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Cake day: December 22nd, 2024

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  • Wow, what an arrogant twat. Let’s tackle these stupid criticisms 1 by 1:

    1. Yes, They cost more. The cost is offset by the lower cost of ownership over time. If you finance the car, you never even feel that cost because you just pay the difference to the bank instead of the oil companies, and pocket the remainder. And you get a nicer car in the process.
    2. Longer to refuel. On long trips, yes. The other 99% of the time you actually save a fuckton of time not going to the gas station. Not to mention improved safety and lower risk of ID theft as your CC is stolen (which has happened to me several times).
    3. Battery degrades. Yeah, I mean, so does your engine and transmission and everything else about your ICE car. Batteries will likely outlast your ICE powertrain, and they’ll slowly degrade over time, and when they’re done you can sell them to a recycler and get some of your money back.
    4. Trains/Buses/Bikes. Yeah, these are great if you have them, or the infrastructure that supports them. We don’t have them. If I try to ride my bike to the grocery store 2 miles away there is a very high probability of death, because I have to cross a 70MPH highway, and there’s no other way to get there. This has nothing to do with the discussion of ICE cars vs. electric cars. I both drive an electric and and actively advocate for improved non-car infrastructure but I’m 1 person.
    5. I don’t know what this whole tangent about Chinese cars is about. Those are electric too?

  • You don’t switch monitors, you switch windows.

    Well, theoretically yes. On a Mac, no.

    It’s like that so you can click anywhere in a window to focus it without activating something in the window by accident.

    Why would I want to do that? Why does double-clicking suddenly remove that need?

    You can close windows with the red window button

    No you can’t. It just minimizes them. Just like the yellow button.

    You can absolutely drag and drop to tile windows

    Like I said, sometimes you can, sometimes you can’t. Apple does not give any fucks about consistency or intuitive design.

    and there are also keyboard shortcuts for it

    1. Apple keyboard shortcuts are often 3 different keys for some stupid reason
    2. I shouldn’t need them. Dragging and dropping the window should tile them just like it has in Windows for as long as I’ve been alive.



  • On the other hand, I experience glitches on macOS regularly on the UI, especially on a multi-monitor setup (I use both Gnome and macOS with multiple monitors).

    Multi monitor and window tiling on Mac are so bad, they should be embarrassed.

    You have to click to switch monitors but if you do it twice it registers as a double click so you have to click…wait…then click again.

    Sometimes you can drag windows from one screen to the other and other times they just…disappear as you drag then across.

    You can’t close anything from the window buttons and the red and yellow buttons do the same thing. You have to go into the taskbar and right click to close them.

    Then they took the time in Sequoia to add window tiling but it’s just such an awful experience. You have to hover over the green dot and wait for the prompt to popup and choose from a drop-down menu. WHY CAN’T YOU JUST DRAG AND DROP!?










  • I just looked into it again out of curiosity. It no longer requires a Google login (nor does it even require Google Play services, because I don’t have them. This will probably change once they go paid, which they’ve apparently rolled back since the iMessage debacle).

    It says it supports SMS/RCS, but it actually supports neither. All it does is connect to your Google messages web account. This is an absolute joke for an app that bills itself at the top of it’s home page as “all your chats in one app” and it doesn’t even support the most common chat method.

    As far as I can tell the app is still closed source.