spronkey

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by spronkey 4y ago
Couldn't agree more, modern macOS is just kind of... annoying. I also don't feel like it really does much if anything better than e.g. Snow Leopard, while simultaneously performing a lot of mostly invisible magic behind the scenes
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by spronkey 5y ago
Do you know what plan you are on for Protonmail? I can't see anything that would allow that many mailboxes for anything less than 288 EUR a year?
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by spronkey 5y ago
Let's not forget that Google's spam filtering racket has made it next to impossible to host your own email in any kind of practical manner, or even use many hosted email services effectively over the years.
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by spronkey 5y ago
Yes. Through a combination of increased network-dependence of apps, increased pace in general of updates, system-level updates that are required for security, app updates that are required for system updates and/or security, or simply
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by spronkey 5y ago
I generally agree. MacOS appears to be stagnating in its capabilities, even if there is a constant churn of UI and features. The Human Interface Guidelines-based approach of old seems to have been blurred thanks to the iOS mashups we are no
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by spronkey 5y ago
Rotten Tomatoes is the epitome of why trusting expert ratings on their own is a bad idea. The number of times that the tomatometer is wildly off the general perception is insane, enough to make the tomatometer largely useless for myself at
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by spronkey 5y ago
I find DDG is generally good or at least good enough when the data you need is relative popular and relative well distributed around the internet. DDG falls very, very flat when it comes to needing to scour the depths of the internet for so
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by spronkey 5y ago
First comment in this thread that's hit the nail on the head with regards to why software requires maintenance. After all, if I write an algorithm, how on earth does it just stop working after a while? Fixing flaws is a separate and
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by spronkey 6y ago
I've been on record here for as long as I can remember saying something similar in defense of Apple's laptops, and I've done something similar to you in buying (usually cheap ex-lease) Windows machines every year or two to tr
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by spronkey 6y ago
I'm seeing more and more this sentiment about "not being the target group", and using it to justify crappy business decisions. Around the PPC change, Apple took the grand strategy of backing away from this idea of controlling
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by spronkey 6y ago
I don't like your attitude here, because ultimately its harder and more expensive to mitigate against these types of failure than it has been in the past. First, on Apple devices there are more software-induced failure modes than there
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by spronkey 6y ago
Yeah, Anandtech's dive revealed some interesting benchmark results - such as the Zen 2 4200U part being quite close in both performance and power consumption (a little higher) to the M1 in heavily multithreaded tasks, but getting stomp
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by spronkey 6y ago
Well, it's more like people celebrating an electric scooter that has twice the range of the electric bike. Not saying it isn't a novel form of transport or equally useful in most cases, but... we're comparing a very stripped-
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by spronkey 6y ago
The issue with this is that Apple has the same problem that they have had for years - they don't really offer mainstream products. Even their most inexpensive products are on the higher end of the pricing spectrum, and they could be 5x
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by spronkey 6y ago
Multicore scaling on M1 doesn't appear to be as efficient as that on Ryzen - for example, the 4200U is able to beat the M1 in multicore tasks at quite a similar power draw, but gets soundly beaten in single core. Ryzen's big advan
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by spronkey 6y ago
Sequential performance is only one facet of overall SSD performance. Some older Apple SSDs weren't the greatest at random reads and writes - it's possible these new ones are quite a bit faster in that department, FWIW.
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by spronkey 6y ago
It wasn't actually that bad... Everyone likes to remember it as this massively power hungry beast with terrible performance. It was power hungry compared to what came later, but it did also provide some pretty good performance at the t
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by spronkey 6y ago
One of the questions I have is just how much of their relatively recently-gained process optimisation knowledge of e.g. 14+++ will be transferrable to future node shrinks, and, will this give them an IP edge over TSMC if they can get back
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by spronkey 6y ago
They are riveted to the aluminium top case, that also contains the trackpad and a battery glued in on top of it. So... you're forced to buy all that for a keyboard - a part that is likely to fail in the lifespan of the machine.
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by spronkey 6y ago
Absolutely this - even some aggressively optimised stuff like game engines don't have insurmountable amounts of micro optimisations in them. Also - why would Apple massively up and change uArchs? Even if they did decide to turn Apple S
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by spronkey 6y ago
Yeah, the DTK hasn't exactly shown that Apple Silicon can outdo Intel, let alone AMD. I remain rather skeptical. I think this is a business win for Apple moreso than a technical win.
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by spronkey 6y ago
I'm skeptical. Geekbench seems like just about the perfect use case for Rosetta 2 translation - I wouldn't be surprised if performance is close to native. If that's the case, the A12Z is only approximately competitive with In
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by spronkey 6y ago
Have you looked at the network traffic coming out of macOS lately?
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by spronkey 7y ago
Bullshit. Stop spreading false rumours. There's a big difference between counterfeit goods and refurbished goods.
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by spronkey 7y ago
You lack imagination here :) There are several solutions that could have been pursued, including introducing a completely new type and effectively duplicating the existing string library for it.
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by spronkey 7y ago
It's also worth considering that it extends the usable life of the machines. In some companies, older high end machines that are still in good condition are recycled and passed down to less demanding users - e.g. developer machines may
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by spronkey 7y ago
It's not just buyers remorse. If you use the machine for work and buy something under-spec'd - especially in RAM, you lose money by being less efficient with a slower machine.
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by spronkey 7y ago
Maybe in Silicon Valley with VC money. Even then, it's getting more and more difficult to justify the increasing gap between Apple pricing and say - Dell or Lenovo. Almost $1k in it now for equivalently spec'd non-base MBP vs XPS1
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by spronkey 7y ago
T (and X) series solders some stuff now too. Dell XPS15 and X1 Extreme are mostly maintainable.
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by spronkey 7y ago
Completely agree. I've been saying this since 2012 when the Retina machines came out, and skeptical since 2009 when they moved to non-user-replaceable batteries in the MacBook Pros. I don't think I've actually ever had a no

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