Apple only exists because of government.
Had the Clinton DOJ not attacked Microsoft they'd be long gone.
They have always been in bed with the government one way or another
That's a stretch.
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The voter base doesn't care. Federal agents are sent to a state against the governor's will, a man gets shot and killed while carrying a holstered pistol, and all the MAGA 2nd amendment republicans think this was a justified killing because he had a gun on him.
Their voter base - and not the rest of us.
There will be a reckoning - and it may originate from the most unexpected place.
This is a good point. The kernel stuff of Windows isn't really the problem.
I've been on macOS for eons, but I still hope that some day, someone at microsoft will have the balls to make a Windows Redux. Which is just Windows 7 with a coat of paint; and less stuff, installable separately; geared towards speed and not stuffings.
ReactOS has entered the chat.
Tax the ammo. Such chronic stupidity at play.
daviddever23box commented on Ask HN: Why does macOS still lack focus stealing prevention in 2025? · Posted by u/joshuak
Windows may not steal your keyboard focus, but it will block the very thing you're trying to do with useless dialogue boxes.
Notifications should be non-blocking. ALWAYS.
daviddever23box commented on Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life · Posted by u/mariogintili
Domain-specific knowledge, having no relation to software engineering per se, is a necessary skill set.
The best analogy I can find, if not a tired one, is the equivalence of software engineering to tool-and-die making.
In prior generations where manufacturing was king, it was a necessary operational skill set in order to produce things at scale, yet is much less (if no longer) relevant in the age of additive or subtractive manufacturing, where quantities can be varied according to immediate requirements.
Along the same lines, a skill set in traditional software engineering is less enamored in the age of AI agents that can better regurgitate boilerplate code.
The corresponding next-level-up analogy is the tool-and-die maker that learns 3D modeling + additive manufacturing, with FE analysis and CNC skills as a fallback. For software engineers, it's AI agent prompt engineering and data modeling, according to use cases defined by business needs.
You need to put on your entrepreneurial hat and figure out how to do things faster, with greater accuracy, relevant to business needs - not navel-gazing at package management and build automation exclusively.
This is, of course, an extremely naïve view of the state of things, though I cannot imagine, as a generalist, how one could survive with increasingly niche skills that, a decade ago, would have commanded six-figure salaries.
Good luck!
daviddever23box commented on I'm returning my Framework 16 yorickpeterse.com/article... · Posted by u/YorickPeterse
The photos are just meant to illustrate the difference to the reader, not to be anything scientific. Of course manual calibration is ideal, but having a somewhat sensible default calibration isn't much to ask for and is in fact something many other laptops do just fine.
Problem is, display profile support for Wayland has been, at best, spotty until recently - and, there should be multiple accurate targets available on any good display panel.
My factory-seconds F13 (using 11th-gen Intel, still the best in terms of power savings) shipped with the older glossy display, which had a known, disclosed-as-cheaper LUT issue at lower brightness settings. After a couple of calibration rounds, it is spot-on and my go-to PC laptop.
Decent keyboard, too.
Of course, things are often more expensive in Europe (compared to the US) for zero good reason, so the F16 will always be at a proportional disadvantage compared to the F13. You may find that a much better fit.
daviddever23box commented on Mullvad VPN: "The EU Commission wants to save metadata” mastodon.online/@mullvadn... · Posted by u/janandonly
Wouldn't that violate GDPR regulations?
(London. On some of my relatives.)