Nate Cox @ natecox @programming.dev

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I went from Linux to a Mac for work years ago. Install home brew on day one and the experience overall will be much better.

The terminal on the Mac is surprisingly good. I felt right at home with it very quickly. Xcode comes with cli tooling to build software without a lot of messing with it and finding library dlls (looking at you, windows)

The window placement philosophy takes some getting used to (see yabai for a viable tiling window solution though) and the key modifiers will frustrate you (though I eventually ended up liking cmd a lot).

Overall though I feel like Mac gets a lot of hate where it’s not deserved. I still hate their business model, and my personal laptop is Linux for that reason, but the product itself is fine.

A bunch of people in California have already lost coverage due to this and claiming fire risk. Fucking bullshit.

AI is not the whole cloud, it's a fraction of the cloud

And yet it uses so much more energy per capita. This is not like a secret, dude.

Do you have any idea of the amount of water a datacenter consume ?

No. Nobody has exact figures because there is a mountain of intentional obfuscation hiding it. We know that it is a tremendous amount of water because we can estimate and we can see the data of towns literally going into extreme droughts right next to data centers, but is is suspiciously difficult to get actual numbers. This should tell you a lot.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/data-center-water-usage-remains-hidden/

Tell me where there is any proof this is meta fault

Did… did you not actually watch the video? The video very clearly answers this. Like, multiple times.

Go explain to these people why “bigger DCs are actually better”: https://youtu.be/DGjj7wDYaiI

Here’s the MIT Press detailing the ridiculous carbon and water impacts of data centers: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

“AI” is not worth this.

Sure, some of them are much bigger and more environmentally destructive.

So this is Jenkins except it guzzles water and ruins the lives of people near data centers?

Guess there’s no accounting for stupid.

No, I am 100% certain they know that the vast majority of people don’t care and some people really really hate it, but nobody actually enjoys it.

lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.

I’ll take my huge stack of Windows 3.1 floppies and see myself out.

We shall never know lol.

I feel like the “ai” upscaling comment is probably right. The women in the last frame have a lot more detail and contrast, in addition to a partially illegible price tag that wasn’t there before.

Like, it could be from a different photo, but why would the creator go find a whole different picture when they had one right in front of them?

Yeah I’m dropping my super subscription and my usage of the app. Fuck AI, and fuck the companies using it to deepen the enshitification of tech.

For reals though: don’t touch wild deer. They’re pretty but are disease and tick factories.

One brightly lit, the other descending through shadow with the faint promise of light at the end.

Classic.

SC has so much potential. There is real magic in some of the game they have produced; the aesthetic is fantastic and the fundamentals are solid… all of which makes what they’re doing to run the game into the ground so fucking disappointing.

Yeah the “86 means murder” thing is wild to me. I grew up in the 90’s when that term was weirdly common and it never meant to kill someone; just to kick them out.

As always: fuck the DNC.

I will never forgive them for denying us a Bernie candidacy and they haven’t made any move to redeem themselves since.

I mean… Joel is hand picked for a solo extraction mission to bring the last hope for humanity across the country.

What a fucking chode.

If you need it to be legal to deepfake to manipulate politics you’re the problem.