cerebralhawks

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.

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.

I'd want to know, in Option 1, if the killings were random or focused. Because my first thought was Dexter Morgan, a generally if not genuinely good person who has an addiction to murder, and who has chosen to focus that addiction on people who deserve to die. Those who have harmed others and gotten away with it.

The other commenter's question about snitching doesn't fully cover the concern. If you snitch on them, that's one thing, but if they're caught, you're still forever alone. So maybe the stipulation should be that they won't ever get caught unless you rat them out. I'd say option 1 is appealing in certain conditions. If innocent people are being killed though, especially women and most especially children, that is 100% a no go. Dexter Morgan situation though? I could be convinced.

Smarter men than me have said that it's better to let ten men go free who are guilty of the same thing the one innocent man is not guilty of, rather than imprisoning the one innocent man. So I'll go with just the one being set free.

Option 1 does not preclude the decisions, actions, or efforts of others to stop this killer. If I had the option of capturing him, surely others will as well.

Arguably, the question is poorly worded as Option 2 does not define what will happen to the guilty man. Will he be executed, or sent to jail? That is to ask: what does killing the innocent man gain us? Is it a question of "both must die, or neither"?

There is an implied third option here. If the only requirement of the second man be that he is innocent of the crime, assuming the person answering is as well, the third option is to make your choice — condemn the innocent man — and then switch places with him.

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.

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.

Good, but I feel like they let PG&E off with a slap on the wrist. I'm not 100% sure they were 100% responsible for that fire, but I do believe they were more negligent than they were fined for. Nothing "personal" against PG&E or anything like that but I feel like they could have had better safety regulations that may or may not have prevented that one big fire a few years back.