Guy Fleegman
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Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled SoftwareEnglish52·1 year agoKen Kocienda, the engineer who led the team that created the original iPhone keyboard and predictive text system, wrote a book titled “Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs.” So there’s at least one real engineer for you who speaks highly of Jobs.
They aren’t nameless. They write books and go on podcasts, their thoughts on Jobs are available to us. Plenty of them praise Jobs for driving them to do their best work.
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled SoftwareEnglish133·1 year agoIt’s not false advertising because it did everything it was advertised to do in the introductory demo when it went on sale six months later. Google is the one faking their demos.
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.ml•Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next yearEnglish13·1 year agoWe all know the bubbles will still be green
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Memes@lemmy.ml•My friend and I discussing how long memes will lastEnglish7·2 years agoSokath, his eyes uncovered
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto PC Gaming@lemmy.world•Wanna buy a gaming laptop 2English63·2 years agoDown in this price range it’s all cheap plastic and lowest-bidder components. Doesn’t matter which brand you buy, it comes down to how well you take care of it and a bit of luck.
Actual well-built and well-designed machines are close to double your budget.
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto PC Gaming@lemmy.world•Wanna buy a gaming laptop 2English5·2 years agoThis is so specific I have to wonder why you are even here asking for advice. NewEgg has exactly 5 in-stock laptops meeting these criteria.
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Risa@startrek.website•I stand by... well... MyselfEnglish11·2 years agoThis line was foreshadowing Lorca’s origin. You see, mirror Musk was actually competent, making him the precise inverse of real Musk.
I don’t care that the timing is suspect and there’s another Musk reference in Discovery, I’ll die on this hill.
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Risa@startrek.website•The Many Facets of Starfleet EngineeringEnglish32·2 years agoYour memes are fire, post all you want
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Risa@startrek.website•Pink Dream Maquis Raider™ sold separatelyEnglish11·2 years ago… photoshop?
You’re telling me that Robert Duncan McNeill isn’t shredded?
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Star Trek@startrek.website•Rank your favorite Star Trek movies! Be ready to defend your positions!English11·2 years agoEDIT: Apparently everyone on this website is insane
The inmates are running the asylum
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Apple@lemmy.world•My GF Macbook Pro has reached end of life supportEnglish18·2 years ago11 years old
“programmed obsoletism”
Serious question, how old is your laptop?
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Risa@startrek.website•unapologetic Lower Decks supremacy postEnglish50·2 years agosen-sors detect no spelling mistakes, captain
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.ml•What are your criteria for choosing an instance other than Lemmy.world?English9·2 years agoStar Trek is cool
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Your thoughts on The Orville?English42·2 years agoBingo. It was kinda cute at first when it was still trying to be funny, but as the parody pretense slowly fell away it just got boring.
The strangest part about it is how each episode is a remix of a Trek episode and yet the remix makes it very clear that the writers just don’t get it. For example, season 2’s “Blood of Patriots” is a rearrangement of “The Wounded,” but the subplot about Mercer and Malloy being best friends forever trivializes what TNG successfully depicted as a nuanced dilemma.
There’s no accounting for taste, but it genuinely surprises me that there seems to be so many Star Trek fans who think it’s any good. On the other hand, it seems pretty safe to say that season 3 was the last, so clearly the actual numbers were unremarkable.
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Daystrom Institute@startrek.website•Annotations for *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* 2x09: “Subspace Rhapsody” (SPOILERS)English6·2 years agoLa’An calls the Klingon ship a K’t’inga-class. This is a slight anachronism, as the K’t’inga-class, first seen in TMP and named in Roddenberry’s novelization, is supposed to be a distinct and more advanced version of the D7-class battlecruiser commonly seen in TOS. We could handwave it away as Temporal War shenanigans or being one of the first advanced models introduced or both. La’An is correct that the K’t’inga has an aft torpedo launcher (as opposed to the D7’s forward-only launcher).
I’ve always suspected that the D7 and the K’t’inga are the same class of ship and the differences are the result of a refit, an appropriate mirror of its Starfleet counterpart. It’s too bad we’ve heard Klingons refer to it as the “D7,” because if not for that I’d suggest K’t’inga is the classes actual name while D7 is its Starfleet “reporting name.”
Guy Fleegman@startrek.websiteto Star Trek@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody"English19·2 years agoWhat a lovely episode.
I saw a fair amount of skepticism across the Fediverse about how musical episodes are always bad and annoying, to which someone would always respond “well, Buffy nailed it.” Apparently the SNW writers feel the same way, because “Subspace Rhapsody” isn’t just a homage to “Once More With Feeling,” it’s a love letter. They may have swapped the demon for a subspace wedgie, but they kept the idea of using music to force the characters to confront their feelings about each other, and they even threw in a bunny callback.
10/10. I hope SNW maintains the tradition of a theatrically silly episode near the end of each season as long as it runs!
The game plan is the same as the game plan for the Mac, but they’re going to run it in a fraction of the time because they already have the playbook. Apple’s not in the business of “intentionally taking a loss,” Apple is in the business of slowly iterating products into platforms over strategic time spans. That’s exactly what they’ll do here.
The OLED displays are severely supply constrained; I doubt Apple can produce more than one or two million in 2024. With so few units available, there are more than enough dyed-in-the-wool Apple fans and die hard VR geeks with $4k to burn to guarantee that it will be sold out until 2025.
This first million will create an ecosystem for the platform in the form of third-party software and enthusiast communities. The successful launch will entice more suppliers to make the OLEDs, increasing availability and reducing cost. That paves the way for a sans-Pro Apple Vision for $2,500 sometime in 2025 or 2026. The cycle repeats: more users, bigger community, more evangelists, more word of mouth, more software, cheaper components, and then Apple ships Apple Vision Air in 2027 or 2028 for $1,500. Then in 2030, Apple Vision Air 2 comes out but the original is still for sale at $999.
Now we’re looking at Apple’s standard good/better/best product matrix that they use for the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, and we’re also looking at a relatively Mac-like price range starting at a grand but with options running well above $5k.
The original Mac sold for $2,495 in 1984 which is about $7,000 adjusted for inflation. Apple’s kicking this new platform off for half the entry price. No one knew what the heck the Mac was supposed to be for in 1984 either, but the entire desktop computing paradigm was forged in its image. We’re now looking at a second Mac.