selectively

Truth. Unpopular here, but that is the truth.

I have access to effectively infinite API tokens for all models from Anthropic as well as OpenAI. The differential in performance in complex tasks is vast and strongly in favor of Opus, in my experience. I do not use the official harnesses for either model, though - as they are not my taste.

Codex is closer to my taste, as it is at least a native app and not typescript slop. But the model is just not up to snuff.

Oh. Yikes.

Price drops are nice. Unfortunately, the quality differential versus the competitor is night and day.

And everyone serious uses the API rate billing anyway.

It was also briefly useful for buying drugs on the Internet.

It also enabled the existence of ransomware. Can't go big fish hunting if there is no viable way to pay the attacker.

All Bitcoin/crypto "currency" is harm with near-zero upside.

Idiotic. Absolute dumbness.

Your post is an outright lie.

How it started: almost everything is signed, even pirated apps

How it's going: almost everything is signed, even pirated apps.

????

This is non-technical. F-Droid is horrible. https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/#5...

F-Droid has not meaningfully improved since that piece was written, either. No one should use F-Droid.

Rare good decision from SCOTUS.

I'm talking about enterprise software, not games. Minecraft exists for Mac, grab the Java version.

Needing VBA is more common than you think. Excel really has no competitor.

Or, even better: let's not be edgy, because we are not tweens circa 2002.

You are deeply confused (you do not understand public perception/you do not understand how choosing a ''good pc'' is hard for most people/you don't grasp that a luxury brand versus Acer for the same price is a no brainer for most people, regardless of I/O or whatever) and - frankly - you are not worth discussing anything with. Have a good rest of your day.

Microsoft offers Office for Mac. It's a thing they do. It's the full fledged Office suite. They see a Mac user the same way they see a Windows user - a source of revenue.

One of the things is an Acer. The other is a Mac. That sways purchase decisoons - one is a nice thing, the other one is a low end PC.

I have used countless modern PC devices, including some from Acer. Few PCs have a trackpad of the level of the Neo and none from Acer.

Your logic with "Apple's intentions" reveals a person who is incapable of decent analysis; macOS relies on gestures a lot because the vast majority of macOS devices are laptops. The desktop market is an after thought because the people keep buying laptops. That's it. There's no conspiracy, just a focus on the devices that the users choose to buy.

The PC industry has almost no shot of competing with the Neo. You have to spend much more than $1000 to get a nice object that looks and feels nice. Right now, the PC industry is selling Old Navy products when Hermès is the same price. That is a real problem.

Microsoft is going to be fine. Companies that rely on selling low end devices to consumers are going to suffer.

The trackpad on the Neo is at the level of a Surface trackpad, which is to say it is worlds better than the typical budget junk you can pick up from Acer.

I liked the way Pages 09 looked - it was beautiful - but the compatibility wasn't there. Modern Pages is hideous.

And you hit the nail on the head with the whole 'Office = the document always opens/looks right' thing.

Exactly. 365 gets you perfect compatibility and the 'real tools that professionals use'. Not Google Docs or some weird Apple thing - the tools that always will read the document.

Microsoft is a giant enterprise software company that also publishes Candy Crush and Call of Duty.

Intune and Windows are 'nice to have' but are not the business-business. The business is 365 (which runs on Macs and is worlds better than Apple's office suite + Apple's hosted email is god awful) and Azure.

Domestic violence analogies for computing....really gross. I wouldn't hire or work with 'Sam Bent'.

Smartphones are good. Addiction is physical compulsion. Nothing else is addiction.

You sound exactly like the people who were freaking out about comic books and video games. Moral panic, forever repeating.

Smartphones are good and we shouldn't demonize them.

Actually, we do. That's kind of the entire point of science.

The 'headline' is false. This is specifically for unsigned applications, not for all sideloaded apps.

That 'caveat' is the actual science. So it's a pretty big deal.

There are no reputable studies showing both correlation and causation there.

If you are going to ignore 'the noise' (the actual content of my post) we don't have anything to talk about and you should not reply. Do not reply to me if you are not going to actually respond to the content of my post.

What a vulgar situation. Policy made from a moral panic and - look at that - it is negatively impacting actual people who exist.

The obvious reasons. People who do not have political agency should not have decisions made that prevent them from using their own devices in a setting that they are legally required to be in. That's not how things should work. One group of people should not be setting policy for another group of people in this matter. The victims of these policies aren't infants; they will be adults in about five minutes.

Blankets bans and these idiotic 'oh just ban phones/computers entirely, pen and paper am i rite?' ideas have a ton of nasty externalities that no one seems to care about. They reduce the quality of life for people who rely on AAC (having your actual voice on the device you carry day to day is nice, having a lesser experience without your actual data is intolerable + 'everyone' having the kind of device that you use for this purpose prevents you from standing out at all times) in service of chasing and responding to a moral panic.

In the real world, kids just unenroll Chromebooks via the nine million exploits that have been found over the years (many of which are unpatched and some are hardware flaws) and load software that lies to the management system about the state of the device. They do whatever they want on on those devices - which is mostly 'doing their actual work without staff being able to spy on their screen/being able to play a simple game when they have no work to do'. The people using phones in class are the exact same people who were using iPods in class, were using non-smartphones in class to text constantly, using Discmans in class and so on. To pretend that smartphones are somehow different from that past involves gesturing towards pseudoscience and non-credible actors. For more on this: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/21/two-major-studies-125000...

These policies have both possible problems - the 'gun control problem' (you can't really achieve anything that you claim to care about while also issuing kids laptops that are used in class + you have to issue laptops in order to much of the kind of relevant teaching necessary in 2026, so there is no real way around this problem) and also the problem of the policy itself not addressing an actual real problem that exists - it's mostly a moral panic about social media, not some real problem of widespread usage of phones during class. The people who are interested in learning will learn, the others will not, that's that. People should be treated as individuals rather than a faceless blob of youth who need hostile policy designed for them. I'd also remind lawmakers that these people will be adults in about five minutes and resentment can easily carry over into the voting booth.

By the way, the Oregon ban is illegal and will be tossed out the moment that it gets to the appropriate level of judicial review - the Governor cannot make law.