Such a prescient episode.

Maybe ‘digital resilience’ is a more accurate, less sensationalist term?

Word has been broken since v.5.1a. But you’re right about Excel.

I repair Macs. Just use basic lithium battery practices:

• mostly keep charge between 30-80%
• charge fully if you are about to use
• long term storage with a 70% charge
• don’t run down to empty if you can help it
• don’t leave plugged in all the time
• avoid prolonged temperature extremes
• avoid shitty chargers, Apple chargers are expensive but generally worth it

Beware of add-ons that access hardware, for various reasons.

Apple batteries are rated for around 1000 cycles, or around 5 years of average use. Follow the above advice and you might eke out 1500 or so.

Well, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, such as the way Costco mostly operates. Being the good guys has a lot of brand value. With a little nurturing of the vast propaganda machine known as advertising, that could be improved.

One of my clients is a small company that has been running with seven staff working from home, scattered around the globe, mostly rural. Since 1999. Everything has been held together by skype: chat, video, audio.

Should be interesting finding the right new workflow!

Not me, I am a damn dirty ape.

A lot of Windows users moving to macOS leave apps running due to just clicking on the red button to close the window.

Check to make sure you don’t have an app running that is keeping the computer active, even in the background.

e.g. some data syncing apps, navigation device connections, wake-on-lan enabled with an active network-reliant app running

Use Activity Monitor in the /applications/utilities folder to explore all the stuff running.

OK but what if you have a lava lamp that is synced to the moods of a sarcastic and greedy AI?

Security is about to get really weird. It used to be the Internet of Things we had to worry about, but now we have Things in Internet.

I yell at the road when people drive badly, too.

Wait didn’t MEC collapse into / get bought by a regular corporation?

I guess the solution is for people with conservative values to stop associating so freely with subjugation addicts? Once conservative identity is dissociated from a wide spectrum of racist and classist bullshit, not to mention that we are entering an extinction level event of our own doing, then maybe the guilt by association will go away.

Opinions are often based on premises or observations or claimed facts, which are sometimes very objectively wrong.

I get what you’re complaining about but the ‘sanctity of opinion’ isn’t a strong argument.

And yet, nobody who trumpets this as an issue really thinks hard about it as a philosophy. They just say stupid things like I am an absolutist, all speech should be free.

Then they turn around and complain about being defrauded lol.

My line for computational adequacy was crossed with the Core2Duo. Any chip since has been fine for everyday administration or household use, and they are still fine running linux.

Any Apple silicon including the M1 is now adequate even for high end production, setting a new low bar, and a new watershed.

The cartoon is a critique of capitalism, not automation. Maybe most voters or readers are missing that.

Anton Petrov is a solid science commentator. He mostly just reports and doesn’t do much conjecture unless he’s reporting on public discourse about the issue. He doesn’t rely on charisma, slick production, or sensationalism, even if he has ti play the algorithm game. Examine his extensive channel on youtube.

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If you plan some violence and include jury nullification as some viable part of the plan, and publish that shit online, not only is it kind of useless and lousy opsec, but it will attract heat that is unwanted and unnecessary. It’s literally a conspiracy to undermine nullification at that point, like a false flag. So no, don’t do that, and I back the mods on this.

I have to use an AppleTV for various reasons, so I settled on a simple SMB share on an old mac mini server and the (subscription) Infuse app, it’s been rock solid as a player on all devices and very low effort.