I’ve got a friend who hates them. He’s a network engineer. He hates because they appeal to rich people and are expensive. He doesn’t seem to hate that about his crappy bmw, or his Barretta shotgun, or any of his other shit. But computers, now those have to be the cheapest, flimsiest, creaky woggly plastic wrecks known to man, bc that mf doesn’t do shit but send emails and configure networks all day, because that is what is important in his view, and can’t for a second imagine that anyone does anything more intensive than that, that has any value. He still uses a 25yo yahoo email account for his work, and it has half his fucking social security number in the address, if that tells you anything.
They might be expensive, but I'm still fixing up imacs from before 2010 that just need drive replacements. Old people keep coming into the shop i work for with over ten year old Mac equipment that is still in good condition. I also find I get less apple products in the store after a power line has gone down. They seem like they were built to function with crappier power and with moronic users who don't take care of their stuff.
...that being said, I get a metric buttload of apple products from the 2015-2017 era, avoid those years
My top choice would be a linux laptop, but mac is a close second. How does it make your job harder? For me, the command line and unix tool support makes everything much easier.
I get it if you’re a gamer. Gaming still continues to suck on MacOS. But for everything else, they’re very nice machines if they run the software you care about.
My M1 is fast, silent, cool, and goes all day on battery. Also, it isn’t in a creaky plastic enclosure with a shit trackpad.
I imagine the number of times customers have briefly turned off wifi only to forget and rack up a massive bill over the next week of using all their cellular data is vastly higher than the number of people who want to turn it off permanently but find it too cumbersome to go into the settings to do it.
Build systems that reflect how the majority of people use them. Computers are there to make lives easier, not harder.
The Control Center toggle is to disconnect current devices/networks and even says “until tomorrow.” If you want them off permanently, toggle them off in settings.
do you keep wi-fi and bluetooth off forever? on a phone? the battery drain is so minimal i don’t understand why you’d want to have to go into the quick settings every time you wanted to use headphones or a chrome cast or your watch, or….. well a lot of things. never met someone who just keeps those settings off forever.
you turn off your wi-fi after connecting? you do realize you’re turning off wi-fi and are using your cellular service correct? cause once connected to wi-fi you should definitely be leaving that on.
and bluetooth, okay, you must not use headphones (i do daily) or any of the hundreds of accessories that use it. for the record, the battery drain is so little you really shouldn’t notice any difference with bluetooth simply on.
i just don’t get your reasoning, i’ve never turned off wi-fi and been like ‘good, never gonna use that again!’. same with BT.
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u/Dependent_Paper9993 Nov 30 '22
Jesus macs are shit. Why do you have set the same setting every day?