It's already the case. I plan to upgrade my old 13 with some parts from the pro next year. I won't have to pay a full machine for a new screen, battery or touchpad.
At the price of the RAM (I never fill my 32GB, why would I buy any?), not buying a new machine basically pays for the first laptop premium.
Next upgrade, I'll be saving money.
And giving money to an ecosystem I like, creating a stronger competitor with those values.
Also, with hardware being now more expensive, just being able to swap parts for upgrades or repairs is way more appealing than before.
Not to mention they don't spend time with marketing fluff about AI, which in the current market is winning them some clients.
But I also think the fact that they have been here for a long time now, and they got the pro backward compatible with the old 13 means people trust them now. They delivered.
n = 1 but I clearly feel the effect when I start drinking aspartam drinks a few times a week. So much so that I just stopped drinking them.
I didn't use to. But I stopped rafined sugar for a year and compensated with coca zero. After that, guts never been quite the same and it took some copious amount of probiotics with regular doctor checks to feel better.
Even then, it's still no back up to baseline, and now drinking aspartam more than once is upsetting.
People say this about MSG too, but when you blind-test them the effect vanishes, which is unsurprising because the constituents in MSG are, like aspartame, widely prevalent in traditional foodstuffs.
It's infuriating but practically true. I had a few services that received illegitimate DMCA notices that I ignored. They were either blatantly fraudulent, automated junk or just not applicable to the law of the country where I'm hosting.
They escalated to either my hosting or my domain name provider, who then threatened to cut me off for not complying. No discussion with them would work in my favor. I had to comply with this BS. I got cut off several times for completely wrong reasons.
They don't care. It's not worth the legal risk for them. I'm not big enough.
It's completely legal to ignore a DMCA notice. These notices set up a procedure where you're definitely not liable, but it doesn't mean it's the only way to not be liable. You can also not be liable if you - for example - didn't do anything illegal.
Bot traffic have been overtaking humans for a long time. Between crawler, spammers, fake accounts on all social media, automated scripts for API and various saas and botnets for various attacks...
It's just that now the official numbers say so.
But anyone on twitter or reddit can tell you the dead internet theory has been progressing at a swift pace for a decade.
You will be even more horrified to learn that installing the entire list of deps of a project that would take a few seconds on my home laptop may take up to 20 minutes at some clients because many FS calls do a network round-trip.
We are not talking about exceptions either. This is pretty standard stuff when you work outside of the IT-literate companies.
At one client, they provided me with a part time tester, they neglected to give him the permissions to install git. Took 3 weeks to fix.
The same client makes us dev on Windows machine but deploy on Linux pods. We can't directly test on the linux, nor connect to them, only deploy on it. In fact, we don't even have the specs of the pods, I had to create a whole API endpoint in the project just to be able to fetch them.
Other things I got to enjoy:
- CTO storing the passwords of all the servers in an libre office file
- lead testing in prod, as root, by copying files through ftp. No version control.
- sysadmin that had an interesting way of managing his servers: he remote controlled one particular windows machine using team viewer which ones the only one that could connect through ssh to them.
The list is quite long.
This makes you see the entire world with a whole new perspective.
I always thought that all devs should spend a year doing tech support for a variety of companies so that they get a reality check on what most humans actually have to deal with when working on a computer.
But again, it's a CLI tool. There is a limit to how they can mess it up.
And it's not in their best interest to do so. They are neither fools nor incompetent.
They'll make much more money by making it even better, and then offering to pay for integration with their ecosystem for stuff like creating installers, deploying in production, etc.
They don't want to add prompting in uv and make a few bucks per token. They want apps on demand. They want to own a platform. They want to be the next layer.
uv is just an implementation details to make that good, and so that's why I think it will stay so.
Telling that to normies would usually give me blanks stares and "nothing to hide" or "don't care" arguments.
My "but your situation my change" and "gov can turn bad" arguments never hit. People are terrible at projecting themselves. That's why climate change is so hard to fight. It's too far and abstract.
Humans need to feel concrete and awful pain to realize their mistake and learn.
But I'm hoping the Trump situation is going to cause that. Now that the US is at the brink of dictatorship (some might argue it's already there), maybe American citizens will realize that putting their entire life on a centralized platform, having non encrypted communications and spying devices everywhere is a terrible idea.
I'm not very optimistic though.
And even if they do, in 3 generations, they will have forgotten. I have no idea how to fix this.
At the price of the RAM (I never fill my 32GB, why would I buy any?), not buying a new machine basically pays for the first laptop premium.
Next upgrade, I'll be saving money.
And giving money to an ecosystem I like, creating a stronger competitor with those values.
Love it.