Don't forget Windoze.

I actually really like Safari… sometimes tabs sync across devices is buggy, reloads a lot. But other than that I’m quite content.

I'm never paying for Alexa.

They get latinum enough from datamining and privacy intrusions.

As soon as they put adverts on, or charge for the smart timer/lightswitch functionality, I'm out.

There are OSS projects and I have RasPi devices sitting around. Burn an SD, plug a mic in, off we go.

Alexa found its way into homes because it was free and does what people want. Don't screw that up, add value. Make people want to give you money. Don't tighten your grip or star systems will slip through your fingers.

What do I know though, I'm only a guy who has one or more of these things in every room of my house. SMH.

Does this include instructions on accidentally deleting a customer's account? Because that's what Google does. I don't think I want to take any advice from Google on anything.

Why use sublime over vscode

Just curious to know

Am I the only one who prefers macports over homework? And Safari over Chrome? And the default terminal.

I have a partner from an asian country that likes subtitles in her native language, but they're not always available. I wrote a PowerShell script that takes an English SRT file and feeds it to GPT4 in chunks to translate. The constraint is actually the 4K token output window because asian languages are not efficiently tokenized, so each word takes 3-4 tokens.

She said the translations are perfect.

The main issue I had was the API profanity and "safety" filter, which kept tripping up on "violence" and "swearing".

I didn't write the script, and I wasn't asking GPT to give me tips for committing murder. The puritan nannying of API users is insane.

Imagine a SQL database refusing to answer a SELECT statement because some text column had potty words in it!

>then the law will change.

If you read my comment carefully, you'll see I explicitly mentioned the DMA near the end.

>So I don’t buy Apple’s argument that developers must pay them for the core technology that the iPhone user has already paid them for.

The argument is pretty straightforward actually: the iPhone SDK is Apple's intellectual property and they can charge whatever they want. The fact that developers have to pay for Macs and iPhones to make apps and users have to buy iPhones (all of which Apple makes a margin on) is irrelevant. Copyright doesn't have a "but if you're already making money off of it you can't charge people other ways" clause. Disney makes money off of you when you watch their movie in theaters, stream them at home, buy their branded merch, and go to their theme parks. Nobody calls the royalties/licensing fees that Disney makes off of the above items a "Fleece", even though you arguably need to buy one of them to enjoy the other (would you really buy their merch if you don't watch their shows?), or that their IPs would be less valuable if one of the revenue streams didn't exist.

All of this is orthogonal to the question of what apple is doing is "fair" or whether is good for consumers/developers/apple, and I wish discussions on whatever Apple is doing wouldn't conflate what they're entitled to do vs what they should do. In other words, rather than arguing "The technology fee is a fleece, they shouldn't be charging the fee when they're already making money off developer machines and iPhones", argue "Apple is entitled to make money off their SDKs, but it'll be better for consumers/developers/apple/everyone if their SDKs were freely available". But I suspect that's less persuasive. The DMA throws a further wrench into this, because it limits what Apple can do with their IP, but given that the article doesn't try to reference any DMA provisions to support his argument, I don't think the author is interested in this line of argument.

Have you tried running Linux natively on a secureboot Surface?

If you are running Linux in a vm, both are fine.

Most people want battery life, and if someone can afford to get either of these devices, they would be better off renting their heavy compute somewhere else.