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Cake day: January 17th, 2024

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  • Gonna downvote you here bröder and chip in with the people defending Apple’s products while recognizing that Apple did go through a lawsuit and that they did indeed participate in this shady-ass practice. Whether they still do - who knows, we live in a funny age.

    From personal experience, not only is the build quality superior but they do last pretty long. I’ve got 3 devices personally and have had experience with many more.

    My SE that’s old as hell now. I’m not gonna say it runs every app just fine, but the OS functions just fine. I use it as a music player now tho and iPhone 14 as my phone.

    SE2 was shit, I’ll admit.

    I bought M1 Air when they just came out - it has barely slowed down. Admittedly, it was after my 12 year old Acer plastic clunker decided to not wake up one day.

    I also just recently used a friend’s pretty ancient iPad for Procreate and that worked just fine as well.

    If someone’s looking for great UI/UX out of the box and great industrial design, what other alternatives are there besides Apple? At least for smartphones there are none. If someone did put a really nice feeling (physically) smartphone in front of me and said: “hey, you can switch everything off with hardware switches and all the apps you’re used to are supported plus the UI and the camera is competent”, I might jump, maybe. Depending on how I could manage my workflow with Linux bc I’m not going to Windows and in this hypothetical scenario if I’m jumping Apple, I’m jumping everything not just the phone.

    All that said, I have been giving a thought to all of this for some time and as soon as the time is right for me, I will switch, out of principle. I would love to be able to run some other OS on Apple phone hardware tho.








  • Well ACTSHUALLY, depending on your definition of the middle ages, you wouldn’t be very likely to be killed for being a witch, since the witch hunt came into being after the Reneissance.

    That said, I would also take the spices. The amount of spices in that picture would probably set me up for life. Buy a nice place somewhere in Northern Italy and live out my days learning to play the moog, amusing my medieval friends.








  • The reason why you dug your own hole of pretentiousness is because you’re assuming there’s a right way of owning a phone.

    There’s not.

    For me, everything works just fine on iOs. Maybe if I was working in a tech-oriented field and I needed my phone to be very customizable and be able to run whatever I like, then I would not be happy with Apple. As an artist though I find the experience of Apple very pleasing. And this is how I have viewed the Android vs. Apple discussion for years now. Android is for techies and normies like your aunt, mom, etc. and Apple is for artists and normies who want a status symbol. Both are valid since you’re getting spied on anyway unless you’re wearing 5 layers of condoms before touching your phone.

    I’ve enjoyed fucking with Android’s customizability a lot, but at the end of the day it has always gotten boring to me, the UX has sucked even when I set all the UI elements to my liking and the build quality of the phones has never felt good.

    And I’m perfectly fine with that being my opinion because it’s based on my experience and it can change. I haven’t touched a Pixel phones which, I hear, are the best when it comes to Android, I’m sure there would be much to love, but if I have to pick a corpo’s dick to ride, I’m gonna jump on Apple’s instead of Google’s any day.

    Maybe someday I will switch from macOs and iOs to Linux and [blank], but that day is not yet here because I don’t feel like jumping through hoops to get stuff working and then fixing it whenever it inevitably brakes. Apple…just works. And I know that’s the most banal, cliche thing to say about it, but in my experience, it does. For the most part at least. There are a few things that annoy me.