Steve Troughton-SmithA $499 MacBook Neo with the brains of a couple-year-old iPhone can run Xcode, Photoshop, Blender, Terminal, and pretty much everything else you can think of, yet your $3,200 iPad Pro, with a desktop-class chip, cannot đ
What are we doing here?
Simon
@embraboy
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A work in progress
So. Finally got Ubuntu properly set up virtualised on my m4 Mac mini. Loving AnyType as a replacement for Apple notes. Proton email, passwords and Authenticator. Vivaldi is a pretty good browser, cross platform support is excellent so far. Feel like I could make a jump. Whatâs the best option to sell my mini and iPad Air (and Apple Pencil) and whatâs the best laptop to replace with (for running Ubuntu)? #TechGiantExit #ByeApple
@ianbetteridge I am not coping with this Scotland team. Heart rate still at 300.
RE: https://c.im/@BBC/116174094648577346
Is it because infinite growth simply isnât possible?
Brent SimmonsBefore sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.
RE: https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/116139281634699766
I introduced both my kids to RD in the last few years. They're now 15 and 13, and both of them quote it on a regular basis. It actually got my daughter credit with her physics teacher. And the novel⌠the novel is genuinely some of the best writing you will ever read. Anyway, as I'm sure GHC on Bluesky is saying: smoke me a kipper, Iâll be back for breakfast.â
Dean Burnett (that brains guy)Not a day goes by when I don't quote #RedDwarf.
"I have brought pleasure to the world because I have such a beautiful ass!"
"Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb"
"Smmmeeeeeeeeee-"
"You've lost my arm!" "I've lost your watch too"
And so on
But despite so many to choose from, the iconic line from the show that best sums up Rob Grant's legacy is obvious
"And the moral of the story is, "Appreciate what you've got", because basically, I'm fantastic."
@Matthew2468 Iâm finding opera to be pretty good
RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116086047788948581
This is what billionaires do with everything.