I’m just thankful it’s fritted, can you imagine?

Probably time to start spinning up some shit like that, actually. Keep an eye on a broad index of salient search terms / hashtags, watch for dropouts.

Perfect, thank you!

Edit: below is wrong, you posted the email in full, I’m a dunce, thank you! My shame will remain below lol

Unless I’ve missed something, that’s not the email. It does quote it heavily, but nonetheless. That’s a link to a Lemmy post of an NBC news article, that talks about and quotes the email.

So sorry my friend, never meant to put you in a weird spot - I was 100% just asking for a link to a publicly posted copy. Cheers and thanks for pointing this out!!

I’d like to see that email, any chance you’ve got it quick at hand?

What are your thoughts on suburban chicken ownership? I’m wholly uninterested, I need another creature to keep alive like I need another hole in the head, but my wife and daughter are really into the idea.

I’m not very good at this, still learning, thanks for your help!

“H O W”

Look, my last comment left out the word “rich”, the original I replied to used it. As far as I’m concerned, any rich white South African from the apartheid era is sus as fucking fuck, at a bare minimum. Onus is on THEM to prove they aren’t monsters.

If that’s bigotry to you, you have a lot of growing up to do. This kind of nonsense purity testing is the reason the left remains a fucking meme.

ETA: Ah, you even put words in my mouth, “just like him”. Did I make such a claim? What I said in the first place is that growing up that way would definitely influence how someone sees the world. So the ridiculous hair-splitting you’re doing isn’t even close to accurate, you had to invent a comment I never made to throw your bad take at. Yikes.

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Except South Africa has a specific history where being a white South African, raised in the era in which he was raised, can be expected to have a very relevant influence on how he sees the world.

Hotdang, nailed it first try!

Problems pointed out by commenters aside, I am under the impression that there is very little oversight about this kind of stuff anymore.

For one thing - unless they’ve changed recently, Amazon “bins” alike products from multiple suppliers, meaning if a bad actor is introducing counterfeits (or just less stringently tested, for more fungible products) - Amazon doesn’t even know who they got them from, by the time that’s discovered.

But for another thing, the absolutely incredible volume of products - how on earth is anyone making sure these random-character-generated “brands” are safe?

I lack much in the way of direct evidence, cuz I’ve got shit to do and this isn’t my life’s focus - but it seems apparent that there cannot possibly be the kind of consumer safety testing that we want going on. And if that’s true, it’s only a matter of time before the smart capitalists realize no one is watching and they can make stuff even cheaper (I think they already have), and then how long before we as a society discover all the harm that’s done as a result?

I’d love to be wrong about this, but like so many tech innovations, I have a feeling we’re going to find out later there were huge harms done before we learned how to rein them in. The speed, volume, and price we’ve grown used to with Amazon seems to preclude consumer safety.

Edit: hmm, my bad, my comment only somewhat relates to yours, it’s early and I went off on a tangent. Sounds like you have a way stronger basis for your assertion that they make transition easier than I do, so I want to acknowledge that. I’m skeptical, I think maybe it feels smoother to you because you’ve spent time doing it or something, and I’m fairly certain a deliberate part of their marketing strategy is to make experiences with other products artificially worse. But otherwise, I do have to take your comment seriously.

Original unnecessary spiel below:

I understand there is a somewhat academic point to be made here and that this design logic is heralded as the guiding principles behind their usability decisions, etc.

I used to buy that, and I’m sure it’s involved and the primary concern for plenty of people who work / have worked on the interface. But after watching Apple’s behavior as I’ve grown up with them, learning more about Jobs and his legacy, etc. - anything that feels “walled garden” to me, I’m calling a walled garden. I don’t believe their decisions are purely or even primarily for aesthetic and design-minded reasons. Worse, I believe the portion that is, is largely marketing to those who use Apple for the sense of smug superiority it grants (not accusing you of that! it’s a thing in the userbase though). And yet worse, I believe that anything that punishes someone who uses less of their products is usually intentional, and if not it’s at least known and accepted (with the caveat that they are threading a needle with the last one, and some degree of usability for outsiders is fully necessary for brand growth).

That’s a pretty uncharitable take when I type it all out, but I have to acknowledge that it’s how I feel. It doesn’t mean the UX design principles aren’t there. I just don’t buy that it’s for the users, it’s for the shareholders, like any other corp.

Holy shit, this is quite the list.

Ultimately you may be right about these, but the issue at the heart of them all is that Apple makes their stuff harder to use by people used to other systems, on purpose. They could very easily institute a toggleable setting that’d change the hotkeys to be more like…ya know…every other OS. They could make non-Apple hardware work better (wouldn’t be trivial but I’m fairly certain they put effort into making things worse as is), they could make messages and files transfer better between iPhone and Android, etc.

Lots of things they could do to improve the experience of non-mega-fans, but they choose to run their business in a way that punishes anyone who isn’t using them for everything. And fuck em for that.

Edit: eh, you did say you weren’t actually defending them, so I’m probably just preaching to the choir here. Just grumpy that I have to use one now and they punish me daily for my lack of utter worship lol.

I’ve had the fun experience recently of moving my work related dev to the company-provided laptop, and boy oh boy have I come to hate Apple quickly.

Most surprising one for me was how trash it is at scaling UI on large displays. I have a pair of 27" and the system text is tiny. Turns out if I had Apple displays things would work better and that scaling option would be available. Instead I’m stuck just switching to a lower non-native resolution, which looks like shit and feels really outdated, but at least I can read the text and use the UI properly.

Chicken wing yacht delivery service, wow. Dude’s entire life is one grand performance showing how you can be rich and famous and remain a fucking clown.

I left that episode feeling like this is the kinda dude that had his ass wiped for him til he was 9 or 10.