@b3ll of course it does! We’ve got limited budgets and need to design custom charging cables and wireless charging battery extenders. Or we need to pay Teenage Engineering to shit out a rejected Playdate prototype. We don’t have money for custom Linux runtimes! AOSP is the new Busybox is a thing I legit wrote a decade ago.
@cabel@b3ll people who don’t half-ass hardware! So it’s basically you guys and Valve (Valve counts because yes they use Linux as fhe base for SteamOS but they delivered Proton and built the entire custom UI. And before people try to claim Valve got Proton from Wine, yes. They had a base to start with. They then invested the resources to actually make Wine good in the modern era and they do patches on the weekly to fix game quirks)
@outadoc I mean, the AI isn’t client side and I don’t expect these types of companies (read: hype driven) to take on the task of building their own OS or anything. But the fact that someone extracted or got a hold of the apk and it worked on a phone (apparently they fixed some stuff so prob not anymore) is hilarious.
Honestly, support ublock origin and you can win back the Mac browser market. But the current extension model in Safari is such a terrible experience for every person involved, developers and users. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112360846501810807
I’m probably going to continue to try to keep the content/convos separate but there will ofc be some overlap but if you want to follow my Threads posts here: @film_girl
@syeberman if you’re mostly here, I think it makes sense to miss follow me here. I try to syndicate but there is some stuff I just post here and some I just post there.
Listening to The Rest Is Entertainment who are going on about the new Taylor Swift album. Is it any good?
(Can’t decide whether I want to ask @film_girl this question :))
@sil so the gist is this: we all assumed the album was going to be about the dissolution of her 6+ year relationship with a British actor you’ve never heard of. He gets 2 songs. The NFL current boyfriend? Also 2 songs. So 27 songs are about the guy from the 1975 she publicly dated for a month. And he fucked her over. And she’s mad about it. And depressed by it. I don’t know if you need to know that going in. But that’s the lore. Taylor has terrible taste in men and wrote 27 songs about this guy
@sil but seriously, if you ever want to see a murder, please listen to the song the smallest man who ever lived. Not since John Mayer was embarrassed out of making music via her 2010 opus, Dear John (which was done in the style of a John Mayer song, classic), has Taylor ever torn a person to shreds quite like this. She also did the Dear John thing by making a 1975 song called The Tortured Poets Department, which is great. But the one with the venom is the smallest man who ever lived.
@sil indeed! And yes! Lovely and incandescently angry. And diaristic to the extreme. A lot of critics I think rightfully call out the lack of some editing. Valid. However, there is something I genuinely love as an artistic statement about the most famous person on the planet just releasing the diary out there, knowing we all know who the songs are about, not being coy and just saying “this is what I do instead of going to therapy.” And fwiw, that guy will prob get off on this notoriety.
@danhon@marcprecipice oh, to be clear, it was my main barrier, but less the dollar figure and more the lack of perceived value. I spent over $5000 on a 14” MBP in November. A stupid amount of money on a laptop (I sold my 2021 M1 Max for $2000, but still!), but I could justify that. Even with free financing and some ability to write it off, I just couldn’t find the value and I’m not rich enough to buy it as a toy.
@secretgeek@danhon@marcprecipice I genuinely and truly think that if it had been framed as a dev kit from the beginning, this would not be happening this way. You wouldn’t have the wave of stories of returns and eBay sales and not a single one sold in weeks. Instead, you’d prob have people actively trying to build more cool stuff for it. But the positioning as a ready to market device set expectations the launched product cannot match. And maybe that changes at wwdc, but momentum is lost.