Darren

As someone with ADHD, my one use case for a smart watch is to send me notifications. If I take my phone out to see why it buzzed, I’m losing the next fifteen minutes to it.

I don’t need a £500 watch for that. The Garmin I picked up for £50 from FB Marketplace does it just fine, and the battery lasts damn near a week.

Every operating system has steep learning curves and you will struggle with how it does things when first starting out.

I’ve been using Linux seriously for almost a year now. I felt the same way as OP back in the beginning. It took me a couple of weeks to realise that it’s not so much that the OS is tricksier than macOS, it’s that I did all my stumbling around OS X when I got my first Mac back in 07, and now I know it pretty well. Sure, macOS has better guardrails, but it’s still worlds away from Windows.

The MD of the company I work for is kinda like this.

“Why do we need all these ISO accreditations? They’re a fucking waste of time and money. We didn’t have them back in my day”

No Geoff, but how many of your colleagues from those days still have all their fingers and no emphysema?

I believe macOS 26 will be the last that’ll run on Intel hardware. So functionally, a year from now, Hackintosh is dead. Well, Hackintosh running the current macOS, of course. I imagine there’ll be a thriving community working to keep existing hardware chugging along.

It’ll be interesting to see the momentum of Linux on Macs though. If Asahi manages to crack those last few hurdles with the M1/2 hardware, it’ll be a rock solid OS, particularly as ARM64 software becomes more common. Suddenly you’ll have a bunch of incredibly capable Macs going cheap because they can’t run the largest macOS.

Did you post all three of these via Starlink?

Have you been watching me at work?

I mean, if your aim as a business is to make money from your ideas, then yeah…

It isn’t enough to have good ideas if you can’t persuade someone to buy them.

In fairness to Jobs, he may have been an arsehole, but he was also an incredible salesman who knew what his customers wanted.

I’m old enough to remember how genuinely captivating his product presentations could be. The shit that Apple pre-records these days is worthless by comparison.

When I had an iPhone, Vinegar was the best few quid I ever spent. Between that and the adblocker I used, I got ad free YouTube with the default iOS video player. Glorious.