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Edit: Even today if you go to the Macbook Pro config tool you get to choose between the standard 70 W or upgraded 96 W.
I find macOS to be a superior OS for doing computer work to all the alternatives. It still sucks for a lot of reasons, but to my taste it generally sucks less. I’m a web dev, so I host a lot of crap in Linux, and I’m pretty confident in using it as a desktop. But the general day to day experience I find macOS superior.
There’s plenty of people in similar boats, and this is the most affordable machine (new, not used) that lets someone get to use macOS.
For a lot of people with budget limits I’d point them to used MacBook Air models rather than the Neo, but having this as a new model is a really nice option for some people.
Also you can call the Neo CPU slow but its benchmarks run circles around anything you find at its price range. Those machines have more RAM and storage, but the Neo will likely provide a more responsive experience than anything in its price range.
> Alternatively, users can also choose to purchase the Mac versions of Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage individually as a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store.
I think this is incorrect. Specifically the Windows ARM support. Official hardware support page indicates that the Windows version requires x64. I unfortunately don’t have the hardware to confirm for myself. But Blizzard is the kind of company that would have made a blog post about that.
https://us.support.blizzard.com/en/article/76459
This is neat, and exciting that Windows emulation tooling is progressing! It seems like there’s a lot of work hardware vendors would need to do in order to make Win/Arm viable for game devs. I really wonder if that’s ever going to happen.
For web dev specific guidance it's hard to beat ASP.NET Core in Action by Andrew Lock. Check out Lock's blog too at https://andrewlock.net, it's a great source of new features happening in ASP.NET. He does go into publishing an app on both Windows and Linux, with a decent guide to both. But you'll probably want to read through MSDN docs on that as well, I don't think there's a book that goes in very deep on that.
For generally writing modern C# using .NET, I like Code like a Pro in C# by Jort Rodenburg.
For a quick tour of modern C# features C# 12 in a Nutshell by Albahari is basically the reference guide. 12 is the latest, grab any of them from probably 7 up for a decently modern take.
WARNING: UEFI capsule updates not available or enabled in firmware setup
See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:capsules-unsupported for more information.
Host Security ID: HSI:0! (v2.0.8)
HSI-1
csme override: Locked
csme v0:16.50.15.1515: Valid
Platform debugging: Disabled
SPI write: Disabled
Supported CPU: Valid
TPM empty PCRs: Valid
TPM v2.0: Found
UEFI bootservice variables: Locked
UEFI secure boot: Enabled
BIOS firmware updates: Disabled
csme manufacturing mode: Unlocked
SPI lock: Disabled
SPI BIOS region: Unlocked
UEFI platform key: Invalid
HSI-2
Intel BootGuard: Enabled
IOMMU: Enabled
Platform debugging: Locked
TPM PCR0 reconstruction: Valid
Intel BootGuard ACM protected: Invalid
Intel BootGuard OTP fuse: Invalid
Intel BootGuard verified boot: Invalid
HSI-3
CET Platform: Supported
Intel BootGuard error policy: Invalid
Pre-boot DMA protection: Disabled
Suspend-to-idle: Disabled
Suspend-to-ram: Enabled
HSI-4
SMAP: Enabled
Encrypted RAM: Not supported
Runtime Suffix -!
fwupd plugins: Untainted
Linux kernel lockdown: Enabled
Linux kernel: Untainted
CET OS Support: Not supported
Linux swap: Unencrypted
UEFI db: Invalid
This system has a low HSI security level.
» https://fwupd.github.io/hsi.html#low-security-level
This system has HSI runtime issues.
» https://fwupd.github.io/hsi.html#hsi-runtime-suffixA person with broader shoulders would probably have a different experience, but a full keyboard makes me feel like my mouse is either too close to the keyboard or too far to rest my shoulder.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music_(disambiguat...
It’s not music from the classical period. Indeed, it’s from the baroque period. But in my decades of talking about and performing classical music, the term has never led to confusion.
> "If you're wondering why we're [not implementing this on other platforms right now] [...]"
In the US we don't have a standard form of national ID.
I don't see a way the free market alone could deliver us from this. Well crafted and enforced antitrust legislation seems to be the only thing that has ever worked against this kind of force. The key in that is making sure we don't elect an oligarchy who wields that antitrust to defend their interests.
The technocracy does not tolerate other communities - that’s also another of her points. The powers that drive this machine are malignant and constantly striving for monopolization and domination. Competition has become a thing to be avoided, rather than relished.
Since more of our culture is in online, advertising-dominated spaces -- the forces of capital have a lot of incentive to ensure smooth growth straight to the sociopath phase.
Maybe the key is just accepting the cycle of it all and ensuring there's always cool new places for creative/enthusiastic people to do their thing.
https://notjustbikes.com/references/firetrucks.txt
Re: the Baltimore FD
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2018/07/03/baltimore-city-counc...
And yes, the exception was granted just a few months later:
https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/city-council-passes-bi...
Even this article cites the fire department objections.
It's a shame that Not Just Bikes didn't seem to catch that the lane _did_ get built, but his point seemed to focus on FDs objecting to bike lanes, and I think that Baltimore story is a prime example of that.
https://github.com/dotnet/winforms
They even went so far as to bring back the forms designer to Visual Studio.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/windows-forms-designer...
Obviously it's still a pretty sizable migration to go from .NET Framework to .NET, but at least the UI framework is available again.