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I have been burned multiple times receiving counterfeit SD cards and USB thumb drives from Amazon. I now only buy those locally at a reputable electronics store. This change by Amazon won’t bring me back, but it’s the right decision nonetheless.

He claims the 286 was state of the art in 1992. This is not true. The 80386 (i386) was mass produced in 1986, six years before 1992. Whenever a video gets basic facts wrong I am left to wonder “what other mistakes will be made?”, and “why should I trust this source?”


I have 3x 100watt lightbulbs in a single fixture that have been running strong for years. The secret? I keep them dimmed by ~20%. Longevity wasn’t the intent, though, I just like them dimmer and warmer. A pleasant side effect nonetheless.


> Apple has all but zero presence in BigCorp outside of social media and creative teams.

Not from my experience. I see product managers/owners and software engineers using Macs more than Windows where I work, and it’s in healthcare, not SV. This move to Mac was gradual, starting ~10 years ago, and I believe a part of this was moving away from native apps to web apps.


I only by SD cards and USB thumb drives at Micro Center after being burned multiple times with counterfeits from Amazon.


Carplay, not Airplay, but yes.


To switch between windows of the same app, use Cmd-`


That particular issue is just a conceptual mismatch. Exactly 0% of the time do I want to segregate my activities as "chrome" things vs "terminal" things vs whatever. When I want a feature like that, multiple desktops (mission control or whatever) is the tool of choice.

The backtick thing is just a constant annoyance. My workflow is to open windows doing the things I want some, and I want to quickly switch to the window with my next work item. Instead, I need to keep track of extra mental state and figure out if backtick is the right keystroke or if tab and then backtick is the right thing to do.

It's...fine. I'm thankful I have better options at home, but it's tolerable at work with a few third-party apps.


That was the killer feature that convinced me to switch from Windows + Linux to Mac a long time ago. I often have too many windows open, and the conceptual separation between apps and windows helps me find the right task faster. Especially because I can also switch to an app that doesn't have any windows open at the moment.


Yep, my description was mostly negative (I personally hate it because I don't think that way), but I was serious about it just being a mismatch of expectations. There's nothing written in stone about the MacOS method being wrong, and it's nice that it works better for some people. UI is partly objective and partly subjective, and this particular point definitely falls on the subjective end of the spectrum.


It's also possible to do on Windows via external tools, easier to fix than changing the whole OS


It reminds me of Windows 95, 98, and 2000. Going from Windows 3.11 to 95 instead of 4.0 didn’t feel right at the time, and this feels the same to me.


At least 95 felt significantly different.

It also helped that it was a moment where the market exploded considerably


Pixelfed released an updated app on TestFlight on January 13 (12 days ago). Not sure where you are getting abandoned from.


This was also available on the Chevy Bolt EUV as an add-on for $2,200. The Bolt EUV started at $28,795, so with the add-on it could be had for ~$31k before tax, title, etc. Not sure where you got the $200k+ number.


The parent post is talking about the Cruise vehicles made by the company this article is covering, a completely separate thing from the supercruise feature that consumers could actually buy. At one point many years ago, the Cruise vehicles cost >200k to manufacture.


Ultra Cruise was only available on the expensive Celestiq before it got cancelled and merged with Super Cruise. Apparently, the Celestiq starts at $340,000, even higher than my original estimate of $200k.


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