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The tools I love are made by awful people

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Re: The tools I love are made by awful people

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Post by kcplate »

mrguyorama wrote: post #148
thefz wrote: post #108

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> The new Macbooks have amazing hardware Hm. You can't really repair or upgrade them, so you don't own the hardware at all. That's far from amazing.

People who insist Apple makes good hardware are falling for marketing. Apple historically has had constant engineering poor choices and bad designs and outright flaws that they just never acknowledge, and for some reason people take that as "good". Back in the day, Apple laptops used to cook and kill themselves with poor GPU heat management. Several versions of macbooks shortened a display cable such that it would de…

As I said in another comment, I just bought my third MacBook since 2008. 8.5 years on average so far is what I get out of these laptops.

All of the things you say may be true, but I have never needed to repair one and in that time I travel constantly and generally have beat them to hell with daily use. My milage may vary of course, but what in theory might be poor and bad design decisions didn’t materialize to poor quality in my experience.

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Post by ethbr1 »

ninetyninenine wrote: post #179
ethbr1 wrote: post #128

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It's the worst system of government, except for all the other ones.

It’s not. There are centralist countries that do better than Americans. I’m not criticizing democracy. It works and has good sides and downsides compared with say communism. But man does democracy like communism come with major downsides. The question is why is democracy worshipped? Don’t worship it. It’s one side of complex 6 sided die. I was going to say one side of a coin but the situation is much more complicated…

Which non-democratic, centralist countries would you say that of?

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Post by int_19h »

adastra22 wrote: post #133
apercu wrote: post #126

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Oh yea, the billionaire and shareholder class can totally be incentivized to be good global citizens. /s

Yes, make it so they get more money by being better citizens. That’s the only way it will ever work. I fail to see the sarcasm here.

They won't be good citizens so long as there is a considerable power disparity that is enabled by them having a lot more money. Giving them even more money would only make things worse.

Re: The tools I love are made by awful people

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Post by int_19h »

dismalaf wrote: post #153
mrguyorama wrote: post #149

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Always love how arrogant Linux users are: "You can't possibly experience something different from me" I wanted to make a genuine effort to get into using Linux because it's the only OS I'm not super comfortable admin'ing. I bought a secondhand Lenovo t440 and installed Linux Mint on it. Everything seemed to work well, boot was nice and quick, no issues with WiFi chipset or sleep and battery life was at least okay. It…

Not going to lie, Mint is a buggy POS and the fact anyone recommends it at all is a travesty. It's so bad it makes me think it's sponsored by Microsoft to sabotage new users. Mint basically takes a years old Ubuntu, then an even older fork of a DE, uses an abandoned protocol then rolls it together and adds even more bugs to it. It's honestly one of the worst distros that exists. Ubuntu, Fedora and (open)Suse are the…

Funny you should say that. I just tried to install some recent Linux distro on my Thinkpad two days ago. Fedora 42 wouldn't even install because apparently the installer doesn't support boot partition located past the 2Tb boundary, and that laptop has a 4Tb SSD with the first 2Tb used up by Windows. The error was completely incomprehensible, though.

Mint, OTOH, installed just fine and is working great.

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Post by ninetyninenine »

ethbr1 wrote: post #182
ninetyninenine wrote: post #179

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It’s not. There are centralist countries that do better than Americans. I’m not criticizing democracy. It works and has good sides and downsides compared with say communism. But man does democracy like communism come with major downsides. The question is why is democracy worshipped? Don’t worship it. It’s one side of complex 6 sided die. I was going to say one side of a coin but the situation is much more complicated…

Which non-democratic, centralist countries would you say that of?

China. The country dominates the US in many many ways because of centralized decision making.
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