In that case, yeah give the guy a Mac lol. Just had to stand up for poor misunderstood IT guys, but sounds like he is in the wrong. Unfortunately there are quite a few of us that seem to just like telling users no.
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Mount Vernon (George Washington's estate) does a pretty good job of exploring that mind set without ever justifying slavery or down playing the horrific nature of it. American society was built on slavery, so the people born at the top and benefiting from it would have no reason to question, is this right, because if it's not then all the people who raised me were evil and that can't be true.
There is a lot of similarities between the slave owner class of the civil war and the "capitalist elite" of today. "Why ban slavery if I'm not enslaved and could maybe one day own a slave" is about like "why tax billionaires if I don't need the government and I might one day be a billionaire?".
"Yeah we freed them, but we were allowed to restructure our laws to keep them subjugated and continued to treat them as subhuman. So was it really worth it?".
Reconstruction should have, at a minimum, barred any supporter of the Confederacy from holding office again, or, even better, had the leaders hanged as traitors. Instead we let them continue just with "banned" slavery (except for as punishment for a crime).
We then allowed slave owners to write the laws to integrate formerly enslaved people into their society, and, surprise surprise, they structured the laws to benefit themselves and keep the formerly enslaved as second class. So instead of "was ending slavery worth it?". It should be asking "was keeping slavers alive worth it?" as we are still dealing with the consequences of that today.
As an IT worker, it is more likely that they don't want to deal with the headache of enterprise management of a Mac for just one person.
Just buying a Mac is easy, setting that Mac up to be monitored, managed, and secured centrally is a whole other issue. Especially when none of their current infrastructure supports Mac, because why would it when no one current uses one.
The user is worried about what type of device works best for their specific use. The IT manager is worried about what type of device do I have a licences for anti virus, what device can I audit security settings remotely, what device can I centrally manage updates, etc..
That being said, for personal use there is definitely a niche for Apple products. It just isn't so clear cut when it comes to using those devices in an enterprise setting. And speaking from experience just one person never stays at one person. Once someone gets one, everyone will be saying "well, why can't I get one too?".
Good to see that Lemmy has just as good reading comprehension as Reddit lol. Would love to see a click through rate for posts to see how many people just open straight to the comments without reading the linked article.
This seems like when they release GTAV one at a time on every platform to get people to buy it twice. I'm guessing they will release this remaster on all platforms, PC next, then they will release a full remake in the RDR2 engine to try and double dip everyone. They already recreated the majority of the original map for the epilogue of RDR2, so a lot of the work was already done. Plus they could resell RDR2 as a "next-gen" version to charge more than $70 for them together.
As far as business models go this one is easier to avoid falling into than games being designed around microtransactions. You just have to wait and get a better product eventually for cheaper. While mtx games are generally more expensive to get into the longer they run.
Really speaks to Minecraft's staying power that even without ever being in the top five for a single year it is the best selling game of all time. Cumulative COD clearly wins out but I would guess the majority of each game's sales are repeat customers.
I played early access that way with the Stream Controller/Deck before the real controller support was added. It works pretty well but takes a lot of setup to get feeling right. The controller support works right away but has limitations mainly with selection and menus.
Personally I've switched to controller UI as it is easier to keep track of what buttons do when they are shown on the screen. Pressing X when it says X is easier than pressing X when it says left shift. Split input would be best of both worlds but for now either way works depending on what it more important for you.
You should be able to take the yellow onion to be absorbed by your red one. This should give you a few yellow Pikmin and allows you to make new yellow ones by having the yellow Pikmin take it to the combined onion.
Once the onions are combined, you can tell what color Pikmin will be created when things are absorbed by looking at the color of the numbers above the item. The number that show how many Pikmin are carrying it. Pikmin will make new ones of their color so if you want yellow you need majority yellow to carry it
If you already have the max number of Pikmin out, it will still make new ones. They just stay in the onion. Go into the light under it, press A, and you can change out for different colors.