> With a retina monitor, it's a great combination.
Sadly, the Retina monitor segment is a complete failure. Several 5K screens came out in 2015, along with the 27" Retina iMac, ... and then the market died off. The UltraFine 5K is finally available again, but it's being sold at 2015 prices (1400€ here). At that point you might as well get an iMac with eight cores, a dedicated GPU, and a semi-replaceable hard drive instead of the Mini.
In an ideal world, we'd have 8K ultrawide Retina displays by now. Sigh...
> maybe the difference is that we install Windows 10 Pro whereas the author is a Windows 10 Home user
No, every installation of Windows 10 Pro I've seen had a start menu that was mostly ads (links to Candy Crush, Spotify, Office etc.) - I've also had the OS nag me about giving Edge a second chance.
This is in Germany, in case the region matters, and I always deny all spyware as far as possible using the GUI.
Your posting really gets to my core frustration with our Western political establishment: We have "rational", "moderate" politicians like Hillary, Biden, Merkel, or the late John McCain, who were in favor of the illegal attack on Iraq, well knowing that civilians would die, and that the area would be destabilized (hello IS).
But because the US didn't attack Iraq based on a protected class like race, and because the Geneva conventions exist, everything is magically okay. No reason to deplatform these heroes of bipartisan politics.
I worry about the end of radical free speech on the internet precisely because I feel deeply disconnected from "mainstream morality". As internet censorship progresses, I'm sure I'll be kicked out before any of the high-status war criminals.
(I'm referring to the 2003 Iraq war because I still remember who supported it, but I assume the handling of Vietnam was similar in its time.)
If the burden for authentication is on the developers anyway, then code-signing shouldn't require a 99€/year subscription. 99€ is a sum that doesn't help Apple, doesn't hinder criminals, but causes headaches for open-source projects and casual developers.
I'm a big fan of desktop sandboxing, so thanks for the hard work. I dreaded running the unsandboxed Office:mac 2011 with its constant stream of "critical" security updates. That was definitely my worst experience using native apps.
I think I would prefer a security model were you could just download and start any .app, but upon first opening it, a dialog would inform you about its code-signing author and the permissions that the app has (with striking red/green color coding). Because right now, there is no way to tell which apps even use sandboxing without opening Activity Monitor, and there is no incentive for non-App-Store-apps to use sandboxing. (There is a dialog when opening a downloaded app for the first time, but it's grey and boring and not helpful at all.)
HN also has the noprocrast settings. I've set the parameters to enforce an optional habit of reading HN once a day (usually after work). It works quite well.
As I understood it, the transformation happened because people were not just accepting their negative emotions about their country but actually threw rocks and organized rallies.
> "There is genuine suffering in the world that it is important to do something about"
I wonder if I'm in the same now-democratic society. Does it have Daoist influences? :)
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