I’m using it generally, to refer to skills, knowledge, and understanding of industries and other economic topics, per the thread. We are seeing disrupted chains of knowledge and experience, what amounts to an abdication of tradition, and a surrender of economic power. These specific epistemological systems are the fabric of civilization.
It’s almost like people don’t realize that epistemologies have a time dimension that needs to be sustained to persist.
That epistemologies have a body, which is human behaviour.
The fuckin’ Morlocks are trying to conjure the singularity by a massive and rapid capture of the function of those epistemologies, in code that is now commodified and alienated, before their “only disrupt” ethos pulls the technological rug from under them and us completely.
Weellll, unless you live out in the sticks on an island and all there is is long throw 2.4GHz wifi as your internet connection, at least when the weather cooperates and the rinkydink ISP has staff actually on the job. Then wifi is also a utility level service.
Like satellite internet for some. Hmm I know another equally misanthropic smug techbro who wants to privatize an entire utility sector… Had to set up a SStarlink system for someone recently. Had to make very sure the homeowners understand why we bridged the SStarlink router.
It’s like you’ve never used an ARM Mac.
8GB M1 MacBook Air (an equivalent spec) can do all kinds of crazy things you wouldn’t expect it to.
It’s not “absolutely kneecapped” unless you’re doing pro stuff. It’s fine for home movie HD video editing or audio production that isn’t tons of tracks or any kind of basic administrative task you need. Even chrome with 20 tabs, if you must.
3 mundane and common things that are locked behind a smartphone interface, that I have run into recently, and I don’t even live in a city.
No don’t.
Tear the grass up and plant a tree.
Reverse the Algorithm!
Too many years on bbedit to change now. But Kate is great, too.
Well, we do extract and refine our own gasoline in canuckistan, so maybe it’s that.
My 520ST paid much of my way through university using PaperClip to format documents for other students.
It led me into exploring TeX on the school mainframe, and unix.
Later, I worked with possibly the very first gui granular synthesizer program, developed on a ST1040, which was kind of old at that point.
Some governments use self-managed Rocketchat and similar.
You can also run a Matrix site federated but fully private and get similar security with more features.
Apple has been optimizing macOS for underpowered machines for a long time.
Testing a bunch of linux distros on old intel macbooks has shown me that apple is really good with resource management on their vertically integrated hardware, even with greedy daemons like identityserverd or whatever it is, trolling through your drive cataloguing faces in your photos all the time, and the relentless indexing system, and telemetry.
Most models work smoothly most of the time, even the little 11" Air with 4GB, doing standard basic user stuff, and the 2020 1.1 GHz i3 Air is somehow usable on macOS 15, basically current.
It’s fine for all those use cases. The M1 Air rocks all that 5 years later.
Also: install xcode, then
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
or something like that, and stretch macOS a little. I bet if they refresh the model with 12 GB of RAM running emulation and virtualization will be hot.
I like buttered toast
PSN required to play online games. Ongoing subscription, not cheap. So no, not fully functional, except as a pickpocket.
Users often ask / let me turn those off for them. Except spotlight local-to-disc, plus system updates, but if the user is savvy at all I ask if they would like notifications instead of auto install.
The iCloud stuff that is hard to let go is usually the calendar/contacts/reminders, and substitutes are poor usability. I’m often surprised at how easily they give up photo syncing for ‘I’ll just use a cable.’
fb messenger, though, once people are locked into that, it’s hard to escape, especially for boomers.
lol, he publicly identifies as a Sauron cosplayer
cf. $companyName
…but he’s actually more like a sweaty Zorg, as a cartoon villain.
Cool thanks!
I’m grey (but still working), and old genX, people my age often retire. I play First Person shooters, mainly. About 12h per week on Destiny 2, all PVP, currently. Destiny is nigh-dead so I’m looking for a replacement soon.
Not a lot of indie games doing that genre well, sadly. I was going to play battlefield 6 then looked at ownership… EA was a nasty company from the beginning but is now owned by Jared the Lich Kushner and some Saudi oilymoney. Woof.