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Apple Was Trolling On This One Lmao

19 hours ago 185.0K views 0 shares

Apple's migration assistant is out here transferring data at a blistering 6 MB/s like we're still living in the dial-up era. Two hours and 26 minutes to copy "Allan Berry's Pictures"? At this rate, you could probably just manually email each photo individually and finish faster. The real kicker is transferring from "LAPTOP-MN1J8UQC" (clearly a Windows machine with that beautiful randomly-generated name) to a shiny new Mac. So you're making the big switch to the Apple ecosystem, and they welcome you with transfer speeds that would make a floppy disk blush. Nothing says "premium experience" quite like watching a progress bar crawl while contemplating your life choices. Fun fact: Modern SSDs can hit read speeds of 7000 MB/s, which means Apple's transfer tool is running at roughly 0.08% of what current hardware is capable of. But hey, at least it gives you time to grab coffee, take a nap, and question why USB-C still can't figure out its life.

Well, Guess That's Many Of Us!

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2 days ago 181.0K views 0 shares

The eternal divide between Apple users and PC users, perfectly illustrated through their reactions to hardware damage. Apple users spot a microscopic scratch on their pristine MacBook and immediately spiral into existential crisis mode—"OMG have I ruined my Macbook!?!?!" Meanwhile, PC users are running machines that look like they survived a Mad Max movie, held together by duct tape and prayers, casually asking "Is this effecting performance?" while their GPU is literally exposed to the elements. It's the difference between treating your device like a sacred artifact versus treating it like a Nokia 3310 that refuses to die. PC users have transcended physical damage—if it boots, it works. Apple users? That tiny dent just devalued their device by $500 in their minds.

Top 5 Things That Never Happened

AI Hardware MacOS Apple Programming

8 days ago 252.7K views 0 shares

So Claude AI supposedly reverse-engineered and rewrote a 20-year-old HP LaserJet printer driver to make it compatible with macOS on Apple Silicon. Yeah, and I'm the Easter Bunny. The beautiful irony here is that printer drivers are notoriously the most cursed, undocumented, proprietary pieces of software known to humanity. They're written in ancient C with zero comments, probably by engineers who've since retired to a remote island. The idea that an LLM could just casually rewrite one—dealing with CUPS integration, kernel extensions, and whatever eldritch horrors HP buried in their driver code—is pure fantasy. But hey, it got 39K likes because everyone wants to believe AI is magic. In reality, Dad probably just installed the generic PostScript driver and it worked fine, or he's still using his old Intel Mac. The printer driver rewrite story? Filed under "Things That Definitely Happened" right next to "I fixed the bug on the first try" and "The client loved my initial design."

Ergonomic Keyboard

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10 days ago 241.7K views 0 shares

Someone finally designed a keyboard optimized for the real developer workflow: clicking through permission dialogs. Three keys, three choices, infinite suffering. The Apple logo is just *chef's kiss* because of course this is what peak design looks like to them. Your wrists might be saved, but your soul is still trapped in permission hell. At least now you can develop carpal tunnel syndrome more efficiently while deciding whether to trust that sketchy npm package for the 47th time today.

If I Had 100$/Year

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10 days ago 192.2K views 0 shares

Apple Developer Program membership costs $99/year just for the privilege of uploading your app to the App Store. You know, the app you already spent months building. It's like paying rent to display your own furniture. Meanwhile, Android devs can pay once and call it a day, but iOS? Nah, that's a subscription service. Every. Single. Year. Nothing says "innovation" quite like a recurring fee to access a compiler and a submit button.

I Mean...

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23 days ago 278.3K views 2 shares

Microsoft out here trying to defend telemetry while Google's like "yeah but I only track your browsing history, search queries, location, emails, and literally everything you do online." Apple's playing the privacy card while still collecting data, just with better PR. And then there's Linux—the only one genuinely confused why anyone would even want to spy on users. The beauty here is that Linux is the kid at the party who doesn't understand why everyone else is being shady. Open source transparency hits different when you realize you can literally read the code and see there's no telemetry nonsense baked in. Meanwhile, the big three are just arguing over who's less invasive, which is like debating who's the tallest dwarf.

Bro Did Not Deserve This

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1 month ago 340.3K views 0 shares

Android developer tries to have a reasonable conversation about Apple users and immediately gets nuked from orbit. Guy literally admits Android is garbage, explains his Apple preference with actual logic (security, ecosystem, lifestyle), and still gets roasted for allegedly spending time on Instagram instead of fixing Android. Brother threw him under the bus, backed up, and ran him over again. The self-own is spectacular. "Me being an android developer I also say android is shit" is the kind of brutal honesty that deserves respect, not a clapback about sliding into DMs. Man was just trying to bridge the iOS-Android divide and got absolutely demolished for his troubles.

Linux Be Like

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1 month ago 429.7K views 0 shares

Linux sitting there like the only kid in class who didn't cheat on the exam while everyone else is comparing notes. Microsoft's out here with telemetry baked into every corner of Windows, Google's entire business model is literally "we know what you searched at 2 PM last Thursday," and Apple's playing the privacy card while still knowing your exact location down to the centimeter. Meanwhile, Linux is just genuinely confused why anyone would even want to collect user data in the first place. Open source means open code—can't hide spyware when thousands of neckbeards are reading every line you commit. It's like showing up to a surveillance capitalism party and being the only one who brought actual privacy.

Only Setup You Need To Search For Cat Videos

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1 month ago 298.4K views 0 shares

Only Setup You Need To Search For Cat Videos

Someone built a literal Mac Mini data center just to browse the internet. That's right—dozens of Mac Minis, meticulously cabled and racked like they're running a Fortune 500 company's infrastructure, when in reality they're probably just streaming YouTube. The joke here is the absolutely insane overkill of creating a server farm with what appears to be 40+ Mac Minis (each costing a cool $600-$2000) for the most mundane task imaginable: watching cat videos. It's like hiring a NASA engineer to microwave your burrito. The cable management is actually pretty clean though, not gonna lie. Someone really said "if I'm going to waste an absurd amount of money on unnecessary hardware, I'm at least going to make it look professional." Respect the commitment to the bit, even if your electricity bill now rivals a small country's GDP.

Imagine The World With More Windows Computers

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2 months ago 410.1K views 0 shares

Imagine The World With More Windows Computers

Steve Jobs really tried to pull a "join us and kill your baby" move on Linus Torvalds back in 2000. Imagine the audacity: "Hey, come work for Apple, but first, stop doing that thing you're literally famous for creating." Torvalds looked at that offer, probably laughed in Finnish, and said "nah, I'm good." Thank the tech gods he did, because without Linux we'd be living in a dystopian hellscape where servers run Windows and Docker containers are just a fever dream. The man literally chose open-source ideals over a cushy Apple paycheck and continues maintaining the kernel that powers like 90% of the internet, Android phones, and basically every server worth its salt. Meanwhile, Steve's probably doing that prayer hands thing from beyond the grave, still wondering why anyone would turn down Apple.

Merry Christmas!

Apple Hardware MacOS Ios Debugging

2 months ago 460.0K views 0 shares

Nothing says "Happy Holidays" quite like your entire Apple ecosystem deciding to update simultaneously at 12%. The laptop's upgrading, the phone's boot-looping, and the iPad's doing... whatever iPads do when they're stuck on the Apple logo. It's like they all got together and said, "You know what would be fun? Let's all brick ourselves on Christmas morning." The best part? You can't even Google the error codes because your phone is also dead. So you just sit there, watching progress bars move slower than your sprint velocity, wondering if maybe this is a sign to spend time with your family instead. Spoiler: it's not, you need to fix this ASAP. Pro tip from someone who's been there: always keep one device NOT updating. It's called redundancy, and it's not just for production servers.

Someone Flexing With Golden iPhone 17 Pro Max... Until I Pull Out The Wallet

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2 months ago 367.8K views 1 shares

Someone Flexing With Golden iPhone 17 Pro Max... Until I Pull Out The Wallet

You think your golden iPhone is impressive? Cute. Meanwhile I'm carrying around enough RAM sticks to run a small data center. While normies flex their overpriced status symbols, we're out here hoarding hardware like dragons sitting on treasure piles. That wallet isn't storing credit cards—it's a portable server farm. Sure, your phone costs $1,500, but I've got $800 worth of DDR4 just casually chilling where normal people keep their driver's license. The real flex is explaining to TSA why your wallet sets off metal detectors and contains what looks like tiny circuit boards. "Sir, is that... RAM?" "Yes officer, 64GB of it. You never know when you need to download more memory."

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