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Apparently I made the jump to Linux just in time. They are just your run-of-the-mill enshittifying Rent® Seeking© Optimizer™ now.

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Yeah same here. I decided to use 5/6 year old trash PCs running Debian. They work absolutely fine. I think I’m actually more productive and certainly less distracted and less broke.

My entire desktop setup was bought with the cash left over from selling my 10th gen iPad. And I got a Xeon E 2276G, 32Gb of ECC RAM and 1TB enterprise SSD for that.

I’d like to switch to Linux, but I can't find a sufficiently functional alternative to Keynote, which I need every day for my work. It’s a shame.

Well, given that AI can now decompile and port software... :)

Claude, make me a latex presentation on <topic> filled in with this outline.

If you don’t know what latex is, substitute “html”.

Similarly, the choice of LLM is unimportant.

Genuine question: what does Keynote do that PowerPoint or LibreOffice Impress doesn't? I'm a bit out of the loop and just use Typst for presentations now, but I'm not suggesting it as an alternative to Keynote for anyone who doesn't mind a compilation step.

If PowerPoint is sufficient, it (mostly) works on Linux now: https://github.com/Tombert/office365_flake

Keynote doesn't have any unique features that other software doesn't have, but it's particularly well-designed: everything can be done more simply and more cleanly in Keynote. Maybe it's just a matter of habit, but I can't seem to get used to other software, especially LibreOffice Impress, which I find very unpleasant to use.

> now

Serivces have been a huge (and growing) chunk of their revenue for a long time

I still feel like iPhones are good devices, but yeah apple is going down hill.

I also get a lot of life out of MacBooks, they have been pretty reliable for me.

They stopped releasing phone sized devices 5 years ago.

Never forget.

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