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The last time I considered Apple Silicon I discovered that there were a few compatibility issues. I can't recall which softwares specifically, but it put me off "for a generation or two" and I ended up buying a Framework instead.

What is the compatibility story at this point?

Attributing my perspective to dishonesty seems, well, dishonest. The fact is that members of this forum are broadly more informed and versed in statistics when compared to the general public. The general population, through typical news sources (which are infamously bad at being accurate on scientific topics), was exposed to a cacophony of information of wildly varied quality. One small set of examples from what I consider to be reasonable sources (CDC, WHO, some papers, and two mainstream news publications):

[1] The original official estimates for death rate were off by an order of magnitude or more. [2] Then the government said masks don't work. Then the government said masks do work. [3-5] Then the government said they "miscounted" several relevant stats (cases, deaths, etc) several times. Then the advice was booster shots, as it was being discussed that the vaccine wasn't effective enough. [6-7] And as all of this went on, the public was becoming aware of varying governing bodies from all around the world disagreeing about strategy/effectiveness.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7049028/ - Therefore, the case fatality rate (CFR) has been increasing over time, resulting in a high overall estimate of 5.25% (95% CI: 4.98–5.51%).

[2] https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_e58c20c6-8... - While Fauci, along with several other US health leaders, initially advised people not to wear masks, Fauci later said that he was concerned that there wouldn’t be enough protective equipment for health care workers.

[3] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/24/cdc-coding-err...

[4] - https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/929078678/cdc-report-official...

[5] - "We documented 25 instances when the CDC reported statistical or numerical errors. Twenty (80%) of these instances exaggerated the severity of the COVID-19 situation, 3 (12%) instances simultaneously exaggerated and downplayed the severity of the situation, one error was neutral, and one error exaggerated COVID-19 vaccine risks. The CDC was notified about the errors in 16 (64%) instances, and later corrected the errors, at least partially, in 13 (52%) instances. " - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4381627#...

[6] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/repeat-bo...

[7] - https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o108

> I never saw anyone question the efficacy of the vaccine

There is just about a zero percent chance this is true. Many people were openly frustrated that the vaccinated would still get and spread covid despite originally being told that wouldn't happen.

The "jab kills you" thing didn't gain traction until after the official narrative changed from "You won't get covid" -> "You won't get as sick from covid"

The history of property tax involves quite a bit of taxing "intangible property" such as corporate stock. It has obviously evolved dramatically from its original purpose.

Similarly, the income tax in the US was started to pay for the Civil War. It wasn't until the early 1900s that income (both corporate and individual) got federally instituted.

In essence, the tax history of the US reads "At first there were only excise/consumption taxes, and then the government granted itself powers it never gave back. And now here we are."

As such, my expectation is that the notoriously-super-high-integrity government of Detroit won't do anything that isn't in the best interest of the people. Surely.

I have the exact same belief about property taxes. I believe they are perverse at the core. If you own something you should not then have to also pay "rent" to avoid having it seized and auctioned off (at a discount, no less) to those who are already more fortunate than you.

If a person's primary residence isn't given an exception this will guarantee that people get kicked out of their homes once the land value increases too much.

Similarly, if the tax on a rental property becomes too great the rent will rise to meet it. And again, people will be priced out of their homes.

I've worked with quite a few people who absolutely can do quality work but who will intentionally avoid actually doing it. People who browse social media most of the day, get lost in their phone frequently, would rather wait 2 weeks to have a meeting to get unblocked when it could be resolved in a short email, etc.

I have literally had (TWO SEPARATE!) people tell me, thinking it was perfectly acceptable, that they often put extra lines in their code so they can go back and clean it up instantly with auto-format while pretending they did real work.

What would you call someone who defaults to this type of behavior if not lazy? Work shy?

The entire scandal went in one ear and then out the other.

This is a wonderfully articulate write-up confirming what I've suspected about Apple for a long time. I'm glad I finally have a good reference to send people when this comes up, because the amount of "Apple is good for privacy" I've heard in my little circle of tech-adjacent but not tech-literate people is too damn high.

Emotional vs Medical.

A person struggling with narcolepsy doesn't fall into the same bucket as the person who just wastes time at work so they don't have to do work.

Lazy is a convenient catch all for "This person lacks the emotional fortitude to do the work when the option of not doing the work presents itself."

There are a million reasons/excuses for people to be lazy depending on perspective.

Personally, I view people with this trait to be productivity vampires that I avoid like the plague regardless of their reasons (which in my experience are 99% excuses and 1% genuine hardships).

You forgot the most common case:

Someone skilled produces low volumes of medium-to-high effort work because they are the sort of person who would rather browse social media, or engage in office gossip, or play "call a meeting to discuss" games to avoid having to do the boring work.

If someone is "undisciplined," more often they are just lazy and are engaging in avoidance behaviors. Humans with serious executive function issues are a tiny (super tiny) minority of the workforce.

Most people consider low-effort to be lazy.

You can absolutely put in a lot of hours, but be putting in near-zero effort. This results in sloppy or careless work, but the root cause is the laziness of the person.

Exactly. Wake me up when the ice road trucks (half joking) are self-driving.

Cellophane, or plastic?

One of the two is biodegradable.

I'd need to see what the argument is for "Family dog, which can be trained, can communicate its needs, enjoys play, is capable of empathy, and feels emotion isn't generally intelligent/sentient"

IMO - We're building specialized devices on our way to building family pets, then humans, then perhaps something greater than humans.

If it's moral to selectively breed animals to produce superior health outcomes and compatibility with our own species, it seems that the same should hold true for AI.

Just don't get PETA involved in the discussion

I switch between Gnome and KDE pretty regularly on my primary workstation because I occasionally get bored and procrastinate by telling myself that I should check out the latest thing on the other side.

It makes literally zero difference to my productivity. If it affects your productivity, it's a skill issue. Telling people they "haven't thought about it" is a social skill issue.

[1] Everyone gets asked to implement backdoors in this game. This includes games companies like [2] Riot Games and the popularly recognized cases of apps like [3] TikTok and [4] Snapchat. It's also worth noting, people assume (wrongly) that only China wants access to this data, the Feds are more than happy to strong arm people via [5] NSA letters (or other means as in [3]).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwRYyWn7BEo

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-play-videogames-china-ma...

[3] https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-cfius-draft-agreement-shows-spyin...

[4] https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/30/politics/army-tiktok-banned/i...

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/us-tech-giants...

In almost every large company the incentive structure is such that hiring is a "win" for everyone involved. It's a win for the HR team doing the hiring, often they have quotas. It's a win for the manager getting more headcount under their umbrella, adds perceived value and status which leads to promotions. It's a win all the way up the ladder, because it adds perceived growth (remember how many VCs used to tell startups to hire and spend fast?).

The decision maker at the top is usually too disconnected from the rank and file to see the bloat. And the ones that aren't tend to be ruthless about headcount.

Companies don't hire themselves to death. Managers hire themselves towards promotions and kill the company in the process.

Is it "competition" when you're up against state-sponsored actors who will use tactics the rest of the world would consider illegal?

Even with effort I couldn't make them not appear 'flush' and I'm beginning to question my sanity

Apple hardware is prohibitively expensive for most of the world. That's probably the primary driver for the market share gap. Even in the US, the brand is a status/class symbol to some extent.

That said, I have heard the "trust" version of the pitch from some VC types floating around UNLV and I find their trust in Apple to be perplexing.

It took less than one human lifespan to go from the first powered flight to a man landing on the moon. I see no reason for humans to be stuck on Earth for 100,000 years at our current rate of invention and growth.

If "we" are here, or "something else" arrives at that time they are likely so advanced that the topic of communicating nuclear risks to them is rather pointless.

I have the same experience running good old fashioned Debian.

It just worked out of the box on both my desktop machine and Framework laptop. Detected all the necessary drivers meanwhile wifi, touchpad, and all the usual suspects just worked.

I've been doing most of my work on Debian for a pretty long time, even using Debian in WSL2 when I have to use windows, and I can't recall having met with a single problem that using Ubuntu would have solved.

Many controversial pages on Wikipedia have a clearly identifiable bias which becomes impossible to edit because, as you mentioned, they are somewhat 'protected.'

For such instances it is always advisable to go directly to genuine source materials, e.g., case records or legal documents. Were I a teacher I would not accept any compiled source as a citation because the skill of digging deep enough to find the closest thing to the truth is too valuable to do otherwise.

> For example, universities and hospital bills have shot up way more than inflation, just huge.

It is not a coincidence that you picked two industries that thrive on the magic of regulatory capture.

Student loans, which follow a person even if they go bankrupt, removed all incentives for banks to lend intelligently. In fact, they are incentivized to lend larger sums to as many people as they can. And health care is a 9,000 layered beast of corruption across local, state, and federal levels.

Every company begins somewhere. If you want new companies to make it, allowing for there to continue to be 'plenty of opportunities' in the future, then accepting that there are times when repairing the ~sins~ necessities of the past is reasonable.

> My guess is less than .01%.

Because it's prohibitively expensive vs the cost of a new device due to the policies being discussed in this thread.

There was a time I could get a screen replaced in a phone for $40-50. Today, Apple literally bricks the device for swapping out a broken button, even if the part is an authentic Apple component. The trend has been getting progressively worse, and while this thread is mostly about Apple it affects far more industries (Farming being a big example).

> And how much could that really be increased if Apple were forced to make their parts accessible and available in the aftermarket?

I'd reckon a pretty high % of people with cracked screens would happily get them repaired if it were not either ludicrously expensive to do so, or if they felt that they could get it done by 'professionals' instead at some random corner store. These shops can't source parts and schematics "legitimately" and the whole process feels very grey market which drives people away.