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Couldn't agree more, modern macOS is just kind of... annoying. I also don't feel like it really does much if anything better than e.g. Snow Leopard, while simultaneously performing…

Do you know what plan you are on for Protonmail? I can't see anything that would allow that many mailboxes for anything less than 288 EUR a year?

Let's not forget that Google's spam filtering racket has made it next to impossible to host your own email in any kind of practical manner, or even use many hosted email services e…

Yes. Through a combination of increased network-dependence of apps, increased pace in general of updates, system-level updates that are required for security, app updates that are …

I generally agree. MacOS appears to be stagnating in its capabilities, even if there is a constant churn of UI and features. The Human Interface Guidelines-based approach of old se…

Rotten Tomatoes is the epitome of why trusting expert ratings on their own is a bad idea. The number of times that the tomatometer is wildly off the general perception is insane, e…

I find DDG is generally good or at least good enough when the data you need is relative popular and relative well distributed around the internet. DDG falls very, very flat when it…

First comment in this thread that's hit the nail on the head with regards to why software requires maintenance. After all, if I write an algorithm, how on earth does it just stop w…

I've been on record here for as long as I can remember saying something similar in defense of Apple's laptops, and I've done something similar to you in buying (usually cheap ex-le…

I'm seeing more and more this sentiment about "not being the target group", and using it to justify crappy business decisions. Around the PPC change, Apple took the grand strategy …

I don't like your attitude here, because ultimately its harder and more expensive to mitigate against these types of failure than it has been in the past. First, on Apple devices t…

Yeah, Anandtech's dive revealed some interesting benchmark results - such as the Zen 2 4200U part being quite close in both performance and power consumption (a little higher) to t…

Well, it's more like people celebrating an electric scooter that has twice the range of the electric bike. Not saying it isn't a novel form of transport or equally useful in most c…

The issue with this is that Apple has the same problem that they have had for years - they don't really offer mainstream products. Even their most inexpensive products are on the h…

Multicore scaling on M1 doesn't appear to be as efficient as that on Ryzen - for example, the 4200U is able to beat the M1 in multicore tasks at quite a similar power draw, but get…

Sequential performance is only one facet of overall SSD performance. Some older Apple SSDs weren't the greatest at random reads and writes - it's possible these new ones are quite …

It wasn't actually that bad... Everyone likes to remember it as this massively power hungry beast with terrible performance. It was power hungry compared to what came later, but it…

One of the questions I have is just how much of their relatively recently-gained process optimisation knowledge of e.g. 14+++ will be transferrable to future node shrinks, and, wil…

They are riveted to the aluminium top case, that also contains the trackpad and a battery glued in on top of it. So... you're forced to buy all that for a keyboard - a part that is…

Absolutely this - even some aggressively optimised stuff like game engines don't have insurmountable amounts of micro optimisations in them. Also - why would Apple massively up and…

Yeah, the DTK hasn't exactly shown that Apple Silicon can outdo Intel, let alone AMD. I remain rather skeptical. I think this is a business win for Apple moreso than a technical wi…

I'm skeptical. Geekbench seems like just about the perfect use case for Rosetta 2 translation - I wouldn't be surprised if performance is close to native. If that's the case, the A…

Have you looked at the network traffic coming out of macOS lately?

Bullshit. Stop spreading false rumours. There's a big difference between counterfeit goods and refurbished goods.

You lack imagination here :) There are several solutions that could have been pursued, including introducing a completely new type and effectively duplicating the existing string l…