Their reasons for not opening the App Store aren’t even good logical reasons like it would make the platform unsafe but then they claim the Mac is a safe platform. That’s what makes it so insulting.

I’d be less frustrated with them if they were just honest and said it’s about the money.

If you live in an area with good public transportation then I think it is fine.

But it could cause you problems in life if you do not learn. In my hometown, busses didn’t run on Sunday and they had trouble with work because it was hard for them to get a ride in. They had to ask others to drive them.

Also consider if you ever get married and there is some kind of emergency, it would be beneficial for you to be able to drive your partner to the hospital.

Even if you live in a city now, you may get a job elsewhere someday and driving might be necessary.

As much as I hate driving, I think it is a skill that most people need to learn and be competent at.

My wife is going to learn to drive this year for the above reasons. You just never know when you might NEED to drive.

Thanks! The iPad is so close to being able to be my work computer.

Can you use other webcams for meetings or does it have to be the built in camera?

I’m really curious about how it performs on the base iPad too. I’m sure the final release will be be better than the betas, so I’m kinda waiting for that.

My next purchase will be a MacBook Air this fall, so I can’t justify an iPad as well, but maybe next time ipad os will have evolved enough.

I think that can come later. I think decision paralysis would be a problem.

Great point! I hadn’t even considered that.

Not familiar with it, but one thing mint has is a long history. That’s important to me.

I try to avoid telling people what I use as they will wonder why I don’t use mint if I recommend it.

I like Fedora + plasma, but I don’t want to explain rpm fusion and Fedora flatpak problems.

It depends on who’s asking. But if it’s someone who is curious about Linux, it’s always Mint.

Yeah! Steamdeck makes it happen. Playing in short bursts and the ability to sleep the console is amazing. I hated having to sit at a desk and dedicate enough time until a save point to play. The anxiety of playing for 5 minutes and then having to quit because something came up made me not want to play at all.

Now, I game so much more than I used to.

I always wondered how any head of state could feel like they were not being spied on if they were using windows.

Can governments really ensure that windows has been secured that well or is there always a possibility that Microsoft is spying for the United States?

Sure, I just don’t think it’s really that much different than what we have now. I guess I’m just indifferent to it and don’t think it’s that big of a change.

Are you being sarcastic? It is not like that at all. Also the trains stop running kinda early, so you can’t stick around after work.

In the US my mom used to do something like that, but the time it took to transfer to the train into the city and pay for the ticket and parking at the train station, it ended up taking about the same amount of time and cost about the same.

After a year, she just drove into the city as it was about the same cost and more convenient.

I saw some things in the videos, but I guess I don’t really care about design too much. So maybe that’s why I don’t care. I’ll have to ask my wife what she thinks.

I figured as much, just hoping it was one of those things that worked but they didn’t talk about it.

I just checked the Apple website and it doesn’t really look any different to me.

I can see there are changes, but I don’t even know if the average user will really notice it.

I’m guessing there is nothing, but there were rumors the phone would have stage manger when docked.

Have you tried to connect your phone to a display to see if it offers that functionality?

Well not reliably.