film_girl

film_girl, 20 days ago

@kris honestly the Safari for Mac people are the only people who rival the Apple Music for Mac people in the delusional Olympics.

film_girl, 19 days ago

@avakining absolutely. The various blockers for Safari just aren’t the same and are just worse in very meaningful ways.

film_girl, 20 days ago

@Eggfreckles I played with them once and it was fun! Not sure I need to spend a few thousand dollars to do it again!

film_girl, 20 days ago

@paul didn’t buy that either. I did get the Rabbit R1 which I should get this week. But that was $200. My 404 AF1s cost more than that. $200 for a toy I use a handful of times and got free Perplexity AI out of, I’m fine with.

film_girl, 20 days ago

@freediverx it was a gamble. I knew as soon as I used it that it was a great tech demo — one of the best I’ve ever seen. It was also clear that for me, there was no way to justify its price at this point in time. Maybe if I were richer and $4000 was equivalent of what $400 is to me now. I hope most of the people who bought it were in a position to afford it or to write it off.

film_girl, 20 days ago

@jeffkibuule @paul I mean, for $200 that doesn’t phase me, but I think that is a correct thing to point out. That said, when I bought it I also got a year of Perplexity AI Pro for free, which I quite like, and that was $200 so this is all a wash for me. I certainly wouldn’t encourage anyone who wasn’t buying it as a toy and didn’t have the disposable income, to bother with it based on what I’ve seen.

film_girl, 20 days ago

@marcprecipice not that I’m implying that people like you and I are requirements for a hit product, but I can’t help but notice that a lot of early-adopter/enthusiast folks like us passed on this and while correlation does not imply causation, I do think the absence of some of us folks, especially those of us who aren’t particularly price sensitive, was a bad sign from the beginning.

film_girl, 20 days ago

@jeffkibuule @paul I always YOLO and spend the VC money on shit like this. It will almost always die, even the best engineered and executed stuff (RIP, Pebble). So I most certainly set my expectations to zero she decide if the money is enough for me to risk.

film_girl, 20 days ago

@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.

film_girl, 20 days ago

@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.

film_girl, 20 days ago

@sil I like it. I like it a lot. That said, this isn’t the record for everyone. It is too long. It is overwrought. It is messy. I’m personally obsessed with that stuff but I also don’t think people not as into her lore and story will find it as artistically interesting as I do. There are some fantastic songs on it. There are some misses. There are some mid-tier. I like it more than Midnights by a lot but I also won’t call it flawless. 1989 it isn’t. It isn’t even Red. But I’m a fan of mess.

film_girl, 20 days ago

@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

film_girl, 20 days ago

@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.

film_girl, 20 days ago

@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.

film_girl, 25 days ago

@KingShawn nice!

film_girl, 26 days ago

@c20d I for one look forward to the internal TF v Ansible fights. It isn’t a completely out of left-field acquisition. More that when Hashi IPO’d it was 3x the stock price it is now.

film_girl, 26 days ago

@Klumpmeister that’s what worked!

film_girl, 26 days ago

@dschaub @atpfm @siracusa also worth noting that even tho Apple sold a 4GB base sku MBA for years, in my experience, it wasn’t actively sold or even pushed past ~2013. The one you could buy in the store for $1099 was the one with 128GB SSD and 8GB of RAM and that was the defacto base model even to they sold a 4GB.

film_girl, 20 days ago

@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.