Well, that leaves anyone in a trade out of the dating pool then because most of them, eg. in the carpentry field, use hammers of some kind and in some way.

Assuming most of Hollywood isn’t already Windows based given that OS still takes up 66% of the desktop market while Mac only takes up 14%.

And given Blender’s viability on the professional stage with Flow’s success, I wouldn’t be surprised if some smaller studios who weren’t knee-deep in the Autodesk and either MS or Apple ecosystems either were already Linux-based or moved over to Linux.

As for the hobbyist, they’ll just use whatever OS they’re already running generally, be that Windows, Mac, or an alternative, and I’m being vague with ‘an alternative’ so as to also count BSD or even OpenIndiana if one swings that way, in addition to Linux.

Also, the Mac Studio, assuming the M4 Max and M3 Ultra both are more powerful than the M2 Ultra, should outpace the latest, and apparently final, Mac Pro.

The fact that Cloudflare controls half the web is concerning both for unintentional crashes like this, and for something even more insidious; what if they’re coerced to cause an intentional outage should cyber war ever break out? An intentional outage for half the web in a cyber war would be devastating to put it nicely.

Apple is killing the Mac Pro.

The Mac Classic was the first Mac to sell for under $1k, and the ‘LC’ acronym stood for ‘Low-cost Color,’ that said IIRC even back then there were PC clones that were cheaper than the at-the-time cheapest Macs, and that were actually expandable to boot even if they didn’t ship with better specs out the box. Also, the Mac Classic still shipped with a 68k and 1MB RAM, maxing out at 4MB. In 1990. When the 486 had been out for a year and the 386 had been out for five years, and I’m pretty sure PCs were shipping with more than 1MB RAM by then.

Even within Apple’s own lineup at the time, the original Mac LC shipped with an '020 vs. the Classic’s 68k.

Additionally IIRC the Apple IIc was sold as a cheaper variant of the Apple II line.

Maya still has a Windows port so it’ll be fine, also, Blender proved itself viable on the professional stage with Flow.

I thought there were already some M-series iPads that gave some actual workstation laptops a run for their money though.

As I pointed out, PCs are still modular for now, and yeah, except for in Windows in which the Pro SKU technically still has enhanced capabilities over the Home SKU, specifically Group Policy is a thing albeit in cut-down form vs. the Enterprise/IoT SKUs on Pro while on Home, the only under-the-hood tweaks you can do are in the registry via regedit, the word, ‘Pro’ has lost most of its meaning.

Even for at least AMD GPUs, you’ve been able to use the Pro drivers on consumer hardware and vice-versa since Vega at the earliest if not earlier than that.

Similarly, the type of things currently going on with AI, most notably Grok being in bed with the Military, are what Terminator warns about.

-sigh- Dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction is not supposed to be an instruction manual, guys, it’s supposed to be a warning…

Oh hell no, don’t bring Jurassic Park to the real world, please.

(JP did this with dinos, but this is the exact thing that movie warned about, just in this case with humans instead of dinos)

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Sebo stuff is also built really well too, or it better be given it’s commonly abused in commercial settings; think hotels and schools and the like, plus bypass designs like what Sebo typically uses mean sucking things up like coins won’t break your machine, vs. direct-air designs like what Kirby uses in which sucking up hard objects will break your machine.

Just buy a normal vacuum since those can still be used without web connectivity. Avoid anything made by TTI if you want your shit to last though. Also, avoid Kirby and Rainbow due to their scammy business model and extortionate pricing (seriously, quad figures for a vacuum is ridiculous even without the scammy business model).

Why not just move here permanently and kill your Reddit since they clearly demonstrated they don’t want you there?

I mean, I wasn’t ever banned from Reddit, but I left on my own before that would’ve inevitably happened since I had some comments sniped for BS before they started ramping up the censorship there, and I don’t plan on ever going back.

That won’t be of much good should Tor or I2P get taken down too, and a major Tor exit node operator recently getting arrested doesn’t spell anything good on that end.

Matrix, also PeerSuite if you don’t wanna leave a paper trail as PeerSuite discards your sessions by default.

Maya’s had a Linux port for years now; problem is you need to be running RHEL to get support.

Of course they also could’ve just discontinued that port and made Maya Mac/Windows-only.

Given MS has been testing Windows on the Cloud in the enterprise space for a while now, I wouldn’t be shocked if future major Windows versions, ie. Win12, became cloud-based.

This is why I’m glad PCs aren’t locked down like phones and there’s nothing stopping you from running an alt OS on the desktop yet.

We need an alternative made without googles shitty hands in the mix. This forced duopoly between Apple and Google sucks.

That goes for MS and Apple on the desktop too, and allegedly Google is trying to enter that space as well for the umpteenth time.

At least as far as PCs are concerned, they’re still unlocked at the bootloader level, despite MS’ attempts to lock that down, and there’s nothing stopping you from installing Linux or BSD on your PC still. Mobile devices outside a handful which aren’t locked down, unfortunately don’t have that luxury.