Oh right y’all get Toyotas with turbos. Those still use way too much fuel, but at least they have decent power compared to anything Japanese that I see.

I’m firmly in the “300ish horses should still net me 50 mpg” camp lol

Is that… a good thing?

Driving German cars has lead me to expect better fuel economy and more power out of an engine. I’m in my first ever Japanese car (Subaru Outback) and man is it horrible, I’m spending twice as much on fuel if not more. The difference in fuel costs per month is roughly what my lease payment was on my Mercedes since I live in a country where we have to pay actual money for fuel lol

YouTrack is less horrible than jira and can be on prem.

lmaoooo

Yes, but you have to know that they do. They only advertise 365 on their website.

Might just be my experience, but men put in more effort. Probably because women are more desirable so they don’t really need to.

It is. Remember when they just made a new version every 3 years and you didn’t REALLY need to buy the latest one if you had the previous one?

Well that didn’t make them enough money.

Hmm, how’s Switch piracy these days? If I’m emulating, I’m probably not going to be paying for games either since I can’t have physical copies

I don’t get how a Steam Deck is a replacement for a Switch tbh.

You buy the Switch to play Nintendo games mostly, though it’s nice that you can take it with you.

You buy the Steam Deck because you can take it with you and it has a huge library - but it has no Nintendo games, so it fails to scratch that one particular itch.

2009 is newer than what I was referring to anyway. But also, that’s a super easy Mac to repair, the only non-Apple laptops I’ve found to be easier were the G1-G2 HP Elitebook 800 lineup and T series Lenovos up till like 2015.

And a quick eBay check will find the other motherboard

Not worth ordering, nor storing. The correct answer for that other model is that you just dump it in the trash after destroying the drive.

It’s easy to stock parts for most Macs when you’re running a refurb shop. With other laptops, you only have parts for the top 3 or 4 models per manufacturer because the rest aren’t worth the time or effort. It’s all waste when there’s something model specific that’s gone bad.

Also, since when did Macs go back to CMOS batteries? They’ve been using the main battery for that for a long time, though there’s a backup for when the main battery dies competely. That backup does indeed fail but it’s a nonissue if your main battery is good.

Hmm, I was under the impression that there isn’t much written about him until long after his death - but maybe I did let that one skepticon video influence me too much lol

Apple computers have always been on the lower end of support (see their support of hardware as they’ve gone thru different CPU architecture). Windows/Linux has never been this quick to drop support.

Except now Windows is dropping support randomly for older CPUs, including many that would run Win11 easily, just because they can. So they’re honestly the same as Apple in that regard.

see their support of hardware as they’ve gone thru different CPU architecture

They support the old architecture for several years, how’s that a bad thing?

Apple hardware has always been hard to repair.

They used to literally ship you parts with repair guides.

Non-standard parts, non-standard screws (pentalobe screws, etc…)

Non-standard parts are one thing (and a problem for sure), but keep in mind that they have way less variety. Go find me a motherboard for a HP Pavilion 15-n037so. Go find me a motherboard for 2012 Macbook Air 13". Guess which one will be easier to find in a company refurbishing laptops. I used to work at one.

The parts for non-Apple laptops aren’t always that standard either. You look at two similar WiFi modules, one has a D/PN on it and the other has an FRU code on it. You can’t put the D/PN coded part in a Lenovo or the FRU in a Dell, because apparently they use whitelisting! I’ve personally run into this.

And Apple does data collection and ads. Always have. iAd was Apple’s first and started in 2010. And Apple collects a ton of private data about you.

Of course they do. Now go look at how much Google does of the same.

They have always claimed to be doing one thing while in reality been doing the opposite. They get flak because they are the worst for this two-faced behavior.

Worst with the notable exceptions of Microsoft and Google.

They are a terrible company, and yet I’ll always bat for them online because I feel they get more flak than other, even worse tech companies.

Apple was the first company to give you several years of software support instead of one major OS version. Apple, for a while, made devices so easy to repair, it would’ve put them out of business at some point, honestly. Even with the first 8 or so iPhones, they were fairly easy to open up, but I’m talking of course about the PowerPC era, where they’d send you repair manuals with your spare parts. As a private individual.

Apple still makes the highest quality laptops, as far as actual build quality is concerned. That aluminium feels so nice. Also only running 2 or 3 models at once means they’re actually easier to repair, as spare parts aren’t nearly as diverse. I see a HP that doesn’t say “Elitebook” on it and I throw it in the trash, because I ain’t looking for parts for no Pavilion or Envy or whatever.

That said, do I think they actually have any social principles? Hell nah. But they aren’t worse than all the other companies. Apple makes money selling you an overpriced phone. Google only does if you buy a Pixel, which isn’t all that big a marketshare, there’s still Samsung and others in the same space. Google needs to be making money off those too, and they are, via data collection and advertising.

I reckon they have to at this point. Pay your dues and get to keep your business.

Exactly my point. Most of us customize our setup one way or another, usually. Few of us are ricers in the traditional sense.

Having other people on the network mess with them sounds kinda fun, but I think I’ll probably skip on account of all the other issues.

By “look like Jesus” I do indeed mean the popular modern western depiction of Jesus, because as far as I know, there’s no conclusive proof of a historical Jesus existing, and if he did, he was obviously not a modern European-origin American man.

As for the second point - idk, it might just be because I can’t grow a decent full beard, but after the first centimeter or 2 of facial hair, I just get told to shave because it’s not funny anymore. I also can’t imagine letting my hair grow for several years to get it as long as those guys. I thought one of the perks of being a man is that you get to be comfortable instead of spending years growing out your hair and shit lol

Oooh so I’m not the only one who uses (used) refind with Gentoo!

And extra ambiguity for people talking about polishing their deck while also pronouncing it as dick>

Ricing isn’t exactly the same as personalized though.

Ricing when it comes to cars is putting on a giant wing and a huge muffler on a Honda Civic.

Ricing in the Gentoo community is turning on every compiler optimization flag for the main portage config file without knowing what they’re doing, potentially actually de-optimizing your setup.

There’s an element of “overdone” involved usually whenever someone is called a ricer.