FWIW, there are lots of comments here calling you a sucker (or saying words to that effect without the name calling), and I'm here to say the opposite.

I think it's good that you have an independent sense of what's 'right' and 'wrong' for you to do, and you follow your internal moral compass on big decisions in your life. Your personal integrity should not depend on the integrity of who/whatever it is you're dealing with.

Hats off to TSMC. Spinning up a new factory with processes this complex is very difficult, as anyone with manufacturing experience can confirm.

Raycast

- Replaces Spotlight for opening applications

- Replaces Magnet for window management, same features but don’t have to run a separate app now.

- keeps a clipboard history

- allows me to convert colours and units

- integrates with my calendar to show me upcoming meetings, shows them in my menu bar and lets me join them with one click

- allows me to prevent my Mac from sleeping (for certain durations) with caffeinate command

- has a variety of plugins available

Probably forgetting a lot of things I use it for, but even without the premium features I use it all the time.

I love remote work but when it’s async I find things go a lot slower. Sometimes you need someone to quickly accept your PR and if they just went to bed because of TZ differences your project is delayed a full day.

Not so long ago, we advised the end user to patch everything as soon as possible, and depend on auto-patching as much as possible. The risk of their devices becoming hacked was much higher than the damage of software breaking, and big vendors worked on dependable patching.

Now the world evolved to the point that patches shamelessly remove features or install adware. Even the big names are incompetent enough to cause damage on a regular base. Meanwhile, the internet learned to deal with botnets as a fact of living.

So, assuming you live in a country where identity theft isn't much of a problem, and assuming regular and working backups are implemented, I start to wonder if it isn't time to review our best practices: Don't allow anything on the internet unless it really should (get a good enough firewall), don't run as root or administrator unless you have to, but also disable automatic updates, and do manual updates when a patch is out for 2 weeks and has proven not to cause more trouble than good.

So what's your opinion? How should a non-techy deal with today's landscape?

For coding I've been using it as an assistant, not a replacement. I don't see why writers couldn't do the same, and be more cost effective and produce higher quality output than either alone.

For anyone who doesn't know, Shift + Command + / will let you search the menu bar. It'll show you which menu/sub-menu a command is under.

I wonder what's good for making holes in plastic? I've had bad luck using drills since it can melt the plastic and gunk up the bit.