I have a japanese billfold with a little coin purse in it. The american version of the same billfold just has another set of slots for credit cards.

I guess there are a bunch of apple products that are more like accessories but i think they're very careful about the core components of the apple ecosystem, laptops, phones, and tablets. Its probably not a strategy for every business but in apple's case it gives them a reputation that lets them print money and act like every other little thing that they do is a huge deal even when it's dumb.

It's such an enviable position that the squarest MBAs in the world all started pretending to be steve jobs and for about 15 years every electronic device tried to look like apple products.

No I have the ipad pro.

Guys I'm starting to think this Sam Altman guy isn't good.

Agreed, the tablet is 90% a thin client with some local capability. I think of the unnecessarily fast cpu as a luxury accommodation and light future proofing as opposed to wasted potential.

I have played heavy games and AI on my aging-but-still-fast ipad. It's neat but anything that takes advantage of the power like that, at least on my model, sucks battery hard and makes it hot as fuck.

The ipad has largely been a laptop killer for me as my casual computing device.

A convertible macbook air might be kinda cool but it's something other companies keep doing and have been striking out since i dunno at least the late 90s. I wouldn't be shocked at all to learn apple has a closet full of prototypes but to launch something like that "the apple way" they need to deliver something that makes all the predecessors look the way windowsCE and palm devices looked after the launch of the iphone.

and that's hard to do.

Not a joke. A younger me would reel with disgust to learn that I don't want to install linux on them and configure it into a tiny beowulf cluster.

But I have a PC, some small servers, an aws account, and a drawer full of SBC computers and old android cell phones. My Apple devices serve as locked down appliances that I don't have to fuck with and that apparently offer enough privacy features to upset Google and Facebook and if I need more than that I have many ways to get it.

I will say that apple silicon is very interesting stuff but I have to admit it's not compelling enough for me to buy a mac mini to add to my collection of small servers.

Devils advocate here.

The mountain of paperwork does serve to confuse people and I do remember having to be a dick to a bunch of what were essentially sales people posing as other kinds of workers... both to get what I want and to keep them from fucking up their non-sales duties.

Favorite quote: "Yeah but you'd need to live in the house at least 5 years if that was gonna save you any money at all"
To this day I still don't understand what else I was planning to do with the house.

We basically need regulation that assumes people are morons, since we'll never get that, I settle on spreading shame. These people were sold a promise that they could have a big house, barely save anything and they could retire ... but their kids wouldn't be able to afford homes... and they were excited by that fantasy and not interested in trying to change it.

They were easy marks. They took the loans. They're also the generation that voted to deregulate everything so they could be victimized.

"one is pre owned and one will take a few minutes"
Ms shit is so bad that it should be considered negligent to use them. I guess the OSCP test got rid of linux in its simulations because people so would always go straight for the windows machines every time anyhow. It's really time we stop deluding ourselves that they're targeted because theyre so popular or the other standard industry microsoft apologetics and respond with ridicule instead of argument. This wasn't a situation that came about by logic or careful thinking and we won't get rid of windows in the enterprise that way either.

It's interesting because he was killing chickens for awhile. I wonder if this is one that was spared when he realized "killing everything you eat" is just a gross pain in the ass and actually kind of like work.

Dude there is definitely a campaign to convince people that their home is not only an investment but the best investment you could make with faint murmurs that perhaps it's even the only investment you need to make... but that would of course be your personal choice ;)

The unavailability of affordable housing is indeed much the fault of hgtv watching assholes falling for the scam and we should shame this sort of thinking.

I doubt Zuck is quite this stupid, but i do get the feeling he's the kind of guy who would casually drop amoral bombs on his friends in conversation with zero understanding that he just damaged the relationship.

A mostly fictional example of the thing I'm talking about would be like getting invited out to lunch by indian co workers, going somewhere vegan, and then telling everyone at the table that it's good that there's no meat on the menu because he's pledged to kill all meat he eats with his own hands for a year. (he did in fact make that pledge and its the only factual part of this story)... then thinking that his little experiment is obviously as interesting to everyone else as it is to him, spend the rest of the meal discussing the pros, cons, and feelings he's developed since chopping the head off a chicken first thing every morning.

These kinds of foul ups are sort of common with spergy techlords but usually they got a handle on it by zucks age and they don't have immense power. Zuck gets zero feedback from the world the way most people would.