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Exactly.

I believe many of the display issues were fixed with the M2. And you don't need brew to install a window manager, although the fact that brew lets you treat it like a linux box is great.

The system configuration is more about what you're used to than anything else. I haven't used Windows in a couple of decades, and I absolutely hate it. Can't even think of going back. The modern version looks like a tablet OS trying to pass as a desktop OS. Give me a Windows machine and the first thing I'll do is wipe it clean and install Ubuntu. But I'm also sure Windows is great for you. So it's what we're used to. Nothing wrong with it.

I'll tell you why: the best hardware and software that just works with it. No need to deal with drivers or any of that shit.

I still use my MacBook Pro 2011 and I can't find a reason to change it. It just keeps working. And I say that with a 2023 MacBook Pro M2 sitting right next to it (work laptop). Sure, it's faster, but that's it.

Reminds me of the time this lady came in carrying the PC and the CRT monitor saying it didn't work, I plugged it in, turned it on, the tower did all the right noises and lights, but the screen was black. I thought for a second, then reached for the brightness control and voila, there it was. The embarrassment of the poor lady!

Really? "Ethical" is your word of choice?

You think that will fix the underlying issue? How naive.

You can read the thread yourself, I'm not going to waste my time if you refuse to do that.

I see, so the solution is to stop being Jew, or better yet, to simply die. Got it. Thanks.

Sure, we don't want no context here. That only makes this less black and white, and nobody ain't got time for that.

From one old and tired person to another, thanks for adding context to what is usually context-less and naive platitudes around here.

I'm in the "this is not black and white" camp, but what Israel is doing now is indefensible, even when considering the inhuman atrocities Hamas committed on October 7th. Bombing a refugee camp in the hopes of killing a few Hamas terrorists is just crazy. Flattening a city full of civilians for the same reason is just crazy.

That said, I don't know what the answer is. I honestly believe there's no solution to this conflict. Proposing that Israel remove the border controls and let the Palestinians roam free, given the number of terrorists in their ranks, is just hopelessly naive. They should absolutely return the illegal settlements, but even if they do that (sadly they won't), the terrorists won't stop.

Israel has never been the victim in this conflict.

You have to be fucking kidding me.

Both sides have been victims of their respective leaderships for decades.

The Palestinians have been victims of the Zionists, especially the religious right with their illegal settlements.

The Israelis have been victims of the Islamic terrorists, currently led by Hamas, whose explicit goal is to eradicate every Jew.

You can't seriously look at this conflict and ignore half the story.

I don't remember him saying that, but sure, whatever.

I was about to answer to the other poster that solar noon doesn't change throughout the year. Why does it change 15 minutes? Does the earth wobble like the moon? It's not related to leap years, is it?

So you don't think border control is justified given the presence of terrorists?

I agree that consequences should be taken into consideration, and I assume you don't think they were in this case.

What's your solution? What would you have done?

That's probably the ideal situation given that you'd never have to change your clock again. Well, except when traveling east or west. And setting up meetings would be a nightmare, like "let's meet tomorrow at... eh, let me see... 4:13 for you Tom, 3:48 for you Sam, 7:24 for you Jane, oh, you have another meeting at 7:41... Ok, how about... Uhm..."

The UN is very one-sided on this conflict. I was surprised to watch a documentary on the history of the Israeli - Palestine conflict, made by the UN, and it didn't mention Hamas or their attacks at all. I expected better from the UN, but here we are.

I've designed languages from the ground up, and written interpreters and compilers, so maybe I'm a bit of a snob regarding that kind of thing.

With all the levels of abstraction nowadays it's impossible for anyone to understand the whole stack, so I don't blame you for not caring how things are implemented under the hood.

But that issue with PHP (one of many) made me want to find the person who wrote that abomination and slap them with a baseball bat.

I mean willing to remove assault weapons. I honestly don't care how they are removed, the faster the better. Unless you support following strict process over the lives of people, I don't see a problem with that.

No thanks, that would mean it's dark at 2pm here in December.