Nothing really new here. I hated homework when I was a kid, too, and I still think it’s pointless. More work after eight hours of work, sure…

A Thinkpad Compact Keyboard II. It’s really nice to type on. Only the stock feet are trash and break easily, but there are a lot of people 3D-printing more durable replacements.

[Everyone liked that.]

(except the pro AI trolls, but they’re up for a rude awakening anyways)

Absolutely! I was forced to work on a Mac with a Magic mouse at my first job. There was no place for my fingers to rest comfortably. I had to hover them above the mouse or otherwise the thing would always detect inputs I didn’t want.

Combined with its minimal height, it gave me quite a lot of pain. I don’t know how people can work with this atrocity.

The charging is a meme at this point, it’s really absurd. Thank god I don’t work for a boss who’s an Apple cultist anymore.

I use a keyboard with an inbuilt trackpoint. I never have to move my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse, it’s really amazing.

The worst input method is definitely a touchscreen, directly followed by Apple’s magic mouse and touchpads.

The girl who plays Eleven looks like she’s 50 now

That’s what being Drake’s friend at the age of 14 (when he was 33) will do to you.

“You know we text – we just texted each other the other day and he was like “I miss you so much” and I was like “I miss you more”. He’s coming to Atlanta, so I’m definitely gonna go and see him and I’m so excited.”

Seven years later, and it’s still disgustæng.

So I badgerbadgerbadgerbadger which was the mushroom mushroom at the time.

Land of the free!*

*excluding free healthcare

Well…looks like my employer will have to buy me a Macbook soon.

there’s not a lot that non-Apple users can do with them

Oh, there is.
I am a web developer and I use this to run Safari and the iOS simulator without paying Apple’s “debugging tax”.

And depending on how OpenAI tweaked it this time it will either realize its mistake after being made aware of it or double down even harder on it.

I only use it for coding and it once told me my code not working was due to a bug in Webkit, so I asked it which bug specifically. It created links to bug reports but rewrote the titles of them. So initially it looked like it had numerous sources that backed up its statement but when I clicked on them those were bugs about totally different things.

It would not back down even after I specifically told it “You just made all of this shit up and even rewrote the titles” and got stuck in a loop of “I’m sorry, but you’re wrong and I am 100% sure I haven’t made a mistake”.

Kinda creepy. Especially when you think about the system rewriting reality when it comes to much more important things. Let’s just reinvent some history, that would be a good idea, right?

Thought this was an Alien: Earth quote, but that was actually “When is a machine not a machine?”.

You shall not pass data!

This is so disturbing lol 😵‍💫

Yep, apart from the bugs that really annoys me, too. To effectively debug an issue on iOS, you need an iPhone and connect it to a Mac (or iPad) to use the debug tools.

Every other browser can be run on a typical PC. You can even emulate Android, run Firefox and Chrome and just get cracking. I’m not getting paid to buy an expensive device to do my work, lol.

Michael MJD tested the AOL Desktop six months ago. It was surprisingly competent and got regular updates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUsym8iAWHY

Websites won’t be tested properly on Safari anymore

They only have to be tested on Safari specifically, because it’s doing some things differently from Mozilla and Chrome. I guess Apple will finally have to use their money to actually fix those issues with their own engine, so people will prefer using it. Oh no, all of that hard-earned cash! /s

(As a web developer, I despise Safari, sometimes with passion. At least we finally got rid of IE and that non-Chrome Edge shitshow by now.)

Mozilla said last time they don’t want to maintain two variants of their browser. So unless Apple finally decides custom browser engines are allowed worldwide, a real Firefox probably won’t happen.

I doubt the EU and Japan have enough traction to change Apple’s mind on this issue.

Watership Down.

Let me tell you about our lord and saviour GrapheneOS