I feel like the people I interact with irl don't even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

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[–] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Very much so, when I brought up that I am a software developer who just loves using their Macbook, because it just works, I was told I stupid because I am now locked in and what if I want to compile my own flavor of window manager, like with no sense of fucking irony.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hey, you do you. I refuse to use anything apple related, but I'll be damned if they don't make great hardware and extremely convenient ecosystem.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    Dicking around with a shit-box laptop running a barebones os all day and then opening my Mac book pro makes me question if this whole Linux thing really is it.

    And then I have to install a niche program and apple calls in an airstrike on my position and I remember why I have the shit-box all over again.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't like being "locked in" but there's no alternative for a super light laptop with 10+ hours battery and good touchpad.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tbh, I wanted to go with Framework, as I very much like the upgrade ability and reducing e-waste, unfortunately at the time they didn't ship to my country only some neighboring EU countries and while I could have made that work as a private purchase, I was purchasing through my company and there I couldn't make it work, so it was a choice between something like the Dell XPS ( which has notorious touchpad failures) pr the macbook pro, so then it was an easy choice.

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