Yeah, it's pretty good but still crazy expensive. Most of the good CAD softwares have remained very expensive.

All the better FreeCAD continues to steadily plow forward..

Funny that you say the BYD was tasteless. I definitely agree, and it's something that can be said about much Chinese-made stuff.

In French we have the word "chinoiserie" which is used to describe objects with a certain aesthetic, reminiscent of Chinese art. It is used derogatively to mean something lacks taste even if it looks sophisticated at first sight.

Americans have the same "Chinese-ium", but referring to the materials its made with. Cheap plastic, low durability, lead-based paint etc

Food supply is something I though about but the problem is that we put a lot of it in storage and it's never clear how much because sellers may want to wait until markets are more favorable.

With modern technology/knowledge, we have a lot of high-density calories lying around, in the form of grains, potatoes, oils, etc.

It might be possible to get a rough picture tracking the perishables that are often animal products but poor countries don't use a lot of it because, well, they are poor. So it makes everything very complicated.

Definitely agree. He sometimes says things that sound interesting or true, but for the most part I believe he is full of it. The field of psychology is barely removed from charlatanism anyway, having a diploma from Harvard doesn't change that.

So the typical nonsensical argument is that an architect should be a builder. Alright.

You can very much do the thing when it's not too costly to fuck up. For many important things, thinking about doing the thing is even more important than doing the thing.

Honestly, it is so infrequently needed that just having a synced note app is good enough for the few times you need it.

Apple has been focusing way too much on gimmicks like that and they don't have that much value.

I kinda agree in the way that having synced notes (a good feature in itself, also available on iPhone/Mac) would probably suffice.

Still, being able to copy and paste not only text but also images between devices seamlessly is really nice, not to mention i can open an open browser-tab (Safari, iOS) in Brave on the Mac by just clicking the icon that has a "mobile device icon" next to it and it opens the same tab on the Mac...

And yes - as i said - i agree that having a synced note app would probably enable the same usecases, but with distinctly more friction (at least in my books).

I definitely agree that it's nice but not useful enough that you could consider it a required feature. The point I'm trying to make is that Apple markets it as something that is essential and much better than what is out there, when it's really not the case.

The truth is that this is perfectly possible to do on other platforms; you just have to set it up. But most people don't since this is not needed often enough to be worth the hassle, or they just don't use computers that much. And the only reason it has to be provided by Apple is because they lock everything down.

Windows has had Clipboard Sync for a while with "Link to Windows," and there are many third-party solutions, from KDE Connect to third-party keyboards offering clipboard sharing. Nobody really cares, and in a world where you have to use the cloud to get stuff in and out of devices, it doesn't even matter. Chances are, the stuff you are trying to copy is also available on the computer.

Apple would have a lot more to stand on if they didn't go full retard with the cloud as well in order to increase service revenue. Those kinds of Apple technologies would make a lot more sense and have a lot more value if they didn't require using their cloud offering anyway. I wish Apple would go back to making personal computers with software that stands on its own and can work independently of any cloud. But they have been unable, or more likely unwilling, to figure out proper local syncing without going through their cloud, so the marketing is largely moot.

We end up with the worst combination possible: expensive hardware storage to promote cloud subscription and expensive cloud storage with weak interoperability/capacities (sharing with iCloud is a joke).

For this reason, I'm unwilling to consider any gimmicky "Continuity" feature as something inherently valuable.

I did set up Joplin, and I also have Wiki,js.

Tim Cook is gay and thus works like a woman. He wants "consensus" and focus on appearances to pretend everyone is getting along. The traditional masculine way of competing to show who can do better is frowned upon. It is very unsurprising it has all turned to shit.

And yes, Ive couldn't do jack shit without Jobs' leadership, and everyone with half a brain cell knew it.

From experience, I can assure you LibreOffice is no real equivalent to Office. I can guarantee you that you will have people asking you about stuff that Office does just fine but isn't really possible in LibreOffice or is a major hassle.

I have been the one touting alternatives since I was very young and foolish (in particular advocating for the free Apple suite), but I have run into enough problems I couldn't solve that I don't bother anymore.

Microsoft is winning with Office because everyone else is more incompetent than them; it's simple as that. If someone could come up with a true, cheaper competitor, everybody would switch, regardless of the file format arguments. In fact, the generalized use of Google Suite for the simple stuff shows that it is the case. When people insist on Office, they generally have a good reason, and you should trust them.

I consistently see .docx files and people using Office and Google's alternative, and they don't even use templates. They use nothing more than a few fonts, some size adjustments, bold/italic/underline, maybe a table and and an image if they're fancy.

Unless they just can't handle the buttons being in a different place, as ggm said, I can't see what functionality the average user is missing. Fair enough that the Excel wizard is missing their macros, but most people are far from the level.

What are these problems you (or anyone you've met) couldn't solve? I have a hard time imagining what that could even be in the first place, since the scope of required functionality is so small; again, my grandma could probably use Wordpad if it came down to it, and from what I see other people using Word for, that seems to be true in the general case too.

Yeah, I don't understand how people can be so surprised by all of it. If it wasn't Trump and it wasn't happening in this manner, something like that was bound to happen at some point.

I think it's actually going to be even more violent in Europe once the fake money becomes harder to make and many find out they are not holding any valuable card.

At some point, real work has to be done, and if you keep bringing on more people to devalue this work and even make them pay for the people brought over, they are going to wise up and get mad.

Well, if you define any change as success, I guess that's true. But the reality is that the change that happened is rarely what was requested, nor what was needed. Power just shifts hands, and small concessions are made to keep appearances. Real change doesn't come from protest but from generalized behavioral change. Some protests are successful because they bring an issue to enough people that they change behavior with enough volume that it ends up making a difference.

Outside of that, I'm really skeptical.