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.

1Blocker has been the best for me, as it works with all of the Apple devices and syncs across them. Another option is to enable reader mode by default on all websites, so instead of getting the site with all of the ads, you’ll get a reader view without the ads and distractions.

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.

Thanks

I wholeheartedly disagree with you. I am so confused. Do I upvote or downvote?

…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.

Anyone that thinks Paul is a hero is completely missing the point. Paul is not a hero, and as a matter of fact, pretty much turns out to be the universe’s most terrible villain. He, along with Jessica and the Bene Gesserit, turn out to be responsible for more than 61 billion deaths.

Dune is a story that warns against trusting charismatic heroes, along with warnings against mixing politics with religion. The only hero in this story would be Chani, and I felt that the movie’s portrayal of Chani was dead on perfection and actually an improvement on the book.

Dune seems like a tropish story of “The Chosen One,” but in fact it’s a story about warning us against these figures.

EDIT: Paul is the most terrible villain until his son, that is.

I never heard of any company promising price cuts due to AI and layoffs. Even if they had, I wouldn’t have believed it one bit.

Republicans are a lot of things.

Christian isn’t one of them.

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.

There was a man here in north Alabama like this. He even sometimes pretended to be mentally ill, but he wasn’t - and he was actually very wealthy.

Good luck finding talent who wants to work for Elon Musk

Or in jail