The Mac Pro only costs three times as much as a cheese grater???

Gotta respect a quality use of the word “thrice”

I remember seeing it and thinking "No, this can't be real. No way Apple actually did this."

Edit: I just checked and if you apply all upgrades, the total hardware cost is $12,348. That's 3.5th the price of the future  Vision Pro

When did they give up on the trash can? I miss the trash can. It was easier to call it overpriced garbage when it looked like an actual garbage receptical.

I hate how true that is...

I've written poorer documentation than this.

"Here is a work around to fix [weird bug in production]:"

"Edit: Disregard the above. It fixes [weird bug in production] but causes [bad thing] to happen."

"Edit 2: Apparently the first edit is wrong. It doesn't cause [bad thing] to happen. Bad thing just happened to occur simultaneously the first time I did the workaround."

"Edit 3: [weird bug in production] has been fixed. This workaround is no longer needed."

"Edit 4: Turns out [weird bug in production] we fixed is what allowed our systems to communicate with one another. Had to rollback change. Work around is now considered 'the fix' going forward."

"Edit 5: Turns out it DOES cause [bad thing] to happen, but [bad thing happening] is a core component of our system's design and also PAYROLL NEEDS IT TO FUNCTION?!"

Did you read the Documentation?

Yes and I followed it exactly by running the Feldisprut command with the 8 parameters

What are your parameters?

Feldisprut -i -p -87 -256 -codecreplace -codeccopy -withsound -biflwop

Why are you using biflwop?

MY GUY I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS I'M JUST FOLLOWING THE DOCUMENTATION. Tried it without biflwop and it says I'm missing a parameter, so what do I put there?

use "nobiflwop"

No changes

Oh, right we don't support 256 on the beta, it only goes up to 128.

Fuck you.

when we've had netflix (off and on a couple months at a time, last was about a year and a half ago), we often encountered 540p max playback on "hd" titles that should have (legitimately) been streaming at 1080p; and we rarely were able to use all the simultaneous connections of the plan (usually only limit-1)

Yeah, I fell for this once a year ago and was dumbfounded to only get 480p when I paid for "UHD". Never paying again. Great job, bean counters.

Link for the hdd? I’ve got like five 5tb drives all wired to a usb hub and need to bite the bullet and get some real storage solutions.

Asahi Linux devs go hard.

Android TV is not free though.

You pay with yourself,
your interests / watch habits,
all being collected and sold to the best bidder for "personalized ads"..

You can always setup a nice Plex server and give them all the movies they want.

It's not like you can't unsubscribe from Netflix

I don't mind much paying for streaming (although that's increasingly more and more annoying and I still tend to just download whatever I actually care about) but until and unless I can pay to "own" a movie and they just provide me with a DRM free video file of some sort, I will never "purchase" digital content like this.

If you tried this kind of bullshit in just about any other context, even normal people would think you're crazy.

Normal Person: "hi there, one blender please. I'll take this one for $25."
Sales person: "Cool here's your receipt."
NP:: "It says here at the bottom of the receipt that you can just come in my house and take this blender back whenever you want or maybe never?"
SP: "yep."
NP:: "And you don't tell people that ahead of time?"
SP: "no when you buy it you agree to that by opening the box and it is on the receipt you get after you bought it."
NP: "you fuckin with me rn?"
SP: "afraid not, and would you look at that corp says I need that blender back, thanks."
SP: "oh, shoot. I see here you also bought a toaster from EvilCorp sold in one of our EvilMart locations a couple years ago, we've decided to license that brand instead to our new partners FukUMart, so we'll be taking that toaster but if you want you can head to your local FukUMart and buy that toaster again for more than you paid the first time."
NP: spontaneously combusts