They pioneered modern day planned obsolescence, they also popularised unrepairable electronics. They try to block or bastardise any right to repair bills. They force chip distributors to not sell chips they use so their products can’t be repaired. They make building applications for Mac at scale a huge pain in the ass and extremely expensive, the solution I recently built wastes insane amounts of power because of the way Apple licenses their stuff. Overall it’s a shitty company who fucks poor people in developing nations, fucks the environment and fucks it’s customers. I don’t care how well it may or may not work, fuck Apple.

Also OSX ui is shit and annoying.

Pretty sure the studio I work at will have layoffs by the end of the year. Fuck Microsoft.

I don’t know. I have a 7th gen i7 and it works fine, I want a new PC but can’t afford it, but even if I could I wouldn’t touch Win11 with a barge pole.

I fucking hate it. I don’t want to move to Linux. Probably just pirate the updates for the next 3 years and then deal with the security risk.

Need to petition the EU to shop this shit and force them to extend life due to the insane amount of e-waste it will cause.

Yeeeeah, no enterprise admin would run that… GPOs would do the same with more transparency and no privacy concerns (besides running Windows of course)

We use zoom for work and I enable my video feed as a full panel like every other participant, only time it feels weird or gets annoying is when there’s only 1 other person on the call and our feeds sit side by side. I don’t like how I look and have anxiety, so I guess I use it to make sure that I don’t look weird or something.

All I can think about is Dr Strangelove.

Well, they’re fighting hard against that commie plot and winning.

Publicly listing companies, it’s not stealing when people are giving their money to you.

I use 2 cloudflare containers that the pihole points to. That gives me DNS over https but it’s more of a mission to set up.

Sure, totally get you there, but part of what I like about Sublime is that the interface is clean, no buttons everywhere, nothing obtrusive, its just a text editor that packs a punch and has a lot of community built plug-ins to do whatever you may need.

We all have our preferences, I just happen to love Sublime

Could just be the kind of stuff I usually smoke. Its the kind of stuff where a single smallish bud would last a normal person more than a month, and I go through it in less than a week. Well I used to anyway, before moving to boringville

Most really good quality weed doesn’t smell much. Also you use a lot less generally.

Not seeing anyone recommend Sublime Text here. It’s free for non commercial use and is fucking kickass and doesn’t look like it came out of the 80’s like NP++

Was going to suggest this too.

Pretty much yeah.

When the kids weren’t passing, instead of trying to improve their circumstances and enable them to learn more successfully as well as up skilling the teachers, their solution was to lower the pass mark. This went on for years until the pass mark got to the 30% it is today.

Then again, my Zimbabwean friend always reminds me of the time that the students were given a text book that was a year or two behind, and in protest they burned them all. There also needs to be a certain desire to learn and better yourself. There are also those who walk 1h+ to school and back every day in the sweltering heat, pouring rain and sometimes through rivers.

The priorities of the government are really only to enrich themselves and keep the populous uneducated so that their propaganda works on them.

I love my country but holy fuck, shits fucked back home.

End poverty if you want to end the bulk of crime.

Yeah, no one is saying that isn’t the solution to a lot of crime (not sure about GBV though, it should come down with better education). Unfortunately when Mandela took over, the ANC did nothing to improve the education system for the poor, so now you can basically get through school by just showing up and sleeping in class.

How would that be possible when like 75% are poor? Should the rich be doing it at 3x the rate to keep up?

Good luck with that. The biggest criminals are the incompetent politicians, there’s more and worse poverty in SA now than ever before.

Somehow they can completely drain the country of money but at the same time can’t find their way out of a paper bag.

I wasn’t trying to argue, that’s the point, like I said, I don’t bother reasoning with true Apple fans, because they’re weird about it. Hence me just going blah black apple dick sucker. I don’t feel like bothering with people obsessed with a corporation that abuses them.

Luckily I don’t live in a country where iMessage even matters. But in the US I’ve heard some shitty stuff about the segregation, and it’s working, more people are buying Apple devices, often times not because that’s what they originally wanted. That kind of behavior is extremely predatory and generally not okay.

I work with Apple build servers every day, and they’re such a piece of shit company that they even punish (read exploit) you for developing for their platform.

Now my analogy was pretty succinct I thought. We have the general roads where all cars can travel on, and then we get apple roads that only Apple cars can travel on, and sure you can build 2 driveways at your house, one for the apps that everyone else uses, and one for your apple car, but going by the posts any time anything like this comes up, people would rather have their apple driveway and apple roads and only visit friends who also are on apple roads. And it’s BS manipulation.

I don’t think you’re interested in reasoning at all, hence my disinterest in doing so. The Apple fanboys believe that everything Apple is good, even if it’s against their own interests.

I don’t like a company that deliberately manipulates people into recruiting more customers, like forcing them to exclude others from conversations because they have an android phone, but doing absolutely nothing to fix it, in fact, deliberately not fixing it and making the Apple users feel superior because “look what iMessage can do”. I mean yeah, I’ve been able to do what iMessage did since back when a thing called MXit or BlackBerry messenger was around. But of course there’s this assumption of superiority from the Apple users, because Apple is just superior right?

I was using a touch screen phone for like a year and a half before the iPhone even came out, but apparently it was Apple who revolutionised the market.

Just look at their shitty lightning cables, used for nothing but extortion.

But, the Apple dick suckers, will suck Apple dick until the day they die, because Steve Jobs, the person who perfected modern day planned obsolescence and has caused millions of tons of unnecessary e-waste, told them that by owning an apple product, they are superior.