Distribution of labor, distribution of misery. Both labor and misery are inherent, but ability to change the kinds of labor and misery is what makes our time more like heaven than something in XV century.

Still, sometimes this also seems to be sliding back as it’s harder and harder to control your movement in that stream.

People seek bland fantasies when they are lost (the poor bastard), other people seek some broken solutions when they are lost (the performer), other people use some way of keeping to exist when they are lost (the tech bro), and other people feel how something they do kinda more normal and honest than the previous variants still feels like a cardboard shape of a person (the unnamed underpaid worker).

I just thought that someone should really make a “moderate modern cyberpunk” movie\story out of this. There’s really no need to show brain chips and holographic UIs in that story. The mood will do, something between Neuromancer, Vacuum Flowers and Blade Runner, but around this picture and even without violence.

“Someone should” might be an indication that I should, except I’ve never done writing, for real. Only descriptions of nature. There’s a person who writes plays sometimes. I’m not sure that person wants to have anything in common with me, though.

It’s quite easy to believe you’re talking to an AI bot.

Depends. If that printer were very expensive, the first part could be true, but they could make ink officially rechargeable, something like that.

I’ve started thinking recently about business practices and printing and “Apple printer” jokes, and, well, Apple was making printers in the olden days when I was a baby.

So, they could be making very expensive, but good printers, with no cartridge DRM whatsoever, now.

That would possibly be a good thing, and with such regulations pressing at the opposing business model, could even be a financially good variant.

OK, I think I’m starting to show fanboyish traits. I sort of really liked Apple when I was a kid, but later I started seeing iPhones around and I didn’t like their change from home computers and iPods to that.

It’s a feature.

F2F might help against bots. “From around the world” becomes harder to achieve, though. Almost requires people traveling, making friends and exchanging QR codes offline.

Because a real living person standing before you is about the only way to know.

There are “pissed off, not the same, Jobs wouldn’ta dunit” sentiments for almost every new product by Apple.

So I don’t think anything will change much.

Anyway, this is a return to roots. They were, you know, a mainstream consumer oriented company at some point. With an implicit but almost explicit claim that “we don’t do the crap others do”.

I’m optimistic. It’s quality attacking quantity. We’ve had a personal computer market with quantity winning over quality every damn year since about 2003, and it has been getting worse and worse. If the pendulum is starting to move in the opposite direction, it’s very cool.

And yes, megabytes of RAM are quantity.

But admittedly I’m a couple weeks’ old convert.

So I’ve recently started using a Mac mini, and it’s very good. But I’ll agree that I don’t like Liquid Glass. I’m using, eh, a 1280x1024 dinosaur display over an hdmi-2-vga adapter, so can’t confirm nausea from it, but sore eyes are a thing.

The quote is funny for me, I can’t extract a zip file without a dedicated application, I don’t speak the language of moisture vaporators deflate, and certainly not fast enough.

I know. The hinges are what naturally wears in all kinds of hands with active use. So that’s what matters IMHO. You open and close them, regularly. You don’t regularly strain that plastic while cleaning it, and you don’t regularly drop the thing or press against it. But opening and closing the lid is normal.

Also, yes, ports, which is why MagSafe is actually a cool technology, both less wear and more certain electrical contact. Anyway, I don’t own anything with MagSafe.

Really rugged is about ThinkPads and really-really rugged special laptops the size of a few bricks.

There was “coding” with diagrams and such, like Scratch but for serious people.

Yep. Genesys IRD is kinda good (well-tested), Genesys Composer I hate, and recent cloud Genesys workflows are not usable for anything but demos without pain.

When I have too many tabs, I press that blue button of the “one tab” extension.

… And Mac’s target audience can buy CrossOver (74$, though). Or install DREAMM for many LucasArts games, the speed of development of this thing and its functionality are amazing, I wonder how much vibecoding was involved.

They were making a lot on build quality, convenience, brand, ecosystem, cultism, software quality, but not so much on power.

Now power became more expensive for suppliers, and for things listed before it you have to restructure marketing and everything. Apple doesn’t have that problem. They also have rid themselves of the legacy problem by two softer changes (dropping 32 bit Intel, then moving to ARM) instead of one hard change.

Apple user share is beneficial for Linux user share.

One thing I don’t appreciate about Apple is that you have to use a dong(le) concentrator always.

But yes, iPad laptop version is what this is and a thing in demand.

They were preparing for an offensive and it’s starting! The order is given, we are starting to bomb Wintel.

It’ll be a better world. MacOS devices are pretty normal in the sense of being locked down, as compared to iOS. And there will be some competition. Apple winning is good, they’ll raise quality standards. And they won’t kill MS completely, just eat out a piece of the market, perhaps more than half.

Cheaper, but breaking in your hands. In case of laptops mechanical wear is important. This thing might be weak, but last a decade (well, I don’t know).

And those are cheap because law enforcement isn’t so well spent on at all, that is, spending is mostly on secret police, riot police and khashoggizers.

Anyway. Building data centers in an area with hot climate is what seems weirdest. And seawater is not very good for cooling.

You are writing pretentious nonsense, go someplace else.

There are lightweight models as good as some heavier ones. It’s a bit like Intel’s tick-tock advertised process. Heavy memory-hungry models are “tick”, but there’s “tock”- say, “lfm2.5-thinking” model, the light version, in the ollama repository seems almost as good as qwen3.5 for me, except it’s very lightweight and lightning-fast compared to that.

These things are being optimized. It’s just that in the market capture phase nobody bothered.

That they are not being used correctly - yeah, absolutely, my idea of their proper use is some graph-based system with each node being processed by a select LLM (or just piece of logic) with select set of tools and actions and choices available for each. A bit like ComfyUI, but something saner than a zoom-based web UI. Like MacOS Automator application, rather.