all, you're the rare developer.
I have no idea what you're doing with your phones, then.
The only Android phone that I used for any length of time was a Nexus 4 and it would die in 1 hour when I went to the pool because it would burn all of its energy desperately trying to get a signal from inside a locker.
My current iPhone 16 Pro lasts the whole day unless I'm using it actively and playing a game on it. It has notoriously poor battery life under load because it's not well cooled, but when idle? Days of battery life. I've been on trips where I've tossed it in my bag and not gotten back to it for hours, and the battery has basically not moved, even WITH the radios on.
Yes, that they're mad that you don't understand what a union is.
I'm not gonna make any claims that unions are perfect, but a union is just a way for a collection of workers to have more leverage for bargaining rights. The most prosperous times for workers in the last century have been during times of heavy unionization.
Reagan busted the unions, and with them, he busted middle-class prosperity. As is often said, we owe weekends and the end of child labour to unions.
As a long-term worker in the industry, I'd love a union, particularly if I were to go back to work at one of the huge game companies like EA (ugh) or Rockstar or Blizzard.
Fudge, obviously I meant to reply to the OP. Your post clearly has some basis in being informed on the subject.
I am obviously not an expert but... we know what happens when you remove a species from the food chain.
In other words: "I don't know what happens, but we (I) know what happens
Like, honestly, dude.
Not especially. Remember, Google pays Apple about $20 billion/year to be the default search in Safari. The reports are that Apple pays Google $1 billion for Gemini.
And if we're honest, Gemini is not the clear-cut best model, it's just that Google and Apple already have a pretty good relationship. Given the amount of Capex Google is putting into AI/Gemini, they need to make money from SOMEWHERE, and Apple is a reliable partner. I'm sure they're extremely relieved that Apple is going with them instead of Anthropic. Though, indeed, there's no reason for Apple to only rely on one vendor.
This whole thing shows that LLMs and models are already being commodified. Who knows if some of these companies will ever make their money back.
You will lose an important tape file.
