All of the above. But start with cleaning up this planet. Build better / more sustainable and more diverse communities and energy production. Build arcologies in the arctic, deserts, oceans. Those are good “practice” for building the same off planet.

Sometimes a “3rd party” candidate will drop out of the race and endorse one oh the “big two” (see RFK Jr. for example) or they will remain in the race and “secretly” act as a “spoiler” to siphon votes away from their ally’s opponent.

Aww thanks

I’ve been told more than once that I look like “that creepy Scarecrow guy from Batman Begins.” So I guess Cillian Murphy. I didn’t like looking creepy tho.

Oops I accidentally deleted my original comment while trying to add songs. Here’s my new comment where I did suggest Glorybox.

https://lemmy.world/comment/12040063

“Reckoner” - Radiohead
“Walking in My Shoes” - Depeche Mode
“Bloodbuzz Ohio” - The National
“Black” - Pearl Jam
“Glory Box” - Portishead
“Unfinished Sympathy” - Massive Attack

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I’ve used Macs all of my adult life, my first Mac came with System 7, and then up to Mac OS 8 and beyond. I’ve used every iteration of Mac OS since.

System 7, Mac OS 8, and Mac OS 9 were in a word: FUNctional! By that I mean the ol’ Apple tagline “it just works” wasn’t just marketing. It really did just work. Never crashed, no viruses, just easy, smooth, simple functionality.

And it was FUN to use. Since things did what they were supposed to do, and the system was build from the ground up to be intuitive for anyone - from children to the elderly, there weren’t any struggles to get stuff to do what you wanted, and especially the later versions, the OS interface was highly customizable. You could modify the window skins, scroll bars, icons, schemas, everything. Want to make your Mac look like a tropical fish aquarium, with all the windows swimming sound and making glub glub sounds when you opened files? Easy. Want it to be no-nonsense black & white fast as hell pro system? No problem.

Sometimes people got carried away and overdid it with the customizations, and they’d brick their computers (I was an Apple certified tech for a while and had to repair many a file system) - and that was even a fun challenge.

Ultimately, pre-OSX MacOS was a great product of its time. It was different from Windows - and that’s what threw off many Windows users - they’d try to approach MacOS as if it were a WinPC, and things weren’t where they expected them to be, but if you learned MacOS (which was easy) you’d find it did everything you needed it to do.

I don’t follow your comment that the current MacOS “being more fisher priced down in looks,” I think it looks very sleek & professional, but whatever. To each their own.

Consider this: A person has their iPhone battery replaced with a cheap Chinese 3rd party battery. A month later, the battery catches fire, injuring the person. Which headline do you honestly believe will run:

• Apple iPhone catches fire, injures owner.

• Unauthorized replacement iPhone battery catches fire, injures owner.

The ducks don’t eat the bread. They buy it for resale.

So I’m neutral good and my wife is lawful neutral. At least we’re partially aligned.

I think you’re responding to a large duck, or perhaps several regular ducks packed into a long coat.

Man, I know sewer technicians who can’t run their company into the ground as fast as Musk with X.

I’m down.

Well I’m not going to buy any more Unity games, and I’m going to uninstall any Unity games I have. Fuck those guys.

Fuck you and your ads.

Changing their plug design with every new generation of products

what are you talking about? They’ve used the same lightening connector for the past 10 generations.

Fuck that. Defederate all Nazis.

Op, are you a fucking idiot?

The way I see it, there a pattern:

• Some companies rush some new tech to market and it’s clunky / not user-friendly / a flop.

• Apple releases their own version of same tech, but it has a refined user-friendly interface that’s popular and successful.

• The other companies work to revise their products to match Apple’s successful version.

• Haters all scramble to say “Apple didn’t do it first, blah blah blah…”