To those who say I overdid it with my MacBook Pro on the specs, how do you know?
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@FreakyFwoof Oh God yeah, and I wouldn’t care if they just loved it and used it and talked about it for themselves, but they just go on and on about how everybody has to use Lennox or they’re not a real computer user. It’s exhausting.
@technocounselor @FreakyFwoof If we're not real computer users, we can be proud of that, as far as I'm concerned: I've never used Linux, and I have no plans even to try it. One thing everyone should do is use what suits them best.
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@technocounselor Screw the haters! Enjoy the tech! I went way overkill on my Mac Studio when I bought it after I came back from CSUN last year but I’m so glad I did. Never thought I’d need the power but I’m glad I did. You’re going to be able to so much with that beast of a machine.
@stevenscott I knew you would understand. Yeah I’ll be able to make anything. I can’t wait, but unfortunately it looks like I’m going to have to because it’s still saying May 26 to June 2. I need an apple prime subscription. Lol.
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@technocounselor @Bruce That’s the spec to get. The hard drive prices are so high but if I could I’d go for 8tb. I’d much rather have the most storage. A boy can dream
@stevenscott @Bruce Yeah, the only reason I didn’t do that is because it was going to add $1800 to my already skyrocketing price. I have enough cloud storage that I should be OK.
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@baxaphobia @NightDrake @Lynn @technocounselor I loved my stream when I had one. Do they still look like a Walkman? This at least is what the one I owned back in 2009 reminded me of anyway.
@amy0223 @baxaphobia @NightDrake @Lynn Oh yeah, my first generation stream was everything. It got me through grad school. I remember saving to pre-order it and being so excited when it got to the house. It was the first of its kind.
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@technocounselor @FreakyFwoof If we're not real computer users, we can be proud of that, as far as I'm concerned: I've never used Linux, and I have no plans even to try it. One thing everyone should do is use what suits them best.
@frog67 @FreakyFwoof Exactly. I tried it a very little bit and found it didn’t suit my needs, and that’s OK.
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@frog67 @FreakyFwoof Exactly. I tried it a very little bit and found it didn’t suit my needs, and that’s OK.
@technocounselor @frog67 @FreakyFwoof I think the message, while perhaps well-meaning and not without merit for various reasons, is far too evangelical and doesn't take sufficient account of the cognitive load people would have to embrace learning a new operating system, the accessibility barriers there might be or the lack of perceived return on that investment of effort.
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To those who say I overdid it with my MacBook Pro on the specs, how do you know? With vibe coding, who knows what I will do with it?
@technocounselor Good on you if anybody can do it you can.
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@FreakyFwoof Oh God yeah, and I wouldn’t care if they just loved it and used it and talked about it for themselves, but they just go on and on about how everybody has to use Lennox or they’re not a real computer user. It’s exhausting.
@technocounselor @FreakyFwoof I wish Linux was up to the level of usability for it to be used more by blind folks, but its not, and the developer support for key apps is still not there yet, and if you wanted to run Windows apps there's the whole setup with Wine, yeah no, people need to understand that for a lot of us Linux is not feasible.
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@stevenscott I knew you would understand. Yeah I’ll be able to make anything. I can’t wait, but unfortunately it looks like I’m going to have to because it’s still saying May 26 to June 2. I need an apple prime subscription. Lol.
@technocounselor Oh that is so frustrating. Although sometimes the real joy is in the waiting. Fun times await! I bet you're running local models and spawning apps all over the place in a few weeks. I cannot believe how productive I am become thanks to Claude - although some are telling me to try Codex because it apparently produces better accessible code - so that may be another project. In the meantime, I really need to leave the house and get some actual sunshine (or warm rain since its Scottish weather!)
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@technocounselor Oh that is so frustrating. Although sometimes the real joy is in the waiting. Fun times await! I bet you're running local models and spawning apps all over the place in a few weeks. I cannot believe how productive I am become thanks to Claude - although some are telling me to try Codex because it apparently produces better accessible code - so that may be another project. In the meantime, I really need to leave the house and get some actual sunshine (or warm rain since its Scottish weather!)
@stevenscott Lol. The weather has been super weird here too, not really warm like it should be. Yeah I want to give codex a try, but I just canceled my ChatGPT pro subscription because I’m already paying for Claude and Gemini. I will bring it back and cancel out something else if it makes me more productive though.
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@Lynn @NightDrake @technocounselor See personally I wouldn’t want this, because regardless of intent it comes off badly in writing and looks more like bragging or trying to say someone is better than someone else because they’re a tech minimalist, or a stuff minimalist, whatever. It always comes off as shaming in writing. I feel the same way about clean eating or discussing food choices. There’s just certain topics that do not work in writing, especially if being voiced by a synthetic speech engine. There’s just no way around it. That tone becomes implied and there’s no way changing that.
@amy0223 @Lynn @NightDrake @technocounselor Why is it even necessary to discuss how much or little of a thing you do or don't have. Do what works, it is going to be different from what works for the person sitting next to you. I see this discussion brought up over and over again... Why is this such a thing? I think I need to go touch grass now...
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