If it helps give a bit of reassurance, I grew up after the Digg era, and I didn't even know it was a thing until the whole Reddit thing.
Maybe in ten years time, the next generation will be the same about Reddit, or at least, one can only hope.
JustARegularNerd
joined 2 years ago
If the screenshot in the article is to be believed, it literally has a typo, missing a quote for Don't, which is usually one of the most common ways to spot suspicious activity and malware, and now, as someone working for an MSP, I have to now tell those users who see this that confusingly, yes this was legitimate and it was a Microsoft ad. The font isn't exactly standard either, the buttons look like Arial which also just looks suspicious.
That clip of the suicidal man in the middle of the highway makes this the most confronting compilation I've seen from DCOA.
I can't imagine how I'd feel if I was in that scenario and I didn't react as fast as that driver did.
Right, but while I don't want to speak on behalf of the original commenter, I'm sure what they're trying to get across is the value, with the comparison of COD charging the base cost plus DLC plus skins, whereas Balder's Gate is a one time purchase of $80, and that's it.
Half Life 2: Episode 2. Especially the Citadel with the portal storm, White Forest itself, just so immersive.
So I've only somewhat recently got into the Apple ecosystem, but I can tell you that once a macOS version loses support it's technically on death row but nowhere near as dramatic as you mention.
I recently daily drove a Mac running macOS Catalina (2019) and I was surprised that it still ran everything I needed for my IT degree (Zoom, Office 365 suite, VSCode, Signal, Tailscale, etc.) and the only real issue I noticed was Apple's Xcode not being compatible.
I also own a Mac mini 2012 with i5/8GB, and while I don't use it often, my parents daily drive that as a smart TV and web browsing machine with no real issues at all. The last official version of macOS on it was Catalina, but I used community patches to push it up to Monterey (2021) and it's totally fine.
I think when you own and actually use a Mac, you will find in its own way, that they do last longer than Windows equivalents. I have a 2012 Latitude with i5/8GB and yes I could run the latest Win10 natively (but not Win11 without hacks) but I don't think it exactly cuts the mustard anymore, and I think most people who would use it would generally agree. Given its age I would just Linux it up if I wanted to daily drive it.
This is just in my limited experience, I work as a tech for an MSP and I've generally seen HPs fail more so than other brands (not by a wide margin but I wouldn't buy a HP).
The other device we see fail more is Microsoft Surfaces, especially the tablets. I love the form factor and what Microsoft goes for with them but I'd never buy one purely on the reliability concerns I have, and (with a couple of exceptions) terrible repairability.
No, iOS can absolutely be updated, but only up to where Apple stops supporting the device. I think my iPhone SE 1st gen was released on iOS 9, and it got to iOS 15, where Apple did not release iOS 16 for it. However it still gets security updates and probably will for about another year, based on Apple's history.
I still have my first gen iPhone SE on iOS 15, still completely usable in 2023 although I am noticing more apps only available on iOS 16, mostly newer releases such as Lemmy clients, ChatGPT (the app), etc.
I don't think this is too bad for a 6 year old phone. I used to daily drive my Galaxy S5 until about three years ago when it was 5 years old, and that was forced up to modern LineageOS at that point because the original Samsung firmware just wasn't cutting it.
There's a lot of things I hate about Apple which I could rag on for days, but the argument of "You need to replace your iPhone every two years" is an uninformed opinion, and a baseless argument.
Legetimately that was so frustrating for them to kill off, I thought it so novel to browse compact Reddit on an iOS 6 device.