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I do not understand. "open source" describes the availability of the source code, not the attitude of the maintainers/writers, or their underlying ideology.

I would agree. The AI system has destroyed junior job roles, but to understand the output from a LLM and ensure it is useful and correct, you need to be a senior/experienced developer.

AI merely makes certain folk stay at the start of the Dunning-Kruger curve for longer and longer. Having zero understanding of a system and only see the user-interface and concluding that is somehow all that is involved means people end up thinking everything is far, far simpler than it actually is.

And nothing (and I really do mean "nothing") is simple. We have layers and layers of complexity and idiocratic systems with complex interworking and are creating the opportunity to create things based merely on the appearance of the icing on the cake, or the output of a sausage machine without understanding anything about farming cows.

It's baffling how it isn't 100% present, since any law once passed will affect 100% of the population. It isn't like a law only applies to jurisdictions where the MPs were present for the vote.

I find it witty than the removal of the notch is seen as great progress. Why was it even there in the first place? My 2012 Macbook has no notch.

I think you'd be surprised how many people have a lot more money than you and me, and how they buy expensive things and never use them to their "full". Eg. people buy expensive cars and yet aren't racing drivers, and they also buy expensive computers and use them merely for browsing the web.

This argument comes up a lot but I think it's like saying "cars are expensive - you can get an awful lot of bus trips with the monetary value of a car, so why not just use the bus?"

Despite this, cars seems awfully popular.

But does the money itself weigh more than the weight difference? A question to ponder.

If you take an Apple computer from the early OSX releases (an iMac G4 from 2002, for example), you will be able to use it exactly as you use macos today. This indicates a success for UX.

You cannot say the same about GNOME3 or Windows 11 versus XP - Windows 11 has some baffling Settings app and also a Control Panel, being a mashup of different ideas and UI elements (and toolkits! see MMC snap-ins versus the UI of Settings).

The only difference is recent trends to dumb-down the UI to be more iPad-like, and this trend of Etch-A-Sketchification of the macos UI is not something to be welcomed.

My Huawei Watch GT 2 is a few years old and the battery life is (and always has been) better than my wife's (new last year?) Apple Watch SE (GPS) 2nd Generation. They do exactly the same things.

I simply don't understand why the Apple Watch is so pap. My watch lasts all week if I go on holiday, and my wife's is dead won't last much longer than a day.

I believe that user interfaces have just got appallingly bad. Compare Windows 3.11 which came with a paper manual and had about 5 pages detailing scrollbars, buttons, menus and window controls. That is all you had to learn, and you could use the system through consistent usability.

This seems to have been universally abandoned so that user interface elements are hidden (scrollbars), buttons don't look like buttons, and you can "scroll" or move window contents even if there's nowhere for them to scroll to (like on an iPhone where you can "scroll" past the boundary and it comes back. It makes everything an exercise in frustration as you have to grope the user interface to discover if anything is usable.

I believe this is why some of the older generation have such difficulty with basic features on phones and tablets - nothing behaves consistently, and nothing looks like you should be able to press it.

Replying to myself as I cannot edit now: and therefore since wxWidgets is the native user interface, it has no "look"

True, but this is only the case if the track pads are absolutely awful, like you get in very low quality Windows laptops.

I am not sure how you would play a game and watch a video at the same time, unless you have independent eyes?

Yes, and that looks the most ridiculous interaction with the computer I've ever seen.

But wxwidgets is just the actual native user interface?

Intriguing, thank you.

I see comments on here that refer to something someone has said before, for example, "as I said before", or "I said this the other month", as if the entire universe is following a single person's statements. It seems very self-referential and self-consumed.

It is interesting how people are confusing depth of field with AI generated. It's a shame, but perhaps it will end the bokeh conversations and disparaging of M43 sensors.

Out of curiosity, how do you rent such a device and who do you do it with? I'd be interested.

Are you on the model with the CD drive or the high resolution "thin body" version? I graded the ram in mine and put in an SSD, and it still works beautifully, but I'm now on now on Linux with it, and have been for some time.

I'm wondering what decrease in performance you were expecting from a five year old computer? It isn't like the processor suddenly gets slower simply because it's older.

Perhaps it is the annoyance of change for change's sake. If you buy a car and then the interior changes after an update, it'd be pretty annoying, yet that is what is foisted on us.

Why not use something like wxWidgets?

Using a library that wraps the native system is also good - eg. wxWidgets. I find it very nice to work with compared to attempting to learn any of the myriad UI attempts Microsoft introduced later.

For all those instances, at least keyboard navigation worked. Modern UIs are impossible to use with the keyboard.

But it is impacting everything. Even the new Sony RX camera has a slower sensor readout from the years old model simply because they can't get hold of the DRAM.

Some people don't have iPhones though. Rare, I know. I have an iPad and my wife has an iPhone but I have never owned one at all and instead have always used Android right from the HTC G1.

Even better, older Nikon DSLRs are now cheap with many F-mount lenses being incredibly cheap versus buying new mirrorless gear and lenses.

M43 systems are also excellent for bird watching given the 2x crop factor, and diminutive size of lenses verses larger sensors. Older M43 camera bodies are incredibly cheap versus new equipment. M43 combined with modern LLM-based denoisers means that even low-light photos with higher ISO really can end up looking incredibly good.

No need to go far or spend a lot of money.

This is also a great app: https://github.com/woheller69/whoBIRD

I would feel the opposite. I dare not write a program in C. The mentality of RAII and destructors for resource management is so ingrained that attempting to track resource use and lifetime in C would be nightmarish.