For anyone thats been around for more than one hype cycle, this is not a surprise.

Apple clearly takes a 'Measure Twice, Cut Once' approach.

It seems to me that tech and business analysts mostly supply uninformed nonsense opinions around whatever the popular rhetoric of the day is to generate more clicks :-/

How many times do we have to listen to tech and business analysts talking about lacklustre iPhone releases and how Apple hasn't done anything interesting since the original iPhone? But yet the iPhone 17 is flying off the shelves in China.

Above all else, make it interesting and entertaining!

Which should go without saying…

In this line;

Tell a story. It might be "unrelated" to thd topic at hand (I based one on Shackleton's expedition, and another on a Robert Frost poem (two roads diverged.) Or it might be related, a "my journey" type, or it might be about the experience seen through the eyes of a customer. But a story helps the audience relate, and keeps a thread through it all.

If you can, be funny. Frankly this is hard if you're not a 'funny' person. Delivering a good joke, or line, well can be learned but if it's not your thing steer clear. Bad funny is worse than not funny.

If you're not funny naturally then get a funny person to help you script in "dry" humor lines. You can deliver them dry, in fact often the dryer the better.

"We founded our business in Jan 2020. Nothing could possibly go wrong".

But good funny is great. Learning while laughing really keeps the audience engaged.

Reacting to the audience engagement is also a skill worth developing. When they're bored, move on. When they hiss or boo or laugh or leave, these are all valuable feedback.

Enjoy yourself. If you're having fun, they will too.

In the US they spell it as nonze.

No we don't.

Pretty positive that was a joke/bait…

It absolutely was a joke

Slightly absurdist non-sensical humour I’ll admit, but none the less, a joke :-)

The best kind :)

As a conversational point, I do recall reading an article sometime ago about people moving to the UK from sunnier places, and then suffering from Vitamin D deficiency!

I am not at all an expert, I can only share my anecdotal unscientific observations!

I'm running a TrueNAS box with 3x cheap shucked Seagate drives.*

The TrueNAS box has 48GB RAM, is using ZFS and is sharing the drives as a Time Machine destination to a couple of Macs in my office.

I can un-confidently say that it feels like the fastest TM device I've ever used!

TrueNAS with ZFS feels faster than Open Media Vault(OMV) did on the same hardware.

I originally setup OMV on this old gaming PC, as OMV is easy. OMV was reliable, but felt slow compared to how I remembered TrueNAS and ZFS feeling the last time I setup a NAS.

So I scrubbed OMV and installed TrueNAS, and purely based on seat-of-pants metrics, ZFS felt faster.

And I can confirm that it soaks up most of the 48GB of RAM!

TrueNAS reports ZFS Cache currently at 36.4 GiB.

I dont know why or how it works, and it's only a Time Machine destination, but there we are those are my metrics and that's what I know LOL

* I don't recommend this. They seem unreliable and report errors all the time. But it's just what I had sitting around :-) I'd hoped by now to be able to afford to stick 3x 4TB/8TB SSDs of some sort in the case, but prices are tracking up on SSDs...

I recently learned that many collectables are sold this way!

Labubus just happened to get a wide appeal and had a moment in the US for some reason..

"Gatcha", from Japanese "gatchapon"; there's little dispenser machines which sell plastic eggs containing a random collectible from a set. There are thousands of different product lines.

Basically game lootboxes, but IRL. People like gambling, it seems.

are they regulated under gambling laws? Sounds like fraud to me.

They are and I hate it. It‘s bad enough with trading cards, but now every single collectible is employing gacha mechanics and it’s frustrating.

I don't get it. It's a "collectable". Your "hobby" is "collecting". You put your "collection" on a shelf and look at it.

That's not a hobby to me. It's just consuming for consumption's sake.

Well, they took that formula and made it worse because now you can't just buy it, you have to roll a dice or get a second hand.

Also nothing wrong with just having a shelf with things you like to look at.

> Also nothing wrong with just having a shelf with things you like to look at.

Sure. That's a collection of things you like but it's not "collecting". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4onp1zbjSjU

For eg Magic cards, a secondary market formed very quickly where you could buy exactly what you wanted.

"Everything is gambling now"

Protip: If you call it an investment, it becomes not only respectable but it is in fact the responsible thing to do for your customer's financial security.

>Finally - we can calculate infinity.

And Beyond!

∞/1 + 1/∞

One infinitesimal step for the numerical, one giant step for mathkind.

I'd bet you money they dont!

> And the sad thing is, that Apple is the only one with such a laughing stock of UX/UI.

I'm not defending Apple here, but have you seen how people feel about Windows 11?

I don't mind the Liquid Glass UI so much as what's happened to the macOS UX :-/

Don't forget Windows Vista had "Aero"!

> The changes introduced by Windows Aero encompassed many elements of the Windows interface, with the introduction of a new visual style with an emphasis on animation, glass, and translucency; interface guidelines for phrasing and tone of instructions and other text in applications were available.

Maybe it's just me, but if I was leading development of iOS, then a "Quality and Underlying Performance" focus would be the bedrock of anything that was modified or added to iOS.

How is it not? :-/