A while back here on HN and reddit I started noticing accounts in US / China threads with some amusingly similar or identical stories.
They would mention how at least while in China they could walk around without wearing their backpack backwards to protect themselves from thieves. It was almost like a musical refrain that would pop up in comments.
It's interesting how when we hear something about another country we assume it is incredibly pervasive / everywhere and how people of that country must be terribly preoccupied with with that problem at all times.
I've been playing EU5, reading some history and so on here and it's really hard to imagine what famine and mass death from it is like considering how food is pretty much instantly available to me at all times.
My closest connection was a few generations from me when I knew rural farm folks who had some memory, or influence of the Great Depression in the US. They were very particular about food, eating everything you took, and to them their idea of a delicacy was something that to me was very run of the mill.
I often wonder what the impact on culture is when in the extreme cases of famine so many die, so many watch others die and so on ...
I feel like framing this as non technical executives are somehow being decieved by big bad technical folks and thus should "skill up", is a potential recipe for disaster.
I suspect most situations aren't "can't do that" it's "can't do that within the realm of choices you guys already made to accomplish other things...". Executives coming along with "nuh uh, can to, took a class!" I suspect won't help.
I came from windows to MacOS so despite what folks bemoan about MacOS ... I still love it and it is problem free enough that I don't feel the need to do the lifting to go to Linux.
I think that's a common thing for those of who maybe haven't ridden MacOS for so long.
Windows for me is on a whole several levels of worse when I have to dive back into it. Windows feels like an OS POINTED AT ME rather than for me.
I used to love macOS, back in the Mojave days. You could run almost anything you wanted, and still get work done on a decently made machine. Those were the days when the grass truly felt greener to me, macOS for creative work simply annihilated any other option on the table.
Then Catalina stripped out 32-bit compatibility, ruining my Ableton Live project folder and Steam library. And Big Sur removed the sleek, professional-looking UI that I loved. Apparently Tahoe is infecting it with the glass disease, but I've long since migrated to Bitwig and Steam on Linux.
macOS taught me, ultimately, that any feature you take for granted can be removed to fulfill someone's OKR.
You use the platform you use ... until it doesn't work for you. I did that for Windows and now I'm on MacOS. Maybe one day Linux, maybe I pick a flavor there that doesn't work for me eventually.
> macOS taught me, ultimately, that any feature you take for granted can be removed to fulfill someone's OKR.
100% this. Recent macOS releases really feel like this. For me it was the notification popup UI downgrade, they literally introduced a perfect UI and then botched it in a following release.
How does licensing work for Live? Would they necessarily have been able to update to a version that supports 64-bit? For instance, I have a few different machines that I will never update the OS on because I would then lose access to software I paid for.
They would mention how at least while in China they could walk around without wearing their backpack backwards to protect themselves from thieves. It was almost like a musical refrain that would pop up in comments.
It's interesting how when we hear something about another country we assume it is incredibly pervasive / everywhere and how people of that country must be terribly preoccupied with with that problem at all times.
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