The rack mount Mac Pro doesn't really make sense for a data center. It's 5U high, which is much too big for a data center. It doesn't have standard server features like redundant power supplies.
The only use case I can think of is for audio workstations, where people have lots of rack mount equipment, so you can have everything including the computer in the rack. But even for that use case it's quite big.
i used an android phone for a year with a 90 fps display. When I switched back to an iphone, it felt slow to me. i couldn't tell what the problem was, the brand new phone just felt sluggish. a year later when using my partners iphone pro, i realised that the sluggishness must be because of the refresh rate.
i think once you get used to 90 or 120 fps, then 60fps will just feel choppy. no need to compare them side by side.
Swift 6 is not the problem. It's backward compatible.
The problem is SwiftUI. It's very new, still barely usable on the Mac, but they are adding lots of new features every macOS release.
If you want to support older versions of macOS you can't use the nice stuff they just released. Eg. pointerStyle() is a brand new macOS 15 API that is very useful.
It's not bad, just limited. I think it's getting usable, but just barely so.
They are working on it, and making it better every year. I've started using it for small projects and it's pretty neat how fast you can work with it -- but not everything can be done yet.
Since they are still adding pretty basic stuff every year, it really hurts if you target older versions. AppKit is so mature that for most people it doesn't matter if you can't use new features introduced in the last 3 years. For SwiftUI it still makes a big difference.
I wish avoiding a hangover was as easy as drinking water.
I get really bad hangover from some wines and beers, and no hangover at all from others. Haven't been able to figure out what the difference is. Wish I could just drink water to avoid it.
Try signing in in any Google app without allowing data sharing with Safari. It's not possible. They don't let you.
It's kind of weird that Apple introduced this big fat tracking consent popup, but they don't really do anything to actually prevent cross-app tracking...
I think OP was talking about professional portraits made by a photographer in a studio in a roughly hour long session. Photo shoots like that typically cost 100-200€ and the resulting portraits are not at all comparable to a 10€ passport photo.
Although this particular round fell somewhere inbetween "passport mughots at Snappy Snaps" and a full "subject all dolled up" session. IIRC the photo session was about 20 minutes and a week later I paid (IIRC) 25€ for each processed photo I eventually wanted to buy. She burned the selected high-res JPEGs on a CD while I waited.
I'd be happy to pay £120 to £150 for a fresh set these days, assuming they'd serve me for a decade again.
[Funnily enough, we ended up going to her studio for our official wedding photos a couple of years later.]
5 years ago maybe. But no-one believes the self-driving promises any more, every car has screens instead of buttons now, and wireless updates are not something that people care about at all, especially if those updates just break stuff that used to work perfectly (eg. ultrasound parking sensors).
What was really unique about Tesla was that they had this image of a technologically advanced automaker that will stop climate change and lead us into a clean energy utopia. It was a fancy car you could buy without a bad conscience.
But with the Cybertruck it's clear they are leading us into an electrified Mad Max world instead. Kinda obvious in retrospect that a guy selling flame throwers is not about peace love and happiness....
Then we just have to fund research by giving grants to universities and research teams. Oh wait a sec: That's already what pretty much every government in the world is doing anyway!
The only use case I can think of is for audio workstations, where people have lots of rack mount equipment, so you can have everything including the computer in the rack. But even for that use case it's quite big.
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