Officially, it didn’t, but actually it did. Officially it was the OS updates that made everything incompatible (and it did make more than half of my steam library incompatible) but it was those OS updates that were needed to support the new arm hardware.

So look at it however you want I guess, but there are a bunch of 4-15 year old games that run just fine on my windows PC, but no longer launch on my iMac. That’s not impressive backwards compatibility.

Oh yeah, render most of their already small software library incompatible for a 50% performance boost. It’s a sizable boost for sure, but not exactly looking at the big picture…

Die apple. All your innovation and vision died with Steve Jobs, now you’re a shambling corpse infecting everything you touch. Just die, it’s time…

Fuck closed off mobile stores, it’s all a scam.

Why are we ceding control over our personal computers to organizations who would limit our use of them?

If we have platforms capable of running arbitrary code then we should be able to do it.

It’s the money.

Alright, that’s a good use case, I like that.

I’m not saying both aren’t possible. And I’m not saying both don’t apply here.

But in general, if you make it a practice to remember Hanlon’s razor, you will be both correct more often and generally happier. I’m just suggesting, do it for your own sake. Assume the best of intentions in people, because usually people do mean well. And also expect them to let you down by making genuinely stupid choices, because then you won’t be surprised when they do.

If I were to read a book on my computer, I would use one screen. That’s kinda my point. A second monitor does nothing for me in that scenario.

But it folds like a book, and i see it being held like a book. If that means text populates in two columns like a book, and you read one column at a time, I really don’t see the point of the second side. You can just turn the page.

So you think the main difference between Elon and other rich people is that other rich people keep a low profile?

So does that mean you think that other ultra wealthy people are just as influential (and damaging to the world) as Elon? Because I don’t doubt that the ultra wealthy are problematic in general, but I think Elon is worse, like in a big way. And he’s been changing a lot in the world for the last 20 years, like a lot more than literally anyone I can think of.

So I recently bought a couple pairs of pants from Duluth trading company, and I’ve gotta say, I’m loving the enormous array of pockets they have. Yesterday I discovered that the pants have an inside pocket with a zipper. I literally hadn’t noticed that before.

I mean, I’m not really sure how I’d use that inside pocket. I’d have to literally unzip the fly to access it… But it’s there.

TIL, the threadiverse has a lot of .zip communities.

I wonder if they’ll be larger after I unpack them?

That’s true, but there are a lot of those people in the world, tens of thousands. Where are all of them in the news? He seems different in some way, right? Do you even know the name of the CEO of Hasbro or Ford or CocaCola? I bet they’re rich, I bet they grew up rich…

Yeah, OLED isn’t really the best choice for an e-reader.

There’s a reason e-ink is a thing.

Second question, if you’re going to read from one screen at a time, why have two screens?

Hah, I’m not convinced that interpretation is wrong. It’s weird how influential he’s been on the world, right?

I mean if this is that sort of simulation, he’d probably be a player right? I know that as I get to the end of games, I get all the currency I’ll ever need, I have all the best items, and the whole game becomes easy, that’s about when I start becoming an asshole, testing the boundaries. Like “can I just kill this character? I’m gonna shoot them, just to see what happens. lol, the guards didn’t like that much, look at em running around… I’ll shoot them too”.

I think that’s where Elon is right now, just being an enormous asshole just to see what happens. That’s some gamer ass behavior right there!

Sure, but if you apply hanlon’s razor whenever it’s applicable, you’re right more often.

“never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

Heh, well some of those are most definitely of higher quality, but you mostly see that difference in throughput and seek times. But the underlying storage mechanism is the same, so yeah, this aspect is probably universal.

Absolutely. Sata SSD, m.2/nvme, USB thumb drives, it’s all just different form factors for nand flash memory.

I was in highschool at this point and I totally would have ratted any kid out for that.

No mouse balls would mean no Quake or StarCraft in the lab after school… Unacceptable!

That’s good to know, thanks! I wonder if there’s actually any content for him on HBO, I’ll check it out I guess.