In my entire life (and as context my earliest experiences with a PC predate the first consumer-available apple computer) there has not been a single time where I have felt the phrase “only Apple can achieve” to be worthy of anything other than a snort.

Apple’s unshakable confidence that everything they do is earth shattering is overlapping heavily with that mediocre white man saying these days.

This week’s example of why no one should trust MS with their data, ever.

Also this week’s example of why you should run an OS you control.

I wouldn’t want it as a primary monitor but I’d love love love it as a secondary.

Every time I use my ereader I just luxuriate in the eink screen, warts and all. The very moment I can get an extenal eink display for my computer that is both of reasonable resolution and also not exorbitantly expensive, I’m doing it. I wouldn’t want it as a primary monitor but I’d love love love it as a secondary.

I definitely want an eink phone, but I doubt I’ll have the bucks to be an early adopter, which is fine.

Fuck McDonald’s

TheStreet reported that Medium French Fries went from $1.79 in 2019 to $4.19 in 2024, a 134.1 percent increase. A McChicken went from $1.29 to $3.89, a 201.6 percent hike.

The price of the beloved Big Mac increased 87.7 percent, from $3.99 to $7.49. An order of 10 McNuggets rose by 68.8 percent, from $4.49 to $7.58. Of the five popular products examined, cheeseburgers saw the largest price increase—going from $1 to $3.15, a 215 percent spike.

These increases exceed the general average for inflation calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that prices went up by about 21.5 percent between the end of 2019 and March 2024.

For at least since the pandemic I can get a better burger and fries from an actual restaurant, with probably three or four different places to choose from, for less. McDonald’s is good in a particular way, but the two main things they had going for them were convenience and cost. With cost blown away the convenience isn’t really enough to carry the day a lot of the time, even when I’m in a rush.

And they did it them fucking selves.