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Cory Doctorow’s “The coming war on general-purpose computing” said it all. In 2012.

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

I’m not waiting any longer. I have exactly zero hope that Apple will fix anything. I even doubt they’re still capable of it, even if they could be bothered to be interested in it.

Rumors persist that you can in fact put a Linux on a macbook. Just in case you have one lying around (which I don’t).

This time for real. Multi-decade users of both Windoze and macOS won’t take any more shit and take action, instead of just complaining. That’s a quality I haven’t seen before.

I would so love to contradict you, but I can’t. I have to completely agree.

Just now I have received mail that the Linux laptop I ordered has been assembled and handed over to shipping. After over 30 years on the Mac Apple has managed to make me look forward to switching to Linux. I never would have thought this day would come, but all things come to an end eventually.

“Armageddon” sounds plausible in the sense that if this war ends too soon, the goons in charge will find ways to start another one within days. The war(s) will not end until von Clownstick is out of office, one way or the other.

Right, you’ll be out of work and without income, but free of Agile.

In 10 years we won’t have the devices nor the software to run such a network. We will have state-approved devices running state-approved software. There will be no escape from brainwashing and total surveillance. The time to stop this is now.

That fascist state is already here, with Sam Altman helping them with domestic surveillance and autonomous killer robots. How long until they get deployed to U.S. streets?

Next step will be that OpenAI hires you because you share their vision for the future. See that you file the patents first.

> there has been permanent war for >1500 years.

You mean, like Europe being constantly at war for thousands of years?

Seeing “Windows” and “usability” in the same sentence is a surprising combination to me.

> Perhaps the best testament to our belief in iterative design is that literally no detail of the initial UI design for Windows 95 survived unchanged in the final product.

I shudder to imagine the look and feel of that initial UI design.

He’s prime dirtbag material. He and this administration deserve each other.

I just wanted to thank you for this work. I wouldn’t have known where to start. Reading about all the hoops to jump through I can’t help but think that macOS is getting ever closer to being malware, just like Windows. An OS you have to fight to stay productive. I’ve been a Mac user since 1995, but the way this has been going over so many years now, I can’t imagine my next computer to be yet another Mac any more. I have been forced to view Linux as the last refuge. It was nice while it lasted, but eventually Stallman was right the whole time.

You don’t unseat the Fraudster in Chief while at war. So starting a war is a slightly less conspicuous trick than outright preventing relevant elections from taking place.

> By then, they will "announce" "AGI"

It’s already a joke to call the slop generators “AI”, so giving it another fake name won’t really make much of a difference any more. Nothing short of a miracle will be able to top the “creative marketing” we already have.

1,000 metric tons of hot air is a lot of volume.

That’s nothing, try `&>`.

What a horribly unreadable article.

I feel for the tax fugitives who are too poor to afford living in California any longer.

I don’t believe one word of what they say publicly.

Convenience dictates that we will be drowning in slop as long as convenience lets us rank academics by number of publications. Publish or perish?

Obviouly the assumption of sanity was premature.

What the hell does Discord need identity verification for in the first place?

But then the sellers wouldn’t find the useful idiots to sell their snake oil to.

Are you suggesting that an accurate description would not be derogatory?

> that level of wealth doesn't need to exist in our society.

But then the inquisition arrives saying this is socialism or whatever.

When you’re a psychopath, the choice is clear.

The amount of damage that was done in just a year says otherwise.