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realusername commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik

imcritic · 2 days ago

What's there to hate in it?

realusername · 2 days ago

It's hard to describe, when you never used a mac in your life, it feels weird with plenty of ghost inputs.

To each their own but I really don't want my laptop to imitate that.

realusername commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik

pjerem · 2 days ago

I’d say it’s barely 3 things :

- The trackpad (but other manufacturers now have tolerable alternatives and anyway you can work without it)

- The screen : at an equivalent price point (and even more), nothing comes close to Apple screens. The cheapest MacBook have a better screen than most high end PCs.

- The audio : Apple truly did some sorcery to get such an awesome sound from machines that are flat as sheet. It’s so good that you can watch a movie on your MacBook without earbuds and don’t be bothered.

Everything else like build quality is overall better than most other alternatives but a few other manufacturers are also good at it.

I say this as someone who uses a MacBook for work despite loving Linux and who hates what macOS have become. The hardware is really that good.

realusername · 2 days ago

I agree for the screen and the audio but the trackpad on the mac is significantly different from any other laptop so you either love it or hate it. Personally I hate it and would rate it similarly as a cheap laptop. My brother loves it though.

realusername commented on Why we still build with Ruby getlago.com/blog/why-we-s... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien

tayo42 · 7 days ago

For anything else you might use ruby for you can use python, so you might as well just use python.

If rails is the best at making web apps, and other ecosystems in other languages maybe get you 90% of the way, might as well use something else and not deal with ruby sucking at other jobs.

realusername · 5 days ago

I'd say that other frameworks get you 70% of the way of Rails maximum and if that's what your building, it doesn't help knowning that the language is better in other areas you won't use.

realusername commented on Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image shaneosullivan.wordpress.... · Posted by u/shaneos

cubefox · 11 days ago

That reminds me of another YouTube embarrassment: Some ten years ago, Facebook added a "translate" button to every comment. The translations were pretty bad (they used Bing Translate rather than the much better Google Translate), but it was really useful to understand people from all over the world.

You would think YouTube (owned by Google) would in short order also add such a button to comments. Haha, no. They didn't.

About a decade later, probably more, they finally implemented it, albeit only in desktop mode. Not a big deal, just millions and millions of unreadable comments for millions of users for many years. Was probably prioritized at #837,434,211.

realusername · 11 days ago

Even right now the translate button on YouTube is still broken, it doesn't depend of the languages of your account but on an inaccessible list somewhere.

You can have your translate button language different than your account language. (Which is the case for my account)

realusername commented on Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive ghacks.net/2025/08/12/aus... · Posted by u/warrenm

ggreer · 13 days ago

Apple and Google make apps exclusive all the time. They just do it by acquiring the company that developed the app, then integrating the app's functionality into their OS. Examples for iOS include Siri, Dark Sky, Shazam, and Workflow. Google did it with Waze, and failed with Sparrow, Quickoffice, and a bunch of others. Samsung did it with LoopPay (which became Samsung Pay) and Viv (from the developers of Siri), which they turned into Bixby.

realusername · 12 days ago

I wouldn't consider most of those exclusives but company titles. They also exist on the console world but are a different concept (like Halo for example)

I'm unaware of a single contract where Google or Apple paid some money to a company to keep the exclusivity like what happens on console.

realusername commented on Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive ghacks.net/2025/08/12/aus... · Posted by u/warrenm

ggreer · 13 days ago

Similar policies and pricing? You can get Android phones for much cheaper than iPhones. And many smartphone manufacturers let you run whatever you want on their devices. The largest smartphone manufacturer in the world (Samsung) ships most of their phones with two app stores, and lets customers enable side loading with a few taps.

If you're talking about policies and pricing for developers, then why not apply that argument to app stores owned by Sony, Microsoft, & Nintendo? Those are much more restrictive than anything in the smartphone world. Heck, even Steam takes a 30% cut.

realusername · 13 days ago

I'm talking from the point of view of app developers.

Sure I'm open to the idea that there's fierce competition on the hardware, on the software though, there's absolutely zero signs of it.

> then why not apply that argument to app stores owned by Sony, Microsoft, & Nintendo?

We do have signs that there's competition in the console world, if you want to make that parallel, when was the last time Google or Apple paid for an app exclusive similarly to game exclusives?

realusername commented on Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive ghacks.net/2025/08/12/aus... · Posted by u/warrenm

ggreer · 13 days ago

Apple is what, less than 20% of phone sales? So it's hard to see how that constitutes a monopoly. And if banning 3rd party apps is enough for a lawsuit, then why doesn't that apply to Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo for their game consoles? Why doesn't it apply to Amazon's Fire tablets, or Kindles, or Huawei phones, or Oculus headsets? All of those devices have similar restrictions.

Unless customers are coerced or misled, or returns/refunds are difficult, I don't see the need for government intervention. Apple's software restrictions hurt the iPhone's market share. The same goes for charging high fees for app purchases. Customers and developers can (and often do) choose other devices for being less restrictive about what software can be run on them. If an informed adult chooses a locked down platform because they prioritize other features, why should the government stop them?

I can see an argument for requiring labeling (similar to warnings on cigarettes), but a total ban seems like overreach.

realusername · 13 days ago

> Customers and developers can (and often do) choose other devices for being less restrictive about what software can be run on them

Well no, there's only two operating system with very similar policies and pricing. If there's any competition there, it's not obvious where.

The only pricing change ever made was made as a reaction of an antitrust lawsuit... Just that fact alone should be enough to raise some eyebrows.

realusername commented on Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive ghacks.net/2025/08/12/aus... · Posted by u/warrenm

whimsicalism · 13 days ago

Compared to Europe, the US has significantly more neutral enforcement of laws for domestic prize jewels. The EU, by contrast, barely enforces its own provisions (such as anti-bribery law) against shining European stars.

realusername · 13 days ago

I don't know how you got to that conclusion, every single court case against a US giant is waived in the US.

See Boeing which got pardoned recently as another example.

While not perfect, the justice system seems usually more neutral in most EU countries.

realusername commented on Fight Chat Control fightchatcontrol.eu/... · Posted by u/tokai

KennyBlanken · 15 days ago

The country is predominantly Catholic. So both prudish views on sexual content, but also wanting to pretend sexual abuse by priests in their religion, and their religion protecting those priests, isn't the problem - nope, it's the interwebs creating child abusers. That is coupled with racist fear of terrorist attacks being committed by the African and middle eastern immigrant populations.

Sure are a lot of white elephants in the room with you...

realusername · 15 days ago

There's some old influence from the religion for sure but it's nowhere as important as you think.

France is still one of the least religious countries in Europe (Czech Republic usually being the least religious and France in the second position) and people talk about sex openly like a normal subject even at work.