What should be included with all new MacBook Pros.

I have remarkable tolerance for Apple’s premium prices, their lack of configurability in many areas and even their walled garden apporach but now they’ve just gone beyond what I can stomach.

It’s sad as I’ve been a devotee of Apple hardware and software for a while now, but I will never buy an Apple device again most likely.

With better high-DPI displays showing up and the prices dropping, and with Windows improving its support of high-DPI and mixed-DPI, my days of using Apple hardware and software are unfortunately numbered.

I can’t understand why we treat disabled people so poorly.

Sure, sociologically I can read the research, understand the transition to Taylorism, the forging of everyone into an interchangeable widget, but at a basic level it’s still incomprehensible because it’d take so little comparatively to make those people feel like full members of society and to also make society itself better.

That piece deals with conditions in Canada, but as in most things except not mostly being ridiculously cold 11 months out of the year the US is far worse.

I have disabled friends. I grew up in an area where people got disabled by workplace injuries fairly frequently. So I know most of the myths about disabled people are just that — mythical. Most people want to contribute, to be given a chance, to be valued.

It reflects poorly on our society that we are so vastly wealthy as compared to our predecessors but are willing to throw so many people in the garbage unnecessarily, people who could contribute to society in all sorts of ways if we gave them a chance.

What the hell, Apple?

Looks like I will never be buying another Apple device again. They have utterly lost the plot. I don’t particularly like Windows, but as soon as I get tired of my iMac or it dies, I’ll be going back to Windows for my main machine. It handles high-DPI unfortunately better than Linux by far. (As secondary machines, I have a MacBook Pro, a Linux server, a Hyper-V server, a backup server and a dozen various virtual machines.)

Apple has no idea what they are doing any more. Just none at all.