Macs were Great from 2008 through 2014. The first Unibody Macbook wiped the floor with the competition. My brother got one of the first pimped out Uni body in ~2009 - 2010. I had the white macbook back then. It was a great laptop.
From there on out its been down hill. Its the post modernist mentality that all progress is good and random new things = good outcome. Damned zero travel keyboards and gut the macOs to be like iOS. M2 chips are not going to cut it for me.
Anyone who needs to type all day use external keyboard on Macbook Pros.. Yet Thinkpads have still one of the best keyboards ever made.
2023 Linux > Windowz10(11) > MAC because on Windows you can run programms you need.. On linux I can run them anyhow.
Macs had great hardware for the most part, hit or miss here and there. What they embodied though was a tool for propagating proprietary pay-to-play via the software (Adobe), widgets, even the OS. It was a vessel for taking your money.
The one thing that did make them exciting was that they were not necessarily original inventors, even though they claim to be, but would take an idea and make it better, and simple to use, and then slap a high price on it and market it to the wealthy or status-minded. That was their superpower. Now, however, that doesn't really happen anymore. The innovation part ended when Job's died. All Apple does now is keep shining the same old turds....and still charging over-inflated prices.
I used to think all these "ego centric " CEOs suck. Having more experience and actually doing some of my own projects I say Steve Jobs was brilliant! He was really picky about the products and design. He was hard on the employees, but this is how you deliever high quality innovative products . Creating from near zero and fill the "empty space" is always going to be work intensive + the projects is likely going "figure itself "out in the progress. You need principles & goals. Then you put these principles and goals to the test.
To be honest I do not have any awareness of modern CEOs.. I do not have the capacity or the time to figure out whether they are doing a good job, but I know when they start delivering questionable products and services.
The type of management you describe and Apple utilized was great for the company's bottom dollar, and you certainly made it sound glamorous, but that was the rub. They never liked to talk about the foundation it stood on, what was behind the iCurtain, which was going oversees and forming cheap labor via exploiting workers in other countries. Remember the leaks (because the main stream media never wanted to talk about it) exposing those workers sleeping at the factor, hardly any pay, basically slaves? Apple had to roll out a huge marketing campaign to cover that up.
That is what I refer to as the 80's/90's style corporate game, and it still exists today.
Okay.. But one needs to ask.. If you were at the seat of a massive company like Apple. Would you have "turned the tables" and changed how economy works? These are massive projects.. that to put it with a twist, involve growth and decay at the extremes (Do not take it literaly).
The economy was shifted toward exploiting the market from the 70s and on due to changes in how the economy works. People went with certain trends maybe?
Did Apple from early on shift to exploiting "cheap" labor? I doubt that this was the mentality.
I think I get where you are coming from with this. I am just saying this probably how to world worked back then.
One could have made a small company and build it up with their own capital and had stable growth and succeed but unlikely with commercial products like mainstream computers
Me personally, I would never buy into the exploration of workers. And if memory serves me, Apple got caught exploiting child labor. I know there is a recent 2019 suit involving them and a few other tech companies for exploiting child labor in mining for cobalt used in their smartphones.
To me, running a company like that, you have to shut off your conscience to allow human suffrage, actually to cause it, which then asks the question, how is that different than being a straight up sociopath? And that leads into how I view most CEO's, even today.
There are better examples of running a company...ie worker owned company models. That is where I would explore. I have a conscience.
Job's was responsible for it. He handled it by covering it up with flashy marketing. Can't have the wealthy buy his goods and feel bad about some exploited children making it. Nope.
Yeah man.. all that said for us the Unibody mac and audio world go back and we have history. I like where it was at back then.. But of course it got dumbed down and streamlined. Too bad. Too much eagshell design too little function and fun products.
That said I am super happy I turned to PC hardware in 2012. I think it has never been better in terms of availability of great components and value for many (GPU and SSD prices are down now ). You can build a kickass rig with 1k budget and do what ever heck you want with it.
R&D engineers and the real innovators get too little credit these days. I guess they don't want to be in the spotlight anyway, because its not that important.
That's not necessary, that's what the language department is for.
But I could take your suggestion and now make the English Garuda Linux forum a German forum and require that every language be translated into German here.
This is an international forum. Itâs no more an English forum than it is an English world. As far as I am aware, people are welcome to post in whatever language they are comfortable with.
I believe the whole point of the language categories is to provide a place for folks to post if they do not find the English language accessible. If you would like to participate in discussions in these categories, then you should translate the conversation.
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I am glad I came to Garuda. I am glad you take care of me, and everyone who comes here, not just my language.
This event and the team response gives me a good feeling.
Prost!
Don't mind me just here to rant because I feel like an idiot right now... Plus I got no place else to go... .
I applied for kpmg's ctf hackathon and got an offer to interview for their "digital trust" role along with 7 more people. I got my interview today, first interview of my life and I botched it by starting off the wrong foot with the interviewer. The 7 of us were given 15 mins each for a PI (L1, tech) and after joining the session I looked at the interviewer's name (I was not aware of his identity before) and after waiting for a few seconds of silence with no video/audio feed from his side I felt it's my obligation to initiate this conversation and decided to go with goodmorning... mam... after a few seconds of pause he replied does my name look like a lady's name to you, he sounded a little angry . Well I honestly wanted to say well no but it's confusing af. I held it in and made a random excuse that the mail I received regarding this PI session was from a lady so I thought she was the one conducting the interview. Needless to say I was a nervous wreck after that and messed my interview real bad after that. I feel like hitting my head with a bat at the number of stupid answers I gave for questions that I could have answered correctly. I most certainly bombed this one.
It seems like you haven't spoken much English in your life
Like other many fellows from India.
We put too much effort in English reading and writing but forget about spoken English
). You can build a kickass rig with 1k budget and do what ever heck you want with it. 
Plus I got no place else to go... 
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. Well I honestly wanted to say well no but it's confusing af. I held it in and made a random excuse that the mail I received regarding this PI session was from a lady so I thought she was the one conducting the interview. Needless to say I was a nervous wreck after that and messed my interview real bad after that. I feel like hitting my head with a bat at the number of stupid answers I gave for questions that I could have answered correctly. I most certainly bombed this one. 