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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • I do kind of wish that there was a way to bring back the old squishy gel 3D icons, though.

    The current thing is a bit of an awkward cross between them, and the flat colours that seem to be basically everywhere now.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • It's still a bewildering oversight that, or something just like it, is the only way you can link with a device.

    If you stuff your phone with photos, you can't delete them by connecting them to a computer and sorting through them on that. You have to use a utility to import them either straight onto the computer, or delete them separately on the phone. Even if you use a Mac instead of a PC, you basically need to work with an iTunes-like interface.

    Especially with the focus on trying to make the iPad a computer. You're still largely relegated to the iTunes-type interface, unless you sidestep it with a cloud service, or Airdrop.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • Apple Vision Pro seemed doomed from the get go, but they really made it worse by not launching a cheaper headset with Air branding half a year or a year in to actually drive market share enough to make it worthwhile for developers. Could've given it an A series CPU since we now know it works in a laptop so why not in XR or whatever they're calling this.

    I think that they shot themselves in the foot by trying to make it a computer that goes on your face, and have it do as much as possible.

    The interface is weird, and comes with a bunch of features that don't seem very useful. The eye thing is simply odd, and the keyboard seems like it would run into the same problems that those laser keyboards that were all the rage back in the day had, where it's awful to type on, since you get no feedback, and are just whacking your hand against a solid surface.

    If they had stripped it all the way down into basically being a wearable monitor you can plug into your devices, with workspaces you can expand or move around as you like, in lieu of having a bunch of monitors, it would have been more of a sell.

    As it is, it comes across as a proof-of-concept that's stuffed to the gills with gimmicks to try and make it fit a niche, which in turn makes it seem a toy more so than anything else.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • The skeumorphic days of the early 2000s were nice, and gave things a bit of character. The current trend of having everything be flat colours is fine, but does lose a little bit of that whimsy.

    Admittedly, part of it might also just be that the grass is greener. We could easily be saying the same thing in reverse if we were still on the gel look of the time.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • I don't think it's short-term profits exactly, as much as he's just focused on making a profit, to the exclusion of all else. Logistics work doesn't tend to pay off short-term, and that is a lot of what his tenure focused on, with Apple basically bringing everything back in-house.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • Their M-Series SoCs are also popular enough that they're the face of AI outside of GPUs and datacentres, and they were pretty big for the whole computing industry, especially given the whole reputation Macbooks had of being slow and prone to heating, and ARM being seen as slow/exclusively for mobile. Apple wasn't the first to make a ARM computer, but from memory, a lot of them were relegated to either Chromebooks or Single-board computers. You'd be silly to put an ARM-based CPU in your laptop, if you were planning to do any serious work.

    The whole agentic AI trend of late basically has people flocking to go for an M-Series Mac, even when the setup is mostly routed through an external provider, and could run with minute resources.

    It's equally as weird to think that your Macbook runs on an iPad/iPhone chip, but there we are. If you went back 10 - 20 years, and told people that Apple were making Macbooks run on old iPhone chips, they'd think you were joking about how bad they were.

  • RAM Shortage Expected to Continue Into Next Year or Later

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  • Millennials are ruining the device industry smh

  • Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job

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  • This is counter-productive and can get you in big trouble IMO. I don't even get what these are protesting

    It reads like a policy/implementation fault. The workers have been told to use AI, but haven't been told clear information, or are presented with a bad model/interface, so they just hop on Google bard or something familiar that works better.

    It's still using AI, so basically the same thing.

  • Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job

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  • The categories that they used for "sabotage" (Entering proprietary information into a different AI, using unapproved chatbots, and using low-quality AI responses as-is) seem like they're just put together so they can blame employees for sabotage for the failure of the AI rollout, rather than employers trying to wedge it onto a bad use case, or not rolling it out properly.

    The first two just seem like the company having issues with people going straight to ChatGPT, and using that as-is, and the third seems to be more people not really caring and using the AI output as required.

    None of that comes across as outright sabotage like the organisation or article the to imply. All three seem like reasonable end-points of telling people to use AI, and giving them metrics they need to meet, or a not-great interface, so they just go off and use a different AI thing, because it's all AI, and basically the same thing, right?

  • 'Addicted to hacking': Young hacker behind historic breach speaks out for 1st time, before reporting to prison

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  • It is weird that they use it as a national identification number, when they are ostensibly virulently against the concept, and it was never designed to be used in that manner to begin with.

  • Copilot can't exit vim

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  • The initial learning curve is very rough, since people might be used to commands from a newer editor like Notepad++, which doesn't work in vim.

    nano at least says which button combination you need to exit, for example.

    It is easier past the initial hump, though.

  • Copilot can't exit vim

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  • You can also use :x to write and quit, from memory.

  • Copilot can't exit vim

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  • They're also fairly versatile. y-i takes any symbol after. Space, comma, the letter p, you name it. If you can type it, it'll generally work.

    Which can be a bit faster than some graphical editors at times, where you might have to find and select the contents by hand. That can be a bother if there's a lot.

  • Microsoft reveals major price increase for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues

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  • It's like a better iPad in a way, since you could run full-scale desktop programs on it, and use it like a desktop.

    I wouldn't be too surprised if things like surfaces were one of the reasons why Apple seems to be making a push to try and make the iPad functional as a computer on its own.

  • Replaced $40/month in AI API subscriptions with self-hosted Ollama + n8n

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  • It's also an 8 gigaparameter model. That's pretty tiny, even if they use it heaps.

  • Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

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  • More than a decade on, and it's still one of the best kindles ever made, in my opinion.

    You had physical buttons instead of a fiddly touch-screen, you could have music, have it read to you, and also go on the internet.

    Plus it's old enough it supports a bunch of formats, and registers as a mass storage device to a computer, so anything can use it.

  • Honda President After Visiting Chinese Auto Supplier:'We Have No Chance Against This'

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  • Human drivers, if they could get LIDAR with their car, would probably also use it.

    Why not aim for better than what humans can do?

  • Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018

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  • According to the article linked in the article, it's not that the operating system itself is more demanding, but more that the DE, and Browsers/Websites are more demanding now.

    It feels like that Canonical basically needs to do the games thing of having a set of minimum specs for Ubuntu to run at all, and a recommend specs for Ubuntu to run well. Canonically basically bumped up the latter, but it's being taken as the former.

  • FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.

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  • If memory serves, he also claimed to have been driving when he teleported into a ditch 50 miles away.

    Which just comes across like he was driving when he really shouldn't have been (Drunk/Tired and Emotional), and fallen asleep whilst on the road.