• Jax@sh.itjust.works
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      I’ve had people tell me they won’t text me because of the green chat bubbles.

      Idk. Consumers will consume.

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      They make some nice hardware, if money were no object I’d probably get a MacBook and put Linux on it

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        Yeah my logic is this, I have many computers and a Mac, one day apple will stop updating MacOS. When that happens I will install linux on my Mac.

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    I get my MacBooks from employers. That’s it.

    They’re way better than the shitbox windows machines most companies hand out.

    Never buy Mac shit yourself

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      I keep asking my IT department for the top-end MacBook Pro, but they keep denying my request. They always go on and on about how I am a Team Lead on the production line, and that there is no legitimate reason as to why I would need any laptop at all. Bunch of penny pinchers if you ask me. Hell, I’ve been asking for a company card since my interview! They laugh every time I bring it up—It’s like this some big joke. Though to be fair, they said if I show up on time each day to work, I get to keep my job.

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        Why are you asking IT for these things, isn’t this a request for idk accounting or some other department that is about spending money?

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    I wonder what it’s like to still feel like this is relevant

    Dude’s got jokes from before the twin towers fell

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      You may not realize it, but unless we’re talking processors Apple almost always puts old tech in their devices.

      Their laptops still sell with 8gb of slow RAM, and tiny hard drives. This is an upsell tactic so you pay them extortionate amounts for cheap upgrades. Then their computers… Oh man, just don’t. They sell a stand that’s $1,000, do we even need to go into the rest?

      Even their phones STILL lack the latest features of their competitors. Though most competitors have vastly given up dramatic innovations. Check out the cameras, the screen refresh rates, the RAM, the screen brightness, and side-by-side user comparison testing of their poorly performing GPU’s.

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          I’m not laughing… I find the whole thing kind of depressing. Real talk, though… I’m just as pissed off at Google and many other huge companies.

          I’m tired of huge companies exploiting the ignorance of average folks and damaging the progression of consumer technology. We deserve better than this.

          If Apple sold their products for a pittence, I’d be their absolute biggest fan. They not only push aggressively overpriced tech, but they convince impressionable people to buy into their “ecosystem”.

          What the heck is that, even? What is their “ecosystem”? Macs, iPads and iphones all work with windows and Linux. Heck, Mac IS Linux at a core level. I’ll tell you what it is… George Carlin give me strength, because “it’s all bullshit, and it’s BAD for you.”

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    Much better to use a phone running an os built by an advertising company who decided that “don’t be evil” just isn’t them anymore.

    A product isn’t just what parts go inside.

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      “Hey man, this bad thing that X group does isn’t actually bad because their main competition, Y group, does something different that is also bad.”