Not to be taken too literally but, everything you could do with QBASIC, you can do with an HTML file. You don't need a server. Yes, many clipboard/camera/mic/etc. APIs and other sensitive stuff are restricted but it's great for starting.

And we do that and it is great but the restrictions are jarring and absolute, and docs written for “real” web dev always assume a dev server instead. AI can at least adapt.

I'll never forget the day I bought (made my parents buy) Age of Empires 2 and its blue box.

More like, "back when software came in physical media".

Putting the CD in the drive, the installation starts, and that wow effect starting the game, the hard disk clicking like crazy.

Ram is getting better, faster etc. except for the latency. I guess we still cannot bend the rules of physics.

Latency has roughly remained the same since DDR2, no? So that has just about nothing to do with the improved performance of every generation.

Latency had to improve because of the increased CPU speeds, but it didn't, causing a regression that's easy to perceive.

It's funny how my 3950X, which I still find to be an absolute monster for anything I throw at it, isn't even in the benchmarks anymore. Hard to believe it's 7 years old.

I will never buy/use DELL again. Even if the company completely reinvents itself, stops selling computers and just rebrands toasters, these combination of letters make me distrust anything they are physically printed on.

I'm not exaggerating, I had so many horrible experiences.

I have to agree, unfortunately. Macbooks have their issues, and give me violent tendencies like any piece of hardware every now and then, but when it comes to UX and reliability, they are far, far ahead of anything I tried, and I tried a lot of hardware.

Reliability, yes. UX, no.

If you look at MacOS with a critical eye, it's nearly impossible to say it has good UX. It's outdated and everything requires more clicks. Finder stuck 20 years ago. Hard to find settings. Poor screen real estate. Hard to read text with transparent everything.

Let's kill this myth that "Macs are more intuitive to use".

I was talking about the hardware. Software sucks, paid little helper this, paid little helper that...

To be fair, the whole thread is about tolerating Apple because how good the hardware is :)

"but when it comes to UX and reliability, they are far, far ahead of anything I tried"

Sounds like you are talking about software also.

Hardware has "UX and reliability" too.

For example, this teapot has bad UX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things#...

Are you trying to imply that UX is something we only measure on software? That'd be incorrect.

Are you talking about macOS 26+? in that case yea. macOS 15 is a lot better, although obviously not perfect.

To each their own, I find the UX absolutely horrible and not intuitive, it's also poorly translated for non-english users (like "Finder", "iCloud Drive" or "Spotlight" not translated in the interface for example).

I have to agree on the hardware quality though but that doesn't do everything as I still have to use the OS

Translating terms that are basically proper names is not trivial, and Apple loves to give these catchy quasi-proper names for their features. Often it can be better to leave them untranslated.

They are translated on your average Linux distribution though, you won't see nautilus but "Files", gnome-software but "Software", Gnome snapshot but "Camera" (I've put the English term here but each term will be translated to your language). See https://apps.gnome.org and switch the language to see.

In comparison, both MacOS and Windows look more amateur with some leftovers not translated. (Like "Windows Update" on Windows for example)

Yeah, but your average Linux environment is translated by amateurs and is maybe 1% as keen on the brand image as Apple.

Well yes it's translated by amateurs but as for the result, both KDE and Gnome are miles ahead in terms of translation quality compared to MacOS or Windows.

And in many more languages too.

That's Red Alert 2 and Age of Empires 2 for me, and I really long for those times I could gather with friends in an internet cafe and be able to steal their hamburger in the real world when they made me mad in game.

Make the OpenAI models develop AI-scripts to play the game instead (like the good old AI-scripts, not AI as in LLMs). They are amazing at that.

So they aren’t intelligent.

Like if a model can’t handle a task it hasn’t been trained on extensively, that’s not intelligence it’s memorization.

No they can handle it, but they need too much time. If you pause the game when the LLM thinks, it works. Wrong tool for the job in its current state.

I didn't know about Sync. TIL someone had the guts to start a company named "Sync" in 2011.

Yes, brave name choice. I went to have a look and the home page is nice, well laid out, and has links to documents. Small free tier to put your feet in the shallow end, and a couple of monthly plans, one aimed at individuals and the other at orgs. Perhaps a family plan would have benefits?

Alas no linux support, not even an api to allow the use of some terminal command to get round GUI fragmentation. Searching for 'sync online storage with linux' leads to a recent redit thread and a Mint Linux forum thread.

not sure if this helps: https://help.sync.com/hc/en-us/articles/55076263500051-How-t...

Let that sync in

All posters I saw used to look like these sub-10-dollar stuff before AI took over: https://graphicriver.net/posters-graphics?sort=trending#cont...

They were/are not great. While I agree that spending extra 10 minutes improves the results, AI stuff are also not amazing. I think there's nothing surprising about this.