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ok I am cackling that apple had to back down and put the SD card slot, HDMI, and MagSafe connector back again
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@s0 this reminds me of mid-90s video card names that kept adding more names each revision until you had the RAGE FURY MAX PRO.
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@s0 [waxes and twirls a 1930s RAF moustache] Mk. II
[in horror, grey haired, sometime in 1942] Mk. XXVIII
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@liamvhogan M1 Pro Max Extreme Mini v3 final MkII complete FINAL_FINAL2 (1).docx
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@s0 Time to name the OS. We need a dartboard, and a map of Southern California, and a pint of rye whiskey, and a fistful of amphetamines, and my Samoan lawyer
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@liamvhogan coincidentally the same methodology as deciding on the new UI paradigm du jour
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@s0 Now that I will give points to Apple for, thinking of the enormous, fractal ugliness of the various linux window managers
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@liamvhogan can't say I'm a fan of how I now have less screen real estate because every window was made all mobile-like with bigger icons (while there is still no touchscreen Mac anyway)
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@s0 I will turn the facetiousness level to 11 and say I want no screen, and no keyboard, and just a touch bar, but all squares like a programmable drum machine
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@liamvhogan too bad because the Touch Bar is gone now lol
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@s0 🎶 nothing sounds quite like an 808 🎶
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@liamvhogan @s0 and everybody needs a 303
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@ThermiteBeGiants @s0 I see your free association for excessively noisy objects and raise you the RD350
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@liamvhogan @s0 that doesn’t look like it has any fun buttons on it
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@ThermiteBeGiants @liamvhogan @s0 you just tell Siri to give it some choke now
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@mike @ThermiteBeGiants @s0 of all the types mentioned, in terms of general obnoxiousness and personal danger, the motorbike is worst in all categories
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@s0 @liamvhogan I came here to say that.
I give Intel a hard time about their naming conventions but at least they’ve been thinking about the future.
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@s0 from the kind of thinking that brought us “super”, “mega”, “ultra”, “hyper” etc
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@s0 oh my fucking god, I am losing my shit
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"... with all the ports you need" oh yeah? huh? really? that's so strange how come we didn't have all those ports?? any ideas apple? any guesses why maybe those ports were mysteriously missing for several years????? 🙃