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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by smoldesu on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:46PM (#35427052)
> It is a status symbol. All people at my company who mean anything have one

Watching all this unfold as the DevOps guy was funny. "Don't go buy the new Macbooks, it breaks our build pipeline and you can no longer run production locall- wait, what's that? We ordered 20 last week before anyone even tested it? Sigh..."

It doesn't matter to them. They're content spending 5 hours tweaking their Mac setup for every 60 minutes they spend improving production. Do I envy that naivete? I'm not sure anymore.

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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by matwood on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:53PM (#35428364)
Macs don't have that much to tweak. What are people spending 5 hours tweaking? If it's building the perfect CLI, welcome to programmers and any computer set in front of them regardless of OS.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by smoldesu on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:19PM (#35428831)
It was mostly Lima/Docker/Rancher/Podman related, iirc. Our architecture was all over the place, and people were in disagreement on the best way to fill-in-the-gaps for MacOS. Not sure what it looks like now, but I spent a lot of time doing Mac stuff for software that was only ever used internally.
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