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New comment by philistine in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

philistine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:45:27 +0000

Donald Trump was re-elected because too many voters who voted against him the last two times stayed home. That they don't approve, yet did not go vote, is the textbook definition of fine with it. America does not have a wellspring of anti-Trump voters just waiting to be awakened.

America is Trump.

New comment by philistine in "Apple WWDC 2026"

philistine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:23:11 +0000

You just have to constantly tell the LLM to give you zsh commands, not bash ones.

New comment by philistine in "Apple WWDC 2026"

philistine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:22:22 +0000

> The worst part, intentionally or not they left macOS 26 as the last release for all the Intel user.

I cannot believe that Apple is that insidious to have planned a milquetoast release to be the last one for Intel, but I totally believe that Apple is insidious enough to see how they can benefit from it.

That they're literally marketing macOS 27 as we've listened to your complaints about 26 completely deflates anyone's interest in running macOS 26 on Intel. Their Intel users are being marketed hard to switch to Apple Silicon.

New comment by philistine in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

philistine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:18:35 +0000

You do not have the right to a phone number without providing ID. If you're an American, those unwritten rights that come from other firm rights written down in laws and constitutions can always be argued, they're always being whittled down.

Rights for everyone are achieved through blood and toil, and if you truly want a right to anonymity and the digital tools necessary to achieve it, you will need blood and toil. Until then, we'll have to squeeze through fast developments that governments have yet to address.

New comment by philistine in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

philistine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:23:06 +0000

You're just arguing about marketing. Apple has moved to a One device, one OS dichotomy they will not rethink because the foldable iPhone gets a version of the iPad's multitasking. And engineering-wise, when they moved the naming to iPad OS, nothing changed behind the curtain. The iPad still runs the same codebase it did before the marketing switch. They didn't fork anything.

New comment by philistine in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

philistine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:16:18 +0000

So because their cables were subpar at one point (hint: they were bad because they got rid of insidious chemicals you don't want in your house), that means that's not their MO?

Failure at a mission statement does not mean you have a different mission statement.

New comment by philistine in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

philistine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:32:09 +0000

And it should be Facebook who’s held accountable.

New comment by philistine in "Apple WWDC 2026"

philistine — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:42:58 +0000

It was literally the first specific announcement they made after they finished their introductions. Not anything iPhone related; they announced that Liquid Glass on macOS would move towards the older design. Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond.

That and the guy who announced it last year fled to Facebook of all places.

New comment by philistine in "Apple WWDC 2026"

philistine — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:35:03 +0000

People talk about Liquid Glass as if it equal on all fronts. It's absolutely not. Apple knows which way their bread is buttered, that they can't mess up the iPhone. So Liquid Glass is fine on iOS. It's on Mac that it's a garbage fire of ridiculous design decisions.

Still the best OS around, but it looks like it was made by idiots.

New comment by philistine in "Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries"

philistine — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:59:48 +0000

That is the bane of my existence. Steam's UI is so slow to react due to its web roots, that I feel like people must be insane to think that Steam is somehow this great app. It's terrible.

I shop on GOG.

New comment by philistine in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

philistine — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:40:45 +0000

In the Enterprise, they'll fight tooth and nail to maintain that synergy. In the small business and consumer markets, people are having a very slow divorce from Windows, and Microsoft is well aware. MS365 is an ok product and can absolutely thrive on its own without Windows.

New comment by philistine in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

philistine — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:07:26 +0000

I get that this might annoy you, but there is a direct trace all the way back to the original Mac in 1984 that required a mouse. As time went on and the two other OSes we still have gained mouse support (Windows, Linux) from their keyboard roots, they brought forward their ethos of keyboard navigation. Mac OS resolutely stayed attached to its mouse only roots.

New comment by philistine in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

philistine — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:33:12 +0000

Exactly. There is this undercurrent of The End Times everywhere, that this is it. This is the end of ... everything that was. When in fact it is not the end times, and the people at those indexes want to exist longer than SpaceX.

New comment by philistine in "Elon Musk is stealing your retirement"

philistine — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:44:17 +0000

I don't believe there ever was an IPO that ever declared its addressable market was the whole white-collar workforce.

Not every white-collar worker will buy our product. No, we will become every white-collar worker in America.

New comment by philistine in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

philistine — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:31:55 +0000

You're right that more RAM would help when RAM is already low. But a good amount of RAM is good enough for a long time. But Apple solders its RAM directly on the chipset nowadays. Again, not because they're preventing you from upgrading; because that's the way they decided to achieve the performance they want without having to over-engineer their logic boards.

New comment by philistine in "MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production"

philistine — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:42:14 +0000

The white plastic Mac laptop, depending on the generation, was either called the iBook, or later the Macbook when they moved to Intel. Blame it on IBM who didn't want Apple to use PowerBook for a Mac with an Intel chip, which forced the company to rename the whole line.

New comment by philistine in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

philistine — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:39:05 +0000

Apple's chip count in their laptops is insanely low compared to the competition. They're reaping the rewards of their continued investment in simplicity. People are appalled that they don't use standard M.2 storage; Apple's thing is bespoke and incompatible. Evil Apple's trying to prevent us folks from upgrading our laptops!!

Nope. They use standard chips without a dedicated controller, because it's all controlled directly on the M-series chip, saving them a bunch of money. Which that, with the Macbook Neo, they absolutely pass the savings down to you.

New comment by philistine in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

philistine — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:33:57 +0000

You are so right, and I blame some of the thinking on this very website. People are adamant that they need to upgrade the RAM, change the storage, and replace the battery on their laptops. Adamant. All that means that you need a separate memory controller, a separate this and that. It adds up, and PC makers are forced to put in a fan.

On its face, it doesn't sound stupid at all. The thinking that you need to be able to upgrade and maintain your laptop sounds elegant. But those people, they never argue that they must be able to change the CPU. Why not? It used to be that upgrading the CPU in a laptop was a common occurence. Why don't they throw a fit that they can't upgrade the CPU?

Because technology caught up with them. CPUs are now soldered on the board, for multiple very good reasons. Coupled with the fact that a good CPU is good enough for a very long time, and no one feels the need to upgrade their CPU on a laptop. Same thing with the math co-processor, no one's arguing to be able to change that!

New comment by philistine in "LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear"

philistine — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:42:55 +0000

So our Earth was created with supposedly fake proofs that it’s much older than it really is, with no physical proof whatsoever that it is this young. A young age I might add that basically means half of civilization’s history never happened, and more than two thirds of our species’ existence.

Why? The book itself gives no reasoning or exact age for when Earth started, yet we have to believe it is fact that someone misreading that book has the exact pure date?

New comment by philistine in "LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear"

philistine — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:39:29 +0000

And thus, the creator having being able to create anything at any point, yet our world having no proof of that happening, leads you to the only logical answer: either a book of abrahamic folk tales is the fundamental law of the universe, or it’s just a book.