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osmartormenajr said:

You know who doesn't give a damn? Regular Apple customers. You know, people with real jobs and life worries, that don't abuse children, and invest in Apple hardware because they think it is better than the competition's. They are also people that don't agonize about some very technical and narrow definition of privacy, […]

Talk about an overblown "first world" problem.

Talk about utter naïveté!

This isn’t about “some very technical and narrow definition of privacy” this is about an infrastructure that can be used for arbitrary things. Just because, initially to sell it to the public, they limit it to child abuse, doesn’t mean there’s anything technical that limits the expansion to other domains.

In adaptation to your Brazilian saying: “It’s stupid to think just because a jaguar was slain, the jungle is no free of dangers.”

“People with real jobs and live worries” are bred, such that they prevent the solution of problems. Poor people desperate for a job won’t demonstrate or block the deforestation of the Amazon, they didn’t prevent the rise of Hitler to power, they were easily recruited by the Stasi in exchange for a little privilege and a small pay raise. They are the henchmen of any evil system, and then act surprised, when the powers show up at the door and drag them to a KZ or gulag.

Tell the GeStaPo you’re not a criminal, when they knock at your door for having looked at the wrong web site, tell yourself “me being deported is just an overblown first world problem.”

am8449 said:

I'm starting to worry that Apple is listening to the tech pundits too much. Getting used to a new way of doing things always takes time, but tech pundits have a perverse incentive to complain loudly and quicker than the other guy. Think of all the decisions and designs Apple has made that were initially panned by tech pundits, even by those that were loyal to Apple. I'm not saying Apple shouldn't listen to outside opinions at all, but what's the right balance?

Haha, the unified tab bar was clearly designed for i(Pad)OS, where it works reasonably well.

It was a half-baked decision to bring it over to macOS, because in macOS there’s also the toolbar. So unless you essentially disable the toolbar by removing all buttons, you can’t properly work with the unified tab bar under macOS.

Similarly “tab groups”: great feature for i(Pad)OS, but for macOS it would need to be “tab AND window groups”, because e.g. shopping for vacuum cleaners on a mac you’d not necessarily have a tab for each vacuum cleaner you research but a window for each of them, so you can compare them side by side, a possibility that under i(Pad)OS is impossible/severely limited, which is one of many reasons iPadOS isn’t a very productive environment to work in, unless you do very specialized, one-track-minded work. But Apple neglects to reflect the different work modes, and limits macOS by designing around the limitations of i(Pad)OS 

What is alarming is that Apple let’s i(Pad)OS drive all features. Whatever happened with separate operating systems and UIs for different modes of working? macOS essentially turns into iPadOS with Windows and a real file system, instead of being an environment optimized for mouse; and yet one can’t install it on a iPad Pro 12” with MagicKeyboard, which in essence is the better MacBook Air than the MacBook Air.

The ridiculousness of USB-C is measured in three ways:

1) the fragility of the contact. I have a high quality OWC TB3 cable running from my laptop to an OWC TB3 dock. But if I only as much as look at my MBP the wrong way, all disks disconnect. There’s no meaningful locking the connectors in place, which is with what amounts to a PCIe connection NOT a desirable situation. So, holes for a screw-down USB-C connector would be a must for a device that has “Pro” in its name.

2) There’s no reasonable USB-C connector hubs. You want a USB hub with 5-13 USB ports? No problem, but they are still all USB-A connectors. So you either need to buy a dozen or so USB-A-to-USB-C adapter dongles (not exactly improving the reliability of a connection) or you still need to mix and match USB-C and USB-A type cables, unable to finally scale down the cable collection to just one type.

3) No clear way of knowing what cable you actually have: USB-only? USB/TB3? USB4? How much power can it carry?

As nice as the promise of a single, compact connector for everything is, its execution is fubar.

Maybe by the time only USB4 cables are sold, they figured out a way for cables to actually stay in place.

Until then: USB-C connects are IT hell.

What the PC “wokes” forget, there are many reason for stammering and stuttering, and they include getting caught in a lie, being embarrassed etc. non of which have to do with a speech impediment.
And in many of those cases, that emoji is totally fitting.

As much as nobody should be ridiculed for a speech impediment or some other form of handicap, the world doesn’t revolve around the weak people who think everything is about them.

What’s next? Can’t wear dark sunglasses because blind people might feel mocked by it?