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Cake day: November 29th, 2023

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  • Couldn’t agree more. If you have a problem with alcohol, you avoid it. If you have a problem with eating meat, you avoid it. If you have a problem with gluten, you avoid it. If you have a problem with certain Lemmy users or instances, guess what? You avoid them.

    Doesn’t mean everyone else has to do the same. It’s about taking personal responsibility for your own mental health and peace of mind. This was always allowed, it was part of the design right from the start.




















  • Apple is a publicly traded company as well, which means they have the same incentives, but they do the exact opposite, having frequently broken backwards compatibility in major ways in order to make massive structural changes, like moving to an entirely different processor architecture not once, not twice, but three times now, and often breaking backwards compatibility in major ways in order to reduce bloat.

    This is more likely a cultural issue than a technical one. Basically, both companies practice very different philosophies when it comes to engineering decisions. Of course, a major reason why Apple can do this while Microsoft can’t is the fact that Apple makes their own hardware, while Microsoft doesn’t.