Single-Person Identity Tokens Regulating Online Activity for Social Tradition. Along with a SSN, each American citizen will be assigned a unique token to verify their identity on the internet in accordance with the DANK Act (Digital Activities Need Knowledge).

Are you sure you saw anything? I certainly didn’t. Especially at large corporate retail stores.

Exercise 6:

set -e
f() { false; echo survived; }
if ! f; then :; fi

That one was fun to learn.

Even with all the jank and unreliability, I think set -e does still have some value as a last resort for preventing unfortunate accidents. As long as you don’t use it for implicit control flow, it usually (exercise 6 notwithstanding) does what it needs to do and fails early when some command unexpectedly returns an error.

Trump is allegedly already sick of Elon. Depending on whether Elon keeps being a sugar daddy or not, there might actually be a small chance.

to a point i feels like they’re seeing us as a lesser kind that need protection.

I think you hit the nail right on the head with that observation.

Speaking in accordance with someone’s wishes when they’re not around to advocate for themselves in a private conversation is fine. Someone publicly speaking on behalf of an entire demographic that they know little to nothing about is bigoted as hell. It shows a complete lack of respect by assuming they know what’s best for others without actually taking the time to learn about their values and culture. And it’s super condescending, treating people of the demographic as if they lacked the capacity and autonomy to speak up for themselves.

And the vast majority of the English-language corpus available will reflect Western, imperial core liberal politics.

Oh, I’m sure that isn’t going to be a problem for their goals. They can always overrepresent training data from 2016-2020 and 2024-2028 to add some balance to the model’s political compass. /s

I didn’t address that one because the commenter qualified it by saying you can’t easily change them, which is kind of true. You can change the modifiers, but anything beyond that or changing keyboard layouts is a crapshoot in my experience.

It’s considerably better than trying to remap anything on Windows, at least. But, it’s also not completely free from hard-coded hotkeys and dumb restrictions. For example, Command + Tab can’t be changed or disabled, and you need to use third-party programs like BetterTouchTool to hijack the sequence in order to replace it with some other action.

More recently, I read that the latest OS version disallows registering hotkeys with only Option or Option+Shift as the modifier, which is a very big step backward. Being able to insert unicode characters is cool, but it’s peanuts compared to having 80 more options for hotkey sequences that aren’t already used by the OS or application.

Well, shit. It’s a good thing that I don’t use a Mac unless it’s forced upon me.

I’m not looking to argue, but this is my take:

They’re going to keep making it more and more difficult for the average consumer to step outside of the Apple-intended vision (as they have with Gatekeeper, SIP, and removing kernel extension support), but I really don’t think they would be stupid enough to fully close the ecosystem.

A lot of their MacBook Pro and Mac Pro sales comes from corporate hardware refreshes. If a company can’t get their proprietary software working because of arbitrary restrictions, they’re going to buy a Windows device next time.

It’s a persistent toggle. You could just leave it on permanently, which is what I did when I had to use a Mac for work. If they ever made it reset on reboot or on a timer, I would be pretty fucking annoyed, however.

Outside of gaming, there is not a single reason to use Windows over macOS–maybe if you enjoy suffering

Let me name a couple of shitty ones:

• Your work’s IT only supports Windows.
• You work with industrial control systems or lab equipment that only supports Windows.
• Hardware vendors are assholes that use proprietary protocols instead of USB device classes and don’t release drivers for anything other than Windows.
• You need to use CUDA.
• You need to use a dedicated graphics card for some reason or another.
• You’re hosting a server, but not competent enough to use Linux.

None of those are reasons to voluntarily choose Windows, but sadly, they’re still real reasons.

Not defending Crapple, but adding context:

There’s no way of globally enabling hidden files and folders, there’s a terminal command that does it for vanilla finder windows, but none for the finder file picker windows that apps use.

You can use command + shift + full stop to toggle hidden files and folders, if I recall correctly.

Unclear if it’s hardware or MacOS, but despite having the graphical horsepower to push enough pixels, Macs are limited to two external monitors unless you buy the multi thousand dollar Max processor.

It’s the hardware. Each display needs to have a dedicated controller chip and video signal encoder, and Apple decided to be assholes and only add two of them.

Not defending Crapple, but in the name of fairness, some of these aren’t really accurate unless you’re ignoring the spirit of the complaint and being pedantic.

You can scroll right but not left with the track pad

You can scroll up, down, left, and right if you use two fingers to scroll.

The delete key doesn’t do anything in the finder

You can use command + backspace to delete selected files.

The terminal uses cmd+c instead of cmd+shift+c (really should be ctrl but okay)

The rest of the OS uses command + c for copying. This is consistent.

Every app relies on an antiquated menu bar at the top which is straight out of 90s UI

This is a personal opinion. It’s a valid complaint, but it’s not a universal problem.

No no, we’re all misunderstanding what they mean by “free speech.” It’s not free as in “freedom”, but free as in air: you don’t directly pay them money to use their platform, much like you don’t yet have to directly pay our corporate overloads for the privilege of breathing oxygen.

If you want try to spread hate and perversion about Elon, grasp what you speak on.

Sure, here’s an idea: Elon Musk is the world’s richest man by a large margin, emotionally unstable, narcissistic, and insecure. Nothing good for society or the general public will come from giving him any position of power.

He has a lot to gain by influencing elections, and he has a proven record of supporting politicians and making them change their mind on policies in a way that benefits Elon’s companies. His trans daughter hates him for being a terrible person, but he blames her liberal-leaning views for it, calling it “the woke mind virus” and platforming selfish, anti-liberal/anti-socialist nut jobs as a “fuck you” to the threat he believed took his “son” away from him.

He has a track record of lying about his achievements, promising the future “will be ready by the end of next year” every year and only delivering something half-baked. But, that’s just his successes. He pays people to be good at things, then he claims the credit all for himself to seem cool and likeable. You know, like how he was claiming to be top 10 in Path of Exile 2, only to be caught obviously not knowing how to actually play the game he was supposedly world-class in.

Or if that’s not sad enough for you, have you heard of Adrian Dittman? If you don’t know who he is, let me tell you: he’s Elon’s alt account on Twitter… using a voice changer to pretend to be not-Elon… while acting as Elon’s number one fan.

In conclusion, fuck Elon Musk. Somebody who is that insecure, pathetic, and self-centered shouldn’t be allowed to buy his way into influencing politics.

He needs to go to Mars already. And it’s a one-way trip, thank god.

Theft against banks.

Oh cool, I was banned from there last month.

Like “MDMA”, “WEED”, or “TUAH”?

With his lifestyle, nature will pardon him from having to pay that fine long before it gets to the point where he can’t appeal it to a higher court.