srmatto

Buy whatever TV you think is best, don't connect it to network, and then use an AppleTV box to run it which is connected to network.

I wasn’t aware of that. Good to know, thanks.

I'll go ahead and duck now from the tomatoes but there is a middle path as well...

Using CheapCharts and buying Movies and TV on iTunes. Yes you don't "own it" and yes there are the rare occasional license revocations but it's not often enough for me to care about that--They still remain in your library anyways.

I have been diligently collecting quality, fun, and beloved movies over the past 2 years when they go on sale. That or buying bundles when they go on sale. I've amassed a solid collection of quality media, a lot of which is not on any streaming platform. I even have a lot of Disney titles as well!

I can watch it wherever, whenever and I can download it to devices.

Eat your heart out Disney, Netflix, etc...

And if you want Library Streaming, check out Kanopy. Also has an AppleTV app.

I am glad people still take the time to put stuff like this up on the internet.

Apple is extremely lucky to have users like this who still work tirelessly to find and report these types of problems. They would do well to listen.

There was some news about this recently sadly I cannot find it at the moment. I guess there's a scale that is used to measure sugar content; the Brix scale, and fruit is moving up the scale really rapidly over the past decade or so.

Depends on what you mean. I can buy groceries directly through the grocer instead of a middleman like DoorDash. I would count that as online.

Well it wasn't always this way. There was a time a few years ago (~4?) where you absolutely could avoid updates.

Asking out of genuine curiosity... Do you think the Asahi maintainers could use your work to speed up future GPU driver development? M4, M5, M6 and so on... I am assuming they wouldn't just accept your work outright, but instead could they use it to substantially speed up their development process by mapping out a lot of the GPU after which they can focus on optimization and other aspect of drivers? Do you think they will?

I don't use Asahi now but that's largely because my current Apple M series hardware is still supported. I see a day where an older unsupported Mac is running in a rack in my basement or being used by my kids as a general purpose computer.

I grew up with DOS, Win 95, 98, 2000, XP and so on. I have to ask when was Microsoft above breaking things? In my mind they always had a reputation as being pretty shoddy. As soon as MacOS (OS X) was a viable alternative I gleefully switched and never looked back. I still keep a Windows machine around for gaming but I don't use it for anything more than that. All my serious work happens inside of MacOS.

Sounds more or less like the last breach then.

I don't know, I can't really figure out what modern US conservatives really want anymore. Maybe one of them will chime in and help us understand why we would want this.

I am absolutely open to being corrected but I can't think of a single current era FOSS project that apple is optimizing and shipping with their computers.

Is there anything in the works or planned that suggests the RAMpocalypse will end anytime soon? e.g. new fabs being built, permitted, planned, etc...

Real history here on this subject is the LCD panel price fixing scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT-LCD_(Flat_Panel)_Antitrust...

Then I guess we need someone to sic Claude on trying to re-write the linux driver for MacOS then and see what happens.

Infra is a cost center for a business unless your a PaaS and even then maybe still. Cost centers are usually ferreted out for savings, not investment.

Wow nearly every mattress company I can think of is on the avoid list there.

Any options someone can use locally, say with Claude Code?

That hasn't worked for Climate Change and in my opinion it's for the same reason: money.

FWIW you can prepend `lite.` to cnn.com to get text only articles. https://lite.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-myster...

I think there's truth to what you're saying but I also think there's truth to what people are experiencing and perceiving.

A highly power and/or water consumptive data center being installed in a town or city is pretty much a perfect embodiment of people's frustrations. It consumes tons of power and/or water and therefore drives up utility costs for the locals or pollutes the air with diesel exhaust. And it doesn't create jobs so it's just frankly some rich cabal of capitalists getting richer while people's lives continue to feel materially worse. I can't think of a better embodiment of the sort of confluence of crumminess that seems to be underway.

This is a little bit reinventing the wheel.

https://scorecard.dev/#the-checks

https://github.com/future-architect/uzomuzo-oss#the-problem-...

This doesn't really take into account the real history around user replaceable batteries. It's been happening for years and when there are no alternatives to choose from its not a "vote with your wallet" situation. For example at some point MacBooks just stopped shipping with replaceable batteries and its disingenuous to expect someone to then switch to Dell, Lenovo, or something else. Those platforms can't run MacOS so the choice was made for the users. If you depend on MacOS and the software that runs on it, then your choice was clear--buy a new MacBook with a glued battery.

Small businesses are pretty important for a number of reasons and I think if people adopted this stance it would hurt them a lot more than it would hurt Meta.

Well there you go, there is no reasonable way to be a non-participant while also staying up to date on businesses that choose to use the platform.

Is Meta abusing its users a problem? Yes. Does the TOS allow for it? Yes. Can people decide to just create a shell account and not actually participate? Sure.

One of the real insidious problems with Instagram and to some extent Facebook is that they provide a free, low friction way for business to communicate with current or potential customers. As a result many small businesses use Instagram as replacement for a public facing website and perhaps a blog or email newsletter. Many small business in my region depend on Instagram for this purpose, its nearly universal. It helps keep you stuck in Instagram so that you can see a business' hours, menu, or special events. I guess a shell account is the answer but you're still going to have to navigate the skinner box feed.

Yeah I regret throwing that in the mix because it seems to have rubbed folks the wrong way for whatever reason. I just think avoiding storing state means it's a much easier project. Doesn't have to be G sheets.

Fair point but I mean it eliminates state and would be familiar to just about anyone that might need something like this.