but that’s because the OS is designed in such a way where there’s nothing there
Ehh OSX uses the top of the screen as a menu bar so for apps which have a lot of menu bar options, those are gone. A lot of third party apps also let you place helpful widgets on the menu bar so that’s kinda not a thing anymore either.
Don’t really use Facebook anymore so I can’t help you there I’m afraid.
Yea pretty much
Yea, the trackpads actually physically moves downward because we’ll, it’s an actual physical button.
Where I live, you can only bring dedicated calculators into the examination halls so yes.
If you’ve used the pre-Force Touch trackpads, those do physically move and imo are still the best trackpads I’ve ever used. Once you have that experience, you can tell very clearly that the new ones don’t physically move and personally I can’t stand the new ones as a result.
As if there’s not already more than enough reasons to always have an ad blocker… If you absolutely still need to use Facebook and Instagramto keep in touch with people, there’s browser extensions and patched apps that still block the ads.
There was an uproar last year (or early this year?) and a number of people jumped to Bluesky but it kinda lost steam really quickly.
What democracy? Lol. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with making your own judgments because even as you’re in the US, you are more than the simple fact that you live in the US and so I don’t think that invalidates your opinions.
As it is right now, the US is still more democratic than China is. It’s trending towards authoritarianism but you guys can still vote can’t you? Your politicians can still reasonably voice their disagreements with the president without suddenly disappearing without a trace isn’t it? Heck, we can have this conversation right now without worrying this site gets banned or the whole thread censored by the state after all.
As dire as things are, I hope for your sake and the sake of the rest of the world that things improve. The last thing we need is for any 1 nation to have dominance in the world.
I’m in Asia lol. While China is fairly high profile being the largest Asian country here, plenty of other Asian countries do the same with investment in public infrastructure whole being a democratic nation.
That would make sense if they actually sold lower end EVs where I live…
DeepSeek was frankly oversold (people were making a big fuss about how it’s better than others in every way but it was only more efficient and while I think that’s notable, it was a far cry from what was being reported) and I personally don’t think we should be investing that much time and energy in LLMs anyways. I’ll give them that for EVs but they easily cost 2x of a standard ICE Japanese car here since China companies seem to be targeting the luxury car market so it didn’t occur to me at all.
Not sure why you even brought up American cars to be honest.
That said, I was thinking more of semiconductors and there’s been so much news of Huawei doing all sorts of things that have went nowhere so far.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Lots of news of supposed breakthroughs in China all the time but hardly any of it actually leads to anything concrete so far.
With the amount of AI generated slop everywhere, I’m afraid that’s becoming less and less effective. For what it’s worth, LLMs work fairly well in filtering it out in a first pass. I don’t take what it spits out directly but uses the links it cites as sources and find my answers there.
It still works for me at least? In the office options, there’s a Copilot section with a single “Enable Copilot” checkbox. You’ll need to disable it per app though.
- Not supporting monopolistic practices.
The rest of the points are fair but you seriously saying that getting Chrome of all things is not supporting monopolistic practices?
And Bose and Samsung and probably a couple more.