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This was my introduction to this song, and for the longest time I thought it was original content.

The fact is this was my first, and now only, ever experience with Apple. I’ve never had development locked to the whims of a third party before. I had no idea they had the ability to lock me out of using it because the entire idea is absurd. The reason the analogy is not perfect is that no other company requires you to buy a new piece of their hardware every seven years to develop. I purchased for Apple the same way I buy the rest of my hardware: buy powerful hardware so it lasts a long time without needing to upgrade.

This is a problem entirely of Apple’s own making, exclusive to only Apple, and it’s a problem designed specifically to extract more money from people. That’s why it was my worst tech purchase ever, and one I will never repeat.

WTF. Do you work for Apple? What EVIDENCE do I have that I expected my hardware that I bought for over $3,000 to continue functioning until it died? My evidence is my experience with every piece of electronics I have ever owned from every other manufacturer up until that point.

I can still connect to Xbox Live on my Xbox 360, giving it a lifespan, so far, of 21 years.

Knowing what can be expected from Apple is exactly why I won’t ever buy an Apple product again, and warn anyone who mentions them that they’re buying a ticking time bomb and Apple holds the donator, which they will use for the explicit purpose of extracting more money from people, even while the hardware is still working.

Apple is also the ONLY company that charges an annual fee on TOP of their exorbitant hardware costs for the ability to develop apps for their hardware. They’re also the ONLY company that demands you own their brand of hardware to publish apps. Google doesn’t force developers to use a Chromebook to publish Android apps, and Microsoft doesn’t force developers to use a Windows machine to publish Windows apps. Samsung doesn’t demand you develop apps for the Samsung marketplace on a Samsung device.

This is literally only an issue with Apple, and it’s entirely of their own creation. Apple is unrestricted and blatant in their greed, and I’ve learned they’re not shy about it at all. I no longer participate in any of their ecosystems and never will again.

It’s simultaneously the shortest lifespan of any electronics I’ve ever purchased while also being the most expensive, by a considerable margin. Not a great combo no matter how you attempt to spin it.

Then I must have the model wrong - I’m traveling currently, and don’t have it with me. Whichever model it is, it does NOT have the option to update. I’m stuck on MacOS 15.7.5

A 2019 MacBook Pro, and for $3,000+ I was expecting to use it until it died - not until Apple decided I couldn’t use it anymore. I personally don’t consider less than seven years to be “a very long time,” especially when paying over $3,000.

Linux is great, but it won’t allow me to use it for the sole purpose I bought it - publishing iOS apps.

I was told doing so ran the risk of getting your published iOS application blacklisted if Apple detected you were circumventing their greed, so it wasn’t worth the risk.

The 2019 MacBook Pro that I paid $3,000+ for after taxes and shipping, but looking at the hardware specs I was mistaken on the core count. It has a i9 Intel CPU with 8 physical cores, and 16 logical. More than enough power for software development if Apple wasn’t such a greedy entity.

I bought a MacBook Pro for iOS development. It was alright until Apple decided to exclude it from future OS updates, preventing me from using it for it’s sole purpose, and forcing me to either buy a new one or stop developing iOS apps. Guess which one I chose. There is nothing wrong with the hardware, it’s still got a 2TB SSD, 16GB of RAM and 16-core CPU but apparently Apple thought they could make more money off of me by intentionally barring it from updates to force me to buy a new one, rather than simply allowing me to install MacOS updates. They were wrong.

Edit: 8 physical cores, 16 logical

Sadly.

I only recognize the last two of those. Which fascists are you referring to? There’s too many in the world right now to keep track. Since we’re talking about Claude being the least evil option, I’m not sure how those other companies tie in to the conversation.

Which would you recommend? I’m curious where your recommendation fall in the rankings of usefulness.

I have nothing against AI but everything against a certain AI company that is fully in bed with fascists.

Are you talking about Google? Apple? Meta? Twitter? Microsoft? OpenAI?

You can’t be talking about the one company that was banned by the fascist government for not complying with their demands, because a company fully in bed with fascists would not be banned for refusing to comply. Yet, it seems in your confusion that is exactly what you’re implying.

Please do not use this slogan as an excuse to not sought out the least unethical option for your consumptions.

I don’t, and that would be Anthropic’s Claude. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have the hardware for a local LLM at the speed or proficiency they offer. Maybe you’re so fortunate, and are judging the choices of the less fortunate for not passing your purity test?

Your problem is clearly with the fascists, as it should be, and AI is getting caught in the crossfire by your ire. You just can’t see/admit it yet.

Unless you live in a cave, which you obviously don’t since you’re here on the Internet sharing your wisdom with us, then you are participating in business and activities that enrich the fascists. It’s just a fact of life when they own everything. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

I don’t know about yours, but my bike has led me to the ground more times than I’d like - face first in some cases. I have the chipped/broken teeth to prove it. Nothing is foolproof, and everything has inherent risk. It’s all relative to crawling, but nothing is risk-free.

The events of Wall-E happened over generations. If your associates have forgotten how to walk already then they never knew how to begin with and were just faking it until something came along to save them. So at least now with a wheelchair as a crutch they can actually contribute rather than just pretending to be productive but getting nothing done in reality.

You seriously can’t think of any sane use? How about categorizing large amounts of data. Brainstorming strategies for problem solving. Converting pseudo code to actual code. Troubleshooting error messages. I mean, there are dozens upon dozens of valid uses that harm no one.

How does Bic plan to prevent murderers from stabbing people with their pens? How does Toyota plan to stop drivers from committing vehicular manslaughter? How does Hewlett-Packard plan on preventing fascists from saving manifestos? How does Apple plan on preventing sexual criminals from taking pictures of their victims?

What’s that? Companies don’t need to accomplish impossible tasks to have a viable product? I guess it’s only AI that has insurmountable demands placed on them by reactionaries.

The only not-evil move is to sit in a cave using sticks, once the trees figure out how to keep cavemen from beating their children with them.

That’s one way to spin it.

My take on it is that it was used inappropriately, and when the fascists wanted it tailored for that abhorrent use, Anthropic refused, and in retaliation the fascists banned it for ANY use, so now Anthropic is suing to allow the sane to continue using it for it’s appropriate uses.

That’s the same reason I hate bicycles! They make travel too easy for everyone. Need to go somewhere? All my associates immediately reach for their bikes, and think of it as the default mode of travel. Heaven forbid they put actual effort into traveling by walking the whole way, or better yet, crawling so that they can include their arms in the endeavor like nature intended.

I only use a bicycle when I’m going to a very obscure location and would have to do my crawling on dirt trails otherwise.

They are the lesser of the available evils. Anthropic, the proprietors of Claude, were blacklisted by the US administration for refusing to greenlight their technology being used for fascism.

I’d say 99.9% of people. You’re actually the first other person I’ve seen who doesn’t!

Tell me you’ve never purposefully created art using AI without telling me.