Thankfully the App Store doesn't allow side loading, because it completely stops fraud like this. At least that's the number one reason why I keep getting told if we allow side loading this will happen.

Is there more scams of web3 in the App Store or on the open internet? Not defending Apple but kind of a strawman to claim they said it stops 100% of fraud and abuse. That’s like saying seatbelts don’t work because people still get hurt in car crashes.

The App Store is totally safe, so I don't need to think about what I download or do any due diligence!

Apple are pretty bad for this and I don't think it's the first time it's happened. A lot of the problem is if you search for some app in the iOS app store the top result is a paid ad and the established app you want is the second result so people who don't know that click on the top one and lose their funds.

Also they should check the app but wallet security is tricky - you can put subtle vulnerabilities in that are hard to spot.

And don't you think its a strawman to compare only being and to install "" approved "" ($100/year for apple) software to a seatbelt? There is no use case for not wearing a seatbelt. That is not true for being able to install software.

Plenty of people disagree that there is no use case to not wearing a seatbelt. That you find it impossible to imagine makes it an even better analogy actually.

People can disagree with whatever, everyone is allowed to be stupid.

But most reasonable people agree there's no tangible use case to not wearing a seatbelt. There are infinite tangible use cases to using software outside the app store, that reasonable people can all acknowledge.

Eh, kinda a weak argument. Too easy to counter with "but sideloading would let that happen more!" That might even be right, and a difference in amount is important. There will never be a totally secure system, after all.

I think the actual problem is with how the App Store changes the way people think about and relate to software. The fact is, running code on your computer is dangerous. You are trusting it with control over its operations. The responsible thing to do is provide platform-level safeguards (permissions systems, sandboxing) and engender a general understanding that you should only run an app vetted by someone you would hand your phone to.

This is fundamentally incompatible with software as a market, of course, so this path will never be taken.

If only people had spatial awareness, they would look around vs listening to their phone changing directions randomly while walking. The bell is for both persons safety.

This reminds me of the photo of the vehicle assembly building featured in Iron Man: https://adactio.com/journal/1530/

Oh my god, where has this been. Is there any way you can make it work for 14.4? I desperately need this.

The whole article makes me mad when they factually get so much wrong. Like I had to stop reading.

My friend who has worked for some big name companies is absolutely struggling to find work. So many interviews, 3rd, 4th round, and then they go with another candidate, or I can only assume someone internally and the listing never existed. It's killing me watching him struggle to find work.

13" is not 11" As someone who used their 11" for years, it was a workhorse. A slow workhorse, but I still yearn for that size.

Those measurements are screen area. The old 11” had bezels that were almost an inch wide on each side. The actual laptop dimensions are almost exactly the same.

I had the 11” dual core i7 and I wouldn’t even call it slow (for its time). Loved that little machine and I keep longing for that form factor but with modern specs.

I was thinking yesterday while reading the Thinkpad repairability story that I would pay an unreasonable amount for basically this laptop in the chassis of an X220, with a 7 row keyboard and Mac touchpad.

The 11" MacBook Air was also not 11". It was 11.6".

The footprint of the Air was 11.8" x 7.56". The Neo is 11.71" x 8.12". If you liked the size of that one, you'll like this.

I think the bezels are so much smaller that this may be almost exactly the size of the old 11" MBA.

My M3 Pro with 18gb of ram still feels like a beast. The only thing I can make it suffer with so far is generating meshes from 3D scanning, and even then I'm just patient. Apple is suffering from success with these older laptops, it's a tough sell to upgrade, even from the M1 Max folks.

I mean, they had to make them good because of the new cpu architecture, but since the emulation worked so well and overall adoption was really fast it now is a problem for them as a company. A really good problem to have though

Show me an HDR display that is 2000 nits peak HDR calibrated 27" for under $3,300. Not a gaming monitor. Closest you can find is a lilliput UQ31 that has half the nits.

And which supports DICOM calibration, which normally costs you >$5k for a smaller (e.g. 21") display.

It's now vastly cheaper to buy a Mac and a 27" Studio Display XDR than it is to buy a single 21" DICOM display for your clinic. Heck, it's not much more expensive to buy two SD XDRs than to buy one standard DICOM display.

Driving my LG oled at 120hz over HDMI. What?