Why can’t cars be the solution? What if we developed cheap, electictric vehicles? You know, like electric bikes, or scooters. This is all theoretical, but some day these could be seen all over!

Maybe with solar power, and other renewables, we can forge a future with cheap tech at the forefront!

No? Okay. I’ll see myself out. Don’t worry, dreamers like me can just find the nearest ditch to die in, rather than you all be wrong about “cars”.

That’s not how this works, but thank you for the silver lining here. People try to be good, even if Elon and Tesla are bad.

Aw, yeah, that’s sick! I also choose this option.

This is especially true right now, when the enormous gulf between the wealthy and poor is the worst we’ve seen in living memory.

People are struggling to pay their rent, and yet Apple is over here selling this bullshit to people.

I was just at the store today, and overheard some kids asking when cereal got so expensive.

It illustrated just how rapidly they increased the prices.

And rice is delicious! I like sticky sushi rice myself. Throw some chicken on there and you’ve got a meal!

Lol I lose it every time the earth benders do their little dance in the middle.

Found it!

I see DND is older than most people think!

I’ll settle for sawing off Los Angeles and letting it float off into the distance.

haha WHOA, that SUCKS.

I’ve never had that, though… not on my Windows machines (plural). Did you buy your machine from a manufacturer like HP? It just feels like something HP would do… never buy HP anything, everyone (even if this specific event isn’t their fault).

Edit: This isn’t your image… it’s from Reddit and it’s from SIX years ago.

That sounds horrible… I’ve never seen these, though. I don’t use anything special so far as I know. I’m on Windows 10 on one computer I run all day, and Windows 11 for the one I use all evening.

Assuming you’re not making this up, could Microsoft be rolling these out only to specific individuals for a trial run, or something? I don’t even have Windows Pro…

Or… actually… I built my computers from the ground up. Did you buy yours from HP, Dell, or another manufacturer? Could THEY be putting ads into their updates somehow?

I’ve never seen these before… can you share a screenshot? That sounds fucking awful!

I don’t remember it being slow, but I think that’s just because the slow pace was part of the intention behind the show. Offices are slow, horrible places to work when we’re talking about corporate environments. So it added to the horror that they made many in-office experiences drag out, and it hit really hard as a result.

So yeah, I agree, but also… I loved/hated it (mostly loved it).

This is the source I used to originally validate my position: https://caniuse.com/jpegxl

Let me know if it’s incorrect, I’d be very interested to learn of new options for the web space as a developer. This said, I googled Firefox and it came back with only “experimental support” for what I think may be an alpha release (version number ends in “a”).

I never claimed Linux and Mac were exactly the same. They are both kernals of UNIX. Though they differ, they use the same “core”.

I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about… what ads are you seeing? Where are they?

The only “ads” I see for windows come after updates in the form of “Would you like to use our “new” “EDGE” Browser?!” To which the options are “YES I WOULD FUCK YEAH” (size 40 font) and “no thanks” (size 8 font). I hate that, but it’s only happened once or twice so far.

lol, I can totally see this on an Apple Billboard.

You replied to someone that strongly asserted that non-Apple devices are convoluted, difficult to use, and confusing. You did so by agreeing that you also hate difficult to use, confusing, and convoluted technologies.

This struck me as disingenuous. I apologize if you are, indeed, not an Apple fan in an active state of disingenuity. This said, if you are to be believed, then I don’t understand what your comment was adding to the conversation here. Was your entire point truly that you simply dislike confusing technology? Did that really need to be said?

With iPhone I am not afraid, for example that if I lose or break it, then I need to spend any significant amount of time to setup new iPhone. Couple clicks and the new phone is in exactly in the same state as the old one. Same apps, same files, everything.

That is exactly how Android phones work as well, and they have for many years. I think my last phone that needed a third party app to do things like transfer contacts was the Samsung Galaxy S4 (2013).

I recommend you check out the competition. I say this purely because I want more consumers to be critical of big brands and their latest offerings. If everyone intelligently assessed devices when they came out without a bias, I genuinely believe all of the devices we use (Apple, Google, Samsung, etc.) would be far better in just about every way, including their price.

Instead, Apple has set a long-standing precedent amongst the majority of their user-base that their devices are so good you don’t need to compare them against their own competition. This has been so successful that it’s led to other companies like Samsung and Google to adopting Apple “design choices” (non-replacable batteries, sealing devices so they are difficult or impossible to repair, removing the headphone jack, etc.) that end up being incredibly bad for all of us consumers.

The latest phones these days are a joke. Google, Apple, Samsung… they are pretty much ALL jokes that are nearly identical to the previous years model.