There is very little incentive to make good movies now, especially when zoomers' attention spans are maximum 2 minutes. I still enjoy a classic movie or two but I'm running out of movies to watch even then.

“Second screen viewing” that there is a term for it and they’re writing for it… is a real problem.

> permission prompt

Watch as apps refuse to work when you deny them permission. Also the OS (and “privileged apps”) don’t ask for permission, they have full unfettered access to everything already.

>Also the OS (and “privileged apps”) don’t ask for permission, they have full unfettered access to everything already.

If you can't trust the OS, you have bigger issues than it knowing whether you're 18 or not. At the very least it has a camera pointed at you at all moments you're using it, and can eavesdrop in all your conversations.

Of course you can trust an OS that is engineered against you.

If your OS prevented encryption, because one of the anti-encryption laws got passed, would you still trust its privacy and security?

I treat LLM agents like a raging bulldog. I give it a tiny pen to play in and put it on a leash. You don’t talk nicely to it.

It can scale by the virtue of spending a lot less time processing the request

> Discord running on a modern computer isn't any more responsive, if not less responsive than an ICQ client was running on a computer 25 years ago.

I feel this. Humanity has peaked.

Every time Discord updates (which is often) I'm like "cool, slightly more code to run on the same hardware..."

Selling point isn’t the free speech (free speech don’t apply to private companies in US).

More like my data is less likely to be ingested by US intel, and the data used against me.

But you still have visibility into who uses what.

macOS presents your storage as a black box. You need to bend over backwards to delete things in that black box.

Because Apple differentiates their products by their storage sizes, they also sell iCloud subscription. There is zero (in fact negative) incentive to respect your storage space.

Been a while since I needed to use it there but it always amazed me that the Windows implementation of iCloud was more flexible in terms of location and ability to decide what files got synced.

Ho ho, except for where it puts the photos. Those go into a subfolder of the system photos folder, and there's no configuration (yet you can configure the "shared photos" location)

And then, should you try to set up OneDrive (despite Microsoft's shenanigans, it does simplify taking care of non-tech-savvy relatives), it will refuse to sync the photos folder because 'it contains another cloud storage' and you'll genuinely wonder how or why anyone uses computers anymore

Human or cow shet?

Bus needs to be slightly slower than cars to be viable, not 2x-4x the time taken. Otherwise what’s the point.