GoofballJones

Perhaps, but their policies and support for old hardware far exceeds anything you see in the Android world. But you point out THIS "shitty company" while not throwing your gaze towards all the other "shitty companies" like Samsung, or Google, or Sony, or Microsoft. Could it be that your disdain for the type of people that buy Apple products just rings through? The tried and true "them" vs "me" attitude.

Personally, I just let strangers like what they want to like. WTF do I care if they like this phone instead of this other phone.

Long LOOOONG ago, I had a good relationship with Adobe. For instance, I was one of the beta-testers for Photoshop 3.0 (which was the first to do native CMYK). Would talk with them all the time over the phone.

But those guys have long since left the company and the "bean counters" took over the company and it has been downhill ever since. I too will never give them another dime. I don't mind their products, I just can't abide the management and company.

I've had the same experience as you did with BareBones though. They always came through for me with BBEdit. I told them one time they have a customer for life, and I've kept that promise.

Guess I'm dumb, because I've been subscribed to YouTube premium for quite a while now. I watch it on many devices that don't have any way of installing ad-blockers (like streaming devices to TVs). Not to mention, that an "ad" on YouTube has no time limit. I remember back when I didn't subscribe of seeing an ad for marble countertops that lasted over 45 minutes. Seriously. So if I just put on a bunch of videos to watch that may be like 10 minutes each, in between may be a 45 minute commercial that I have to go and physically hit the skip button. Sometimes I like to fall asleep listening to soothing videos, only to be hit with a fricken 45 minute commercial that's LOUD in between.

Sure, guess I'm dumb. But I don't care. Subscribing gets me what I need.

It is free. It LITERALLY is in unlimited access. It's in everything you eat...unless you live in a cave and only eat squirrels and rabbits. Especially in the US where High Fructose Corn Syrup is in nearly every product that's consumed. Pornography is no where near as dangerous as the obesity epidemic in the United States, which costs the citizens and corporations billions and billions of dollars a year on healthcare alone. But sure, let's focus on porn.

Is it? Is this a States thing? That in the United States that nudity and pornography is "dangerous", yet in other cultures throughout Europe, it's not taken as seriously, nor does it have this overall "dangerous" tag to it (generally speaking that is. Prudish people trying to impose their will on others can be a world-wide phenomenon).

And does this put a curb on explicit R rated movies that has nudity and acts of sex? Is it just the penetration shots that are "dangerous"? Also, it doesn't even touch on if ultra violent content strewn around, well, EVERYWHERE isn't "dangerous"? Where is the state bans on violence in movies and TV (they've already tried with video games)? But OMFG, if you dare to show a woman's breast, it's "dangerous".

Give me a break.

With past experience with law enforcement, if they don't get what they want, they will continue to harass and needle and try to chip away at what they can until they get some semblance of what they wanted.

Yes, exactly. Around 1993-94 I was running through so many different OS's on my Micron Pentium. DOS, then OS/2 Warp, then Linux, then Windows 3.1, then back to OS/2, then to Linux. Drove my wife crazy.

I began tinkering with Linux about 6 months after it's inception. I think....think...it was what became Slackware in what I gathered up the things to make it run on my Micron Pentium.

This was in the day I was trying everything on that machine. I had DOS running on it at one point, then OS/2 Warp, then Windows 3.1, then Linux, then back to OS/2 etc etc. It was at a time where everything was up in the air, before Windows 95 took a major foothold.

They are absolutely "tech". Either automotive tech or agricultural tech. I mean, if you want to be totally pedantic about it, go for it. Doesn't make it accurate though.

Long-time Scrivener user here. The main thing that annoys me is that it's sporadically updated.

The articles were great. The comments/forum sections were one of the levels of Hell.

I met Ed at a VERY small Pixar booth at a SIGGRAPH. This was when they were only doing animated shorts showing off of Renderman, and doing some commercials. This was before Toy Story hit.

But Ed was there with a few other people, manning the booth and selling VHS tapes of all their short films up to that time (Knick Knack being the latest). I was standing there in awe because it was Ed fricken Catmull, but my wife doesn't even remember it. Ed took my $20 and put the tape in a Pixar baggy and that was it.

My brief brush with greatness.

Steve never claimed he was a co-founder either...unlike someone else with a certain car company he bought.

"First off I despise both Apple and that other evil empire (house of mouse) I want nothing to do with either of them."

So they decide to go with a company/device that has the absolute worst record of spying on their users? Roku is terrible. But if they're okay with it looking over their shoulder at everything they watch, then go for it.

TIL that Dota had over 40k people still playing.

ZING!

But seriously, I haven't played it in years and years...mostly because of the cheating and the toxicity of it's players.

I'm an old guy...in my 60s. I grew up with film and love the look of old movies. But this is 2023. Why are we still hanging on to a "look" that peaked in the 50s and 60s? Technology moves on.

I mean, I get it. People are stubborn in their ways. They don't like change. It's SUBJECTIVE that someone may not like the look of something. But it drives me batty when people want their subjective opinion somehow presented as "fact". "Based on empirical data". Okay...so?

I love jazz. I love Monk. What I don't care for is the jazz musicians and "purists" who, in essence, is like "if it's not jazz, IT'S CRAP" attitude. Especially when they compare jazz to rock. Listen to the "Wrecking Crew" backing musicians from the 60s complain about the rock music they "had" to play on and how simplistic it was...yet were frustrated by how popular it was. They would say how they could play circles around rock musicians...that is until someone like Hendrix and EVH came along. They basically shut up after that because some said "okay, then listen to EVH and replicate THAT for me on my record" and of course, they couldn't.

Even today you can hear people like Quincy Jones (on his interview from a few years ago) bad mouth all the rock musicians like the Beatles and even Michael Jackson and say they couldn't play and their music was terrible and blah blah blah and the "if it's not jazz, IT'S CRAP" thing all over again.

We haven't had cable TV here in almost 20 years. But we've had some type of high-speed internet and on a business account...which never has data caps of course.

Back then, much of our TV viewing was with the old Netflix DVD-through-the-mail thing, and then various torrent sites. When more and more streaming services started popping up, I torrented less and less to being zero. But now with the shake-up with some of the streaming services (like HBO Max), you just can't get some of the shows anymore...or else you have to buy entire seasons from Amazon or wherever. I haven't resorted to it yet, but I can see how pirating will take a new upswing as the streaming services keep damaging themselves.

From ex-employees that used to work for him mainly. As far as some guy that's trolling him, I had no idea. Sarah Lane, Tom Merrit, Eileen Rivera, Brian Brushwood etc. Just things they've said since leaving/being fired from TWiT.

I was mainly asking what do people use today instead of Python. Things that Python was usually used for, but now people use something else? Hence the whole "I STILL use Python after all this time" kind of thing.

As a layman that's only dabbled in Python, what would be a newer, go-to language today that people use instead of Python?

Back in the day, he used to be a really nice guy. At least that's how he projected himself. I met him a few times at different trade shows and he was great.

Then he got his own "empire". He became the boss. He married his business partner and then he totally and completely took a 180 and became a jerk and treated his employees terribly. None of the original crew that were instrumental into making TWiT into a big thing (back then), are left. It's just a shell of what it formally was. It's really sad when I see people I used to admire turn into something like this, but I moved on.

Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Musk didn't like it so the journalists are now banned.

The dude is truly off his rocker now. The "rules" are whatever he makes up on the spot. He's self-destructing before our eyes...no longer the richest man in the world. Telsa stock tanking all because he can't STFU and acts like a spoiled 12 year old.

Because what they did wasn't original. I've seen this pose, this "look", this everything thousands of times over before this person was even alive. To claim this whole thing is copy-writable is ludicrous.

Now, the image in and of itself is unique and the other people taking it and just flipping it and saying suddenly "it's mine" is just as ludicrous.

Now you just need QuarkXpress loaded on it and use a weird 3rd party font manager to load the customers weird fonts....and then have it simulate crashing every 5 minutes or so.

Would really bring back that OS 9 feeling.

While I applaud this endeavor, I don't watch YouTube on a computer that much. It's mainly via my TV...either on streaming box like AppleTV or others. I have this nice big 4K, 65" TV that can show those 4K YouTube videos in all their glory from the comfort of my couch.

I've also carefully cultivated my YouTube watching habits that it shows exactly what I want to see. No toxic or political things get through. I watch positive, uplifting, informative channels and creators.

Ive was probably cursing at the announcement: "WTF are you doing! You're giving people what they want? That's not the Apple I left, mate. By this time, in 2021, there should be NO ports on the Macbooks, and it should be so thin you could shave with it. What the hell is all this?"

Important to note that Wikileaks wouldn't publish a retraction anyway, even if they were totally wrong.

Come on...

Um...okay. Meanwhile the entire 3D world moves forward and uses Blender on a daily basis in professional and non-professional areas.

Blender when it first came out was pretty bad, interface wise. Now it's one of the best out there...bar none. But hey, you're a hobbyist. Use what you want.

REAPER to me has been wonderful. Very light-weight and can do anything that the big ones do. It just doesn't come with a ton of it's own instruments and sounds like Ableton or Logic or others might. But if you have a ton of VSTs (like I do), it doesn't matter.