BJW

Oh, no! Not generative AI! Won’t someone please think of the children?!

What would the fly even wear? Most outerwear would interfere with their wings.

I leave my phone on do not disturb, all of the time. I make it a point to tell people that when I give out my number, so they never expect an immediate answer or response. The phone is there for my convenience, not so others have me at theirs.

It’s the same reason I regularly hand out death threats to people eating meat, driving cars, and creasing the corners of books as a bookmark. It’s imperative that they know I’m judging them, and I’m really important, so they need to be threatened with death on the regular for not agreeing with me.

OPEN WIDE FOR SOME SOCCER!!!

Looks like he bent a paper clip to restore the bounce to the clip that springs open to hold the keyboard up at an angle, which is better for your wrists than typing on it while it’s flat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah the cow is back! Back, back, back from it’s magical journey.

Weird. I could have sworn it said New Year’s Eve. Must not have been fully awake yet.

Why is New Year’s Eve listed twice?

Oh! Gotcha. She was “at your back.” Sorry for the unintended criticism, I assumed it was a typo I was teasing about.

Were you giving her a piggy back ride?

What a stupid thing to say. The shooter is included in “all of us.”

This was my introduction to this song, and for the longest time I thought it was original content.

The fact is this was my first, and now only, ever experience with Apple. I’ve never had development locked to the whims of a third party before. I had no idea they had the ability to lock me out of using it because the entire idea is absurd. The reason the analogy is not perfect is that no other company requires you to buy a new piece of their hardware every seven years to develop. I purchased for Apple the same way I buy the rest of my hardware: buy powerful hardware so it lasts a long time without needing to upgrade.

This is a problem entirely of Apple’s own making, exclusive to only Apple, and it’s a problem designed specifically to extract more money from people. That’s why it was my worst tech purchase ever, and one I will never repeat.

WTF. Do you work for Apple? What EVIDENCE do I have that I expected my hardware that I bought for over $3,000 to continue functioning until it died? My evidence is my experience with every piece of electronics I have ever owned from every other manufacturer up until that point.

I can still connect to Xbox Live on my Xbox 360, giving it a lifespan, so far, of 21 years.

Knowing what can be expected from Apple is exactly why I won’t ever buy an Apple product again, and warn anyone who mentions them that they’re buying a ticking time bomb and Apple holds the donator, which they will use for the explicit purpose of extracting more money from people, even while the hardware is still working.

Apple is also the ONLY company that charges an annual fee on TOP of their exorbitant hardware costs for the ability to develop apps for their hardware. They’re also the ONLY company that demands you own their brand of hardware to publish apps. Google doesn’t force developers to use a Chromebook to publish Android apps, and Microsoft doesn’t force developers to use a Windows machine to publish Windows apps. Samsung doesn’t demand you develop apps for the Samsung marketplace on a Samsung device.

This is literally only an issue with Apple, and it’s entirely of their own creation. Apple is unrestricted and blatant in their greed, and I’ve learned they’re not shy about it at all. I no longer participate in any of their ecosystems and never will again.

It’s simultaneously the shortest lifespan of any electronics I’ve ever purchased while also being the most expensive, by a considerable margin. Not a great combo no matter how you attempt to spin it.

Then I must have the model wrong - I’m traveling currently, and don’t have it with me. Whichever model it is, it does NOT have the option to update. I’m stuck on MacOS 15.7.5

A 2019 MacBook Pro, and for $3,000+ I was expecting to use it until it died - not until Apple decided I couldn’t use it anymore. I personally don’t consider less than seven years to be “a very long time,” especially when paying over $3,000.

Linux is great, but it won’t allow me to use it for the sole purpose I bought it - publishing iOS apps.

I was told doing so ran the risk of getting your published iOS application blacklisted if Apple detected you were circumventing their greed, so it wasn’t worth the risk.

The 2019 MacBook Pro that I paid $3,000+ for after taxes and shipping, but looking at the hardware specs I was mistaken on the core count. It has a i9 Intel CPU with 8 physical cores, and 16 logical. More than enough power for software development if Apple wasn’t such a greedy entity.