You tell your buddy to tell me where he’s getting his tickets.

Ageing punks and balding. Name a more iconic duo. Municipal Waste shows just look like seas of pink potatoes bobbing up and down.

Edit: Probably Thrash Metal and balding. LOL

I am referring to them. That demographic is the same one who believes in crystals and has been shifting to the right for years. The Venn Diagram of houses with a used Tarot deck, a Ouiji Board, and a MAGA hat and it’s almost a circle.

There’s some alt girls that wear black and you might be confusing the two. You can pull an alt look off. It’s comically easy.

The absolute weirdest flip. The hyper feminism witch girl from my old highschool married an ICE agent. My super Wicca HR manager from two jobs back would do rituals for the police.

I dug into it and it’s not a unique experience. That demographic, somehow, went fascist real fast. It’s often attributed to “Conspiritualism” or holistic spiritual type peoples predisposition to accept wild conspiracy theories. The Alt Right works by rejecting the mainstream narratives and that aligns with their values. There’s a shared element of fetishizing the past and both groups show high recruitment when people feel powerless.

Tldr; There are no harmless fools. If you worship a rock, you will get a block. Ignorance has no place in civil society.

Well the Dems helped elect a fascist dictator and they’re now writing poetry and coordinating outfits while our freedoms are eroded. Maybe if we just donated more. Despite holding a strong majority they couldn’t seem to pass anything or get anything done. Obama bailed out companies that left the US anyway. Dems abandoned the middle and working class in favor of a shocking small amount of money. Seriously, that information is widely available and our politicians were CHEAP. When our freedom and well being was on the line they phones in the worst presidential campaign I’ve ever seen from a serious candidate and fumbled so hard it’s difficult to believe it wasn’t intentional. Every year I canvassed for these clowns. I volunteered. And they couldn’t even swing the bat when we needed them. It’s obvious they’re complicit.

Obama and Biden robbed me for the benefit of their donors and now I’m getting told I didn’t campaign for them enough for them. Like I didn’t help flip this area purple and then blue. Apparently we didn’t vote enough to get them to represent my interests at any point over the past 30 years. I’m convinced if I vote for them they’ll just roll over for fascists again. Biden actively let Trump go and let this happen. Trump is a direct result of Dem incompetence or compliance. They’re all on the same team.

Witch girls are super rightwing now. A real weird flip.

Must be the mirror universe because these dog shit lying manipulative shit bags have never helped anyone ever.

Dems aren’t bad because they do bad things, they’re bad because they’re traitors who sided with a fascist over the American people. Dems would side with Reps over you and I in a heartbeat.

I’m convinced they axed him just so they could tank this election and give us Trump. They’ve been on his side this whole time.

No Dem has lifted a finger to help me in my lifetime.

Look, the boot tastes perfectly fine. Besides, how will the millionaires eat if I don’t spend my attention to get them paid? What’s another ad. And another ad. Ads when I drive, ads when I park. Ads when I’m reading the news and ads when I’m watching TV. Anyone else hungry for <insert chain restaurant here> lol.

Not everything I view online deserves money. I decide what is worth it to give money to and I decide what news articles I’m allowed to read.

People who would have gone into finance or received an MBA have been going to tech for a decade now. Every one of them pushes out someone who would have been a real developer.

I’ve also had the pleasure of watching a lot of the generation who’s now complaining as they grew through their journey as developers. I think a lot of them are sugar coating their own abilities. I struggled with many a now illustrious developer whole they banged their head against the wall for hours.

You’re supposed to gatekeep code. There is nothing wrong with gatekeeping things that aren’t hobbies.

If someone can’t explain every change they’re making and why they chose to do it that way they’re getting denied. The bar is low.

Lame platitude

There’s no advantage to being Mac like.

You can’t pick the most expensive brands and claim they’re “well rounded”. It’s like buying a luxury car and saying it’s your reliable little daily commuter.

The point is there is no valid reason besides the three reasons I stated for someone to want to buy a Mac. Either you like the looks, the brand or you just don’t know any better and you refuse to learn. Each of those options is valid, but you do have to pick one of them.

What is it about the MacBook Air that makes you feel it is well rounded? Why do you need the compute? Is it for video editing or 3D modeling? Because those run fantastic on midrange hardware now. Are you a developer? Because Mac hasn’t been the developer choice in over two decades. You know what’s better than being Linux like? Being Linux. WSL and the TPM chip removed anything else that might draw a rational consumer to Apple. Do a little gaming? I’ve got bad news about Macs. Lol. There’s no real reason anymore.

My DBA has had the same two monitors for a decade and most of the devs just use whatever monitor was on sale.

Technical people are not the people buying Macs. Mac has its place and it hasn’t been technical folks since TPM chips and WSL.

If like to see what you think the “features” are that can’t be replaced. Literally every single feature of a Mac is implemented better with Windows or Windows with WSL. “It’s closer to Linux” No, Linux is closer to Linux and I can’t dual boot or WSL on Apple silicone. “Muh security” TPM is 10x more practical and slightly beats out Enclave in performance. “Muh hardware” if you spend that much money on any laptop it’ll perform well. If you spend that much on a Windows laptop you’d get even better hardware. You could build multiple Linux machines that each outperform the Mac for the same price. “It just works” I have had multiple hours long troubleshooting call with a Jr Engineer that proves otherwise. “Muh package manager” if you struggle with this, you’re not technical. “Muh iOS dev” iOS/Android apps can be tested in a pipeline or through the myriad of tools like Device Farm. Ship it with Fastlane and call it a day. You can handle both app stores this way.

Why do you want a Mac? The only valid choices are aesthetics, brand loyalty or ignorance.

It’s not uncommon to just disable hardware you don’t intent to use. You don’t have to do it mechanically. There’s a lot of kiosks around that have a lot more capabilities than they’re used for.

If you’re looking to do it with a Pi, banana, orange or raspberry, let me know. I’ve spent way too much time finding the perfect screen to use and case to print. I build a rechargeable handheld device that can pull up all my surveillance cameras and functions as a master remote.

You’re thinking about it too hard.

Just use a launcher, sometimes called Kiosk mode/launchers, to launch one app. You can disable the other hardware if you want, but it doesn’t seem like it really helps you reach your goal.

You could probably pull it off with a Pi Zero, battery pack, and screen if you want to get into it a bit. It’s not that hard at all.

Does your average non technical user who wants a device like this care if it’s not the highest quality screen?

The demographic that is just Apple fanboys and they weren’t giving up their overpriced garbage no matter what.

You can also just have an application designed to do that do it more accurately.

If you can’t do that you’re not an engineer. If you don’t recommend that you’re not an engineer.