Hey guess what. Your experience doesn’t represent everyone’s experience.

Just tested Safari 16.4 and I got 404 passed, 27 warning, and 0 for both critical and skipped.

I also tested LibreWolf 114.0.1-2 and got 396 passed, 32 warnings, 0 critical, and 3 skipped.

I ended up getting the red one delivered to me after all the praise it’s gotten (as well as an easyflow 9000M) and, I have to say after using it for a few days, I’m obsessed with this thing. It writes beautifully and is a great size.

The one downside (as it relates to the ink cartridge) is that when I’m using a thin ruler to make a sharp line in my notebook, it tends to make ink build up on the tip, causing a little blob of ink the next time I write, so I’ve gotten in the habit of rolling the tip on a post it note whenever I’m done making lines.

I might also put some keyboard lubricant on the spring mechanism in the pen so it sounds less scratchy when clicking it. But other than that, amazing suggestion! I now have a new favorite nice pen to use daily.

Ive been wanting to buy one for a while to modify it so I can use telephoto lenses on it. The dithering on it is such a good look

Doesn’t the DMV collect and sell your personal information to third parties as well? We need some personal privacy laws with teeth if people are just going to pass around our sensitive info like poker chips.

I’m mainly worried that some of the people I like watching on youtube will decide that youtube isn’t worth it anymore and they’ll stop making content entirely. Or even switch over to twitch, which I’ve never been able to get into.

I’m also a premium YT subscriber and if I see this or they kick me off for using PiHole, I’ll cancel my account and just set up some automation with YT-DLP to Plex or Infuse for channels I like watching. If youtube decided that it’s their turn to get shitty like the rest of the popular internet, I’ll be beyond upset.

I fully agree with everything you said. Unfortunately I’m stuck in the Adobe world for now because one of my clients require it, not that Avid is much better when it comes to expensive barriers to entry. I do need to learn how to edit in resolve because I’ve heard some great things about the process, though the thought of rewiring my brain for new keyboard shortcuts seems like a massive ordeal.

Mega corporations exist on massive stilts, propped up off the work of very talented people who aren’t paid nearly enough for what they do. One tiny silver lining of having design language pushed so hard by a company who uses it to sell more products is that good design language can be copied and implemented into FOSS options with enough work. Of course, I don’t know anything about how strong apple goes after their design language patents, but before the iphone, no phone to my knowledge looked like a black glass rectangle (for better and for worse). I won’t be buying apple’s recently announced VR option, but I am excited to see what their design language does for the VR landscape as a whole (even if I don’t buy any of those either).

All this being said, I think there’s a couple good things, but there’s also a lot of bad things about apple as a whole. I figure most companies I’ve heard about are contributing toward the world becoming a worse place, but at the same time, I have to exist in this world, and being more comfortable while being stuck here is pretty important to me personally. I’ll just continue to try to seek out people to vote for who are vocally (and historically take actions) against monopolies, anti-consumerism, and promote strong regulations.

I’ve never heard of that brand. Is it nice? I’ve been trying to use my Lamy Safari every day, and while it’s pretty neat to use a fountain pen regularly, the ink runs out faster than my lazy self would like.

I’m going to give a different and possibly controversial opinion to the others in here. To get started, I admit that I am a daily mac and ios user so there’s definitely some bias there. That being said, I think there is a clear difference between the vaccine and information resources and using a mac or iphone. I think there is an incredible need for there to be a free and open source option that exists for everything (especially for public health and information), but not everything needs to be free and open source if a free version exists elsewhere (or even multiple viable free options). Just because I like going to libraries doesn’t mean I dislike book stores. As a video editor, I very much disagree with my professional industry basically mandating ProRes, which forces Mac use (or at least it did for a long time), which institutes a costly and sometimes impossible barrier to entry for many people, which is lame because more editing friends in post is always better.

Maybe there’s something I’m missing in the argument, but it seems like if a programmer or end user wanted to use open source software, nothing is stopping them, but if a government wanted to implement “open source” vaccines, that wasn’t possible because of the patents. Sure, cross-integration would be super nice (airpods on an android, ipad on windows, imessage on everything, etc), but I don’t know if it should be an expectation, just like cross-play in video games would be super nice, but shouldn’t be an expectation.

I do like tinkering with things though, and that’s really my main personal qualm with apple (I know they’re a huge megacorporation, but they don’t generally make my personal life worse for the most part). I was running a pretty beefy hackintosh for 7+ years before that computer decided to give up. Now I use that hardware for a home media server. I also love tinkering with little linux distributions on my raspberry pi. Apple really doesn’t scratch any of these itches for me, but that’s why I do both. I have the reliable mac for work and general computing use and I have my other devices for everything else.

Right slicer Settings as in “correct”? Is the intention of Benchy to float upright if your printer is tuned correctly?

Also, the vibe of a social network named after petty and trivial quarrels seems to be not for me.