I have a friend who is self-employed. He uses an iPhone and a MacBook Air. He only uses iMessage, Numbers, Safari and Apple Music for entertainment. He gets away with 8gb just fine and rarely has to reboot.

He probably could use a Chromebook or something even lighter, but the support and ecosystem were enough for him to pay the premium. His time is valuable to him so it was worth it to him.

Accurate.

What is the obsession with shitting on people’s choices? I don’t understand the irony of demanding choice in this industry, then shitting on people when they make a choice you don’t agree with.

Apple has said that 8gb was enough for “general use,” meaning if you use the out-of-the-box applications (Safari, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, etc.) then 8gb is enough for general use to get basic things done. Apple is not going to say how much RAM is required for a third party application to run. That would be impossible. (Especially Chrome).

This article says that the limitation is occurring when running Xcode 16 with code completion. This is outside the definition of general use. Most people who are buying 8gb Macs are not going to be running Xcode at all.

The article and most of these comments are way, way outside the realm of common sense and simply looking for a reason to attack Apple.

If you don’t want to buy Apple, don’t buy it… and in the process, shut the fuck up.

I actually like Apple’s approach to AI more than all of the others. I don’t care for Microsoft’s implementation at all. I just try to avoid Microsoft in general on top of that, so no need to complain about it.

But I do think Apple’s approach to AI from a privacy and implementation perspective is what I would prefer from a software vendor.

iPhones also have this feature, for a long time now:

https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/keep-law-enforcement-out-your-iphone-your-privacy-intact-0194999/

Rather irresponsible of the article to not point out these features on Android and iPhone. Did a cop or government official write that article?

I guess I need to start looking deeper into this, and the potential for importing existing infrastructures into pulumi’s purview. But I’m hesitant - I don’t want pulumi to pull a Hashicorp. I’m wondering if it’s best to just go with CFN and Bicep.

…was.

That doesn’t mean they will be around forever. Economic realities care little about whether a company is good or not.

VGER is coming back.

Thanks, Zuck, we were all waiting with bated breath for your statement.

Absolutely same. I hate having them in my house, supporting them, and dealing with them when they shit the bed because they’re too underpowered to run a fucking web browser. School systems need to stop buying these goddamn things and stop caving to slimy salespeople selling Chrome plugins for schoolwork.

You’re not missing anything. It’s rife with scammers.

Good luck finding talent who wants to work for Elon Musk

UbiSoft needs to get comfortable with execs not making sales targets.

If you’re that concerned, what are you going to do to help the team?

I’m an Apple fan but… yeah, they deserved this one.

Thanks for this, I was hoping something like PeerTube existed. Happy to know it does.

This is entirely and completely false.

Thank you both.