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LucidLethargy ,

that’s none of my business but derpier

LucidLethargy ,

That’s not how this works, but thank you for the silver lining here. People try to be good, even if Elon and Tesla are bad.

LucidLethargy ,

And rice is delicious! I like sticky sushi rice myself. Throw some chicken on there and you’ve got a meal!

LucidLethargy ,

I was just at the store today, and overheard some kids asking when cereal got so expensive.

It illustrated just how rapidly they increased the prices.

LucidLethargy ,

This is especially true right now, when the enormous gulf between the wealthy and poor is the worst we’ve seen in living memory.

People are struggling to pay their rent, and yet Apple is over here selling this bullshit to people.

LucidLethargy ,

My galaxy watch I bought many years ago has this same feature, is cheaper, and looks amazing. I got the “classic” model with the turning frame. It’s an outstanding watch even to this day. No lag, great battery, and very bright even in sunlight.

LucidLethargy ,

I mean, spellcheck does that more often than not.

LucidLethargy ,

Apple also holds over 95,500 patents. I will never get why some people defend this crazy company. They make underperforming computers and sell them for wayyy over their value.

LucidLethargy ,

They notoriously sell older components and technologies in their brand new computers.

I have one I got for free that was made in 2020. It’s a MacBook Air. It has 8gb of RAM… I don’t even know how they found RAM chips that small in 2020. It freezes every day when all I’m doing is running a web browser. This computer was $1,000 at the time it launched.

LucidLethargy ,

Have you looked? I mean, that question is rhetorical… No, you haven’t.

You should check out the competition. Samsung makes some great devices, razer makes some great devices. Even Google makes solid competition, though I prefer others over them.

LucidLethargy ,

I’ll settle for sawing off Los Angeles and letting it float off into the distance.

LucidLethargy ,

I am, also, whelmed.

LucidLethargy ,

I’m sorry, but no. Apple is more than a “choice” - they have been damaging the progress of consumer technology for over a decade now. Their success in selling overpriced, dated, and uninnovative technology has driven all their competition to avoid “risky” innovation, and to mimic low-cost, consumer-hostile practices.

It’s okay to shit on a company. What you’re doing is defending a focused attack on a brand. Get over yourself. Apple doesn’t need your help, they are the wealthiest company in the entire world right now.

LucidLethargy , (edited )

You may not realize it, but unless we’re talking processors Apple almost always puts old tech in their devices.

Their laptops still sell with 8gb of slow RAM, and tiny hard drives. This is an upsell tactic so you pay them extortionate amounts for cheap upgrades. Then their computers… Oh man, just don’t. They sell a stand that’s $1,000, do we even need to go into the rest?

Even their phones STILL lack the latest features of their competitors. Though most competitors have vastly given up dramatic innovations. Check out the cameras, the screen refresh rates, the RAM, the screen brightness, and side-by-side user comparison testing of their poorly performing GPU’s.

LucidLethargy , (edited )

So, as a professional, working photographer I can tell you this comment makes no sense to me.

I’ve only bought two Samsung phones over the last ten years, but they have never failed to make the best mobile phone camera since I started keeping track in 2013.

It seems like you’re talking specifically about processing, so perhaps that’s the hangup here… I focus on RAW, and use other specialty services to process. You can never go wrong with Samsung (so far) if you want to best potential RAW image.

LucidLethargy ,

Not sure why they used this term. A DSLR is a camera most often used by professionals in the industry.

Digital single lense reflex cameras, such as the Canon 5d Mk IV, are still excellent cameras that outperform their smaller sensored counterparts in phones.

This said, many like myself have moved on to mirrorless in recent years. I’m not sure I miss anything other than the satisfying “click” from my DSLR’s.

LucidLethargy ,

I’m not shitting on people at all. I never say a word to my friends with iphones and macs unless they specifically try to convince me they are the best.

I’m shitting on Apple. A company. Despite what some politicians want you to believe, I don’t think companies are people.

LucidLethargy ,

The original comment was unironically shitting on someone’s comedic opinion of Apple, a company.

If you own apple products, good for you. I don’t care in the least, nor will I judge you.

I do care about Apple selling them for the prices they do, though. And for their business practices making it hard to repair and maintain said devices. In my opinion, this makes them a shitty company.

LucidLethargy ,

I’m not laughing… I find the whole thing kind of depressing. Real talk, though… I’m just as pissed off at Google and many other huge companies.

I’m tired of huge companies exploiting the ignorance of average folks and damaging the progression of consumer technology. We deserve better than this.

If Apple sold their products for a pittence, I’d be their absolute biggest fan. They not only push aggressively overpriced tech, but they convince impressionable people to buy into their “ecosystem”.

What the heck is that, even? What is their “ecosystem”? Macs, iPads and iphones all work with windows and Linux. Heck, Mac IS Linux at a core level. I’ll tell you what it is… George Carlin give me strength, because “it’s all bullshit, and it’s BAD for you.”

LucidLethargy ,

I never claimed Linux and Mac were exactly the same. They are both kernals of UNIX. Though they differ, they use the same “core”.

LucidLethargy ,

I’m so confused… Do you think android and/or windows users use sudo? That’s a Linux thing… Macs run on an off-shoot of Linux.

Android and iOS are very similar to all “basic” users. Android simply allows super users (ironically this is related to sudo) to use commands if they reeeaaally want to. Although, to be fair, you need an unlocked phone for that.

Normies, are just allowed third party apps like ReVanced that let you skip YouTube ads for free. Do you not like that ability? If so, you can pay. Google loves that. Google owns Android. We’ve done a loop-dee-loop now, I do believe.

LucidLethargy ,

I’m so lost here… Have you ever even tried using a brand new Android phone, or Windows computer? Your comment suggests that no, no you have not.

Like, hey, you do you. Mac and iOS are totally fine. But don’t spread nonsense about Apple being easier. It’s not easier in any way. In fact, I genuinely find iOS to be more complicated in recent years.

You do not need to “tune” an android phone or windows computer. Like… I honestly don’t know what that even means.

I own and fix all types of devices, and apple devices are often some of the most problematic. They do NOT “just work”, but you know what that’s from? It’s from Apple’s marketing campaign rolled out years ago by Steve Jobs.

LucidLethargy ,

I’ve never seen a single ad in windows. I keep hearing they are coming… But so far it’s just a few predatory practices failing to convince me to use their stupid browser.

LucidLethargy ,

I think it’s just Linux people trying to poison the well. I’m not even mad, haha.

But like, I’m not joining the lie, either. Some day it could happen, though, and on that day sign me up for a pitchfork.

LucidLethargy ,

With iPhone I am not afraid, for example that if I lose or break it, then I need to spend any significant amount of time to setup new iPhone. Couple clicks and the new phone is in exactly in the same state as the old one. Same apps, same files, everything.

That is exactly how Android phones work as well, and they have for many years. I think my last phone that needed a third party app to do things like transfer contacts was the Samsung Galaxy S4 (2013).

I recommend you check out the competition. I say this purely because I want more consumers to be critical of big brands and their latest offerings. If everyone intelligently assessed devices when they came out without a bias, I genuinely believe all of the devices we use (Apple, Google, Samsung, etc.) would be far better in just about every way, including their price.

Instead, Apple has set a long-standing precedent amongst the majority of their user-base that their devices are so good you don’t need to compare them against their own competition. This has been so successful that it’s led to other companies like Samsung and Google to adopting Apple “design choices” (non-replacable batteries, sealing devices so they are difficult or impossible to repair, removing the headphone jack, etc.) that end up being incredibly bad for all of us consumers.

The latest phones these days are a joke. Google, Apple, Samsung… they are pretty much ALL jokes that are nearly identical to the previous years model.

LucidLethargy ,

You replied to someone that strongly asserted that non-Apple devices are convoluted, difficult to use, and confusing. You did so by agreeing that you also hate difficult to use, confusing, and convoluted technologies.

This struck me as disingenuous. I apologize if you are, indeed, not an Apple fan in an active state of disingenuity. This said, if you are to be believed, then I don’t understand what your comment was adding to the conversation here. Was your entire point truly that you simply dislike confusing technology? Did that really need to be said?

LucidLethargy ,

I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about… what ads are you seeing? Where are they?

The only “ads” I see for windows come after updates in the form of “Would you like to use our “new” “EDGE” Browser?!” To which the options are “YES I WOULD FUCK YEAH” (size 40 font) and “no thanks” (size 8 font). I hate that, but it’s only happened once or twice so far.

LucidLethargy ,

I’ve never seen these before… can you share a screenshot? That sounds fucking awful!

LucidLethargy ,

That sounds horrible… I’ve never seen these, though. I don’t use anything special so far as I know. I’m on Windows 10 on one computer I run all day, and Windows 11 for the one I use all evening.

Assuming you’re not making this up, could Microsoft be rolling these out only to specific individuals for a trial run, or something? I don’t even have Windows Pro…

Or… actually… I built my computers from the ground up. Did you buy yours from HP, Dell, or another manufacturer? Could THEY be putting ads into their updates somehow?

LucidLethargy ,

haha WHOA, that SUCKS.

I’ve never had that, though… not on my Windows machines (plural). Did you buy your machine from a manufacturer like HP? It just feels like something HP would do… never buy HP anything, everyone (even if this specific event isn’t their fault).

Edit: This isn’t your image… it’s from Reddit and it’s from SIX years ago.

LucidLethargy ,

Calling it the “Israel-Hamas” conflict feels intellectually dishonest.

It’s a genocide. The Palestinian genocide at the hands of the Israeli Defense Force.

LucidLethargy , (edited )

Yup. And now it’s over. And so is my free trial next January. Bye, Apple TV. I won’t miss you.

LucidLethargy ,

All of those can be watched in a month, though. It’s not enough to sustain an entire subscription. Also, foundation kind of sucked (nothing happened… maybe it will in the future, but also maybe it won’t)

Tales from the loop is actually on Amazon prime, lol.

LucidLethargy ,

No, they did not. It’s Amazon Prime.

LucidLethargy ,

That’s not on Apple TV. It’s on (HBO) Max.

Why are so many people in this thread attributing shows to Apple TV that were never on Apple TV?

Apple TV+ does not have enough shows to justify $10/month.

LucidLethargy ,

Yeah, it was kind of boring, right? Very little happens. The entire first series should have been 2-3 episodes at the most.

LucidLethargy ,

I’m also curious… It’s on my list before my free trial ends.

I’ve had a free trial for almost a year now, lol. But I won’t be paying for it afterwards…

LucidLethargy ,

It was. I don’t like this service, but this was a fantastic show.

LucidLethargy ,

Meh, I wasn’t a huge fan. Watched the entire series and it was always a borderline show. I liked The Big Door Prize better. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone mention that on here yet…

LucidLethargy ,

lol, I can totally see this on an Apple Billboard.

LucidLethargy ,

I don’t remember it being slow, but I think that’s just because the slow pace was part of the intention behind the show. Offices are slow, horrible places to work when we’re talking about corporate environments. So it added to the horror that they made many in-office experiences drag out, and it hit really hard as a result.

So yeah, I agree, but also… I loved/hated it (mostly loved it).

LucidLethargy ,

Those aren’t even skate shoes, lol.

LucidLethargy ,

Ark: Survival Evolved is a Chinese developer. It’s the worst offender so far as I know.

LucidLethargy ,

Studio Wildcard later identified SDE Inc. as its parent company. SDE Inc. has been described as an affiliate of Snail Games USA, the American branch of the Chinese video game company Snail Games.

Can’t blame Western developers on this one.

LucidLethargy ,

Not just cars, sir, but everyone who has ever driven them.

LucidLethargy ,

GoDaddy is the worst fucking web host, too. WHEN they fuck your website up, you wait two HOURS on hold to get them to fix it, if your lucky. If your unlucky, you wait over three hours, and they don’t fix it.

LucidLethargy ,

And they can carry a great cost to the progression of technology, and the advancement of our society.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara

LucidLethargy ,

Spell check was invented in 1971.

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