You had McDonalds? That was just a farm in my day. Eee-eye-eee-eye-oh!

They’re raising it because of RAM needs of browsers and GNOME.

If you’re a shell nerd like me, you’ll still be fine running it on a potato.

Macrohard Window

Most corporate owned devices are managed with some kind of tool (for restricting what users can do, pushing out software and updates, etc). These tools are called Mobile Device Management (MDM).

The developer is detecting the presence of MDM tools and using that to present a splash page to the user about the licensing requirements etc.

Some educational institutes use MDM to manage students, even so far as to require it be installed on personal owned devices. The developer has been working with edu users to except them.

Bad for Meta. They wasted a lot of time, money, manpower etc.

Edit: I’m just answering the person’s question. I hate Meta - I don’t have Facebook and I don’t have a Quest.

Pretty sure it’s My Name Is All En.

Dr En En En.

Apple’s entire history as an org has been as a fast follower, not a first mover.

The Apple Newton is a great example of why they avoid being a first mover.

I’m always confused why the energy isn’t just put on pressuring Firefox publicly rather than just sitting in comments being negative and suggesting forks that critically depend on Firefox and can no way continue development without upstream.

Full paper is here for those looking for it

At least you can disable all of Apple Intelligence with a single switch in Settings. I’m glad they made it easy to say no to.

No

Especially since Adblock Plus take payment to whitelist adverts.

The first iPhone was something like $600 vs the Prada at $750 or something. Both were certainly “luxury”. Especially compared to say my BlackBerry Pearl I had around that time which was around $200.

Pretty much everything they’ve ever released was a fast follower except the Newton (PDA). They’re not a first mover kind of org.

Technically that was the LG Prada a few months before the iPhone. The iPhone was the first multitouch smartphone however.

Exactly. And when they do try and be the first mover, they invent the PDA with the Newton and bomb fucking hard.

Founded by a man to enable women to redflag men?

What’s your bets the dude secretly hides posts about men he’s friends with etc?

Pasting a URL in a box and hitting enter is way too much effort to avoid paying for content.

I think you’re probably right. Microsoft seems less invested in winning an operating system battle at this point. They’re positioning services and abstractions that care less about the end device’s operating system, more so that they’re at least on that device.

I wouldn’t be surprised we see Microsoft “embrace” Proton and Wine in the next 5 to 10 years as it’s far easier to let “the community” predominantly handle supporting legacy Windows versions that have to handle it themselves.

They can’t suddenly lose that entire OS revenue machine however and would need to transition. But I doubt that Redmond are naive to the disruption Wine and Proton are having and how technical users are starting to jump ship.

Depends where you live. Just look up regional PC builders and see if they do laptops. They pretty much all sell Clevo, often unbranded or you can request they don’t brand it.

eBay might be another option. Or a laptop refurbisher. I’ve picked up several refurbished Clovos over the years that were ex workstations of some big enterprise.