I appreciate the article points out AppleTV as being the only one without ads at this point. They also have great shows and the fidelity of the video is good.

Tim Cook sucks at this point, but who ever is running the TV business is doing a good job.

Depending on your steam machine you get, it might have empty slots. I think one of the interviews said some will have a single stick of 16 and some two sticks of 8 just because the stock for RAM is so dumb they are taking what they can get.

My favorite is when outlook pops up a meeting notification about five minutes into the meeting after I’m already in the meeting.

I just want them to take a few minutes and make an iPad app because the default app running on iPad sucks shit.

“Texas hurt itself in its confusion.”

Best I can do is spin up 20 agents to barely get some basic functionality written.

They are certainly more expensive, but it’s a “buy once cry once” type of thing. You pay a little more but the box works SO MUCH better and for longer than the cheap junk that’ll show you a bunch of ads.

I have two of them at this point and zero regrets.

I definitely think it’s “linux brain” that exists around here to a degree. You can see it on any given thread that talks about…well…anything technical. “Just download Linux!” they’ll say. And I say this as someone who LIKES Linux. I have it on two of my pcs (and I have a Mac and iPhone/iPad, etc. as well). It’s great. But there’s a zealotry around here around it.

That said, it’s not hard to dislike Apple right now. I’m pretty mad at them for cozying up to trump all the time. I’m glad Cook will not be leading Apple soon (though I wish he’d just leave outright. He’ll still be at the company). But it’s hard to deny the hardware is great and the software is generally good and generally works well.

But Lemmy is certainly a niche population of nerds. And that’s fine! It’s great! But a lot of those nerds seem to love the “console wars”-type mentality of “MY thing is the best and anything else is bad.”

People love to hate Apple, and that’s fine (Tim Cook sucks ass), but the AppleTV is honestly the best streamer and you can’t change my mind.

Zero ads on the Home Screen, and even the first gen 4K box that came out 8 years ago is still fast as hell and getting updates.

I know this because I had one in my closet and just took it out the other day when setting up a TV in my bedroom. It downloaded updates and is now rocking and rolling again.

I actually don’t totally agree with the shipping part of this.

Anecdotally, I’ve found that pretty much all of the “big box” stores have good shipping now, and often for free (so long as you hit a price point, of course). And at least in my city, Walmart or Best Buy often ships within a day and it only takes 2-3 days to get the product(s).

Now, there can certainly be a conversation on whether or not it’s good to buy things from these companies, which is a good conversation to have. But their shipping is often good.

Also, what human being has ever said “prewritten software” to describe a video game or an office suite you can buy at Best Buy?

AI;DR

Too bad coffee tastes like trash to this guy.

Guess I’ll die.

I do often eat some fruit, though.

Someone needs to sit this guy down with some crayons and be like, “the alligator wants to eat the bigger number. Do you now understand why you can’t afford this?”

Same. I had Disney+ and Hulu for YEEEARS until that happened. I canceled immediately. Also canceled Paramount after having it for years when they canceled Colbert for no reason other than to appease the dipshit president.

Beyond VSCodium (which I have switched to since this news), what are everyone’s favorite alternatives that are easy to switch to?

I say easy to switch to because no one is jumping to Vim or whatever on this news. I don’t mean to offend the deeply Linuxed, but they aren’t.

They don’t tell you they are doing it, for one.

Even though this 4GB is local, the “omnibox” at the top that also uses Gemini shit doesn’t use this 4GB and still goes to the web to determine the slop it wants to provide.

Finally can register

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It only took one year to wreck most of the soft power, too! And they say government isn’t efficient…

Everyone has their own style, but Bob over here doesn’t change his style every day. Before, my boss had their own style, and if I ended up working on their code I’d try to match that just to keep things consistent. But now it’s all over the place.

AI slop just flops out whatever it feels like at any given time since it’s just cribbing everything from the internet.