NateNate60

NateNate60 , 5 months ago to Privacy in Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox

I'm not the parent commenter, but Apple Silicon has much wider app support than ARM on Windows. There's also Rosetta, which works alright, I suppose. Not spectacularly and usually not anywhere near native performance but it's at least okay.

NateNate60 , 5 months ago to Privacy in Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox

No. My argument is that if Apple isn't going to open up their ecosystem to genuine competition and genuine interoperability then they need to have their hand forced through regulation.

Telling people to just stop buying Apple products is a lazy, knee-jerk self-righteous response that ignores the realities of platform lock-in.

NateNate60 , 5 months ago to Privacy in Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox

Learning Windows is still a time cost. You're also losing your library of Mac software and quite a few interoperability features between your other Apple products.

NateNate60 , 5 months ago to Privacy in Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox

Not a solution.

This not only has a time and effort cost attached to it but selling your used hardware to buy new hardware is always a bad value proposition.

NateNate60 , 5 months ago to Privacy in Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox

For most people, time is not regarded to be free (i.e. not a cost). As a devoted Linux user, the adage that "Linux is only free if you don't value your time" is absolutely true.

NateNate60 , 5 months ago to Privacy in Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox

No, it's not a sunk-cost fallacy.

If you already have a bunch of Apple stuff, it makes more sense to continue using Apple stuff, because switching would cost money and effort. You'd also lose access to the software library that you paid for.

Having a bunch of Apple stuff also makes buying more Apple stuff in the future a better value proposition because you gain access to features that you wouldn't otherwise have. Platform lock-in is not a sunk-cost fallacy. You're just uninformed and being smug about it.

The sunk cost fallacy only applies when stopping is free or the cost is low enough (in money or effort) that it makes more sense to quit than continue.

NateNate60 , 5 months ago to Technology in AI Discovers New Material That Could Slash Lithium Use In Batteries

AI Intelligent Humans Who Programmed a Computer Discover New Material That Could Slash Lithium Use in Batteries

It's not like they told an AI "Go find a cool new battery material". This was a targeted, human-led endeavour that used the same computational techniques that scientists have been using for decades. This headline is like saying "Hammer Builds New House". It wasn't the hammer. The hammer isn't intelligent enough to do anything. Intelligent humans merely used it as a tool.

NateNate60 , 5 months ago to Privacy in Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox

That's not a solution. It's a way for you to avoid the problem. It does nothing to help the millions of people who are already deeply invested in the Apple ecosystem.

NateNate60 , 5 months ago to Memes in #memes

What does BTS stand for, outside of K-pop?

NateNate60 , 6 months ago to Technology in Wikimedia Foundation calls on US Supreme Court to strike laws that threaten Wikipedia

Texas and Florida are pretty well-known as the shitholes of America. Run by populist idiots who cater to the uninformed and gullible voter. I'm sure there are places like that in every country.

NateNate60 , 6 months ago to Technology in Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A PURSE

NateNate60 , 6 months ago to Technology in Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise

There is no data loss on Google Drive, and there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

NateNate60 , 7 months ago to linuxmemes in Everyone loves snaps

Kubuntu removed Flatpaks in favour of Snaps