I also own a macbook in addition to my desktop.
It's currently running macos, but I very much hope Asahi development continues, because that's very much my desire for the final destination of the machine.
For a long time I was happy with Apple's commitment to being a mainstream OS that was privacy-centric but recent shenanigans have me starting to doubt.
It's both. Linux mostly just works, but when it breaks, it breaks in a way which is sometimes difficult for the average person to recover from.
I've had a couple of times in the past where something has gone horribly, outrageously wrong, and I decided to just reinstall and start again from fresh, because that was way less time investment than fixing what broke.
Nowadays I'm using Timeshift backups, and I think that's a positive move.
Exactly this.
I'm a software dev and also a Linux user, but that doesn't mean I want to spend my precious time messing around with the OS trying to solve problems.
I see the operating system as a tool I use to accomplish the things I actually want to do, which is writing my code for my projects, just the same as I see a car as a tool to get me from point A to point B.
If Linux was complicated to set up, or always broken, or requiring constant work then I wouldn't use it, no more than I'd tolerate a car which is broken down and in the shop every other week. But fortunately, Linux is none of those things.
Modern Linux mostly "just works", and it's really counterproductive to talk about Linux like it's hard or you need to be a deeply invested techie to use it.
A charitable interpretation is because a list-making app can provide richer functionality than a basic text document by allowing you to check things off as you pick them up.
A grocery-specific list app could be even more tailored. It could, for example, automatically group items you add by produce type (fresh, tinned, frozen) or allow you to define a template for common items you want to purchase on every shop.
A less charitable interpretation is that some people don't tend to think "what tool is appropriate to solve this problem?" and look at what they already have installed, but instead present the problem and expect a solution will be delivered. So people go on the app store and type "grocery list" and just install whatever comes up. The same happens for every other life problem they want to solve, which is why these people have 200 hyper-specific apps on their phones.
Some people will fall into group A, and some into group B.
Personally I use Joplin for all my note-taking and listing needs. It's a pretty basic markdown editor but is cross-platform and has custom backends for storage, so my notes can be stored privately and synced to all my devices. Markdown is obviously less featureful than a proprietary app format but is portable, and you can easily export all your data without being tied forever to Joplin if circumstances change. I would recommend it if you need a notes app.
Steam has this crazy concept where as a game gets older, you don't have to pay as much for it as when it was new! Pretty wild, I know.
Centralisation makes things easy.
If it takes more than 1 minute to onboard to a new service, and especially if you have to overcome any learning barrier (such as what 'instances' are and how to choose one) then the vast majority of people will immediately throw that option out and won't even consider it.
People like bluesky specifically because it gives them something almost identical to what they had before.
I think you discovered the loophole in that you also get to teleport back in time to 2012, if that's the specific time you experienced the restaurant.
True friends?
The ability to be my authentic self, and mutual trust.
I'm pretty introverted and most social interactions are draining for me. My few closest friends are those where I don't have to put up even the smallest emotional facade, and therefore can genuinely enjoy relaxing and spending time with on a primal level rather than feeling worn out by it.
I also want my closest friends to be people I can have meaningful and personal interactions with. Sometimes of course you just hang out and play some games and have fun, but if the conversation gets deep I need to feel safe that this happens from a place of mutual respect and that nothing said will get somehow used against me down the line.
Probably the same things people look for in a partner, to be honest.
山尺工卞工几呂 勹丹尸丹几ヨ己ヨ 工己 ヨ丹己と!
I saw a brand a while back, can't remember exactly what, something like coffee or chocolate, and they were using this fake Japanese for all their product names and merchandise labels.
It was certainly the most surefire way to instantly demonstrate to me they have no actual understanding of, or connection with, Japan or Japanese culture at all.
"Yellow" isn't just a colour match though, there are very significant historical prejudices with the association between 'yellow' and 'Asian'
Exactly! What sort of logic are they even trying to apply there? Basically saying "We put a lot of time into our tech demo, and it came out better than expected, so we're going to charge for it!"
That's just crazy.
The whole principle is that the intro experience is supposed to be free. It exists to get people pumped about the cool new thing they just bought and excited to play with it.
I guess Nintendo decided that - since you already bought the console - they don't especially care if you are pumped or not. They already got your money.
This is happening because all platforms are optimising for the one single metric that matters most to them - engagement.
When you consider all users as a whole, the way to get engagement is not to have a good UX that lets you tailor what you see, and search for the specific things you are interested in. The way to get it is to shove a constantly changing and brightly coloured stream of "content" right in people's faces where they don't have to do any thinking or make any decisions, they just mindlessly click what is offered and consume.
From Netflix's perspective, they want someone to go from opening the app to watching a video in 10 seconds, and if they don't achieve that, it's a failure which they will optimise away.
The platforms have over the years systematically stripped back every control lever you have over what you see, because control means time spent thinking, and time thinking is not time engaging.