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Good, Mac Pro was fugly.

I like Apple when they make pretty stuff. Especially small, shiny, and quiet.


>The headline could read instead: No evidence cannabinoid isolates help anxiety, depression, or PTSD.

There’s no evidence that what they tested with was pure THC isolates. If they’re using cannabis in plant form, even if it was bred for higher thc content, there is still cbd.


Those that are interested to click through should and see the studies cited by this metastudy and whether they used whole plant cannabis extracts, cannabis isolates, or even non cannabis derived isolates.

tldr; "If they're using cannabis in plant form" is a very, very high bar for the current state of cannabis (really cannabinoid) research.


Assuming you consider services like Wordpress and blogspot outside of the small web, people advocating that domain refuse to acknowledge why those services are successful to begin with.

If being part of the small web requires technical expertise, it will always be limited to tech minded people who also happen to cook and play guitar.


You want the government to fund the small web?


The government funds some libraries, and for some publicly acceptable reason. That reason should apply to web infrastructure, and indeed the small web. Other libraries are community run. Again whatever motivates that probably applies to small web stuff.


Every answer I’ve seen to corporate internet whether it be Mastodon or Gemini just sounds like shell script slab city.

Just another place for hackers to go and keep to themselves.

Non tech people, who needs them! In shelf script slab city, we can share cooking recipes in plaintext.

Just spin up your instance, map it to a port, initialize the listener daemon, download the cli viewer…and you’re in shell script slab city! Who needs Twitter


Microsoft never forced developers to jump onto Arm the way Apple did.

That’s a key part in why Windows Arm is such a substandard experience.

The Windows executive in this article sounds delusional. He talks about how if the Surface Product line actually had footing, we’d eventually see Arm bases desktops under the Windows umbrella.

The Surface failed because Windows just isn’t cool. No one consciously buys a Windows PC. It’s either to play games or do work.


Apple developers had jumped architectures more than a few times. They didn't break a sweatshop going to Apple Silicon.


The point I’m trying to make isn’t that it was difficult. It’s that the transition was effective because they had to.

Unlike Windows with this grey area of Arm / x86.


This feels like the first time Apple’s walled garden approach has paid off in the desktop arena.

With a cheaper Windows alternative to the MacBook Neo, your options are inferior battery life with AMD 64, or Windows Arm’s inferior compatibility.

I doubt Microsoft is holding developers hands when transitioning to Arm the way that Apple does. Not to mention they’ve been using their own chips.


I think what you're describing is vertical integration rather than the walled garden specifically. The walled garden is the App Store restrictions, iMessage lock-in, that kind of thing. What made the Neo possible is that Apple controls the silicon, the OS, the firmware, and the industrial design as a single unit. They could put a phone chip in a laptop form factor and have it feel coherent because there's no seam between the hardware and software teams.

The distinction matters because it changes what the lesson is for the rest of the industry. You don't need a walled garden to compete here. You need to own enough of the stack that you can make aggressive tradeoffs (like shipping 8GB and an A18 Pro) without everything falling apart at the integration boundaries. Microsoft can't do that because they don't make the hardware. Dell and Lenovo can't do that because they don't make the OS. Qualcomm can't do that because they don't control the software ecosystem.

The one company that could theoretically pull this off is Google with ChromeOS on their own Tensor chips, and the fact that they haven't is probably the more interesting question than why Asus is shocked.


>The one company that could theoretically pull this off is Google with ChromeOS on their own Tensor chips, and the fact that they haven't is probably the more interesting question than why Asus is shocked.

Successful Chromebook’s have always been the throwaway $200 models. Higher end ones like the Pixelbook served more as flagship devices to prove they could do more but were never really marketed.

I don’t think Google’s gonna make a souped up Chromebook because they know their place. They’re entirely internet dependent devices with little brand recognition and no serious software. The Neo serves somewhere in between that. They have the brand recognition and MacOS.


> no serious software.

What software do you want to be considered serious? With the addition of Linux/Crostini, there's 3D modeling, CAD, and NLE video editing and compilers and everything else.


All the professional software that’s capable of running in the MacBook Neo, you know Final Cut etc.


What's the etc? Davinci Resolve is available on Linux and is an industry standard for video editing. Blender's no slouch either these days. I'll give you Ableton though.


> I doubt Microsoft is holding developers hands when transitioning to Arm the way that Apple does.

While this is key it has nothing to do with the walled garden approach, and everything to do with Microsoft's contempt for users of its platforms.


People may not be very happy with recent UI changes in Tahoe but it's still another universe compared to some the clunky Windows 2000-ish stuff still in Windows 11.


And what's worse, the clunky Windows 2000-ish stuff is the good stuff that works!


LLMs use up tons of energy and water.


That is the use case for predicting that RSS will dominate tomorrow?


RSS only serves as a backbone of a product. There’s no commenting, summaries a sparse, i don’t even think there’s consistent posting dates.

These evangelists want to make it sound like all we need to do is get everyone on board with RSS and we’ll all just hold hands and share the web.

People don’t browse the web, there’s like 10 websites, that’s the whole internet.

Everything else is just asteroids and abandoned space stations.


Fully on board with this metaphor, though there are lots of inhabited planets: https://outerweb.org/explore/category/blogging-indieweb


There are so many cool asteroids with people on them though, you can find them here: https://kagi.com/smallweb/


Are you talking about sites that actively support RSS?


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