GoofballJones

Maybe use Android. You can sideload to that. Why even use an iPhone at all if all you want to do is bypass the appstore and sideload apps anyway? Get a great Android flagship phone with all it's bells and whistles on it and sideload away to your heart's content.

I don't know, Apple is trying to stop bad actors from fingerprinting users and violating privacy etc. Or maybe you're into that?

I don't use any Chrome/Chromium browsers at all. Period.

Nope. I don't use any Chrome/Chromium based browsers at all. I stick with Firefox and on rare occasions, Safari.

>I don't understand a lot of the hate for Brave. If you don't like the crypto integration, the ads, etc...

...and the redirection of the URLs of other cryptocurrency exchange websites...and the time it inserted affiliate referral codes when users navigate to Binance. Yes, you can turn off the crypto BS, and they stopped doing the redirects. But I can't trust a browser company that _may_ do such shenanigans again in the future. They "fixed" or removed that stuff, but that doesn't mean they won't do it again. I just don't trust them, at all. That right there is enough to not use the browser. Not to mention Brendan Eich and his views.

If you still don't understand, then I don't know what to tell you.

I would even bet if it happened on an SNL today, it would have been met with applause.

Loved how it was written too, even the dialog had a Canadian accent.

I've heard of them, but never investigated anything about them. I just now looked them up and new ones are selling for like $20,000.

I don't think I'm their target consumer.

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I knew a therapist LOOOONG ago that used Tarot cards in their therapy. They absolutely, at the start of doing that with a patient, said there was nothing mystical or magical about them, but like you said, they provide a way to start opening up about something. To get people out of their shells and talk.

Maybe they were ready to have someone that wasn't so volatile.

I hadn't heard about the end there, when Pete wrote a note for his widow to be read at his funeral. That's really touching.

Oh I have a TV that's "smart", but like you it's not connected at all to my WiFi. It's just a dumb terminal to my AppleTV. On levels of trust, I would put the AppleTV above my old Nvidia Shield and MUCH higher than my old Roku box.

My main gripe with smart devices is their sketchy software that may or may not have vulnerabilities in them and may or may not be diligently updated with security fixes by the company that makes them. If I can concentrate most things to one device...like the AppleTV, which gets updates all the time...then I can isolate problems. If I have to worry about a myriad of things throughout the house, that's something else.

Not actually. I've been using the Mac since 1985, but not exclusively. The same year I got more into the Amiga as it could do so much more...but Commodore didn't know what to do with the machine and now it's just a footnote.

I've also switched between PC/DOS to Mac to DOS to OS/2 to Mac to Linux to Windows back to Mac to Linux and now back to Mac. My media server here is run on Linux. I'm pretty agnostic when it comes to computers, it just so happens that at this point in time I'm using a Mac as my daily driver.

I have a dumb home. No smart thermostat. No smart doorbell. No cameras festooning the outside of my house. No smart TV. No smart home owner.

Long ago, I saw a movie as a kid in the 1970s called Demon Seed, where this big computer gained consciousness and extended it's presence to a smart home (well, smart home with tech from the 1970s). It scared the heck out of me, even though seeing it now it's pretty tame...regardless of the whole impregnating a woman with it's child.

They said they would pull two services and not all their products. I know you didn't say "all products", but was just clarifying.

You knowing this, by the tone of your writing, what do YOU do about it? What computer are you working on right now? Are you sure every component on it is legit? I take it you're using some for of Linux because they're not "corrupt" (well, depending on what distro as even that is a big debate).

Or do you live and operate like RMS?

I don't know, I thought it was totally apropos. They're playing Mincraft inside of Minecraft. I'm just surprised it wasn't the very first thing commented.

I know it may be nitpicking or just pedantic, but they say on their page "Your data also never goes to the cloud, as we own and manage our own server infrastructure." But...if you upload your data to their servers (so it can go to all your devices), isn't that the "cloud"?

I must be doing something wrong, because I don't hate this. And this is coming from someone using the Mac since 1985ish or so. Like I said, I'll try harder to hate on it more as that seems to be the cool thing to do.

I learned to type on typewriters in the late 70s. I was thrown in a typing class in high-school and I thought to myself "this is a useless class, I'm NEVER going to ever need this". Turns out it was one of the best things I learned in high-school.

Anyway, I never used double spaces after periods. My typing teacher would always give me grief for it, but for whatever reason, I just never did it. As you can see, I still don't.

I hadn't checked on this project in some time, and last I looked it seemed to be stagnant. Good to see it going strong again.

I just remember that, hardware wise, there wasn't a lot of things that could run all aspects of the OS and be 100% with it. The "certified hardware" on the site also looks like it's out of date.

Wow, it's free? So no more super expensive Linux distributions?

/s

I saw the Mac and was intrigued, but never touched one at the time. I hadn't played with one yet. BUT, about a year later, I DID check out an Amiga. Same CPU inside of it, but this one was in color. And had a GUI also, but also a CLI if you wanted to use that. AND it pre-emptive multitasked out of the box (no protected memory though, so it did crash). I got involved with the Amiga before the Mac...and I couldn't understand why people liked the Mac so much with how limited it was comparatively.

Just shows the power of presentation and a company behind a product that could launch it to bigger things. Commodore never really understood what it had with the Amiga, but Apple did...which is why the Mac has stuck around and the Amiga is just a footnote now.

So many sites and companies have turned on the users that put them on the map. Twitter, Red Hat, Reddit. It's like they're saying "we don't need the users anymore."

What is it about Second Life that keeps popping back up every couple of years with people writing stories about it.

Yet, it gets hyped again and people go there and it's a fricken ghost-town. There is no there there. It's just a whole lot of nothing. Since it's inception, I've tried and tried and tried to see what it's about, and there's nothing there except built-then-abandoned things, tons of advertising, and no people.

But it makes the people who figure out how to install it think they're some kind of hacker/coder...so they get this elitist attitude about them.

The thing is, the terms-of-service they give you that you agree to. That thing everyone skips. In it, Apple specifically says they don't track you or sell your data (but as you say, that could change). This is why when they do have any breach of that agreement...like when they said that some humans listen to Siri requests to make sure it's being accurate, they were sued for it. People hold their feet to the fire over anything they may flub. And since Apple doubles down on saying they're the best at privacy, more and more people are chomping at the bit to sue them or call them out on it. They have to tread carefully.

Google and Microsoft on the other hand blatantly say "yeah, we look over your shoulder at everything you do on the Internet...you know, to "help" you find what you're looking for or to feed more of it to you. And also, our advertisers would be very interested too". I mean, read THEIR TOS and marvel at it.

Synopsis: Person who doesn't use Apple products is outraged by something they wouldn't buy anyway.

Disco didn't die in the states at all. It kept on going. As a mainstream genre, maybe, for a while. But it evolved into the various house and techno and the myriad of sub-genres that are still flourishing to this day.

I take it this is for A.I. projects in the future and not the current ones that are basically just advanced predictive-text models?