sukhmel

I, too, thought about Drag several times while reading the thread

I'm guessing larger than medium are the ones that transport containers, trees, houses, and the like

I think, this was what future was imagined at the beginning of the previous century. It definitely is what I would rather like to see instead of what we got, where automation is not for easing the work, but for removing the people.

Maybe they were talking about those vibrating obscene electric toothbrushes

It looks like Linux got much friendlier as of lately, and requires much less figuring out, but ymmv and you can of course run into issues, unfortunately.

Nowadays we usually have the benefit of being connected to the internet from something other than the computer we're fiddling with, it was quite hard to troubleshoot modem issues when you need that modem to work for the internet connection.

I'm a pleb, barely literate in computers, just pretty okay at finding things I need on Google and blindly copying commands

I think that's enough for most of things, really. I'm supposed to be a power user, but I just do the same: google whenever I need to do something

uninstall OS components…

Like what?

Like whenever you connected Bluetooth headphones to the MacBook, they started Music app. The ~~official~~ solution to stop this was to reboot in safe mode and rename Music app, because it was baked in so hard, or install third party software to prevent Music from starting. That's not to mention that I don't need Music app at all and would uninstall it but it will get restored back.

It looks like this behaviour changed somewhere in 14, as I no longer see Music starting, but it worked that way for longer than it should, really.

Upd: can't find the support thread where they offered this solution, so it must've been not the official one. Officially you didn't even need a solution because it's not a problem.

It's actually fine that you can't do this, because the average user is too stupid to be able to do it safely

Yeah, this is what I hate about Apple second most, right after their marketing and competition strategies.

But to be fair, it makes sense: they don't want to satisfy everyone, only just enough to crush competitors, and if you (and I) don't fit it's your (and my) fault.

apple offered huge discounts for students through their university, so many CS students got a macbook for super cheap and just never stepped out of the ecosystem.

This is the real reason. And I think they couple it with trying to make interface look and behave not how it is in Linux or Windows, so that once you're used to it, you're less comfortable switching to anything else.

For me as a user it always looked like Microsoft looks at how Apple does it and is eagerly employs the worst practices of not allowing the user to do anything 'forbidden' and not giving the user control in general.

Google is doing pretty much the same with Android for a long time, too.

With this best outcome I agree, it would be nice if there were less violence, not more.

Why would they want to off this kid.

So that he can't be tried and found non-guilty. So that he wouldn't spread dangerous ideas. So that he pays for his transgressions.

I don't know what could be their reasoning, but I would expect them wanting to off him behind the scenes rather than await for the trial results.