macOS isn't without its sins, but I feel like "ad-ridden” is a stretch compared to the baseline of Windows 11 injecting promotions into the Start menu, OEM Android flavors full of carrier crap, etc. There's iCloud+ nags here and there, but it’s still by far the least noisy consumer OS right now aside from Linux.
Of course, if you consider iCloud's deep integration into Finder and the rest of the operating system a form of advertising, macOS is infested with ads. But then you’ve basically redefined “ad” to mean “any tightly integrated first-party service,” i.e. the core value proposition people are buying into with Apple's ecosystem at all.
(I still agree with your points about the lost potential of macOS, though)
Even as a diehard Linux user, I totally agree. If you can look past macOS's weak support for gaming, mediocre window management, and hostility towards unsigned binaries, the stability and experience it provides is second to none.
... Even then, you can still get around many pain points with third-party tools. AltTab + Raycast covers window management well enough for me and compatibility layers like Crossover/Wine are already great for gaming (which is hopefully only going to get better with Valve now working on x86 -> ARM translation layers)
It's more so the fact that 2.5 GbE NICs are really cheap and already fairly common in consumer devices. And game downloads aren't the only use case, file transfers could benefit from the extra headroom
That's an exaggeration. Affordable multi-gigabit fiber is widely available in plenty of metropolitan areas in the US and Europe and mid-range motherboards have included 2.5 GbE for years now and the NICs themselves are dirt cheap. I don't think it's irrational to be disappointed.
That's why I specified that it's widely available in plenty of metropolitan areas, not a large part of the country. Internet service absolutely is abysmal in the US as a whole, but many large cities do have affordable access to fiber.
This is not true, at least around where I live. Gigabit ethernet(which is gigabit for only the downloads, and <50 mbps for upload) is 110$ per month. Comcast is the only internet service provider who offers speeds over 50 mbps.
So I make due. If I want to download a 40gb game, I take a break. I read a book, or eat dinner. It works itself out, and I can play my game.
My point was that 1 Gbps+ internet is available in enough select metropolitan areas that saying "almost no one has it" is inaccurate, not that it's widely available everywhere to the average user.
Obviously the subset of users with multi-gig fiber is relatively small, but not practically zero like the comment suggested. Anecdotally, 3 Gbps fiber is widely available in my medium sized US city of about ~500k for as low as $110. I paid the same for asymmetrical gigabit cable internet in the last city I lived. It just depends.
2.5Gbit via PON fiber is getting common, but you won't get that from Comcast. US isn't great at internet speeds anyway. I've had symmetric 1gbit for ages here in EU and you can even get 10g in some places.
`git -C (brew --cache --HEAD fish) fetch --tags` and `brew install --HEAD --fetch-HEAD fish` seems to do the trick for now, just be prepared to wait awhile for it to build
The last time I visited a Fandom wiki on mobile, it autoplayed two videos simultaneously at full volume and required me to scroll through 75% of the page to get to the actual article, which itself was also full of ads. It was so bad that it motivated me to setup my own DNS server with ad blocklists
I interpreted the poem less as a literal manifesto against the practicality of blogs and more as a metaphor for how the format impacts us psychologically. Blogs, being chronological and linear, feel a bit disposable—you post and move on—which promotes rot. Wikis, on the other hand, are dynamic and interconnected, inviting ongoing growth and freshness.
I still don't really really agree with that either, though. I tried swapping out my simple static blog for a MediaWiki instance and quickly realized why you don't see many people doing that anymore. Maintaining a "complex abyss of ever-evolving thoughts" and actually writing stuff are often mutually exclusive
Lovely poem, but I don't 100% agree with the idea that the wiki possesses some kind of ethereal, spiritual advantage over the blog. The post-SEO internet has been unkind to all forms of online writing, and the wiki has been an equally effective vessel for the proliferation of rot as any other (looking at you, Fandom).
From a practical perspective: Blogs may rot, but wikis decay. Larger projects with established community manpower may not struggle with offsetting the maintenance and complexity that traditional wikis demand. For personal writing, however, the burden of preventing decay falls entirely on the author- and it's not a trivial burden. Like others have mentioned, there seems to be an absence of great wiki software offerings that do a great job of mitigating said burden. The few I have tried introduced an inherent complexity and maintenance overhead that significantly detracted from the core activity of writing.
Regardless, I'm hoping that it's just an engineering problem that has yet to be solved instead of an unavoidable characteristic of the medium itself. I would love for the wiki to make a big comeback.
