The right to repair was as thing people fought for, and got a law to allow, with car companies in the 1960's and 70's. I think the next big front of this, if it ever happens, with be with biotech crops such as Monsanto, where you can currently be sued for "growing their crop" that resulted from wind pollination.

I had to buy a new phone 4 months ago because my 4 year old phone was lasting less and less. But sum the price of the specific battery that is not in production anymore to the cost of handling and you end up spending more changing the battery than buying a new phone. The craziest thing is 10 years ago this was only the case if you had an Iphone, every other phone had removable batteries. I hope when my new phone kicks the bucket we will have phones with removable batteries again.

Yes… But as Kierkegaard noted, the world wants to be deceived.

@@nicholasmacdonald1*The world wants to be reality distorted.

It has more to do with being lucky than being skilled at deception.

Or, "conning* people (and then buying your own con)." (*Specifically conning, lying, manipulating, gaslighting, emotionally abusing, and sort of making yourself low-key a cult leader... but yeah.)

that's a trademark narcissist move btw

I have a feeling if someone told Steve that sewing his asshole shut would help his body process bad mucus he would have probably done it

Holy shit. She fucking slid one past him. He didn’t even notice.

Sliding Pop culture references past Robert doesn't seem like it would be a difficult thing to do.

whoaaaaaaohhhhhohhh

She moves in mysterious ways...

Although I feel like the answer isn't "hire fewer temps," but instead maybe "extend any current legal protections for permanent workers to also cover temps, so they get abused and exploited less." Also "use the funds that would normally go to suicide nets to improve worker living conditions/amenities so they feel less suicidal." Also also, "kill the planned obsolescence model with fire and create sustainable personal devices." (I know this is the kind of complaint you could also extend to the US's minimal regulations about working conditions; I'm just saying, I feel like the most obvious legal solution here was overlooked, maybe intentionally. I am a [former] temp worker, though not at a murder factory in the PRC, so I'm biased. (It just sucks that almost none of the normal worker protections/benefits apply to temps, apparently even in China.)

Take my like and get out. (Or stay, I'm not the boss of you)

Going Muadeep in the Shaihulussy

Hmm, But how will the poor poor ceos get more money to more money they will ever need , the ceos of that companies i mean. Also yeah apple could be as culty with less marketing expenses

I wonder why he failed so hard to sell computers to a group of people who grew up playing Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on their school's Apple2Cs? Huh, a mystery.

Hey, at least theyre unix-like!

@@fish3977 their POSIX compliance will not save them from my wrath.

Can you elaborate on that?

@@RvEijndhovenYou fool! You know not what you have done! Why yes. I can. So having never used an apple product before in my life except for the all-in-one Macintosh monitor/computer combo meal in elementary school in the 90s, it wasnt until my company told me they told a customer they support macs. Thus we need new OSx Virtual Machines in our development labs. The issue with this is that VMWare has announced that they no longer support Apple hardware from Vsphere 7.0 and above. In order to run OSx VMs without breaking Apple TOS, and thus exposing my small company to potential law suits, we need to purchase apple hardware. It is relatively easy once you know what to do, to create a customized ESXi hypervisor ISO. The issue is that the instructions are rather buried in some rather old forum posts. So we purchased a Mac Mini to use as our hypervisor server. Normally its possible to go into the boot menu on this thing easy. But for whatever reason I had to play a game where I am hot swapping monitors whenever I had the bootable media inserted into the Mac Mini to get a picture. Which I had to learn the hard way and did so completely by accident. In addition the MacMini needed customized community made NVMe drivers, otherwise it could not see the internal storage media, and thus installation could not proceed. Apple also does not provide ISOs or a tool to make ISOs the way Windows does. You need to go onto an Apple laptop and download the flavor of OSx you want to install as a virtual machine, interrupt the installation (this is done via the app store), go into that package file, modify it, write it to an empty ISO file you had to create before hand and mount as writable media, and on top of all that once you stand up the VM and mount the ISO, it wont recognize the virtual disk drive as something it can write to unless you specifically format it before hand. Normally all of this is done automatically. Linux or Windows assumes that when you install to a drive, you know what you are doing and will warn you once that its going to erase and format the drive. It doesnt really care what is on the drive or how it is formatted it can do that itself. Its all security theater. Apple is a lovely experience so long as you are doing things Apple has approved you to do. The moment you set foot off of that paved garden path, you step into thorns and briars. To give further context, Gitlab, a large company with its own datacenters, decided it was easier for them to buy Mac Minis in bulk, shuck them like ears of corn, and stick the hardware into customized sleds in order to provide Mac compute on demand to their developers. Apple *hates* its developers. There is no way for an enterprise to easily support Mac at scale like you can with Linux or with Windows VMs.

I too have worked with macs in enterprise, and found it greatly annoying that every piece of infrastructure that we ran for the Windows desktops needed its own mac counterpart because it was half-compatible at best. And it wouldn't even fit in the racks - we had mac pros on the floor of the server room because by then the XServe was dead.

ok boomer

​@@f1mbultyr "Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?" (Gal 4:16) 😂😂😂

@@f1mbultyr Portmantologist is right on this one: Dark Side of the Moon is intended for listening start to end. The tracks are very different in musical style, but connected by a common theme and story. It is arguable the album that make pop music fit to address serious adult themes, rather than just something with a beat for the kids to bop to. DSOTM is an album about life, and the fears of aging - of financial struggles, the middle-age crisis when you realise you are suddenly forty and still haven't achieved fulfilment, the fear of aging, senility and death. Personally I don't think the rest of Pink Floyd's work is anything special, but that album has go down as one of the most powerful and influential compositions of musical history.

"I owe you one."? Fuck that, you owed her WAY more than that. I wonder, did she benefit in his will in any way?

Sounds like an older iteration of "AI is democratizing creativity"

@@SuperSmashDolls Well, he definitely bought into the hype, but this sort of GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) of gathering expensive tools before trying to accomplish something with more limited means isn't unique to computers - you can't become a youtuber until you get a sweet 4K $5000 camera, you can't start really trying to cook until you get your Le Creuset cookware, you can't start woodworking until you get your $5,000 specialist lathe, you can't start hunting until you get a $2500 rifle, etc. There may have been a bit of fear of success, too - which is definitely a great way to self-sabotage, unfortunately.

Hey, have you read Kathleen Hicks' dissertation: "Change Agents Who Leads and Why in the Execution of US National Security Policy"? It's very creative.

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Same.

Undead for life, black knights were so cool

@@fordesponja Necropolis or Tower

And not saying samsung isnt evil, and owning legit a huge junk of south korea, but they dont do culty gatekeeping and more affortable and less exclusive. Moon channels video on south korea is interesting, like better than north korea any day, but oh boy, and it starts with how the gender wars there got so bad but goes into south koreas pretty intoristing modern history in that 2 parter. Also funny inbetween for levity.

Also, excellent Elon Musk impersonation. 💯

Was it the movie or The Making of Fitzcarraldo where someone learned to love again? I can't remember's not the same as I don't know. Virgin with a memoryyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Toyota also doesn’t layoff all their workers during a lull in business- they pay them to stick around so they have idle factories ready to move when demand picks up.

behind the bastards furry gang

Ah, I'm at home in this thread.

Lol

What happened with bad dragon?

I need therapy and all I did was read a comment.

The flaw of the Newton was it came out too soon. If they'd iterated until they had better touch screens and at least pager technology, they would have beat Palm Pilot and Blackberry senseless before they got a foothold. Jobs second run at Apple was a success because he finally got the timing right for iMac, iPod, and iPhone.

@@chrisblake4198 I agree. There were a bunch of companies working on the idea with rapidly improving screen technology and the performance improvements available from new CPUs with low power consumption. The stylus and Xerox's Unistroke software enabled PDAs to move away from keyboard based devices like the Psion 3. There was a killing to be made for the first to market with a successful product and Apple tried but failed. Others spent longer on development and got it right.

I was obsessed with my mom’s palm pilot when I was a kid because of the handwriting function, but they weren’t trying to cater to children so I can’t say if that was a success lol

Flash was proprietary, led to bad design, and was demonstratebly unsafe. the world is beter off without it

​@@fish3977 led to bad design? What are you talking about? Flash was super intuitive to a ton of the creatives apple purportedly cares about. People with very little experience were constantly making free video games with it, at a rate similar to people making youtube videos today. Apple chose to kill flash because they refused to support it on their iphone. Presumably because, yes, it was proprietary, and they couldn't stand having anything run on one of their devices they couldn't directly control. Tons of the internet was built using flash, and now it's just gone to the next generation. They'll never know what it was like, and even if some archival programs exist, younger people will likely never seek them out. And being unsafe can just be fixed with security updates, you're being silly. Adobe chose to stop supporting flash because a significant fraction of the internet wasn't using it, and that's because Steve Jobs publicly refused to allow it to work on his company's popular smart phone devices, despite significant pressure from consumers, who just wanted to use the internet.

@@fish3977 Genuinely don't understand what you're talking about with regards to "bad design". Flash was intuitive for the creators apple claims to care about, we had free video games produced at the rate of tiktok and youtube videos! The security issues only required it be supported, everything has security issues, and it was only not supported because Apple chose not to let it run on their devices, presumably because they couldn't control it because it was proprietary. The internet with flash was a creative place where anything was possible, and people who came after will never experience it.

​@@mind_onionIt's kind of ironic when you consider the fact that Apple's Safari has had more vulnerabilities found in it to date than Flash Player - 1436 vs 1084 to be exact

Verbal tics!

OK. This is Robert Erans, we well listen to ur suggestin thank u

@@RatchetSly it's not a tic, it's a filler word. Robert uses it so excessively at times that I have to turn off the episode despite finding the subject very interesting.

You have a problem with diction. It's ok, I do too. But the problem should not be anyone else's responsibility. Robert Evans is just some dude, and he's not responsible for how you feel about the way he speaks.

Sometimes people like to confirm that the person they're speaking to is either following what they are saying, or that they agree with their reaction to what they just described, right? You know that it's not being used to ask for confirmation that what he said was correct, right? You've had a conversation with another human being, right?