I think I dated Apple back in college.

One of my favorite details in Civil War was the the fact that the leader of the western alliance strike team was wearing a Hawaiian shirt. It seemed simultaneously absurd and hyper-realistic.

“Made in Italy” is sometimes just “Made in China”. Chinese factory staffed by Chinese labor in a Chinese “factory town”, that happens to be in Italy. You are not getting the hand made, expertly constructed, master craftmanship you are paying for.

I see you Okaloosa.

I see your refrigerator and raise you a freestanding oven. The one with coils.

Everyone should follow the tipping guidelines from the olden days of when I was a child (80’s). I was taught that you tip your server, your barber/stylist, your driver (taxi/delivery) and the bell boy/valet. For the most part this still works today.

• 10% meh
• 15% good
• 20% exceptional
• Bell boy / valet $5 flat rate

Imagine if someone fucked up the code and this worked.

Make a list of things you do often on Windows. Figure out how to do them on Linux. I split mine into three main groups and each group was split into specific requirements. First, I figured out how to do all aspects of my work . Then I focused on gaming and finally music.

I am and will always be an ally. Mildred though. 😬

I have not had one like that in a while but some cheap models did. Looking at you Toshiba Satellite.

The best thing to use is “Magic Tape” to cover your camera. It adds a frosted window effect while not disturbing your screen’s brightness adjustment feature.

Everytime I see a Gizmodo link I get Gen-X vertigo and feel like Robin Williams in the Jumanji meme.

Those are literally the only two non-trashy things about them.

One might say they are a bit Trash-E.

Absolutely. Enterprise license and MSDN was expensive and a pain in the ass. Once we dropped support for Microsoft as a whole and transitioned to Google Apps (early adopters) everything became easy. OSX never broke, although the hardware could be problematic at times. The main reason most of us started transitioning to Linux from Mac was Apple’s hardware choices. That said, I have a MBP M3 Max for music and graphics and that Apple silicone is absolutely beastly.

All of our laptops are either Mac or Linux. Eight or ten years ago it was all Mac but now it’s mostly Linux. Ultimately, clients that have closed Windows ecosystems always provide us with laptops or a jump station to connect to. So if they are going to do that anyway, there was no need for us to Windows internally.

This is Lemmy after all.