At this rate they'll spoil their reputations.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 22 Feb 2025, 4:18,
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People can already break iPhone passwords, the tool is just a gimmick anyway.
Apple users can't seem to come to terms with the fact that they overpaid for an average mobile phone.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 21 Feb 2025, 19:07,
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I pay for the convenience
I have an Android phone for work - the difference in UX between the two is night and day. The Android is a woeful piece of shit in comparison. Maybe the hardware is better on the work phone, but I don’t know and I don’t care, as it’s as much as I can do to avoid yeeting it across the office in frustration every time I use it.
Like it or not, you get what you pay for.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 21 Feb 2025, 20:56,
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You pay for a fantasy, the illusion of quality.
I used to have an iMac, the 90s (00s?) transparent ones, it took me about 2 years to accept how badly I'd been fooled by the kind of propaganda you just spouted, and probably less than 3 before I packed it up and got a proper computer.
Androids can be shit, or vastly superior compared to an iPhone. If I were bonked on the head and thought spending a thousand pounds on a phone was a good idea, I'd expect it to outperform an iPhone in much that same way that my thousand-ish pound PC trounces the equivalently priced Mac.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 21 Feb 2025, 23:02,
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I'm typing this on a 2015 MBP.
I replaced the battery a couple of years ago.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 21 Feb 2025, 23:38,
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I'm typing this on a 2012 MBP.
Running OSX Lion, I use a Windows 8.1 virtual machine and Chrome inside it to access the internet.
(, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 12:15, Reply)
How much sumo porn does your thousand pound PC hold?
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 21 Feb 2025, 23:41,
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If we're talking logistically,
Let's assume he has about a terabyte of disk space, but if you subtract for the software and OS itself, he probably only has 800GB (or 0.8TB) for sumo porn.
Let's assume each sumo porn video is about 20 minutes or so in length each - depending on brb's video quality preference, (and using 250mb as the medium bitrate benchmark for a 20 minute video) he could store anything from 1230 (high bitrate), 3200 (medium bitrate) or even 8000 (low bitrate) sumo porn videos.
(, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 20:31, Reply)
That's a good shout
I would assume a certain percentage of that might be images though at a much lower size, significantly increasing his sumo porn storage potential.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 20:59,
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TIL
that the b3ta rape gang are all Mac users.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 24 Feb 2025, 14:20,
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That's not exactly fair
I also have two Windows 2000 desktops for Office and other tools, so not entirely Mac user. It runs most programs I need of it and is the last Windows version without heavy telemetry or online activation, so I can install my single copy on as many computers or virtual machines as I want. Basically no bloat either.
Quite possibly the most "just works" operating system ever released.
I suppose, although I've never tried, you could use an old copy of Cygwin via the Cygwin Time Machine and install a 2015 copy of Wine onto it and even run modern Windows programs.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2025, 16:55, Reply)
I use a commodore plus-4
So suck my plums
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 24 Feb 2025, 19:08,
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Once again
Performance isn't my primary concern. Usability is.
You are quite welcome to sit there feeling superior to me, pretending that I spent a thousand pounds on a phone. Only problem is that I didn't.
You're also quite welcome to judge the Mac/OSX of today based on your experiences, even if they are of a version of the system from when Windows 98 was state-of-the-art.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 0:30,
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How are you less able to use an Android?
What's the cheapest new iPhone these days? My Android cost about £100 and it shows all the same internet that yours does. Your camera is better, but my access to software is better.
I've not owned, but have used macs since the Apple scales fell from my eyes, mostly big studio jobbies, typically the largest and most powerful beasts available, typically kept under a soundproofed cover because fucking hell.
The claim that they're more stable than Windows was always being made and it's always been untrue.
They freeze a lot during multi track recording and editing, and Apple propaganda states they are designed for creative media work. Freezing leads to a crash 50% of the time, maybe 1 in 10 crashes results in permanent loss of recording data. That's a little better to how it was in the 00s, but still unacceptable.
Windows machines are not perfect, but when software freezes it typically doesn't take the operating system with it.
Also I've kept up with Apple's unnovations over the years. They have not technically improved anything since the low numbered iPhones, it's all been branding and user exploitation. The EU had to step in to stop their proprietary cable cuntery FFS.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 1:37,
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Which editing software?
Because that sounds like your problem. Not the platform.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 8:37,
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I do all my business accounts on my commodore plus 4
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 9:51,
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Mostly Pro Tools and Cubase,
and also most of the cheaper and superior DAWs too. Hardly software with a reputation for failing, at least not on a proper PC.
It might just be the way I work, yeah.
Or it might be that because I have no love for Apple I am a lot readier to admit their faults than, say, someone who has invested tens of thousands on inferior products and who can't admit it to themselves.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 14:00,
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Your problem is
using new Macs. If you know how to use them and modify them for performance, 2007-2012 Macs and Macbooks are faster than the modern ones.
(, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 20:36, Reply)
Oh I thought they were meant to 'just work.'
I didn't know I was meant to use my soldering iron on them. How do I pop the case open?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 23:19,
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If you're thinking about a Mac the way most people use Macs you're making a mistake.
I use a Mac specifically because I like the look and feel. I'm still on a version where Aqua is heavily used, and it looks way better than any Windows versions - even now (unless you count Win2k machines with Windowblinds, then you've got a competitor)
The modifications to my Mac just required slotting in the RAM after unscrewing the back. I then installed a way earlier OSX version over a more recent one via a burned DVD.
I mainly use my Mac with Wine programs and multiple virtual machines (since Windows often has more available freeware, such as 7zip) - I use Photoshop CS3 in an XP virtual machine (since I don't trust Adobe) and use Chrome to browse the web in Windows 8.1, which can render any webpage well. (Alas, a 2010 version of Safari no longer does the job)
It's certainly not for everyone, but at least for me it's worth it. (and I wouldn't use Windows 10/any later versions of OSX anyway, since I distrust both modern M$ and Apple)
It somewhat also comes down to the fact that Mac can run Windows apps in Wine quite easily (especially with WineBottler) whilst you can't run Mac apps without an entire virtual machine on Windows, and even then, it's harder to set up a MacOSX virtual machine than an Windows virtual machine.
(, Sun 23 Feb 2025, 11:02, Reply)
Windows users wanting to run Mac software must be pretty rare though.
I honestly can't think of any Mac-only software that Windows users are jealous of.
When your main selling point of a Mac is that it can, when fed enough energy, competently emulate Windows, you should realise the better solution is spending half the money for 2-4 times the power, speed and capacity on a Windows machine.
'Look and feel' I assume refers to animations and transitions, gimmicks that a serious computer user would switch off.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 23 Feb 2025, 14:59,
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I find "Serious Computer User" humorous
Are you really a real serious house user unless you live in a concrete bungalow in the middle of the woods? Anything more would be a gimmick that a serious user would remove. What about gardens? All those topiary and fountains are useless. Just tear it all out and replace it with dirt.
MacOSX can do everything Windows can (and more) but while looking nice - plus, MacOSX has UI consistency whilst Windows hasn't since 2000.
(, Sun 23 Feb 2025, 16:02, Reply)
I thought you said my problem is not modifying them for performance
but here you are saying you keep all the performance hogging gimmicks switched on.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 23 Feb 2025, 17:54,
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Even without the animation "gimmicks" OSX still looks nicer and more consistent than Windows
I'm talking explicitly about the style of the interface itself - not the animations.
Your problem isn't just not modifying them for performance, which doesn't really need to be done for most users.
(, Sun 23 Feb 2025, 17:57, Reply)
You can customise them both to look the same.
So now you're left with 'I prefer the default desktop scheme.'
I have many problems with Apple, they're a disgraceful company. I don't mean to victim blame.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 23 Feb 2025, 19:19,
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You can't.
Customize Windows 10 to at bare minimum fix the image above, I'll wait. Despite that, it's not just "I prefer the default desktop scheme" - it's that I prefer the workflow and UNIX in general.
(, Sun 23 Feb 2025, 19:45, Reply)
What needs fixing?
Genuine question.
RMB context menus having different ...contexts?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 23 Feb 2025, 19:57,
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It's not just that, but a good example of the problem.
The taskbar in Windows having two different RMB menu styles for the same program is ridiculous.
Or perhaps look at the inconsistent styled icons? When I used more modern Windows versions it was possible to see 4 generations of different icon styles in regular use.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2025, 8:55, Reply)
Sorry, My point is that they are average machines 2-8 times overpriced, that they freeze, crash, and are unfit for the purpose they're ostensibly designed for,
and you're apparently wanging on about the design of icons and variation in context menus.
I mean, if that stuff seems important to you, there-there.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 24 Feb 2025, 13:47,
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The W11 context menu is great
It's given a new design, but all the actual options you want are behind the "show more options" menu, which, upon clicking, loads the original context menu, original design and all. Such 'mazing UX. Such wow.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 24 Feb 2025, 13:58,
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At that point
Why not just make it show one big, beautifully designed button that says "open crap"?
(, Mon 24 Feb 2025, 16:54, Reply)