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The Neo success is heavily about Microsoft grabbing all the data and syncing everything to their servers and using dark patterns. The macbook neo is antiWindows not anti PC. The new Dell is nice, but it runs Windows so all that data grabbing dark pattern privacy ruining crap is under the hood.

Mac Neo is the anti KGB device in a svelte shell. It is a long term strategic play and nothing running Windows will compete against it because Windows is the cancer.

Windows PCs will continue their decline unless Microsoft gives up its privatized KGB aspirations. Active Directory will not carry them forever once enough of the younger generation use Mac for data possession and privacy, meaning all their bits including passwords are not dark pattern snarfed by the OS.

Windows is horrific. Mac Neo is to Windows what Keanu Neo was to the Matrix. It does't even matter how much better PC hardware could be at the same price point since the Windows is basically a conduit to storing all your data and private info on Microsoft's computer instead of yours. Microsoft is even driving that dark pattern crap into the professional space and automatically grabbing passwords etc. via Edge.

They are committing long slow seppuku and do not realize it because Office 365 is letting them bilk enterprise customers, but the IT world knows that dark pattern crap portends a change in vendor eventually.

You can't even stop edge from syncing enterprise admin credentials on the latest versions. It is like getting violated by Microsoft every day where they beat you and take your password book if you are enteprise admin.

Microsoft has gone to the dark side so far they are broom handling their enterprise admin customers with dark pattern credential grabs and no way to know where the data sits.

Bring on the Neos and an alternative to AD. Windows 11 and their new direction of hovering, copying and moving all data is such a betrayal of ethical system administration from when they were young. It will take a decade, but Neo is here now. It has begun.

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Apple doesn't have to do anything because it's already unix

Which doesn’t make it Linux, which is what op wants. It’s based on a BSD-based mach kernel. You might as well say someone asking for Linux should just run Irix, because hey, it’s UNIX!

well it's a hell of a lot closer than wsl

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I found this video [0] recently by Casey Muratori that really helped me understand why Windows is the way that it is.

It's about Conway's law in software development and software architecture, but he explains it with anecdotes about Windows, like how vendor communication challenges lead to 4 different volume sliders.

I would pass on an expensive heavy-partnership Windows device.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY

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Printers are complex robots, require frequent supply refills, and are high touch interactions with people. (people printing things wrong, people misusing printing resources, managing quotas for same, etc.) It's not just firmware.

It's 100% just firmware + crappy business model. Printers are hardly "complex" - a few very standard gear/roller/sensor based mechanisms we've built for 4 decades pretty identically with hardly any innovation. Besides far more complex frequent-use devices don't have such shit problems and experience. Nor is "you're out of blue ink, you can't print this b&w document" or "you didn't install the official $50 cartridge,…

You're talking about printers at home. We're talking about printers at work.

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Not an EE but I'll add an anecdote as a user. I went through a period of using a Macbook Pro with a dock. At the time the best option seemed to be the Caldigit TS3. It's a sleek device but luckily someone else was footing the bill because: - 3 of them failed on me. THREE; - You really learn how bad cables are. I got in the habit of ordering 2-3 at a time because experience taught me that at least 1 of them would be b…

I’m a little surprised to see how much trouble people in this thread have had with the Cal Digit TS3. Mine works pretty well — have used it with three Intel MacBooks in the past and now currently two different Apple Silicon MacBooks. One of the Intel MBPs did not like it. Would reboot every time I unplugged it from the dock. I blamed that MacBook for that one, since nothing else was ever a problem. I sent every crash…

Apple’s AMD GPU driver had issues gracefully handling hot plugging monitors via thunderbolt. It reliably panic’d every other time I plugged in my ‘19 16” machine to a thunderbolt 3 dock.

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> I can recall the horror on reading articles how Raspberry Pi boot was working I am confused by this comment. RPi is legendary for their driver support. A large portion of the company is dedicated to it. I would say this is the primary reason that they can fend off cheap clones from China, whereas 3D printers are all but defeated at this point.

The bootloader boot/process however is not related to driver support. Not that I know what's nightmarish about it in the Pi.

The Pi is really a GPU with a CPU added on so the whole system needs to be brought up by the (binary blobs for running the) GPU. Hopefully not the case in these more PC-like systems...
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