JustARegularNerd @ JustARegularNerd @aussie.zone

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If the screenshot in the article is to be believed, it literally has a typo, missing a quote for Don't, which is usually one of the most common ways to spot suspicious activity and malware, and now, as someone working for an MSP, I have to now tell those users who see this that confusingly, yes this was legitimate and it was a Microsoft ad. The font isn't exactly standard either, the buttons look like Arial which also just looks suspicious.

That clip of the suicidal man in the middle of the highway makes this the most confronting compilation I've seen from DCOA.

I can't imagine how I'd feel if I was in that scenario and I didn't react as fast as that driver did.

Right, but while I don't want to speak on behalf of the original commenter, I'm sure what they're trying to get across is the value, with the comparison of COD charging the base cost plus DLC plus skins, whereas Balder's Gate is a one time purchase of $80, and that's it.

Half Life 2: Episode 2. Especially the Citadel with the portal storm, White Forest itself, just so immersive.

So I've only somewhat recently got into the Apple ecosystem, but I can tell you that once a macOS version loses support it's technically on death row but nowhere near as dramatic as you mention.

I recently daily drove a Mac running macOS Catalina (2019) and I was surprised that it still ran everything I needed for my IT degree (Zoom, Office 365 suite, VSCode, Signal, Tailscale, etc.) and the only real issue I noticed was Apple's Xcode not being compatible.

I also own a Mac mini 2012 with i5/8GB, and while I don't use it often, my parents daily drive that as a smart TV and web browsing machine with no real issues at all. The last official version of macOS on it was Catalina, but I used community patches to push it up to Monterey (2021) and it's totally fine.

I think when you own and actually use a Mac, you will find in its own way, that they do last longer than Windows equivalents. I have a 2012 Latitude with i5/8GB and yes I could run the latest Win10 natively (but not Win11 without hacks) but I don't think it exactly cuts the mustard anymore, and I think most people who would use it would generally agree. Given its age I would just Linux it up if I wanted to daily drive it.

This is just in my limited experience, I work as a tech for an MSP and I've generally seen HPs fail more so than other brands (not by a wide margin but I wouldn't buy a HP).

The other device we see fail more is Microsoft Surfaces, especially the tablets. I love the form factor and what Microsoft goes for with them but I'd never buy one purely on the reliability concerns I have, and (with a couple of exceptions) terrible repairability.

No, iOS can absolutely be updated, but only up to where Apple stops supporting the device. I think my iPhone SE 1st gen was released on iOS 9, and it got to iOS 15, where Apple did not release iOS 16 for it. However it still gets security updates and probably will for about another year, based on Apple's history.

I still have my first gen iPhone SE on iOS 15, still completely usable in 2023 although I am noticing more apps only available on iOS 16, mostly newer releases such as Lemmy clients, ChatGPT (the app), etc.

I don't think this is too bad for a 6 year old phone. I used to daily drive my Galaxy S5 until about three years ago when it was 5 years old, and that was forced up to modern LineageOS at that point because the original Samsung firmware just wasn't cutting it.

There's a lot of things I hate about Apple which I could rag on for days, but the argument of "You need to replace your iPhone every two years" is an uninformed opinion, and a baseless argument.

Yeah, I'm really trying to find a tablet that is about 8 inches and has extremely smooth usage of web browsing and YouTube, that isn't an iPad mini (or Samsung, just don't like their UI), and it seems like nothing comes close anywhere in the industry, maybe with the possible exception of the Google Pixel Tablet. It feels like the entire industry gave up trying to innovate tablets because iPads were that good.

I use one daily, an Apple Watch SE 1st gen. You need an iPhone to use the Apple Watch as far as I'm aware. I daily drive a Pixel 4a but I still keep an old iPhone SE 1st gen purely for this watch..

There might be Android apps that can interface with the Apple Watch but it certainly wouldn't be the full experience

I have a MBP 2015 and I love all the integrations with other stuff like my iPhone and Apple Watch, but every time I see a convenience feature like "Scan from iPhone" I just stop for a second and think "Imagine that was an open source, documented API that any developer could both hook into and implement into something like Windows or Linux."

Apple is so good at making everything just work when everything is Apple. Truly, I think if this problem was solved for PC users, it would take away from Apple's market share

Personally I use Proton for my mail needs but then Tutanota for my calendar. Perhaps something you could consider so your Tutanota account doesn't get deleted.

Are homicides up in the rest of the developed world among youths? I feel that here in Australia, while we have our own fair share of domestic issues, it doesn't seem anywhere near as widespread that Aussie youths murders/homicides are higher than say, 10 or 20 years ago.

I don't have any sources for that, I am writing this up five minutes before I go to sleep, but I think it's a potential talking point, and if data does corroborate with my hunches on this, maybe it's not the social media alone and maybe something USA does differently? Maybe the lax gun control?

As a slight side tangent to your comment, currently I'm doing a unit on Human Computer Interaction and the very point they stress is that you could have the most fantastic, awesome, never failing, robust system, but if the frontend is bad and is hard to understand and doesn't follow standard design principles, the system being great doesn't even matter because users get frustrated and leave your entire app.

They still had an anchor in my local mall only up until the beginning of this year.

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Easier to manage for IT would certainly be my bet, and appealing cheap contracts. Even those Acer Aspires so many schools used were double the price of these Chromebooks, so suddenly youre talking about nearly halving a ~$100k cost. Schools want things locked down and enslaved, they couldn't care less that they are Linux under the hood. They don't think like you and I.

My work uses GoFax for SMS texting, which has a web UI, and while I can't comment on pricing or their support, or even the features as I only use the SMS function, as just a user of it, it works very well and haven't had any issues.

Yeah, I work at a (much more legitimate) computer shop and we wouldn't have up charged on that either. What we quote is what we quote, even if it blows out to 10 hours instead of 1, that's on us not on the customer.

That computer shop my Dad went to, he learned afterwards from study mates that the shop had done that to multiple people for various different jobs, and they're constantly changing names but I'm pretty sure it's the same business running even today.