It’s not even named “Big Ben” anymore I thought

Sure, but for say the average laptop buyer nowadays not really.

It is - that’s just how URLs in non-latin fonts look unfortunately. URLs, (and a ton of tech infrastructure) is hugely English/latin script biased.

The URL is Japanese.

Locked down would probably be a plus for enterprise.

But honestly I’ve never got that argument. In what way is macOS more locked down than Windows? In the hardware that it will run on yes. But for the average user it seems fairly similar on the being “locked down” front.

I have a Roborock that supposedly has Matter support (over WiFi not Thread, but still) and integrates into my Home assistant fairly well.

I wonder if it would break without Internet.

Yes, but I think inflation quickly makes that a pretty low number.

I think the line to never have to work again is pretty far under $100mil

It’ll be fine for most games you’d want to run on lower power stuff like the Frame/Deck.

Should be able to unlock it if you get it retail. Mainline Linux I very much doubt it.

No, but it does severely limit the damage is what I’m saying.

My password manager also holds my passkeys, so I really don’t mind them.

Oh it absolutely helps. Because if you’re using a password manager then every account you have should have a different password.

Most people who don’t use them just use the same password or a variation thereof for everything, making a leak much more devastating.

Some interfaces handle this automatically.

But there’s also this: https://threadiverse.link/

For example, https://threadiverse.link/thelemmy.club/post/23939792

Lemmy is a bit too niche and also it’s open source so if someone has a big enough issue to develop a whole extension for it, they may as well just make those changes directly to Lemmy.

Have you looked at alternative Lemmy interfaces? Your instance hosts a few. https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/alternative-uis

https://old.lemmy.ca/ seems to be down but you can check https://old.thelemmy.club/ if you want to see what MLMYM is like.

For Linux, you find out if there is a package. If not you go to a website and see if there is an app image or zip file. You then need to know where to place the downloaded file, how to get it running (making it executable), knowing how to chmod and chown (it is better to have to do it like in Linux, but it is an extra step), and how to add it to your desktop (there is no right+click and add to desktop/create shortcut option in Arch based distros like there is on Windows). If there is a service component you may need to go into command line and systemctl to enable it.

I don’t think I’ve ever followed that workflow to be honest. Except for when doing something niche and way above and beyond something a casual user would do.

Open the software center, search what you want. Click install. Done. I use the terminal to the same effect but that’s by preference. Installing packages as you described is not at all recommended… They won’t update with the system.

The “add to desktop” thing really depends on your Desktop Environment too. GNOME not really, KDE and most others yeah.

I don’t think the learning curve is any harder than someone who’s learning Windows for the first time.

It’s just different. Honestly in some ways simpler IMO. But if you were a life long Mac user and touched Windows for the first time today you’d probably have a rougher time I think.

Bypassing the battery?

I’ve seen that on some vintage software.

I mean you could do that with most all electronics

I had Microsoft Copilot rewrite this in the style of a LinkedIn in post for you:

Yeah but why would you do that. Nobody wants that.