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    • I have not heard the fans once in over a year of heavy use, I'm starting to doubt they exist. Fan noise is a far more prevalent issue with Windows machines so I'm very curious to know how you've managed to convince the fans to spin up at all, let alone at a high volume.
    • No window snapping is a glaring omission, but easily resolved with a 3rd party app.
    • Fortunately as a programmer I hardly use Finder, but yes it's not very intuitive.

    I could list fifty problems each with Windows, Mac OS and Linux, but am comfortable enough with all of them because I adapt to their weaknesses (the ones that can be adapted to anyways).

  • apple users in a nutshell
  • I am a kind of laptop addict. I sell and purchase laptops every 6 months or so. I've tried everything on the Windows side, and have had the most beautiful machines in my possession, but they all had some critical flaw that made me look at my work laptop (Macbook Pro M1) and think... "I get it"

    They currently have a monopoly on the best computing experience, that's why it costs so much. The developer experience is 10 times better than Windows, but it's doesn't suffer the lack of software support that Linux does. It has the best battery life BY FAR of any laptop, which is important to people like myself who find themselves working on trains and planes. And the overall build quality and performance is so good that it can be resold 5 years later for 75% of the original price.

  • "It's a mental health problem!"
  • well... it is a mental health problem. Plus culture. Switzerland has guns and just as many people with mental health problems as the rest of the 'developed' world, but almost 0 shootings.

  • I used the poor to defeat the poor
  • This happened to me. I refused to pay out of indignation. 10 years later I was hit with a CCJ that prevented me from renting a home. I was forced to repay the initial £30 fee that had increased to about £900 in interest in those 10 years.

  • Realme GT5 unveiled with 150W and 240W versions, up to 24GB RAM
  • Holy Jebus, that is the absolute most bleeding edge phone I have ever seen, and it costs less than a Pixel 7a...

    But agree with others that the software is a deal breaker. Loading this up with stock android would be a much better experience, but of course with roms there is a price to pay in terms of stability and compatibility.

  • Discrimination Against Chinese People In Canada Nearly Doubled Between 2014 and 2019: StatCan
  • My wife is Chinese so I lean more in the direction of hating Chinese people 😂 Just kidding I love her to bits.

    I get it though... while I was living in China there were so many things I enjoyed about it that I didn't often complain. But being back in Europe, the aggravation grows.

    You can say hating the people for what their government does is stupid, but when the people stand so resolutely by their government the hatred goes in the same direction. Unless you've lived there, you won't understand the long process of indoctrination so you won't have sympathy for their unthinking obedience.

  • Any sci-fi with aliens where humans are not the less advanced race?
  • I think Mars Attacks counts, although perhaps the humans and aliens were portrayed as being equally stupid 😄

    EDIT: did not realise I was posting in a books group. Just came up in my main feed. Anyway Ima leave Mars Attacks here in case anybody forgot about this excellent film.

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