I would argue that Jobs was not a “bullshit merchant”. Under his direction, Apple changed the personal computing landscape—multiple times. There was certainly an element of showmanship and marketing behind these innovations. But I wouldn’t classify them as bullshit.

When I hear bullshit merchant, I immediately think Steve Ballmer and Larry Ellison.

Steve Jobs was more of an angry asshole than Linus Torvalds. Jobs’ rants were to people’s faces rather than on mailing lists. They are both uncompromising visionaries, however.

The article is more nuanced than the headline. And these statements mostly deal in hypotheticals and ambiguities.

Holy shit—YES!

Because Hong.

That processor though, my goodness.

holy shit, i had this exact notebook!

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You never have to pick sides in a genocide.

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Awesome.

Pacman has fucked me so many times, I will likely never use Arch again. rpm-ostree has always had my back.

Is that GPU useful for video transcoding?

Looks awesome, just missing space for a GPU (often necessary for real-time transcoding).

No, major OS releases used to cost money for a license. The same way a Windows 11 license costs money. Apple stopped charging for OS releases but Microsoft still does.

It is if there is no open source alternative.

Brawndo’s got what plants crave.

Yes.

Pinephones are impractical for day-to-day usage. They are underpowered dev kits.

Damn, that was a good read.

Well that’s embarrassing.