Peak enshittification. I've finally been 'updated' from Mail and Calendar to 'new' Outlook, and the go back toggle has been removed. This means no offline access, no shortcut to a calendar, no touch support, no unified inbox. What a complete clusterfuck. Thanks #microsoft. Oh, and thanks to our IT department for locking out any other mail client, including all clients for #linux
@PeterFalkingham Look, they have good reasons for making sure you're connected to the internet to use your computer. How else are they going to surveil you in real time? Put microphones in your house? That would be creepy.
iPad today is very reminiscent of the Mac of the 90s. A bewildering array of models and SKUs, a beloved operating system with core technology issues that severely limit the future of the product line, a dearth of the real apps professionals use, and a strong emphasis on the handful of creative niches it's carved out for itself. Unlike the 90s, though, all of these problems are masked by the success of the low-end. If you split iPad Pro out into its own product category, it would be in trouble
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I understand the idea of a loan: borrow money, pay it back over time plus a fee for the favor of having more money sooner.
I understand having a company and taking out a loan: borrow money to do something to help the company make more money and pay it off... but it's OK you made enough that it was a good idea.
But HOW can someone borrow money to BUY a company then say the cost of the loan should go on the companies books?
@futurebird It’s pretty simple really, you see corporations are people, so just as when we absorb another person, we are free to say which part of our agglomeration should get in trouble if we can’t repay the loan.
Say you took out a loan to buy a snazzy white blazer. When you buy yourself an extra torso, you could say it’s that torso’s blazer, so it should pay up, right? Works the same way for corporations.
I follow the hashtag #art and a lot of the people promoting their own art use a dozen or so hashtags. This is spam IMHO.
Also it seems a lot of their art is Thomas Kincaid style stuff.
I'll stop here before I say something even more obnoxious.
@idoubtit Shame the interviewer didn't ask him about ActivityPub and Mastodon. His silence on it is weird, there's something about it he doesn't like (and I don't think it's the superior capabilities of AT to move accounts).
His stance on this stuff reads like a man who's really sick if having to make big decisions on moderation, and thinks he shouldn’t even have the power to so. It weirdly humble... or something like it... in someone like him.
@idoubtit yeah, he might have seen it as already established. But it was also already out there achieving what he says he wanted. He could have build in ActivityPub into Twitter.
The problem with the iPad as as many have pointed out is that the software hampers what it can do unless you’re willing to contort yourself into a very specific workflow. For most casual users those limitations aren’t an issue and the advantages of the form factor outweigh the deficits. But when you charge MBPro money for a device the trade-offs sting. As @jsnell says, the best solution would be to just let us virtualize macOS on an iPad Pro when using it in certain modes https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-ipad-pro-is-no-longer-the-future-so-whats-next/
@film_girl@jsnell I guess what I'm saying is that if they just give up and give us a normal file system, tell app developers that's the way it is, and provide a syncing API for that filesystem, then that pretty much solves my issues with iPad OS.
@jsnell@film_girl Well, one of the flagship Pro apps on iPad lets you export to there, but not save. Maybe it's on Procreate, but I do remember there being some file size problem.
In the end I think this is Apple's fault because they led us down this app-centric path to start with. It was never going to work well for multi-application workflows, but they kept hoping. And here we are 14 years later talking about cramming a whole other OS in!