Yep. the US has always been behind on this bc both the card companies and the merchants are loath to spend an extra .01% to implement better security.

Apple Pay on mac is the best we got. Looking forward to getting a new mac this year in part just for that.

Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA

Deutsches Museum in Munich

Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix

yeah. fuck iCloud.

yeah ios26 is objectively a piece of shit

my 2017 mac air is getting real long in the tooth. I'd definitely considering switching to *nix with it but everything I keep reading is that process is not so easy.

I've been on linux since 2014; I'm an ocassional user of windows, booting into it with much regret to deal with client's issues. I generally dislike working with MacOS... but for someone used to macOS I see no meaningful degradation of the kind there is with windows - your time is better spent earning/buying/setting up an m series mac air.

I am holding out for an M5 air!

Write a strongly worded letter to the manager (apple). It's easy on other hardware.

relying on essentially remote dispatch to resolve these errors states is a disaster

we did a christmas vacation there one year. spoke to the neighbors and the next thing you know we were jumped into the local christmas potluck celebration. my nephew even got called up on stage to see santa and get a present!

in 10 years it will be Steam and Nintendo. everything else will be a dim memory.

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