I think we have pretty similar taste! I'll have to check out The Rest is History. Recently, I really enjoyed Sarah C. Paine's lectures on Dwarkesh's podcast :)
At work I've use a mix of physical and digital with a whiteboard to track my TODOs as I can always turn around to see what's next and I get a nice reminder at the start of my day of what I have to do. I also have a ~/.kb file, which is just a plain text file to store any scratch notes, commands, etc.
At home, I have a physical journal that I write in, and I hate to admit it but its kind of a mess, but I do have an agenda that I use to management appointments that is better organized only due to the virtue of the provided layout that it comes with.
One of the hardest hit sectors by e-commerce was naturally electronics. I've noticed now trying to buy anything desktop-related such as components or accessories is sometimes nearly impossible without using the likes of Amazon or Newegg, or being gouged by the likes of BestBuy.
In the early 2000s it was easy to find at least half a dozen local electronics stores selling the goods you needed and nowadays there is only MicroCenter or your state may have their own smaller chain (i.e. Central Computers).
I was rather surprised that Apple kowtowed to the UK. Quite a shift from the rigid stance that they had with San Bernardino. I understand the situation is not exactly apples-to-apples (ha!), but it is similar enough.
This stance is even more confusing considering the company has spent the better part of the last decade advertising to customers that they are on their side for privacy and security juxtaposing themselves against Meta and Microsoft.
Thinking about this a bit more, I agree. Definitely not a parent haha but I would struggle between just capitulating and buying an iPhone or just holding firm and saying no, so I was thinking of somewhere in the middle but looking back I can definitely see how that could also cause some unintended issues.
Undergraduate Sophomore here, hopefully I can help shine some light on what your son might be experiencing.
I also had an Android phone from 7th grade to 12th grade, and definitely faced the same attitude/behaviour your son experienced.
First, you should address the bullying. That is the most important part, kids are vicious and the phone might just be an easy excuse to pick on your son. You should raise this issue with other kids' parents as nicoburns said.
Second, it can definitely be a bit isolating being the only one or the few kids with an Android phone (especially in the States) a lot of social activity revolves around the Apple Ecosystem (iMessage, iMessage Games, FaceTime, etc...). I found that when I got an iPhone I felt a lot more "connected" to my peers simply because we shared the same platform, its unfortunate but it is the reality.
Third, and this may be controversial, I would get your son an iPhone, I assume the dependence for cell phones has only gotten increasingly higher post-covid and feeling left out at that age can hurt pretty bad. You could perhaps make him "earn" it by doing chores, getting good grades, etc...
Haha yeah! It's nice to see that other's machines are fairing up well. I'm a student so my machine gets a fair bit of wear and tear and theres just not much I can do about that unfortunately.
I know right now it's all anecdata but I noticed this as well! My 2020 M1 Mac's battery life has significantly decreased as well, to the point where I need to charge twice a day like I used to for the old Intel Mac's.
Although this could just be my fault as I've already racked up close to 600 cycles on a machine that has only gotten a year and a half's worth of use.
Yep! It isn't very hard to get someone punished for abusing the system if you have the resources.
YouTube did it a few years ago [1] to a popular creator in the Minecraft community who was threatening creator's with Community Guideline Strikes in order to extort them for money.
Ironically I have had the exact opposite experience, it's interesting to see how the app behaves so randomly.
I used Teams on Windows for work last year and the performance was horrible on a relatively beefy workstation machine, getting into a call or loading a chat would have a visible lag or delay.
But using it on my personal Mac it was a fairly okay experience, just a run of the mill app I would say.
Perhaps the difference is O365 (Enterprise) Teams versus Teams for Life (Personal)?
I assume he is doing this to save the value of Tesla stock. Its value has dropped by 20% in the past month and by 40% in the past 6 months.
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Another consideration -- Is this even worth it at this point? Will advertisers return to a platform that has shown rash decision making in terms of content moderation and policy changes?
It takes years to foster that trust and Musk has undone much of that in a matter of a month or so.
Why does Microsoft make these pointless UI changes? Instead of migrating over existing UI's in the rest of the operating system that use Aero, Windows 10, and even Windows 98...
I know that there are probably different teams for the Shell, and each app but I would hope that there would be a person that drives the overall "vision" of the Operating System.
I mean I've had 2 mac's so far and I've reset the first one a handful of times it never took me more than about 1 - 2 hours to get up and running with Homebrew (a package manager for Mac). Although I will agree the Mac installer is highly unintuitive.
I've been playing Minecraft on-and-off for the better part of the decade now (since I was 9 or 10 wow!), I've been amazed at some of the recent changes that Mojang has made with improving game engine performance and now this new caving update.
I hope they once again push for a revival of modding multiplayer servers, although that is most likely a pipe dream because of the Bukkit DMCA issues in 2013-2014 :(.
Agreed, but that is simply cause-and-effect by virtue of the majority of the world using the current global financial system rather than crypto and many more hackers are targeting said folk.
Either way two wrong's don't make a right, there will be losses in both systems but I would argue that storing your money with a unregulated crypto-firm would be more dangerous than with a modern-day bank.
I think the main gripe that many people have including myself with crypto is that it doesn't even have the proper consumer protections so that a decent/strong chance of recovery is possible.
This trend of massive amounts of crypto currency being stolen is not even a relatively recent one, see Gerald Cotten's (Quadriga) death in 2019 which resulted in $150 million in assets going missing with no chance of recovery.
This reply has been a little-bit scatter-brainish, so my apologies for that.
I'm a relative newcomer to the crypto-space so please forgive me for any errors.
I see the point you are attempting to make but the number is rather useless, in the past week hackers took 20% of what was stolen by BEC in a year. And skimming through the report you sent it seems like there is a program to recover said funds that have been lost and it has an 82% success-rate.