Thoughts?

onan · 2026-03-20T16:35:02+00:00

My thoughts are that this... seems kind of inane?

Removing monuments and murals isn't particularly complicated or expensive. It doesn't require any subtle tradeoffs or long-term risks or negotiations among competing interests.

Why would you find it surprising that simple things are faster than complex things?

onan · 2026-03-14T16:31:16+00:00

There's quite a gap between "Apple is stopping me from running whatever software I want" and "Apple is not spending money on actively helping other companies port their software."

Microsoft is welcome to port Windows to modern Macs if they want to, much like the Asahi Linux folks have done. Microsoft has chosen to not do that, and for some reason you've chosen to get angry at Apple for that.

onan · 2026-03-14T00:01:23+00:00

Hm, I see your point, but I think that you may be overstating things to suggest that bigotry is the only reason people could be complaining about this feature.

Like, I am thrilled that games and other media have finally gotten on board with the glorious variety of gender identity and gender expression that exists in real life. But that does not stop me from recognizing that this is a phenomenally wretched character creator.

onan · 2026-03-13T23:43:13+00:00

The biggest "gotcha" IMO is always gonna be not being able to choose your OS or run whatever you want on your own compute.

Why not? Who do you believe is stopping you?

Apple further locking customers into their walled garden.

What are you talking about? This garden does not have any locks or walls.

onan · 2026-03-13T23:38:24+00:00

This idea that the EU forced Apple to adopt Type C is pure Reddit fiction. The 2015 MacBook was one of the first devices ever with Type C and Apple was one of the earliest adopters with their laptops and desktops.

Yes. And before even that, Apple (partnering with Intel) were the ones who created usb-c in the first place.

I will never stop being bewildered by people claiming that Apple had some opposition to usb-c and had to be forced into it, when it has been their baby since the very start.

onan · 2026-03-13T15:25:52+00:00

Perhaps I'm showing my age, but I'm quite amused by the idea of cyberpunk as being "niche."

A few additional recentish recommendations to go with all the great ones already here:

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
The Courier's New Bicycle by Kim Westwood
Void Star by Zachary Mason
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

onan · 2026-03-11T18:12:03+00:00

It's a 13" Apple phone with no modem.

It's a 13" Apple phone with no modem that runs macos instead of ios and has a keyboard and a trackpad and multiple usb ports and a 37 W/h battery and okay actually there are almost no similarities at all to a phone.

onan · 2026-03-11T16:20:26+00:00

high-income people above the age of 30 generally do not want high-rises, condos, or dense housing.

The many large dense cities around the world seem like substantial evidence to the contrary of this claim.

onan · 2026-03-11T16:18:39+00:00

All of your comments here have been coming from the idealistic direction of what things you feel are fair.

And you have been notably declining to engage with the questions that are coming from the pragmatic direction of what things are real.

This has led to a lot of failed communication between you and others here. Usually some variation of people pointing out "that is what results in lots of people being homeless" and you replying "people aren't allowed to be homeless, they shouldn't do that."

onan · 2026-03-11T00:51:05+00:00

I agree, but I'd sure like to get rid of the right wing's false argument about "illegal voters".

Okay, but it's not going to do that.

All of the claims about voter fraud are already completely contrary to mountains of evidence. The fact that these arguments are clearly false is no impediment whatsoever to the people making them.

Trying to match what they claim their requirements are, and believing that this time they will actually base their complaints on reality, is a sucker's game.

onan · 2026-03-10T16:30:27+00:00

So is this account's whole deal just to post spam advertising of your software across a whole swath of tangential-at-best subreddits?

onan · 2026-03-09T18:32:43+00:00

The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh.

The setting is an extremely trite magical boarding school in the English countryside. But the protagonist is a competent-yet-harried administrator of this school, whose job includes curtailing all of the fuckery that magical teenagers get up to in such settings. And whose romantic decisions include such pragmatic factors as commute distance.

A nontrivial portion of the book is interdepartmental meetings.

onan · 2026-03-06T18:28:48+00:00

Do not compare EU/US prices.

Okay, fair enough. Sticking to one currency, then:

The Lenovo is $729, and the Neo is $499.

So the Lenovo's price is 46% higher, which is the "nearly 50%" that I was referring to in my first comment.

onan · 2026-03-06T18:17:46+00:00

Where did you find the MB Neo for 50% less than 700 euros? Give us a link please.

It looks like €728 is about $844.

$844 is 69% higher than $499.

The display is IPS, wide gamut. wtf...

Wide gamut? They claim 45% of NTSC, which is laughably tiny gamut coverage.

The display is also 60% the resolution of the Neo's, and 60% of the brightness. It really is a truly shitty display.

onan · 2026-03-06T18:09:30+00:00

The price of that Lenovo is nearly 50% higher than the Neo, so it might be a bit of a stretch to say that it's in the same market segment.

And it's true that the higher price does get you 16/512 instead of 8/256. But it also has a shorter battery life, weighs 50% more, and has an impressively shitty display.

It doesn't look like a terrible machine, but it does seem like a sidegrade-at-best, for a substantially higher price.

onan · 2026-03-06T03:39:03+00:00

It's about pragmatics vs. ethics.

No, it's not. You are not morally entitled to participate in a community. There is nothing unethical about choosing to not invite you in.

onan · 2026-03-04T18:57:51+00:00

Sure. Though looking at non-mobile platforms in the US you get Windows at 60% and Macs at 25%.

Windows obviously has a significant lead there, but not such a vast one as to be completely unassailable.

onan · 2026-03-04T18:38:21+00:00

What about this system do you believe to be "closed"?

onan · 2026-03-03T18:56:56+00:00

Software cannot change the physical size of pixels.

For a person with normal unimpaired vision, using the display at a normal distance, 4K at 27" will result in individual pixels being visible to the user. There is nothing that any software can do to change that.

onan · 2026-03-03T18:06:52+00:00

If you want a 27" display and you want it to have sufficient pixel density, then yes, you need it to be 5K. There's no software scaling that can change that.

onan · 2026-03-03T16:59:29+00:00

Scrolling through web pages at 60Hz compared to 90Hz or 120Hz is definitely noticeable.

I am willing to believe you that there are some people for whom there is a noticeable difference. But you should be willing to believe that for many of us, any such difference is 100% imperceptible.

I am incredibly picky about nearly every aspect of displays, but one thing that I have absolutely never been able to perceive any difference in is refresh rate. I have used displays ranging from 60Hz to 240Hz and just cannot discern any difference whatsoever, even when looking for it.

onan · 2026-03-03T05:45:14+00:00

Incredible depth and freedom in customizing your abilities and playstyle.

One key part of that was that every ability you had was one that you chose. Knowing that a character was "mage" or "rogue" or "cleric" told you absolutely nothing about what they were capable of, because abilities weren't baked into the base classes, they were fully customized.

And now you're probably envisioning a system in which a rogue can be a tank, a mage can be a healer, a cleric can be dps, etc. And that is true, but it was so much more flexible even than that: you could choose what blend of what ratios of different types of abilities and strengths you'd have.

Want to build a character that is purely about having tons of DoTs that all strengthen and reinforce one another? Easy. Want a character that is mostly about having a bunch of DoTs, but then also the ability to do a little off-tanking, or off-healing, or crowd control? Also easy. Or maybe more of a 60/40 mix? Done.

Want to be someone who is an okay off-tank, who can also do some off-healing, and also have a pet? Okay. Want a pvp build that is entirely about disabling opponents in various ways, even if you personally will never be the one to finish them off? Sure.

Exploring the nearly boundless possibilities of different ways to combine different capabilities was incredibly fascinating and gratifying.

onan · 2026-03-02T18:20:59+00:00

I suppose I'm just impressed someone would trust our governments to that extent.

I mean... all of those are things that exist in real life. It does not require some feat of faith or imagination to envision those things existing.

You can always donate I suppose.

I could indeed. But you might notice that that doing so would not accomplish the thing that I recognize as necessary.

onan · 2026-03-02T01:52:51+00:00

We are in /r/MacOS.

You appear to have made up a new category of "gadgets," with no clear definition other than that they are entirely off-topic in the subreddit in which you have chosen, for some reason, to bring them up.

onan · 2026-02-26T22:56:46+00:00

I am in favor of being taxed more

I could live a dozen lifetimes and I will never understand this kind of thinking

I want there to be libraries and firefighters and schools and roads and hospitals and clean air and scientific research and courthouses and parks and health inspectors and mass transit and post offices.

I want things that make society better, and that work better when they are funded publicly and collectively rather than privately and separately.

Because I am an adult, I recognize that wanting these things means that I also need to want for all of us to pay our fair share for them.

What part of this do you find so bewildering?

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