I don't want all the extras of Brave, Double seems to really care about it's 2017 release https://textbrowser.github.io/dooble/ and seems either unmaintained or fake, and I want to ensure the developer can eat.
Great Article! Fear of the dark is real and justified. I struggle to understand how Canada's darkest spot is 5 miles from the US border in Grasslands National Park and not somewhere in the vast Northern latitudes.
I'll sit in the middle of a dark forest while camping, but I'll be damned if I'll ever turn off every light in my house at night! I'm well into middle age and still afraid of a dark house. Human's are weird.
The author is not against files, but against sharing files.
You can't control what the person does with it or who they share it with. For all I know they are just uploading it straight to ChatGPT. Therefore sharing files is loosing ownership.
On the other hand just because something is in a cloud doesn't mean it isn't yours. It can also be in your own self-hosted cloud.
That is correct, but putting a hurdle like this into place will stop the majority of people that don't know what they are doing and are just going to upload your sensible data to all sorts of places.
We're talking about Google Docs. Ctrl-A Ctrl-C takes moments, even in read-only mode. Sure, some hypothetical technology may be able to prevent this, but that's just not how people share documents online right now.
Most people know how to screenshot or take a picture.
Similarly, these kinds of measures ("it'll make it harder which is better than nothing") usually just ends up annoying legitimate users while not providing any actual security.
> You can't control what the person does with it or who they share it with. For all I know they are just uploading it straight to ChatGPT. Therefore sharing files is loosing ownership.
Maybe they are feeding it into a screenreader or a local LLM because that is what works for them, or because they suffer from challenges you aren't aware of and don't need to be. You still have the same "ownership" of any files on your computer and data within, from a legal perspective. What you are talking about isn't ownership, it's control. Control to hamper others' usage of data which they're already allowed to access.
That desire for technical control is an exercise in futility: If I wanted to share a piece of sensitive info, aside from copying it via a number of technical means, I can just talk to someone in person and say "I saw...", or perhaps a malicious actor will hack my computer and gain access to it via screenshots, packet captures, arbitrary logging, etc.
Thus, if you don't trust me to secure the contents of a file (whether due to incompetence or malice), and aren't willing to risk it, don't send it to me. Most people in the world don't send me their files, and I'm ok with that. Alternatively, and also common, is to send the file to people who are contractually bound to use it in accordance with a set of terms. For example: an employment contract; or a partnership agreement.
Why shouldn’t it be acceptable? I for one accept to trade repairability for less footprint/weight. And I also admire my ThinkPad T420 that I thoroughly hacked.
Let the market decide what it wants. There’s space for all kinds os laptops and gadgets.
In a world where sourcing materials and building computer parts that cannot be recycled has such a high environmental and societal cost, no, I can't find any way of seeing this as acceptable.
We should not let the market and consumers preference decide on this. We need informed, resonnable and thoughful decisions. If it leads to laptops a bit more heavy and thick but less wasteful, so be it. Convenience cannot be demanded at any cost. Anyway, repairable is convenient.
We do not know the failure rates so making judgements of its sustainability are hampered and cannot just rely on "I want the option" as a counter to how a product is designed.
By your logic why stop at laptops, why not demand tablets and even smart watches be treated the same. the reason is simple really, the reliability of these devices is very good and companies like Apple have highly developed processes in place to recycle the failures they do encounter.
we would never survive in a world were consumer electronics were lego like in their manufacturing. you think we have waste issues now, it is far more likely a laptop or desktop would be recycled than individual components which when failed many would just toss like they toss one use batteries found in many devices.
Well, there is a middle ground between completely unrepairable and completely lego like. Nobody needs to glue the keyboard to the battery and the speakers in a laptop. My laptop is fine. Changing the battery is especially common, they wear fast. And Apple has shown that it did glue an unreliable keyboard to components that didn't need to be thrown away.
As for tablets, you can change the screen or the battery on an iPad 2 for instance - though not easily -, and its form factor was perfectly fine. A bit thicker would not make it horrible so I am sure it is also possible to design a repairable tablet and I think Fairphone proved that it is possible for phones too (although the Fairphone seems a bit thick, granted).
As for smartwatches, I'd argue that while there are valid use cases for them, most people certainly don't need them, so it should not be a big concern. Almost everybody has a phone now, and people who really want to wear the time on their arm can get a regular watch that will last decades instead of a smartwatch. We don't need to carry two computers 24-7. I hope this market is niche and remains niche. But I certainly can imagine that you don't need to glue the battery to the screen in a smartwatch neither anyway.
Anyway, the best waste is the one that does not exist, recycling should be last resort since it's often far from perfect and costly too. So we should reduce the amount of things we need to recycle in the first place. As for computer parts, I cannot see how it can be efficient.
The article is from 2017 and references data from 2016 and 2012. In 2018 Apple announced it stepped up its recycling efforts but I don’t know how things have changed and I haven’t read the full environmental report.
Apple forces recyclers to shred because they determined those devices are not fit for resale and they don’t want recyclers reselling them, like they said they would in the article. This happens to 1/3 of trade-ins, see link below.
You are implying that an article that is only two years old is too old, precising that you don't know if things have changed (thank you for your honesty by the way).
Apple forces recyclers to shred perfectly good hardware indiscriminately, against their will, so it does not hurt Apple's bottom line. When you are the richest company in the world, surely you can do better. There is no excuse.
I cannot take Apple's own 2 MB, 55 request loading marketing material about environment as a reliable source.
> You are implying that an article that is only two years old is too old,
No. I’m stating that policy changed after this article was published, who knows maybe it was in response to this article, so the facts may have changed. The age of the article is not relevant I was just showing the timeline.
> Apple forces recyclers to shred perfectly good hardware indiscriminately
Says the recyclers. Apple says they are not perfectly good hardware, otherwise they would have refurbished it themselves. I also believe Apple maximizes profit which is why I believe if it was reliably repairable, they would have done it. A refurbishment unit has to fetch more than a recycled unit.
>> You are implying that an article that is only two years old is too old,
> No. I’m stating that policy changed after this article was published, who knows maybe it was in response to this article, so the facts may have changed
Ok, that was a more charitable and likely interpretation of your message. A bit of bad faith unfortunately slipped in my last comment. Sorry for that.
I looked at how to recycle of my old Color laser printer and the instructions on PA’s web site were to out it into the blue bin. They show GP this on the sides of some of the trucks too. I did so (almost completely filled the bin and weighed a ton) but they took it without a qualm.
I can give you a good reason. Last time my mac had a problem and I went to an authorized company that fixes macs the report they gave me was: "There's a problem with the logic board, we need to replace it, but we can't assure you that will fix it, if problem persists we will replace the other components until it works, you'll have to keep paying."
I asked what was the exact nature of the problem. The answer was "Electrical", whatever that means.
I think it was the worst repair experience I ever had. I would have ended up paying half to two thirds the price of the mac probably because of a broken tiny component somewhere.
Also I'm not allowed to keep broken components for later personal inspection (apparently apple does not allow it).
You can totally run Windows or Linux on a macbook with some effort. Apple even built Bootcamp to make it easy to dual boot...
Or are you saying you should be able to take OSX elsewhere? it's not a "monopoly" that Apple built OSX and only support it on their own hardware. It is not monopolistic to build something supported on one platform and not others.
The thing is, that if you want to run MacOS, you have to buy Apple hardware. There is no choice for MacOS users, so the market cannot decide whether they want more or less repairable laptops. You have to buy whatever Apple is offering.
I'm not sure, I've never tried installing Linux on a Macbook Pro. I know that it is/was possible for certain hardware but also that it was never easy or straight forward. Apple doesn't help but they aren't making their laptops reject unsigned code or anything like they do for the phones.
Given that OSX and Linux are so similar under the hood and that standing up a VM is so easy, I've never really seen the point of installing linux except to say you can.
They both share their roots in Unix. Linux is an open port of Unix whereas OSX is a fork of BSD which is itself also derived from Unix
`ls`, `mv`, `cp` and other command line utility functions work relatively similarly across OSX and Linux. OSX has a package manager (brew) that works similarly to Package Managers found on Linux, etc...
If you learn to use Linux, switching to OSX is relatively painless compared to Windows (although WSL might have changed that)
Ah, I was expecting you to say something lower level than that. Homebrew is however quite unlike package managers I've used on Linux, and even MacPorts is a little different…I've heard that WSL is pretty decent and presumably APT works on it, though I haven't touched it since it first came out and it was broken in some way that I cared about.
You'll find that linuxbrew exists, apart from the AUR being a thing. And yes, apt and other distro package managers work perfectly fine in both wsl and wsl2.
>> Having the lowest repairability possible should not be acceptable for such a high-end machine.
That's just like, your opinion dude. Take a look at the logic board. Given the thinness of the device, every piece of it is designed and stuck in place. Nothing here is plug/play. If modularity is important to someone, and thinness is not, then they're free to look elsewhere for a machine.
The maximum warranty period is 3 years, though obviously there are lots of ways to still hand yourself an expensive repair (spill soda on the keyboard, that kind of thing).
Now, to be fair, I was a first-gen MacBook owner, and suffered from the issue with the magnetic latch cracking the topcase plastic and the plastic itself getting stained. I'm pretty sure I had that topcase replaced at least four or five times over the course of the computer's life, several of them out of the Apple Care period. That was a while ago, but at least back then, Apple were good about taking care of people once they'd come around to acknowledging a flaw.
Some people don't mind throwing a few grand every couple of years on a new machine. You see the same with the phones, they cost a fair bit but people just buy them anyway.
A little annoying that certain things aren't simple a socket that can be replaced though.
I'm one of those people who pays ~$60/month on Apple's 0% iPhone loan plan. When my phone is paid off in a couple of months I would gladly pay $100/month for a 0% Apple loan on a low- to mid-range MacBook. I wonder if this will ever become an option.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIPO
"OpenIPO is a modified Dutch auction"
"number of companies public including Morningstar, Interactive Brokers Group, Overstock.com, Ravenswood Winery, Clean Energy Fuels, Boston Beer Company"
WeWork is experiencing this type of auction but strangely in the media instead of in communications between actual investors
Probably the funds from the acquisition did not even clear the debt on the cap table, and thereby did not leave any money for equity shareholders like you
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