#userhostile — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #userhostile, aggregated by home.social.
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"Just let alt app stores exist" sounds like the easy fix. Setapp Mobile already tried it and folded. The real question isn't whether Apple loses the App Store fight, it's which bill you pay instead.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-playbook-different-department
#apple #appstore #icloud #bigtech #antitrust #epicgames #userhostile #blog
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"Just let alt app stores exist" sounds like the easy fix. Setapp Mobile already tried it and folded. The real question isn't whether Apple loses the App Store fight, it's which bill you pay instead.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-playbook-different-department
#apple #appstore #icloud #bigtech #antitrust #epicgames #userhostile #blog
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"Just let alt app stores exist" sounds like the easy fix. Setapp Mobile already tried it and folded. The real question isn't whether Apple loses the App Store fight, it's which bill you pay instead.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-playbook-different-department
#apple #appstore #icloud #bigtech #antitrust #epicgames #userhostile #blog
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"Just let alt app stores exist" sounds like the easy fix. Setapp Mobile already tried it and folded. The real question isn't whether Apple loses the App Store fight, it's which bill you pay instead.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-playbook-different-department
#apple #appstore #icloud #bigtech #antitrust #epicgames #userhostile #blog
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"Just let alt app stores exist" sounds like the easy fix. Setapp Mobile already tried it and folded. The real question isn't whether Apple loses the App Store fight, it's which bill you pay instead.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-playbook-different-department
#apple #appstore #icloud #bigtech #antitrust #epicgames #userhostile #blog
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Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-priced-not-principled
#apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog
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Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-priced-not-principled
#apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog
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Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-priced-not-principled
#apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog
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Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-priced-not-principled
#apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog
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Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-priced-not-principled
#apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog
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RE: https://hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/117091293788039796
I saw this entry in a hashtag game earlier this evening, and I am still thinking about it because it is simultaneously very, very funny and very, very accurate, and how that is the most damning indictment of modern web design possible.
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RE: https://hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/117091293788039796
I saw this entry in a hashtag game earlier this evening, and I am still thinking about it because it is simultaneously very, very funny and very, very accurate, and how that is the most damning indictment of modern web design possible.
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RE: https://hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/117091293788039796
I saw this entry in a hashtag game earlier this evening, and I am still thinking about it because it is simultaneously very, very funny and very, very accurate, and how that is the most damning indictment of modern web design possible.
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RE: https://hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/117091293788039796
I saw this entry in a hashtag game earlier this evening, and I am still thinking about it because it is simultaneously very, very funny and very, very accurate, and how that is the most damning indictment of modern web design possible.
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RE: https://hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/117091293788039796
I saw this entry in a hashtag game earlier this evening, and I am still thinking about it because it is simultaneously very, very funny and very, very accurate, and how that is the most damning indictment of modern web design possible.
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What happens when your camera's brand promise is "authentic" but they can't stay off the AI bandwagon? Apple's about to find out as they built a certificate of authenticity for iPhone photos, disabled by default, while also expanding their AI image generation.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/shot-on-iphone-now-prove-it
#apple #ai #appleintelligence #ios27 #c2pa #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog
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What happens when your camera's brand promise is "authentic" but they can't stay off the AI bandwagon? Apple's about to find out as they built a certificate of authenticity for iPhone photos, disabled by default, while also expanding their AI image generation.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/shot-on-iphone-now-prove-it
#apple #ai #appleintelligence #ios27 #c2pa #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog
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What happens when your camera's brand promise is "authentic" but they can't stay off the AI bandwagon? Apple's about to find out as they built a certificate of authenticity for iPhone photos, disabled by default, while also expanding their AI image generation.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/shot-on-iphone-now-prove-it
#apple #ai #appleintelligence #ios27 #c2pa #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog
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What happens when your camera's brand promise is "authentic" but they can't stay off the AI bandwagon? Apple's about to find out as they built a certificate of authenticity for iPhone photos, disabled by default, while also expanding their AI image generation.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/shot-on-iphone-now-prove-it
#apple #ai #appleintelligence #ios27 #c2pa #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog
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What happens when your camera's brand promise is "authentic" but they can't stay off the AI bandwagon? Apple's about to find out as they built a certificate of authenticity for iPhone photos, disabled by default, while also expanding their AI image generation.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/shot-on-iphone-now-prove-it
#apple #ai #appleintelligence #ios27 #c2pa #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog
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EA sold itself for $55 billion this week. Mostly to Saudi Arabia. The layoffs got announced to lenders before employees even heard about the deal closing.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-sims-have-a-new-landlord
#ea #electronicarts #privateequity #gaming #insertcoin #bigtech #userhostile #layoffs #digitalownership #blog
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EA sold itself for $55 billion this week. Mostly to Saudi Arabia. The layoffs got announced to lenders before employees even heard about the deal closing.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-sims-have-a-new-landlord
#ea #electronicarts #privateequity #gaming #insertcoin #bigtech #userhostile #layoffs #digitalownership #blog
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EA sold itself for $55 billion this week. Mostly to Saudi Arabia. The layoffs got announced to lenders before employees even heard about the deal closing.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-sims-have-a-new-landlord
#ea #electronicarts #privateequity #gaming #insertcoin #bigtech #userhostile #layoffs #digitalownership #blog
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EA sold itself for $55 billion this week. Mostly to Saudi Arabia. The layoffs got announced to lenders before employees even heard about the deal closing.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-sims-have-a-new-landlord
#ea #electronicarts #privateequity #gaming #insertcoin #bigtech #userhostile #layoffs #digitalownership #blog
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EA sold itself for $55 billion this week. Mostly to Saudi Arabia. The layoffs got announced to lenders before employees even heard about the deal closing.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-sims-have-a-new-landlord
#ea #electronicarts #privateequity #gaming #insertcoin #bigtech #userhostile #layoffs #digitalownership #blog
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Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-knows-your-face
#bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog
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Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-knows-your-face
#bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog
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Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-knows-your-face
#bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog
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Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-knows-your-face
#bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog
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Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-knows-your-face
#bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog
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So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity
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So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity
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So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity
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So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity
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So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity
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Ok #appreview I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.
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Ok #appreview I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.
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Ok #appreview I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.
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Ok #appreview I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.
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Ok #appreview I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.
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Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷♂️
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Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷♂️
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Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷♂️
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Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷♂️
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Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷♂️
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Apple sells you their judgment. The 30% cut is for your security. The compliance maze is for quality. The walled garden is for your protection.
Let's check the work.
Part 2 of the Apple series.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-walled-garden-is-a-business-model-apples-other-war-on-users
#apple #bigtech #userhostile #blog #appstore #developer #lockin #icloud -
The NSA Would Like You To Secure Your Router...some of the same ones the FCC just ruled could no longer be updated in a year without special approval. 🤔 (Bonus update post)
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-nsa-would-like-you-to-secure-your-router-bonus-mini-update
#blog #nsa #fcc #geopolitics #isp #networking #policy #routers #security #selfhosting #userhostile
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You still can't get a Human to read your resume. Surprise! LinkedIn knows everything else about you though.
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“Privacy. That’s iPhone.” — and Other Things That Need an Asterisk
Apple isn’t lying about privacy. They’re just very careful about what they don’t say out loud. The Google deal. iCloud’s 5GB trap. The Meta silence. What “we keep your data safe” actually means.
None of it required a lie. That’s kind of the whole point.https://blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-thats-iphone-and-other-things-that-need-an-asterisk
#apple #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog #icloud #security
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Microsoft's Copilot ToS: "for entertainment purposes only."
Also Microsoft: $30/seat in your Excel, Teams, and Outlook. Training on your code April 24th. Same model, different price tag, quieter fine print.Bonus Post! — the ToS was too good to sit on.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/for-entertainment-purposes-only-bonus-post
#ai #microsoft #copilot #bigtech #userhostile #anthropic #github #blog
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Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.
I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.
Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.
It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.
Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.
"Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".
#Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac
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Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.
I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.
Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.
It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.
Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.
"Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".
#Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac
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Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.
I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.
Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.
It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.
Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.
"Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".
#Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac
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Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.
I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.
Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.
It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.
Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.
"Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".
#Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac
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Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.
I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.
Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.
It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.
Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.
"Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".
#Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac
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Netflix Got $2.8 Billion Last Month. Now It Wants More of Yours.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/netflix-got-2-8-billion-last-month-now-it-wants-more-of-yours
#blog #netflix #streaming #streamingwars #bigtech #userhostile #enshitification
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When I started this series I figured I'd be documenting slow burns. The gradual squeeze. The quietly updated terms of service. The feature that disappears in a patch note nobody reads.
Nobody told Nvidia.
Hello Phobos. -
Jensen said "I don't love AI slop" on Lex Fridman this week.
The 5090 is still $4,232.
New post on why the apology tour changes exactly nothinghttps://blog.ppb1701.com/jensens-apology-tour-changes-exactly-nothing
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Jensen Huang sees $1 trillion in AI chip demand and thinks that's a flex. Meanwhile, Nvidia demoed DLSS 5 on a $10,000 rig to add Instagram filters to a game that runs on a six-year-old GPU. When people pushed back? "You're completely wrong."
#ai #nvidia #gaming #dlss #gtc #userhostile #gpu #bigtech #blog
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Meta Banned Me Before I Could Even Scroll: A Threads Story (Bonus Blog Post!)
So picture Han Solo on the Falcon..."I've got a bad feeling about this..."
https://blog.ppb1701.com/meta-banned-me-before-i-could-even-scroll-a-threads-story
#Meta #Threads #UserHostile #ThreadsBan #MetaFail #AccountIntegrity #blog