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We Need To Stop Supporting THIS As Consumers… (My One Apple Complaint)

News Team
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Aug 13, 2024
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Everyone has their own preferences, but personally? I'm a big Apple guy. I think they have the world's best UX/UI, and generally produce quality products. Of course the given complaint is they're expensive, but I'm not even going to factor that in... the hardware, and physical quality of their products generally isn't a concern. I think the price is relatively fair all things considered, they aren't necessarily budget dev...

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We Need To Stop Supporting THIS As Consumers… (My One Apple Complaint)

Want to Run a LLM Like Llama3 at Home for a Self-Hosted ChatGPT? A Mac Might Be Your Best, Cheapest Option

raindog308
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Jun 29, 2024
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If you want to run AI, you need a bunch of high-end Nvidia GPUs, right? There's actually an alternative that is about half the price.

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Want to Run a LLM Like Llama3 at Home for a Self-Hosted ChatGPT? A Mac Might Be Your Best, Cheapest Option

Apple Intelligence is Free: You Are Not the Product, You're the Currency

raindog308
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Jun 13, 2024
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OpenAI is thrilled to get a new trove of Apple data to train on. Except of course, they promise, cross their hearts and hope to die, stick a needle in their eye that this won't happen.

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Apple Intelligence is Free: You Are Not the Product, You're the Currency

HOT TAKE: DOJ's Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple is Dead on Arrival

raindog308
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Mar 21, 2024
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I'm not an anti-trust lawyer, so naturally I'm going to give you my opinion on the US Department of Justice lawsuit filed against Apple today.

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HOT TAKE: DOJ's Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple is Dead on Arrival

Augmented Reality vs. Holodecks: Why Apple's VisionPro and the Metaverse Represent Starkly Different Ideas About the Future of Computing

raindog308
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Jun 08, 2023
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Apples VisionPro is coming soon, but is it really a transformative and magical device? The Metaverse has overwhelmed, but at least it's trying to move to the future, whereas the VisionPro seems like merely the next tech iteration.

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Augmented Reality vs. Holodecks: Why Apple's VisionPro and the Metaverse Represent Starkly Different Ideas About the Future of Computing

Bing: The New Firefox and Safari Soon?

raindog308
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May 15, 2023
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Microsoft Bing might be coming to your browser soon, as they're pursuing deals to become the default browser on both Firefox and Safari. Both could be huge for the Internet's second-run search engine.

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Bing: The New Firefox and Safari Soon?

H1-B Visas: Indentured Servitude for 195 Years?

raindog308
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Dec 06, 2022
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Companies can bring foreign nationals over to work in the US on various programs, most prominently in this discussion, the H1-B visa.  It's designed for situations where the US lacks engineers, scientists, or technical specialists in critical skills. But at its worst, the program is a form of modern-day indentured servitude.

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H1-B Visas: Indentured Servitude for 195 Years?

Google: Let's Use Our Hiring Process For Our Firing Process

raindog308
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Dec 06, 2022
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Google has turned its hiring process into its firing process. Why? It's bizarre but Google always wants to show that it's different and better. Unfortunately, those interviewing (again) for their jobs and then losing them are not likely to be impressed.

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Google: Let's Use Our Hiring Process For Our Firing Process

Can You Lend Apple and Meta Some Cash? They're Asking

raindog308
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Aug 04, 2022
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News this week broke that both Apple and Meta are both taking out huge loans. Apple is borrowing $5.5 billion, and Meta is borrowing $10 billion.  Both are for "general corporate purposes, share repur...

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Can You Lend Apple and Meta Some Cash? They're Asking

Apple Silicon: A Hard Use Review

raindog308
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Jul 24, 2022
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I'm an Apple fanboy.  Actually, I'm a Unix fanboy and I find macOS to be the best desktop expression of that OS.  I wouldn't want to run macOS on my servers - I use Linux or *BSD for that - but for de...

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Apple Silicon: A Hard Use Review

TikTok Won't Stop Sending US Data to China, So Gov't to Force App Ban

raindog308
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Jun 30, 2022
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Goodbye, TikTok. According to news reports, both Apple and Google have received letters from the FCC requesting they remove the TikTok app from their app stores.  Neither Apple nor Google has commente...

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TikTok Won't Stop Sending US Data to China, So Gov't to Force App Ban

Do you use a Hosted macOS / Mac Provider?

raindog308
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Feb 18, 2022
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Your esteemed Dread Lord of LowEnd Content, raindog308, is an admitted Apple fanboi.  In the cloud, at the edge, for file servers, for many things, I am all about Linux and OpenBSD.  But for human-fac...

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Do you use a Hosted macOS / Mac Provider?

Apple Relents on New Surveillance Measures

raindog308
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Sep 03, 2021
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Apple announced today that it is delaying rollout of its controversial new surveillance technology that sought to identify child pornography. They've updated their previous press release with this dis...

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Apple Relents on New Surveillance Measures

Apple Installs Mandatory Software on Every Apple Device That Allows Engineers to See Your Photos, Approve Your Searches

raindog308
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Aug 14, 2021
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Apple announced today that will begin scanning every photo, iMessage, and search you perform on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in order to verify that Apple approves of the content you are viewing.  Under...

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Apple Installs Mandatory Software on Every Apple Device That Allows Engineers to See Your Photos, Approve Your Searches

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