In the United States, Reform Judaism rejects the concept that any rules or rituals should be considered necessary for conversion to Judaism. In the late 19th century, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the official body of American Reform rabbis, formally resolved to permit the admission of converts "without any initiatory rite, ceremony, or observance whatsoever". (CCAR Yearbook 3 (1893), 73–95; American Reform Responsa (ARR), no. 68, at 236–237.)
Recently I purchased a fully upgraded 2015 mbp retina 13" which has a 2.9GHz Broadwell and a 512GB SSD in it. It's definitely not the fastest but considering I only paid 450€ for it and this is a computer that was probably worth around 2000€ when it came out, I think it's a really good purchase.
The notion that we "need" the latest hardware is propaganda, unless of course you are rendering 4K videos or molecular dynamics simulations.
Mostly I think people are just bored, or their companies provide them with the latest and greatest
Same. Growing up I was fascinated by the US but now I will avoid visiting there for as long as I can, mainly because it seems like such an insane, dangerous place
My main gripe with apple is their tactics around subscription fees.
You can't direct your customers to sign-up via your website, circumventing apple to receive a 30% discount. Ultimately the customer suffers. They should have consumer awareness and choice, it's their right.
Then they give Netflix special sweetheart treatment, why?
I find these examples both deceptive and anti-competitive.
One thing to remember is you also pay for the software. MacOS is a great operating system.
I personally made the switch to Linux full-time a year ago, it works pretty well, but software support is pretty abysmal. Hell, even Spotify starts to slow my system down and make it feel sluggish after 30 minutes.
You don't get those sorts of problems on MacOS, and I really miss that.
Gnome should be annexed by KDE so there is some focus in the community.
KDE is faster, more feature rich with a sensible architecture, but it still is flawed. No sensible defaults, too many convoluted and unmaintained apps etc.
I recommend trying out other distributions. While I like the convenience of Ubuntu, it's got some clear downsides like poor package management & a bloated install.
Not to mention the disaster that is Gnome3.
Arch has been very hassle free for me, even the installation process was relatively pain free (If you follow a guide). I've been running it for probably nearly a year or so without any problems..
NixOS also looks really interesting and could be the future of desktop computing,
I'm keen to give that a try when I get some downtime.