I am a fan of John McWhorter. I've recently gotten into his podcast Lexicon Valley and I recommend it highly if you are interested in language and how we use it.
> Note all dates and time in this blog post are in Pacific Standard Time (PST).
But the incident was during PDT. Just use UTC or colloquial "Pacific time" or equiv and never be wrong!
My heart goes out to these people. I can imagine how much sustained terror they were feeling, stare hard and harder at your terminals and still nothing makes sense.
Apple is well regarded for their strategy. I don't find it very credible that Apple is reacting here, it seems apparent that they would anticipate substantial negative reception.
So this delay is preordained in the strat, right?
But Apple is only human and has had its share of monumental wtf, so this is just a huge gaffe? The spyware team didn't know about iphone 13 launch? This seems incredible.
There is some n-dimensional chess at play here. I feel like a popcorn munching audience member who is actually a pawn in another dimension.
I have had good results with the decrapifier script by CSAND on spiceworks [0]. It's been getting maintained for a while now and it's on spiceworks so while I'm not a windows nerd enough to judge it, I'm pretty sure it's good if not great. I used this tutorial [1] when installing a new machine, you run it in "audit" mode before the out of box experience. I used -appaccess and -xbox. In my case I'm giving this PC to a friend so she'll get the new PC experience without the start menu garbage.
great deep dive into the Amen break. this video is from the yt days of yore, nice to see the yt algo still propping it up.