> Apple really stumbled into making the perfect hardware for home inference machines

Apple are winning a small battle for a market that they aren’t very good in. If you compare the performance of a 3090 and above vs any Apple hardware you would be insane to go with the Apple hardware.

When I hear someone say this it’s akin to hearing someone say Macs are good for gaming. It’s such a whiplash from what I know to be reality.

Or another jarring statement - Sam Altman saying Mario has an amazing story in that interview with Elon Musk. Mario has basically the minimum possible story to get you to move the analogue sticks. Few games have less story than Mario. Yet Sam called it amazing.

It’s a statement from someone who just doesn’t even understand the first thing about what they are talking about.

Sorry for the mini rant. I just keep hearing this apple thing over and over and it’s nonsense.

See you again next week!

It's like watching someone wake up with a very bad hangover.

I am doing my part - I managed to get 6 people in my family and friend group off Windows onto Debian last year.

All positive feedback so far :).

Sure it's only a small victory - but a meaningful one to me.

This is all just theatre to justify a ban right?

Yep. Just like most of my tax money, it's going to some clown-show just so they can get permission to ban a website where 69% of internet users how to skate through with use of a VPN.

4chan creates another TLD on another IP, just like TPB and the whole show starts again.

Instead of, why don't we. The UK government.

Look to America to see what would happen to civil liberty in the pursuit of mass deportations. Discounting many things from the conversation - on the topic of this thread; Restore sounds like they'd be the single worst party to vote for if you were against mass surveillance.

Surprised to hear people told you not to change that - one of the earliest bits of advice I got on using emacs is to set the location of those files to a hidden directory in your home folder.

Changing this to save elsewhere is the #1 improvement to Emacs. It bugs me whenever any software creates backups in the same location as the original.

That said, Nginx is also wrong and shouldn't do that.

I was proposing to make default where those files are not created, since Emacs is actually surprisingly great out of the box with no configuration, except for this "little" thing. Apparrently, some people believe it's perfect as it is

It should default to a single location maybe a XDG directory instead of polluting every directory

What happens when you edit multiple files from different folders with the same name?

I tell emacs to create all of the files in "~/.backups", and it names them using the full pathname with "/" replaced with "!". So "~/foo/bar.txt" -> "!home!username!foo!bar.txt~"

I've found lately that between age gating and twitter being - well I don't want to get into it - I am no longer looking for replacements - I just want to stop using those parts of the internet.

Now I am down to file sharing, email and functions related to my job, a little youtube - but trying to ween myself of that. The internet as I knew it is dead.

YouTube is absolutely flourishing when it comes to quality content. It‘s the only UGC platform I use anymore. Besides the only thing I consume on the internet at this point is the news and check HN once or twice a week.

Can you name a service you think works like that?

Google have over a billion very non-technical users.

The friction of not having this in the account page that everyone has access too probably saves both parties lots of heartbreak.

github? I just do some click here, click there, copy paste and gh cli is ready.

For google I need PhD to setup any kind of API access to my own data. And it frequently blocks you, because you can setup as a test product, add test accounts (but it can't be owner account (WTF?)) etc.

I gave up on using a google calendar cli project because of all that lack of normal UX.

UX for google APIs looks like it was designed by accountant.

gws auth setup looks promising, but it won't work yet for personal accounts.

> github

The developer platform?

Some info in case someone is on the fence about this, and are living in the UK. I use Monzo, and that works perfectly on GrapheneOS.

If they ever stopped working, I would just CASS to another bank. A bank that has a posture that something like GrapheneOS is too insecure to use their app on is a bit of a red flag.