Some teachers want to make students’ lives better. A few teach because they failed at something. Without knowing a thing about you and assuming your story is fact, it’s possible your teacher is jealous of you and invented some slights to hold against you and it went too far.

I once embarrassed a computer teacher and he made up lies about me. Nothing sexual though. I did have to deal with him on his terms. It wasn’t fair but being a kid usually isn’t. I won though. I graduated, I moved on.

As he should be. Creatives can comfortably use all major platforms, but Apple seems to cater to them. I don’t know what the actual benefit is aside from maybe community, but you can have that regardless of platform.

The video itself. It’s about how good one YouTuber is and how opportunistic another is. IDGAF about YouTube drama. I just wanted to see the new Audacity (and I kinda did). The rest is just noise.

Why?

Are we so used to privacy being up for sale that we just roll on it? Nah, screw that.

If Donald Trump can fix the Middle East, that is what he will be remembered for, for centuries. That’s how important it is.

I do not believe that good and smart people can do it, let alone Trump, but it he’s anywhere near sincere in his efforts, credit where it’s due (but in the context of all the horrible things he’s done).

Why TF do Kindles and the like even need to exist? I read on my iPhone while the audiobook is playing. I want a smaller phone and maybe an iPad mini for reading/media.

I mean, I get it. “Reading without the distractions.” But Do Not Disturb and self control are a thing and have never been a problem for me. I can either enable DND, or I can swipe away emails (or deal with them and come back) as they come in. This isn’t rocket science. And my iPhone drops to 1Hz so while it’s not eInk, it’s good enough. I love the dark mode but black on sepia is more natural.

Sounds like spin to me.

That said, the dark theme looks nice, and I’m glad they support macOS. I use Audacity from time to time, but I’m not a producer or anything. The current version is fine, my only complaint is it’s too dang bright. Same could be said of a couple tools in my toolkit but I don’t complain because I have a Mac and these developers target Windows first because they have to and Linux second because that’s either what they use, or what they like. Mac users have kind of always been the third wheel? It’s not free, it’s not tied to hardware, and it’s not tied to gaming, buying a computer from an old school computer company that doesn’t sell your data to the highest bidder (like Microsoft and Google do) and isn’t particularly concerned with gaming is just… well, not many people’s cup of tea. And that’s fine, we like what we like and we appreciate what we get.

Surprising virtually no one. Tim Cook’s legacy won’t be sales numbers or new products (e.g. Vision Pro), it’ll be bowing to an unlawful king and dictator in the name of protecting profit, and putting that over people.

Not that I envy Cook’s position. He’s gay, which makes him a target of the current administration. Also, their business is based on importing goods from countries the administration wants to punish. And his job is increasing profit. He’s doing a good job of that despite the odds being stacked against him. Still, right is right and wrong is wrong. Tim Cook will not be remembered fondly, except perhaps by the administration. And the shareholders — but I repeat myself. The working class isn’t investing in Apple or anything but their own grocery bills.

Meanwhile, I’m pretty sure a website that could be accessed by users of any phone platform should still work, until it get seized by the administration… so maybe it could be, I dunno… federated? Is that a word?

Ssh… some of the fandroids still believe they have headphone jacks, memory cards, back buttons, and sideloading.

They still do have sideloading for another year or so.

But I’s sure when Google has taken away all the things that made Android different from Apple, they’re going to stop collecting your user data and selling it to the highest bidder now that Android flagships are more expensive than iPhones? I’m so sure they will… Any time now. /s

Microsoft sold the acquisition as good for consumers. Now they’re doubling the price of GamePass.

Cue Jack’s lack of surprise, or however the Fight Club meme goes.

A Nintendo Switch running Animal Crossing. Assume it has some kind of perpetual battery, and they can figure out how to operate it/play the game, and read our modern English.

I’m thinking they figure modern civilisation is about (or back to) fishing and farming… and that animals are intelligent. Like validating TF outta the Egyptian pantheon. You’re a human but you have a dog for a neighbor, here’s a koala, a gorilla, an eagle… and they all talk and wear clothes.

(Of course, if we wanna blow their minds with a game AND we can assume they can play it, why not just go straight to Cyberpunk?)

I cautiously agree, I feel like I’d be fine with Ubuntu… but I’m also tech savvy. So I have to be cautious I do not assume my expertise is shared by others. What might be a speed bump for me might be a show stopper for someone else.

I work with people who don’t understand why my iPhone has features theirs don’t, looks differently from theirs. Like I’m some kind of hacker. Um, no, I just installed the Liquid Ass update last month. I mean that’s when it was publicly released. I’ve been in the public beta since July. But users have had access to it for nearly a month. But just doing a system update is beyond some people. They gotta be walked through it.

If you don’t disable it, they always have.

My Android phone isn’t my primary and does not have an active SIM in it (it’s WiFi only), but my Firefox has no ads, and blocks all the ads (that I’ve encountered at least). iOS… is iOS. I mainly use Safari there, but, that’s a whole other story. Suffice it to say, I don’t have this problem on either handset.

Honestly, tell them to get a Mac. It runs certified UNIX. You get to think it’s cool, they get to get by not caring what that means. The M4 Mac is like $500 and it kicks the tar outta PCs that aren’t meant for gaming. Even still, it can run Cyberpunk. But it’s not a gaming machine and shouldn’t be viewed as one.

In my experience, while Linux has never been hard for me to use, the problem you’re going to run into in telling your friend or family member to install this cool free hacker OS or whatever it is you try to sell it as, the second they run into a problem, they’re going to come to you to fix it.

That said, I’d tell them to install Ubuntu if I wanted to take on that level of responsibility. By telling them to just get a Mac, I’m doing a few things. One, I’m getting someone out from under Microsoft’s thumb. Maybe you don’t think Apple is much better, but they’re a lot better. Maybe not the best, but a fine alternative to Microsoft. Two, I’m making them a customer of a company that has good tech support. “Call them, not me, you got a free year of AppleCare, use it!” Three, I’m turning them on to a good computer.

Someone who needs help installing Linux is not going to be a self sufficient Linux user who will contribute in any more a meaningful way other than metrics (which aren’t tracked by a lot of distros). Someone who is those latter things won’t really need your help installing it, but they may come to you for advice on which distro to go with.

I’m not saying Linux is only for computer geeks and scientists, though it does attract that sort. I’m not saying new people shouldn’t be introduced to Linux, just that they shouldn’t be pushed in the deep end and expected to swim. Because now you’re either a lifeguard, or you’ve contributed to a bigger problem — helping them to navigate from Linux to something like Windows or macOS (and now they trust you less).

I think it depends on the ISP. There are a few small ones that do not GAF what you do. I’ve been told “we do not care what you download, we only care that you can.” There are a few big ones that are too big to care what people do on their network.

That said, you should always take precautions. A VPN is a good place to start.

I can see it. They got caught in your use of from, which isn’t even incorrect. Via would have been a better word, but from works here just as well.

They’re reading it as you’re talking about pirating content that is owned by (from) your ISP, not what you meant, which is talking about pirating content from behind or via or even using your ISP. I guess through would have worked, too.

But the difference between me and them is, while I realise another word would have worked better, I understood exactly what you meant and didn’t think it was an issue. Though I admit I thought the first thing… at first. Hey, it’s early.

I’m sure there’s some FUD there too. I mean it sure sounds like it, right?

But batteries are consumable products, and they do go out.

I want to like EVs and I believe they are good for the environment. I also cannot afford one.

Given the political climate, you should have clarified that ICE doesn’t mean border patrol in this context, but rather Internal Combustion Engine. I haven’t finished my first cup of coffee yet, and I had to think for a second.

Anyway, vehicles don’t just up and quit. They can break down for a variety of reasons but can generally be repaired. However, batteries are a consumable resource. My battery might cost $200 to replace. An EV’s battery is much bigger, and might cost $20,000 to replace. Of course it’s going to last longer, but over time its capacity will diminish and eventually it will need to be replaced. At that point it might be more economical to buy a brand new EV, because like with any other vehicle, you don’t know what else is going wrong with it.

YouTube is not doing good. I get flickering on Apple TV. On my Mac videos play without sound (computer isn’t muted) or they take way too long to load. Granted I don’t pay, but wow. Google is not doing so well.

Okay but how does that work? I have a “fossil fuel” car that is paid for. If I buy an EV, now I have a car payment I can’t afford, and when that car gets paid off, it’s time for a new battery — which is basically gonna mean car payments for life.

Is recharging them free? I was never quite clear on that. I mean where are you saving money if you’re making car payments in perpetuity?