I took can make up fanciful ideas that don’t pass the smell test.

Unfortunately getting an AI workload to run on those XTXs, and run correctly, is another story entirely.

Maybe. The average Joe looks at the price tag and makes up their mind, but it’s a trap. You also have to factor in the support costs. IT staff, device insurance, breach costs, etc. A device costs much more (2x, 3x or even more) than what you pay the OEM on the PO. The biggest sink is the human costs of supporting the fleet. Macs have higher capex but lower opex. In the end I see savings between 20-40% for well fitted clients.

It’s not for every org or team. I often work with small IT teams to provide the expertise until they are able to gain the institutional knowledge themselves. It’s usually a slow process, with transitions on the scale of years for the large companies.

That’s a rather bold statement to make, especially considering I have headed one of those large-scale deployments. IBM has over 100,000 Macs, up 50% from their previous deployment goal. There are plenty of Mac deployments in the 4 and 5 digit range. I work on several a year!

Specialist industries have the most trouble switching, but legacy apps are less of a problem these days. Most are either a web app already or slated to become one, largely because mobile has made cross-compatibility a requirement. Things like CAD are the exception because they need native clients and aren’t mobile centric.

Backend changes usually aren’t the bottleneck for cross-compatibility, if their app was written with decoupling in mind (thank you Agile). Throw that out the window if it’s some ancient SOAP monolith. They have bigger problems than their choice of user OS.

Assuming your instance name implies you are in the EU, things are just different for IT over there. The cost savings from adopting Macs can’t materialize given the conditions.

An IT supply chain management company and a northeastern medical society have been the latest of our clients to adopt more of them, mostly through attrition of Windows devices. In my prior role at a PE firm, I was responsible for kicking off the transition company-wide to Macs. They liked the lower cost of ownership, maintenance, and the “impression it gave to clients”. The CAD engineers absolutely rioted about it lol. Let me tell you, zip-tying a cheese grater Mac into a server rack is a surreal experience 😂.

To your point, it is still largely director level and above. They are still using MS products mind you, just on Macs.

I’d attribute this growth to the looming deprecation of Windows 10. With the decision to move to Windows 11, many orgs are replacing them with Macs. On the consumer side, the M4 is seen as worthy upgrade for those already on the earlier M chips.

There are actually a few tools that crawl job sites and can auto submit your resume already. Predictably, there was a lot of complaining about it. With agentic tools maturing, it won’t be long before you can just give AI your resume and have it trawl the job sites and apply to relevant jobs. They will have reaped what they sowed.

I’m a big fan of Hugo. I host my own blog on it.

Realistically I think that is why banning him even as a brief show of force will be very effective. He understands pain, it’s the universal language.

I think that memes will help the community find its niche/personality, so long as they don’t get too wild. Eventually it could be made into something like “Meme Mondays” themed threads.

In a week or so, I plan to post some interesting data regarding therapist communities I mined from the alien site for a research paper last year. So we’ll have some serious content too.

Wtf is that photoshopped header image. It isn’t actually that large is it?

Apple has been criticized for its recent naming scheme because it was the kind of complexity that Steve worked against. They clearly copied the names in a “death by committee” fashion with a total ignorance as to why they shouldn’t be copied. The recent naming scheme is clearly a mistake, and no one with a pulse on the market would say otherwise.

Glares at Armor Crate

You can, thanks to SteamOS. That’s why I am looking forward to this device. It’s got a much higher performance ceiling than the deck, so I can throttle it down and have the option of performance or battery life. The deck wasn’t a powerhouse to begin with, so unless I’m playing a 2D clicker I never throttle the TDP.

Nice, now I finally have an upgrade path. I’ve loved my Steam Deck, but have wanted something I can have a “docked mode” with high performance and a “mobile” mode with the TDP locked to save battery.

The enshittification of Mozilla started when they hired a greedy suit instead of a passionate engineer.

They had no response to Node, V8, or Electron. They made no effort to catch up, either. Mozilla needs a purge of senior leadership, or it’s going to zombie walk into irrelevance. I say this as a Firefox user.

I’m loving the lore of the “tildeverse”, check out https://cosmic.voyage/ starting with the log entries. Feels like Futurama meets Unix Surrealism.

Fam, jail that windows into a gaming partition and either get a Mac if you aren’t a computer nerd or use Ubuntu if you are. My computing quality of life improved greatly when I didn’t have to use Windows anymore.

Hmm…

Dune? Nope

Westwood: Double Nope

Cowboy Bebop: Not even close

Dark Tower: negative inspiration actually

I’m sensing a pattern here. Sand + sci-fi equals a lithium prescription.