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At least in my case, I had Youtube Red and would watch a few hours of content per day. Then I canceled and found the ads so unreasonable that I just stopped using youtube altogether. Now they make no money from me.

I'm an engineer that has both an apple silicon laptop (mbp, m2) and a linux laptop (arch, thinkpad x1 yoga.) I choose the mac every day of the week and it's not even close. I'm sure it's not great for specific engineering disciplines, but for me (web, rails, sre) it really can't be beat.

The UX differences are absolutely massive. Even after daily-driving that thinkpad for months, Gnome always felt kinda not quite finished. Maybe KDE is better, but it didn't have Wayland support when I was setting that machine up, which made it a non-starter.

The real killer though is battery life. I can work literally all day unplugged on the mbp and finish up with 40-50% remaining. When i'm traveling these days, i don't even bring a power cable with me during the day. The thinkpad, despite my best efforts with powertop, the most aggressive frequency scaling i could get, and a bunch of other little tricks, lasts 2 hours.

There are niceties about Linux too. Package management is better and the docker experience is _way_ better. Overall though, i'd take the apple silicon macbook 10 times out of 10.

agreed, but i almost feel like it's supposed to feel a little weird to avoid accidentally buying things. either way, if you want to make it easier, there's an option under settings > accessibility > side button. You can adjust the speed required to register a double or triple click.

Q: The room has 19 chairs. We are using 10 and then bought 9 more, how many chairs do we have in the room?

This is a terrible question and i'm not surprised chatGPT is subtly telling you it can't figure it out.

"The room has 19 chairs" 19 chairs belong to the room or 19 chairs are in the room?

"We are using 10" are "we" in the room too? are we using them for sitting, or does "used" imply consumption e.g. used for firewood? is this statement about the room's chairs? is this statement about chairs at all?

"and then bought 9 more," presumably we left the room to buy the chairs, did we bring them back into the room? if we didn't leave the room to buy, i.e bought them online, have they arrived yet? it's still not clear if we are in or have ever been in the room.

how many chairs do we have in the room?

how many chairs do _we have_? does the room's initial set of chairs belong to us? if not, do we just count the ones we bought?

I think this used to be true, but we're not building toys anymore. Whether we like it or not, SaaS products are rapidly becoming transitive dependencies of mission critical, life/death infrastructure.

Last time i had to get roadside assistance, they couldn't use a mile marker / highway location reference. They had to have something to type into google maps in order to dispatch help.

Could they have gotten to me if google maps was down? Probably but i'm not sure. Either way, it wouldn't have been the practiced default and that matters.

I think the parent comment was talking about a loyalty card discount at a supermarket

They are & so is the parent of your post. In the US, it's common for supermarket cashiers to lookup loyalty cards by the customer's phone number. The comment you replied to is saying that the phone number <area-code>-867-5309 is almost always tied to an existing loyalty card. Lots of people just give that phone number if they want the discounts without signing up.

This is the same verbal gymnastics confederate sympathizers use when trying to say that the civil war was about "states rights." All you have to do is follow the logic to its conclusion.

What was the civil war about? States rights. What rights, specifically? The right of states to allow their citizens to practice slavery. Therefore, the civil war was about slavery.

What was jan 6 about? It was about an attempt to undermine the government. An attempt to undermine what, specifically? The election process. Why did they seek to undermine the election process? So that the mob could extra-judicially install a leader of their preference. Another word for this is coup d'etat.

It’s around and popular, but it doesn’t have zealots to suck all the oxygen out of the conversation.

Look at the people in this comment section that are emotionally upset that the author didn’t prefer JS over ruby. They’re calling the author stupid, saying the author is bad at bootstrapping or just not using the right frameworks.

People don’t seem to be emotionally connected to Rails in the same way.

Not saying I can make this better for your use case, but I'm curious if you use tap to click? i.e. click with a simple touch. I love the big track pads and also hate the tap to click setting (I want to press to click) and don't have this problem.

Is it just me, or does every page on forestry.io take 4400+ milliseconds to load? I can't even use the website because it's so bad.