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>but the meat of the story is just empty

I assume you've never seen a Tyler Perry 'Madea' movie before

When I go on Mastodon, half the posts there are bitching about 'how bad' X is. The engagement on posts is extremely poor as well. No one replies to anything.

As far as the problems people complain about on X, I don't see them. Twitter was always buggy at times, and that hasn't really changed. After the exodus of those who just can't stand Musk, I see far less political posts than I did in recent years, which is an improvement tbh. When I see something I don't want to see, I mute it or block the account, just like I always have.

Siracusa's simpering, consoomer defensiveness for Apple has become intolerable. He seems unable to deal with the fact that his precious company's business practices are incompatible with his political/enviromental beliefs. Instead concocting this 'blue ocean' dream that Apple will switch back to user serviceable batteries, creating a new market where there competitors don't dare tread.

What?

There are still plenty of Android devices that have user serviceable batteries, but they don't sell as well because what the majority of users want is to minimize size and weight at any cost. The minority of geeks out there who think something like this is important doesn't move the needle. Apple (particularly under Tim Cook) only cares about maximizing profits. Their environmental schtick is merely dressing in front of the ruthless profit making machine at work.

Obviously Siracusa can't deal with the dissonance that his precious Apple doesn't care about the environment as much as he does. Thus typing up silly articles like this...

This was the point I began my Google-exit.

What I feel is more remarkable than how long ago this all began, is how stable the choices I moved to have been. Fastmail has been amazing, Feedbin is still very solid, DuckDuckGo while not perfect is good enough while Google search results continue to get worse.

Other than occasionally needing to use GSuite when others share documents through it, I pretty rarely use anything by Google intentionally anymore.

It does seem like in the last several years, the quality of ThinkPads has declined as other business lines like Dell Latitude/Precision and HP EliteBook/ZBook have improved.

Then why does the West give him reason for "expansion" through aggressive expansion of NATO?

Load something on the app that isn't cached, its not working either.

I had a 2011 MacBook Air that I used as a casual "couch laptop" up until a month ago. I probably could have continued using it if it wasn't for both the battery and the power supply becoming unreliable. It surprises me that with a dual core i5 and 4GB of RAM, it was more than adequate for all but the most demanding tasks.

Anybody experience writing a sentence and never use a period so that the sentence just goes on and on for an entire paragraph and its difficult for others to read and understand?

Had the same experience. First language I learned was VB and felt like I had to learn programming all over again when moving on.

Seconded, I take psyllium husk powder daily. Am I missing something by doing this that I would gain with more typical sources of fiber?