Totally agree. Their product line was an absolute mess back then. Their current lineup is getting a little bloated too. I don’t know why they bother having two laptop product lines anymore when they are so similar.
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Apple tried to allow clones, but ran into the same problem because the clone makers could make cheaper machines by slapping together parts.
Yeah, this is exactly what happened, although some of the clone brands were perfectly high-quality (Power Computing in particular made great machines, usually the fastest on the market). In the Mac community at the time, a lot of people (myself included) wished Apple would just exit the hardware business and focus on what they were good at: software.
Then Steve Jobs came back and did exactly the opposite of that. First order of business was to kill cloning. Then came the iPod.
To be fair, the next generation of Power Macs after that were about half the price of the previous gen.
577·2 years agoMost of Apple’s history, actually.
Macs have a reputation for being expensive because people compare the cheapest Mac to the cheapest PC, or to a custom-built PC. That’s reasonable if the cheapest PC meets your needs or if you’re into building your own PC, but if you compare a similarly-equipped name-brand PC, the numbers shift a LOT.
From the G3-G5 era ('97-2006) through most of the Intel era (2006-2020), if you went to Dell or HP and configured a machine to match Apple’s specs as closely as possible, you’d find the Macs were almost never much more expensive, and often cheaper. I say this as someone who routinely did such comparisons as part of their job. There were some notable exceptions, like most of the Intel MacBook Air models (they ranged from “okay” to “so bad it feels like a personal insult”), but that was never the rule. Even in the early-mid 90s, while Apple’s own hardware was grossly overpriced, you could by Mac clones for much cheaper (clones were licensed third-parties who made Macs, and they were far and away the best value in the pre-G3 PowerPC era).
Macs also historically have a lower total cost of ownership, factoring in lifespan (cheap PCs fail frequently), support costs, etc. One of the most recent and extensive analyses of this I know if comes from IBM. See https://www.computerworld.com/article/1666267/ibm-mac-users-are-happier-and-more-productive.html
Toward the tail end of the Intel era, let’s say around 2016-2020, Apple put out some real garbage. e.g. butterfly keyboards and the aforementioned craptastic Airs. But historically those are the exceptions, not the rule.
As for the “does more”, well, that’s debatable. Considering this is using Apple’s 90s logo, I think it’s pretty fair. Compare System 7 (released in '91) to Windows 3.1 (released in '92), and there is no contest. Windows was shit. This was generally true up until the 2000s, when the first few versions of OS X were half-baked and Apple was only just exiting its “beleaguered” period, and the mainstream press kept ringing the death knell. Windows lagged behind its competition by at least a few years up until Microsoft successfully killed or sufficiently hampered all that competition. I don’t think you can make an honest argument in favor of Windows compared to any of its contemporaries in the 90s (e.g. Macintosh, OS/2, BeOS) that doesn’t boil down to “we’re used to it” or “we’re locked in”.
In America, all things are about profit.
913·2 years agoThis is how we got these monopolies in the first place.
AFAIK there’s still no way to dynamically link to posts or comments on Lemmy. :( You can only link communities or users.
Anyway, totally agree. Being technically able to bypass DRM doesn’t make it okay. I’m honestly not sure how to rip a Blu-ray on Linux anyway. I haven’t looked into it in years so maybe it’s easier now than I remember.
I’d spend a lot more money on TV and movies if I could get them without DRM and in high quality. No question. Both in streaming and in disc form.
I’m curious about what the original caption said. I can’t explain this clusterfuck of typesetting with normal meming conventions.
Anyway, for context:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-s-new-stalin-center-evokes-pride-revulsion-n1267521
Never heard of this before. I just searched for “dubai meme” and got my answer safely. From https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dubai-porta-potty :
About
Dubai Porta Potty is a slang term for a woman who purportedly allows Dubai billionaires to defecate into her mouth for large sums of money. In late April 2022, an NSFW and NSFL video of a man defecating into a woman’s mouth began trending on TikTok and Twitter, generating discussions, memes and reaction videos referencing the viral video. According to the rumored backstory, the clip depicts a billionaire committing the act on a prostitute. Discussion of the video was shared under the hashtag #DubaiPortaPotty.Origin
Rumors of models agreeing to perform deeply scatological and fetishistic sex acts in exchange for large sums of money have appeared online since roughly 2015. Mentions of “Dubai Porta Potty” have appeared as early as December 29th, 2015, on 4chan.[2] The blog “TagTheSponsor” operated from 2015 to 2019, and the runner would pretend to be a Dubai billionaire offering women money in exchange for sex, sometimes including scatological sex acts, and post the conversations.[3] On April 24th, 2019, Redditor Dhall15 posted a Starter Pack meme about women returning from Dubai smelling poorly (shown below).
I don’t think a lot of these places “expect” tips. It’s just that they’re all using the same e-commerce kiosks now, and it’s a standard thing with a tipping screen everywhere you go.
I’m a generous tipper when it comes to bars, restaurants, or food delivery, but if it’s something that nobody tipped for 5 years ago, I ain’t tipping for it now just because there’s a kiosk in my face.
Yeah. It’s molten rock. You can’t sink or plunge into it.
You think I vote republican? Those mother fuckers are nuts.
I thought by “gray area” you meant that you are roughly 50-50 on the parties. I apologize if I misunderstood.
I’d be interested to hear who you are voting for who’s not D or R, though I don’t expect you to doxx yourself with local election details. I do vote for third parties and independent candidates in some local elections when that’s viable. Even then, much of the time it’s the same candidate endorsed by one of the major parties. I support the adoption of ranked-choice voting (or something similar) at all levels of elections so that third parties in bigger elections can be more than spoilers. I lived through 2000. I saw how that goes.
Many other countries have a wide variety of parties and more political choice. I believe it’s possible for America to get there as well in the future. When it comes to the presidential election, like I said, I have to vote in the reality I live in and I don’t consider it a gray area. It sounds like we just disagree on what’s “gray” here.
The more local you get, the more subtleties there are.
From my perspective as an American, I find it difficult to reconcile these two statements:
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“I want everyone to treat them equally and not discriminate against them”
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“I’m kind of in a gray area”
In practice, there is no middle ground in American politics. You vote Republican, or you vote Democrat. This is most true in presidential elections but still generally true in state and even local elections throughout the country. The parties are pretty well aligned top to bottom. Conservative or liberal.
Like you, I want everybody to be treated equally. For me, there’s no gray area about it. I hate how little choice I have in politics, but this is the reality I live in, and this is the reality I have to vote in.
If you have a clear alignment to one party or the other, I wouldn’t call that a “gray area”. And if you don’t? If you don’t have a clear alignment to one or the other? In America? In the 2020s? When one party is very clearly, and very persistently violating that core value of “treat them equally and not discriminate against them”? Like I said, it’s hard for me to reconcile.
That’s my perspective. Even assuming you are also American, I don’t think you’re a bad person. However, I do think it’s worth really reexamining what’s important to you. I hope that when it comes time to vote, you will not turn your back on that core value of equality. Let it be a high priority. Leave that gray area.
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somehow he prevented 9/11
Not even necessary. The Bush administration’s response to 9/11 caused most of the damage. We’d be living in a whole different world if Gore had been in charge, even if 9/11 happened the same way.
Redditors have always hated Redditors! You think we’re going to stop just because we left Reddit?!?
Millennials are old enough to be crotchety old farts now.
Source: am millennial; am crotchety old fart.
The joke is that he set the password to the same thing he thought it was to begin with — the same password the site said was incorrect, it’s now saying was in fact his old password.
I forget where, but this has happened to me before. I thiiiink the logic was that it compares to your last 3 passwords, not just the most recent one. So if I had the password “hunter2”, then changed it to “swordfish”, then later forgot that and tried to log in with “hunter2”, this is what would happen.
I’ve also had similar but completely inexplicable experiences with my cell phone provider, who shall remain nameless. My best guess is that my special characters (still ASCII but not alphanumeric) broke their poor lil database. It wouldn’t accept anything until I set a strictly alphanumeric password.
There’s a way to say this that isn’t so gross: good working conditions are valuable. Quality of life is valuable. Work-life-balance is valuable. Mental and physical health is valuable. Not having raging shitbags in management is valuable.
The problem is that you can’t focus on secondary factors until the primary factor is taken care of. And the primary factor is that people need a living wage. Rent is expensive. Food is expensive. God help you if you need to pay for childcare.
If you’re already paying your employees a fair living wage, then yes, you should absolutely think about how you can improve working conditions.
As an example, if my company gave me the option to switch to a 4-day workweek for the same pay, or stay at a 5-day workweek for a 25% raise, I’m honestly not sure which one I’d prefer. But we all know that’s never going to happen; instead the choice would be to take a 20% pay cut or maintain the status quo. I wouldn’t take that deal because I’m not making enough money to live on 20% less.