To play devil’s advocate, we always knew lead was toxic, but we didn’t know the only healthy dose was 0

Way too many of them were, but “all” is a huge stretch

As if it’s a new phenomenon. 20th century rockstars & boysband members attracted that same attention

That’s easily explained by + being the concatenation operator though. Those are two different operations with the same symbol

Just use typescript anyway lol

Taiwan is a region of the ROC. The ROC is a country.

Lmao I didn’t understand your comment before I clicked

You can customize the colors & themes. I go with dark mode with dark tones & there is no multicolor things like you’re complaining about

The terminal is pretty vanilla, you can customize it but it looks like any terminal by default

You can’t turn off blur AFAIK, but it’s never been distracting to me. It’s probably where you get the idea of multicolor things though – some apps (and by some I mean apple default apps) have a very slight transparency with a strong blur, so if the windows/background behind said app is colorful, it will be somewhat visible through that app

Edit: You can turn off transparency in accessibility settings

When I say “can’t be turned off” I mean “can’t be turned off officially”, but as all things with macos there will be some paid & OSS solutions to tweak the behavior of the OS to your needs.

I like my mac pretty vanilla yet I do use some of those behavior-tweaking apps such as

• Copyclip
  • clipboard history, free, can be installed outside the app store if you want
• MiddleTouch
  • paid, allows the use of the fn key + click to perform a scroll click (some apps are barely useable by me without this behavior)
• Scroll Reverser
  • allows setting different scroll behaviors between mouse & trackpad (default setting has inverted vertical scroll, OK for touchpads, terrible for mouse – it has no split settings)
• noTunes
  • prevent the opening of Apple Music app on ▶️ key press (annoying behavior when pausing & starting music play)

You should also install Brew, the unofficial macos package manager, to install command line utilities and other packages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan

You can check the territorial claims of the Republic of China (“Taiwan”) under the selector “Show map of Taiwan (dark green) with ROC Mainland Area and historical claims (light green)”

The map is not quite up to date as it still shows the ROC as claiming Taiwan, despite formally granting independance in 2002 (source)

Because that’s a history question. “Taiwan” is not a country, it’s a province of the Republic of China (ROC), which was the government of China before the communist revolution. They fled to Taiwan but their constitution etc still define them as the Republic Of China, with territorial claims over all of China

Here is an article specifically on that exact topic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Area

Edit: The main “Taiwan” wikipedia article also has a map that can be selected under the label “Show map of Taiwan (dark green) with ROC Mainland Area and historical claims (light green)”

They have their own singular drawback with being a stain on the environment.

Seriously, just get a bidet

Well yeah, w11 has no selling point, that’s why they’re forcing you to switch by removing support by autumn 2025

What?

They’re VCs, they’re not here for the long run: they’ll replace the employees with AI, make record profits for a quarter, and sell their shares and leave before problems make themselves too noticeable to ignore. They don’t care about these companies, and especially not about the people working there

That doesn’t work. Data can and has been deanonymized previously. It’s still very much unsafe if it falls in the wrong hands

Well I know iphones are great quality devices & have long lasting support, but if I can’t tinker with it then to me it’s hardly better than a gilded brick

By “tinker with it” I mean installing apps like youtube revanced, playing morrowind, having access to a terminal etc

I think it has more to do with compute speed. I have a trash camera but high-end CPU on my device, QR codes are instantaneous

all that effort and all I care about is scanning QR codes :(

100% with you on this. All I need is a QR code scanner. I don’t care about the pixel count, I want everything in my phone to be in performance / screen quality

heh it truly depends on a lot of factors. I don’t want to “cheap out” on a high-end windows laptop, their thermals are shit, the battery life is non-existent, the keyboard is trash, and the computer frame are rarely decent.

A macbook is expensive, yes, but I’ve never experienced having to doubt the hardware, or get weird issues with it. It’s a peace of mind I’m willing to pay a premium for. I even have a mac mini as a server for the extremely low power consumption & extremely good CPU performance (seriously, this thing competes with i9s for a fraction of the power (I’m exclusively interested in single thread applications))

As for iphones & apple watches, I like to tinker with my stuff way too much for them to make sense to me (which my macbook allows me to do as much as I want)

I’m exclusively talking about my experience with apple silicon, idk how it was before the M1 chips came out.

The only civil war that could possibly happen is between netanyahu and people thinking he’s not genociding hard enough.

I see way too many people thinking israel is somehow a dictatorship and the fault for the genocide is with the government, when the most widespread criticism of israel’s government by israelis is that the government is not “doing enough”. The country is rotten to the core, as are all ethnostates