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This is like reading about early oval racetracks in the US, which were made out of wooden boards: the drivers were getting splinters flying in their faces, aside from a host of other problems.

I watched the film recently and completely missed that subtext. Could you please point me to where those hints are?

HPD

I’m distressed by the fact that I guessed what ‘H’ means in that abbreviation — despite English not being my native language.

Thank you BBC for the one-sentence-a-paragraph formatting. But none of that explains why people fail to grok the message of the media.

Bojack is relatable. He’s just super duper depressed.

White’s whole thing was that he wanted power, not just money.

I vaguely heard that Heinlein engaged with a whole bunch of different ideologies for different books.

By the way, perhaps you could inform me as to how one sets up their environment to reliably pause playback when the play/pause keyboard key is pressed. Because apparently it’s too hard for Linux.

Oh no! I failed to convince some schmuck on the web, who can’t even understand what’s being said to them. How will I live with this? It’s really sad.

Unlike yourself? Who straight up said you don’t want to deal with a scripting API, while claiming to be a ‘power user’? A scripting API is what allows a power user to be a power user, and it was there in MacOS since 1993.

Again, if you have no idea how you could use Hammerspoon, you’re not a power user at all. You’re just a kiddie using big words.

Interesting, thanks.

The question is not whether KDE Connect is available for any given OS (it reportedly works on Windows and MacOS; and also word is that iPhone’s integration with Mac beats the pants off any kind of third-party package). Switching the headphones from the phone to the desktop is just one of infinite things that Hammerspoon can do, and if you don’t understand that, you’re not and never were a power user — especially since you “don’t want to learn a scripting API”, which is what power users do day in and day out. The fact is that no desktop automation like Hammerspoon is available for Linux, which is a complete failure on part of Linux advocates.

Settings are good when one doesn’t have to spend ten minutes getting RSI to find what they want. The control panel is now my litmus test for the quality of the UI. The first time I tried MacOS in a VM, I saw clear as day that it was made for humans instead of whatever random design philosophy MS uses. Same with Gnome 2, which was lifting a lot of ideas from MacOS.

Alas, Cinnamon has plenty of jank elsewhere, so I might have to try KDE again.

a strawman about windows/Linux needing 3rd party apps as well is just silly

You’re right here. Windows now needs third-party apps to remove “features”, not to add them. That’s the biggest difference between Windows and Mac these years. As for Linux, it always was and remains a toss-up as to whether the widget you want is installed, so I don’t see the fucking distinction. It’s not like Linux has every widget under the sun installed by default, is it? That would be pure madness.

Again, I invite you to look into Hammerspoon and Alfred for what UI interaction could be like, if you have even the slightest scripting chops. For example, my Android phone could hand off the Bluetooth headphones via the Automate app to the Macbook or vice versa, via drop-down widgets on the phone or a custom command on the laptop. With Linux, I have to kludge up my own endpoints with an Nginx webserver, no less, with barely any desktop APIs available through the command-line.

That’s alright, so long as you’re cured of your backwards views.

Yeah, just as I wrote in another comment, you have the conservative default Mac UI, and you have a plethora of open-source third-party tweaks for it, same as with some Linux GUIs. Mac’s UI is solid and has excellent usability because it doesn’t expose hundreds of options to tweak every possible behavior. I derived no pleasure from wading through Windows’ control panel for hours in search of one or another option that I needed, and to my knowledge KDE’s approach is the same but on meth.

the fact you have to use “thousands of third-party utils to tweak the UI”

What, like when you have to have a program or a widget in Linux or Windows to do some UI stuff? Which program might not be there out of the box? Idk why it’s such a difficult concept for Mac haters that when you have an app doing some UI tweaks, it’s the same thing in every OS. Mac UI is just conservative by itself, the same way as some Linux GUIs are barebones — which is somehow paraded as great success by Linuxoids but is looked down upon when Mac is doing it.

or use hammerspoon or Alfred instead of having options

You don’t “have” to use Hammerspoon or Alfred, but you can use them to do advanced stuff. Which you can’t do in Windows or Linux, because there’s nothing quite like these apps there. Alfred has some feeble analogues, while there’s bupkis like Hammerspoon aside from Autohotkey for Windows with its shitty 80s-style language and limited abilities. The fact that there isn’t a Hammerspoon-like app for Linux is a travesty, considering Linux users go on all day long about how it’s customizable and caters to power users. And by the way, if you look at Hammerspoon and Alfred and don’t know why you might want to use them, you’re not a power user.

Well, whales’ story is a bit different.

Just like using a regular fucking mouse normally

Nice, pulling bullshit out of your ass now because you must hate Apple at all times even for invented reasons, otherwise life isn’t worth living.

Unix with a solid GUI on top

Automation built into the GUI, with a dedicated language or accessible via the API.

Thousands of third-party utils to tweak the UI, including tons of open-source ones because programmers love Mac for the Unix. Including stuff like Hammerspoon and Alfred, the likes of which Linux users have never seen.

“the company actively hostile to power users”

Apple haters are like a broken record.