Being just a little facetious here, but Apple is fascist.

Dictatorial... check

Centralized Autocracy... check

Martial virtues celebrated... check

Liberal and democratic values disparaged... check

Forcible suppression of opposition... check

Subordination of individual will to the state's authority... check

Sounds good to me.

This is very insightful. I knew there was something wrong with the whole thing but that explains it exactly.

I agree, this is great.

Maybe some of the particular features aren't the greatest, but why can't we make things more dynamic and, god forbid, fun? I always loved compiz wobbly windows and cube.

But it's kind of high self esteem to think that you're actually capable of understanding everything.

Low self esteem would assume they're not capable of understanding and just give up.

I think this might be more closely related to self-efficacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy

People are complicated. You can have a high view of some aspects of yourself and a low view of other aspects.

Does it support alternative keyboard layouts such as Dvorak?

It always looks stupid to me when I see those people typing their password and it has numbers in it.

Switching their hands between the alphabet and number keys, sometimes multiple times, with bonus points for not knowing the numlock status and having to do it all over again.

With the amount of time all of us spend on keyboards, it just seems lazy/inefficient to not learn to touchtype, including the numbers and at least the common symbols.

The govt can definitely touch bitcoin if you ever want to cash it out, or have ever connected a wallet to your irl identity. It's the most traceable money in history. Monero ftw.

Can you point on the blockchain to the lightning network payment I’ve just sent?

No, but the government can if you give them an incentive.

Let the Bitcoin privacy arms race begin.

In Australia they became free to use. Some of them have free wifi as well.

https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/payphones-free-for-calls...

I feel like with the technology we have already, it should be essentially free to publish a blog.

it is. it's called substack or medium or GitHub pages or any number of other platforms

I've used this before with yt-dlp to extract some video (313 is only the 4k video stream but I assume it would work with videos that have audio streams as well):

    ffmpeg -ss 5:40 -i $(yt-dlp -f 313 -g  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SykjY3GdMs) -acodec copy -vcodec copy -t 20 waterdrop_mountainlake.mkv