TheRagingGeek
@TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 week ago:
As someone who migrated from android pixel to an all in Apple ecosystem I’ll provide my context. As a software developer for cloud most of my software runs in Linux, so having a platform that mirrors it pretty closely is a plus, in addition to being a sturdy and performant coding machine, development on a windows laptop has always been far clunkier and unstable comparatively to my Mac experience. From there a person recommended I get an Apple TV to get away from my Samsung smart TV integrations that were dog shit slow, this was a vast improvement plus I could mirror my laptop to the tv easily.
From there I decided I wanted to do some pen drawing on a tablet, and I looked into things like remarkable etc but my experience with android tablets with pens was lackluster so I went with a iPad Pro with the pencil and it has been a great experience, the fact that it can seamlessly be controlled by the MacBook was pretty stunning the first time I accidentally discovered that feature. Follow that up with being able to plug in the iPad and have it be a 2nd display and it has been a great companion to the MacBook.
I got my wife a iPad Air as well and she loved it so when it came time to upgrade our phones I looked at my history with android, of my last 4 android pixel devices all 4 of them had to be recalled either for a bricked scenario from a patch or battery expansion. I decided I might as well give the iPhone a try, this also allowed my wife to have a universal computing experience as she could open tabs on her phone then migrate to the tablet seamlessly.
When I got the iPhones I decided to get their AirPod pros as well since I heard they can pretty easily transition(without button press) between devices easily, and that it has hearing aid grade audio enhancement(I am old and have bad hearing in certain scenarios. The user tailored enhanced hearing was game changing in certain environments and the transitioning between devices has been in all but 1 scenario a great experience(for some reason my iPhone 16 and the AirPods don’t always get along, requiring a phone restart to get them to operate).
Android auto vs CarPlay is personal preference but I find CarPlay to be a bit more sleek and easier to navigate and more performant.
So the trick at least for me has been how seamlessly it all fits together, the hardware quality and polish(aside from the iPhone/airpod thing that does annoy me pretty hard) and the reduction in overhead I have. Instead of dealing with windows 11 bloat and spyware, android device quality and occasional patching problems, a TV that runs like dogshit because it’s using old phone hardware to drive the experience, I can instead focus on what I want to do with the hardware, it just makes me more productive, less admin work, more time to create.
Time will tell I suppose if I feel the same way when my current stack ages out of the support window, but overall I prefer the low maintenance I encounter with this setup so I can focus my efforts on my docker swarm and other facets of my homelab.
- Comment on Afterplay and the Push Toward a Steam for Retro Games: An Interview 1 week ago:
Yeah I was curious if it did anything more than Romm does, but yeah no subscription service for me thanks.
- Comment on Turns out Boomers did have participation trophies 2 weeks ago:
Hmm that might’ve been useful, but my last one is full grown now. Just glad he was able to be an urban explorer like I was back then
- Comment on Turns out Boomers did have participation trophies 2 weeks ago:
Yeah sadly my wife was pretty anxious about our kids being out unattended, I ended up having to get a gps device for my youngest so that he could be the little extrovert that he is. I blame the news for all the panic.
- Comment on indoor mushroom farming 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes the phallus palace
- Comment on 1 month ago:
All my family members in my house have chronic illnesses, so any given day I may be taking them to scheduled appointments, the ER, or massaging my wife’s legs as she has severe neuropathy that causes her intense pain but my massage helps temporarily alleviate it. I’m also the sole working person in the family and the only one who can drive(until next month when my youngest gets his license!) most days I don’t get to pick my schedule, I might have all of 1 hour not consumed by the needs of the family on any given day and I must always be ready for my plans to be destroyed by an emergent event. I wish I could ask the question you pose.
- Comment on Ken Levine's Judas Could Slip Nearly Three More Years, Putting BioShock Successor Eleven Years Deep in Development 1 month ago:
Yeah definitely an old ass series with exception of DNF, which honestly should’ve probably been buried alongside ET in the desert. I remember being hyped for DNF for the first 5 years of development, before I just completely gave up on it coming out.
- Comment on Ken Levine's Judas Could Slip Nearly Three More Years, Putting BioShock Successor Eleven Years Deep in Development 1 month ago:
Yeah nobody wants to be a duke nukem forever, not even duke.
- Comment on What belongs to who when it comes to wealthy families? 1 month ago:
I’m financially stable and any gifts or material goods I bought specifically for them are their property, now they could sometimes lose the right to use the item as punishment, but I find the practice of faux ownership and parental mandate disgusting. I imagine those even more well off would probably forget they even bought the thing for their kid, as the kid probably gets a solid allowance anyway.
- Comment on Dammit! Missed it! 1 month ago:
Missed it by a mile!
- Comment on How does James Bond run and fight in suits? 2 months ago:
Exactly I had a habit back in the day of walking around in a pretty nice suit and I would easily jump into a hackysack circle, baffling some, but a loose cut suit makes maneuvering easy
- Comment on Keeping it classy for my 1000th post 2 months ago:
It’s also more sweetened whereas mayo is more fat. I grew up on miracle whip but my adult palate would prefer mayo
- Comment on The three archetypes 4 months ago:
The 1800s would refute the first claim, Hughes for the second, and wasn’t starship supposed to already have landed on the moon by now? His vision is knowing a sucker when he sees one.
- Comment on digital subscriber line foolishness 4 months ago:
I’m on fiber and my provider being a dusty DSL provider decided to use PPPoE over fiber. I got migrated to their sibling company which supposedly doesn’t need that nonsense, but they haven’t removed the requirement yet and I might need an entirely different NID for it. It’s all horribly annoying
- Comment on Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle 7 months ago:
I suppose the ecosystem enjoyer could just cut the part of the peel that is affected a rubbish only the affected portion. Still sucks though
- Comment on sushi delivery 8 months ago:
Unfortunately the graph misses one food type, what is a cobbler?
- Comment on What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids? 9 months ago:
Wha I find crazy is that my best food I ever had in school was in junior high in Oklahoma we had a salad line, a main line, Taco Bell express, slushies, candies and pastries and on thursdays we had delivered pizzas, and I think the nachoes were every day as well. Never seen a school have so much choice ever since.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 9 months ago:
Starburstius sounds a bit wild
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 11 months ago:
Everything has been a downward slide our entire lives which means it also rolls downhill for all the future generations too until someone can yank back on the economic flightstick and get us out of this dive.
- Comment on Didn't ask. 11 months ago:
Explains American politics, MAGA = Tzeechian cultists
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 year ago:
Did anyone here use the L shift +O shorthand for load? I feel like I never see it mentioned anywhere
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 year ago:
Sneakernet was great back then
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 year ago:
I am also this old. C64 for life
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 year ago:
My first computer had the following to get a directory listing of a floppy: LOAD”$”,8 That’s how old I am
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 1 year ago:
Kind of a niche answer, honestly me and my wife of 20+ years might still be “living in sin” if it wasn’t for her decision to join the military, in order for me to move with her to her home base, we had to be married. It allowed me to visit Alaska which was a great adventure, though I am glad that she is out and we are living normal lives since.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 1 year ago:
Really shows me how traumatized I am by United Health Care when I see UHC and it immediately brings them to mind and not Universal. I had to put in some work to understand that Acronym
- Comment on Saint Luigi 1 year ago:
Yeah we need to deflate the disproportionately high pricing of the health care caused by insurance as well, if we could get it at the national level we could eliminate a lot of the back office overhead, and then maybe negotiate a revisit of the master charge list so that Tylenol in hospital isn’t something crazy like $250 dollars a dose. State by state this would probably be much more difficult.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 2 years ago:
I have a friend who has been moderately successful in the game creation space and he is saying he wants to just give up at this point because of this change.