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apple doesn’t stock any of their max ram versions of their new products at low-tier retail mall stores, and still sell 8gb ram machines. the only cool looking cases in the store aren’t made by apple. there are too many ipads and too many iphones. the same thing happened to their product lines the first time steve left, too.

@josephcox and the article says he was arrested for *sending the images to minors*, the headline is a lie

@josephcox definitionally, it isn’t child sexual abuse material if no children were sexually abused.

we don’t really talk about how covid tests are $1 in europe in quantity (at retail! quantity being 20, not 1000) and still $13-15 in the usa. this was the case during the main part of the pandemic. it was avoidable and preventable and thousands of people died because the FDA protects the profits of abbott laboratories. it is one of the biggest examples of criminal corruption in american history, with thousands of deaths sacrificed to corporate profits.

sometime when the whole web updated to WebAuthn, it broke all my FIDO2 logins and now I have to reenroll all my security keys. what a pain in the dick

@merospit it only used three percent. text editing and ssh is not an energy-intensive activity.

@Hyolobrika warez duh

@codewiz autonomous computers don't actually launch nukes in strangelove or wargames. they do in colossus.

I've been actively using my laptop unplugged for an hour and it's at 97% battery.

any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

@codewiz are we gonna ignore "colossus: the forbin project"?

@Hyolobrika @Sarosa i would need another disk to answer that, lol

@laurahelmuth @tarahaelle why do we care about anyone born in those years?

@nando161@theblower.au who ever said capitalism expects limitless growth? this is a fallacy

if you have sda, sdb, sdc, ..., sdz, the next is sdaa. finally i have a box with more than 26 hard drives

@mekkaokereke yes the problem is definitely that we don't have enough white guilt

@danymat i have not memorized the syntax of any programming language except perhaps c (which i learned when i was 13-ish). every time i write a new structure method in go or a list comprehension in python or destructure an array in javascript i have to go look at existing code to do so. i also can't ever remember if a for loop's second arg finish check is == or >=. i code by looking at existing code constantly because i simply cannot memorize syntax unless i am using it daily.

it is ridiculously astounding what chatgpt can do. if you told me such a thing existed and i hadn't actually seen/used it myself, i wouldn't believe you.

it's insane, chatgpt now functions as a stand-in for my working memory of syntax and 3p library api shape, and i'm a 10x (or at least a 5-7x) programmer again.

TIL the mac mini now has a 10G ethernet option (as a configurable option, not standard, and is only a $100 upgrade).

apple seems to be penny-pinching now

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