The really should have kept that design around longer, iterated on it.

Maybe it just wasn't possible to put a G5 on that small of a logic board, but it's still an absolutely stunning computer. I have one sitting on my kitchen counter right now!

There's a cache of them in a storage unit east of Atlanta. You can still find the listing on Facebook marketplace.

I bought a B&W machine from the guy for $50 or $60.

Also grabbed a G4 Digital Audio tower. To my surprise, it was a top-end 733 MHz model.

Oh damn, nice! thanks for the tip. I'm up in Vancouver BC though so kind of a stretch unfortunately

In an alternate universe, Apple had built out a networked media library system and integrated it directly into their Time Capsule router hw.

The military does produce innovations that benefit civilians though. Food products would be one thing. GPS is another.

As if any chrome product doesn't have telemetry, tracking and AI features built into it.

I don't advocate for any of this stuff, but I guess it's only bad when Windows does all the same stuff, but not ChromeOS.

As for Apple, at least they make an attempt.

Someone introduce them to IPv6

What, the $10 gift certificate for customers isn't enough?

Virtual gift cards offered by Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to those who aided customers through the global IT outage have been blocked and flagged for potential fraud by Uber.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-26/crowdstrike-gift-card...

I almost feel sorry for CrowdStrike.

Oddly AppKit seems to be one of the most stable desktop frameworks I have worked with. They've made breaking changes, sure, but they haven't been rewriting, and rewriting, and rewriting the same stuff for the last decade and a half.

The situation on Windows these days feels like... cognitive dissonance. If given a Windows app assignment today, I'd pick WinForms if less complicated, WPF if a larger project.

AppKit is very stable yes but it shows its age a little more than UIKit. As you say still better than anything Microsoft can offer

It was iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 13 mini. OP is N-1 on his model numbers.

I had the iPhone 13 mini. It was a great phone, but interfaces aren't being designed for that small of a canvas any more. It increasingly got cramped over time, I gave up in futility and joined the big phone club.

A lot of features included that other registrars charge extra for. Vanity/forwarding email addresses is one of them that I use the most often.