It is always hilarious and strange to see the buy-in on these things. We have a single coder in his late 60s that has bought in hard to spicy autocorrect. Meanwhile, the youngest on our team (like 22) won’t touch it with a 10 ft pole.

The other issue is just the morality of it. Do I know people that got rich on Bitcoin? Yes. Do I feel like they’re participating in a pyramid scheme still? Also yes. And with spicy autocorrect, where they got their training data for any and all of these models is so freaking morally bankrupt, and they’re desperate to paper over that and make it “ok” for businesses to use it.

Had to click through to change my downvote to an upvote, lol.

They need to get the fuck rid of that executive. Whoever has been running FF the last couple years has done a terrible job in picking directions for them to go, IMHO.

Yeah, I’m still in AZ, thus my question, haha.

Ah, cool! Well AC pretty much solves my hesitations here in AZ, lol. But I know a lot of northern states still might want AWD as an option.

My two immediate concerns would be whether it comes with AC and is there an AWD option. Both of those could be deal breakers towards the borders. I guess they’re not absolute deal breakers (we bounced around AZ in a '71 Datsun pickup that had about the same specs as this a kid) but they certainly would be huge QOL improvements as options.

I think it will depend on if they have lots of USB power conveniently available. Like you could literally make your own stereo with two bluetooth speakers and a phone as long as there’s plenty of USB power and mounting points.

Oh no. Anyway…

Yeah this seems like a weird use case for Mastodon to me too. Also, the entire point of Mastodon is that no one entity can control it all. Switching to BlueSky is basically just falling straight back into the trap where someone can buy it out and repurpose it as a disinformation machine again. I’m not saying ActivityPub is perfect, mind you. Just that it sucks less (for me) than the alternative.

I have literally seen two people in the same meeting make the same point and no one will listen if it’s some normal schlub but the handsome man or pretty woman says basically the same thing and people will all be nodding and like “Wow, that’s a great idea!”

I tried, did not like. But it’s nice to have the option. Also, it’s an actual honest-to-god new feature worthy of a new version point vs a lot of stuff where I’m like, this is how you got to version eleventy two?

It has always been listed on the box if there is support.

Say what, now? I have yet to run into a Linux site that casually lists what all hardware is compatible before you start trying to install stuff. The same with Windows, for that matter, although knowing Microsoft there may be a database squirreled away somewhere.

In some ways it’s just a technical difference (syncing vs backup “snapshots”). It’s totally true that if you throw away a file out of iCloud or OneDrive, there is (I believe) a window of opportunity to get it back out of the cloud.

But I also don’t think either let you get back a version from 3 weeks ago, for example, which is where versioned backups like Time Machine and File History come in.

Honestly, it is good to have both enabled for various reasons, not the least of which is just having a copy of your files offsite.

Yeah, I just meant that I think that you can’t roll back to a version 3 weeks ago kind of thing, which is what Time Machine and File History do. Synchronization vs a true versioned backup.

Yeah, but the challenge is knowing what is compatible to some degree…

AFAIK, OneDrive is very different from Time Machine? More similar to iCloud? It’s not a backup, it’s just an online sync.

The MS equivalent of Time Machine is File History, I believe. (Ie, a versioned backup that fills the hard drive until it’s out of space and then starts deleting the oldest copies of files.)

Yeah they have an Eject symbol by it multiple places, plus the trash can turns into an eject icon, plus of course the menu item you can use under the File menu now, so it’s pretty well covered. Especially compared to the (to me) fairly inexplicable Windows “USB” blob that appears in the controls area to let your right-click and eject. But that was a definitely a thing back in OS 9 and prior, haha. I have no idea whose idea it was to make that the disk eject interface. I’ve heard the same rant multiple times for sure.

I mean, this is why I have been using Mac since 1984. It’s not hard and it pretty much just gets out of the way and lets you do stuff. (Caveat: Gaming. It really doesn’t let you do gaming without jumping through a number of hoops.)

The fact Time Machine immediately hassles you to set up a drive and back up your stuff is so great for the average user. I’m sure both Linux and (I know) Windows have something similar, but it’s not immediately active and trying to get you to save your stuff. TM has saved my bacon numerous times and I love that it’s one click and a fresh HD for users to get it set up.

Service as a subscription, for me. It used to be you bought a product and then you owned it. Now if you want practically anything from streaming media to freaking car washes, you have to “subscribe”.

Being able to launch it locally if you can’t save open or locally seems extremely pointless.