Oh I agree with that one entirely. One reason I buy apple shit is last year I got them to stuff a new battery in my old 6s which I bought in 2015 and they did it there and then in store. Second swap it has had.
No thats not the main issue. Most of the issues come from crap batteries not being anywhere near fit for purpose. I’ve swapped out enough (tens of the things) to see that as the average case.
Most laptops just whine about third party batteries and you can just nuke the vendor battery junk to get rid of it.
My review was spot on. It’s subjectively not terrible but you wouldn’t use it as the basis of a composition.
Perhaps a school bell. But it would get annoying as fuck very quickly. Actually perhaps sticking it on repeat in a torture cell would be a good place for it. It’s not bad enough or good enough to be likeable.
The key thing the EU are ruling on here are phones. I replace my phone or laptop battery every 3 years at average! Does it need to be removable for that? Hell no. Sticky tape, glued in I don't care. I will pay apple or whoever to replace it. 30 minutes of labour is fine for this interval!
What pisses me off are the people who are too fucking cheap to pay for a phone battery from the manufacturer but will throw 10x the cost on trivial repairs on a premium car while whining about it.
A few years back I built a fairly simple little python/flask app to solve and integration problem. It's been sitting there handling 5000 or so requests an hour. Nothing major. I set up an ansible script which pushed out the distro (Debian) provided flask and other deps and fired it up in uwsgi. There was about 200 lines of python and about 50 lines of ansible config for it over our base image. This was pushed out to a t2.tiny instance in AWS which was behind an nginx instance on a t2.small instance which was already doing ancillary crap. To deploy this, you literally had to "aws sso login" then "make" and it was done. I added a simple AWS CloudWatch canary to check it was alive still.
Along comes someone and rewrites it using docker because, well you know this has to go in the Kubernetes stack (bollocks it does - there is no ROI for changing it). So after a week of "devops engineering time" which consists of getting it running in a container, setting up the kubernetes manifests, setting up a github pipeline etc etc. So I look at this later and we burned $4500 dev time on it and increased the yearly spend, as it needs a multi-region redundant ALB and node push to EKS to $2250 from the RI cost of $220 a year.
That's progress apparently.
I'm going to buy a canal boat and forget this industry exists ASAP.
Meh. If you're smart enough to read this web site you should find someone else to leverage some equity out of and a good salary and ride it to IPO then retire and do something else.
They're not a replacement but they will be generating so much credible indexable garbage that they will reduce the signal to noise ratio to the point that they are useless.
Apologies for this alcohol fuelled rage comment but for fucks sake Microsoft just stop redesigning shit and finish the last 11 redesigns of windows, fix all the cruft hanging out everywhere and start giving a crap about your clients from a security and attention perspective. We are not cows to be milked for upsells, telemetry and ad revenue. We are also not caged animals to experiment on. We are paying customers who need a professional grade operating system that isn't a tragic waste of cash, time, resources, compute, bandwidth and attention.
And no Windows 11 is not it.
Nadella was treated like the second coming of Jesus on here a few years back. Turns out he's another one trick capitalist trying to push up revenue of a dying turd by sprinkling glitter on it and selling it to you monthly while pocketing whatever he can make out of your data.
Yep. I don't use Linux on the desktop simply because I don't care enough to be assed with arguing with it. Thus I would rather swap my kidney for some Apple crap and put up with the trade off which is works vs flexibility.