I’ve already encountered some regular books that have an insert talking about another book from the same creator.

Oh, those? We call those reading snacks. You just rip them out and dip them in a blend of extra virgin olive oil and nicely reduced balsamic vinaigrette. Perfect pairing with a nice drama or thriller.

You have discovered the thing that may finally radicalize me.

I’ll never pay. I’ve spent so much money of failed Google products at this point they owe me YT premium for life. If they make bypassing ads impossible I’ll just stop watching.

I swear I will just stick with paperback books for all entertainment if they continue to further infect my current forms of entertainment. Lets seem them try to insert an unskippable ad into a paperback book.

We shoud have a right to not have commercials shoved down our eye and ear holes. If they could, they would force it down our throats and noses too.

I swear I’m about done with YT. The ads are long, overabundant, irrelevant, and timed specifically to fuck with people in the middle of specific segments of content. I mean, I keep getting ads for Oppenheimer for the past four days. I already own Oppenheimer - and Google knows this. My Google account is linked to my MoviesAnywhere account, they have this information. What is the point of “targeted” advertisements if they net the advertiser zero value? Is Google just messing with users trying to block their ads at this point?

Hey man, that’s an unfair comparison. Honda engines age well.

The Unreal engine is 26 years old, but you don’t see people telling ID to start rebuilding a new game engine. I agree it does feel like they are just adding things to the current engine instead of actually improving it by modernizing it though. There are clearly some parts of it they need to overhaul, like the “talking head” dialog system, the physics tied to FPS, and the weird lighting system.

FO4 was still a pretty decent game. I still haven’t played Far Harbor or Nuka-World either, so there’s plenty of content for me to go back to.

I heard FO4 was getting ultra widescreen support next week. I’m not going back to finish Starfield. There’s a better game coming. I’m just waiting now.

So…potentially unreliable, potentially unsafe, inefficient, expensive, bad quality control, bad customer support, and buying one supports a complete baby man to try to continue to mess with our country’s politics. What are the benefits of buying one of these again?

The 4/20 restart date makes sense for a start-up company that needs to grab headlines, but that isn’t Tesla any more. They are an established company in the industry now - it’s time for the company to act professional.

Interesting tech, but I can’t imagine trying to spend my entire day working with a dysfunctional equivalent of a Siri assistant. It can’t even set timers, what a strange feature omission.

I spent a little bit of time looking for true alternatives to a MacBook that would fit my needs, but there really aren’t any. Once you check out laptops with 16+ hour of battery life, then add a bright, HDR, color-accurate display, then add the performance of the M-series chips (which are not THE best, but certainly close to the best options from AMD and Intel), and decent speakers, there really isn’t anything to compete.

A base 14" M3 Pro is around $1750, which isn’t that far out of line for high-performing laptops in general. If someone needs something cheaper, they can get a used 14" M1 Pro for around $900-$1k. Also, if you’re someone that already owns an iPhone, it’s kind of hard to even see why you would go with something else unless you are required to use Windows applications or want to play a bunch of AAA games.

I’m beginning to think that people that diss MacBooks are just people that never owned them.

For people that are really struggling financially, but still want the above features, the 2020 13" M1 Air w/16GB RAM and 256GB storage can be found for about $500.

I agree the hardware upgrades are obscenely expensive, but the base model pro’s are hard to beat for the price, depending on what you are looking for.

Seriously. Do people avoid buying Macbooks just because there’s a logo on the back? They make good hardware.

One’s an active decision and one is forced upon them. They are not the same.

Appreciate the response, but I will stick to my non-criminal protest against the ad industry.

That only works while this is still a niche use case. Just wait until they find out how many more places they can shove ads while we are forced to stand/sit somewhere for 20 minutes!