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MacBook Pro v Wife
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To be fair, I wouldn’t stay away from the forum because of this. Your post made a lot of people’s day.
This does seems to be a forum where people want be be outraged, people want to be able to indulge in a bit of hyperbole.
By these metrics, you’ve a very successful thread
after all, it’s web-based ranting, it’s not the real world.
I don't understand these reactions. OP posted a message saying "I gave my wife a big lecture and insisted she treat her belongings as I tell her to and she damaged it anyway, anyone else have that problem?"-- asking for and getting a response. A predictable one given how the post was written sometime after the mid 19th century. I don't see much anger or frustration in this thread, just a recognition that the language used seemed harsh-- then relating it to their own personal lives.
If you request that people comment on your life, and they do, you can't be surprised.
Why?
Quite apart from the fact that the relationship in question is personal - rather than professional, thus, invoices would be a form of dramatic overkill and would, I suspect, be rather counter-productive - there is also the fact that - even in a professional context - there are no grounds whatsoever for doing such a thing.
You could - or can - contemplate sending someone an invoice for damage they have done to your property.
However, you can hardly send someone an invoice if they scratch, chip or otherwise damage their own property.
And, when you give a gift to someone, it becomes (and remains) their property.
That’s not what an invoice is. There was no buying or selling of goods and services. So there cannot be an invoice.
If you (for the sake of ridiculousness) want to go down this road, all he could do is sue his wife for damages because of mental/emotional distress caused by her treatment of her own property.
He’d lose that case.
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When I had AppleCare+ on my devices, I didn’t have a care in the world. When my AppleCare+ expired, I turned into a nervous Nellie. Did you buy AppleCare+ for your year-old laptop?
You should give her 16 inch MBP next time, 2 extra inches may do the trick.
OP, there’s no losing proposition like trying to explain humor to some people who just aren’t having it. The title is funny and I would assume you have a loving relationship where it’s ok to joke about a laptop going from pristine to raggedy.
Nahh screw it, let’s use our displaced insecurities to assume the worst about this guy who controls his wife and definitely beats small helpless animals.
*cue outro music for this thread* What a wonderful world 🎶
Nahh screw it, let’s use our displaced insecurities to assume the worst about this guy who controls his wife and definitely beats small helpless animals.
*cue outro music for this thread* What a wonderful world 🎶
The internet is 100% part of the real world.By these metrics, you’ve a very successful thread
What we say here follows us everywhere.
My family all know I don’t let anyone use my iPad, MacBook Pro or iPhone.😂😂
The Mac Studio is used by family, and the keyboard has a little “dink” that no one has owned up to.🤷🏽🤦🏻
The Mac Studio is used by family, and the keyboard has a little “dink” that no one has owned up to.🤷🏽🤦🏻
it really doesn’t, unless your name is on your driver’s licence is “Ijudtwannatalk” - social media and the non-technical areas of forum’s are just playpens or sandboxes. Look at the 10 most currently active threads on this forum, and be honest about whether people you speak the same face-to-face, using their legal name. A lot if the internet is now not real, the “dead interne” theory has gone from being a fun conspiracy to a measurable fact - over half of internet interaction on tourism and social media is by not, and the vast amount of internet traffic is bits or automated processes. Outside is real. Rain and wind are real. Overblown drama is not real (but overblown drama generate income for YouTubers and sites like this, and that income is real). Internet drama fundamentally ends up being a promotional tool, and if you’re not being paid to add to any specific drama, someone else is earning. Most of the hyperbole on these threads is generated by comments made very quickly after the thread is opened, and those shouts voices are from accounts run by…. YouTubers. All they’re doing is manufacturing a mountain from a molehill to increase interest in the topic fir which they have a video and earn money from. SnazzyLabs being just one example.
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Yes, unfortunately OCD does not start and stop with just an expensive notebook.
'Don't sweat the small stuff.' is easier said than done. I am not an expert but usually you should learn about how 'messy' the person is before you marry them.
My perfect conditon M1 11" ipad that my wife has had for a year is now screen scratched.
My perfect 55" Samsung Tv i moved into the games room now has a 5mm scratch that you can't unsee.
My wife and daughter's cars i have have had dents taken out at least 2 times each, mine is perfect.
Can keep going lol
My perfect 55" Samsung Tv i moved into the games room now has a 5mm scratch that you can't unsee.
My wife and daughter's cars i have have had dents taken out at least 2 times each, mine is perfect.
Can keep going lol
How you name your boat(decide on who your hero is) will affect your life in a much more profound way than any factors of the environment(like the wind and the rain).
Correct.
As a single person, reading this thread has been very interesting. It might not’ve been the best idea to post this OP, but you said you told your wife and she didn’t mind, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . I think you just used a bit much hyperbole in the original post and that set people off.
On that note,
Did you really force your wife to not use her Mac when she travels or was that an exaggeration? Your later posts about it being a little back and forth and nothing huge doesn’t seem to agree with insisting she only use it certain ways.
On that note,
Did you really force your wife to not use her Mac when she travels or was that an exaggeration? Your later posts about it being a little back and forth and nothing huge doesn’t seem to agree with insisting she only use it certain ways.
Have you considered that she may have been watching you lovingly use fine mist cleaning sprays, fine micro cloths to remove finger prints and odd food particles over the years, and on receiving your prized ex possession decided to let loose, scratch, throw it down as a sign...might have been better to put funds to a divorce lawyer...first thing I'd have done, no judge, no jury
Obviously the girls rule!
They have much bigger things to worry about like keeping civilization going rather than worrying about trivial/meaningless things.
No, I strongly disagree.
Philip K Dick made a wonderful quote: "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
For this discussion, let's modify it it to "Reality is that which, when the power goes out and the batteries on your devices are drained, doesn't go away."
Social media and the "talky" front-face of the internet is as real as Reality TV - it is a curated, edited, photoshopped and enhanced version of reality. But that is not reality. NO matter how many filters you put on a photo of yourself, the reality is that you look like the person in the mirror, not in the "enhanced" photograph.
No one on the internet can smell your farts, but in reality, you still fart and those farts still stink.
Overblown clickbait is just that, bait for clicking. Because the aim is to get you to click. The reason why someone wants to to click on clickbait is that they gain something from it, usually money, either directly or indirectly.
"Content creation" is a career of sorts, but the problem for YouTuber creators is that they have to keep creating, again and again and again. Like the old-school newspaper model, for readers a newspaper is an affordable, convienient and regular source of news. For the board of directors of the newspaper, the newspaper is just a delivery vehicle for advertising. But they still need reasons for people to read the newspaper in order to deliver the advertising to their clients (the people paying for the advertising). So, if it's a slow news day, the newspaper has to come up with content ; puff pieces, or non-news stories presented as human interest or somehow important when it really isn't. Because they need content to fill the column inches between the adverts.
YouTubers were given a kick in the teeth with Apple Silicon. Before then, there was a lot of Mac-focused YouTube content on upgrading and stretching out the life old older Mac (which is something I do as a hobby are very much enjoy). Five years on from Apple Silicon, that source of content has dried up. So Apple YouTubers drop in and out of being haters, or rely on creating drama (as they do here by creating mountains out of molehills) because the need subject for content to put between their sponsor slots and keep the income coming in.
I'm not saying don't take part in it and don't enjoy it, but it is more definitely not reality or the real world - it is, as I said above, not reality but reality TV.
You can't breathe any content on the internet. You can't eat or drink it. If you find yourself with a failing kidney or infected gall bladder, the internet itself won't fix those problems. People, hospitals, physical treatments, they will be what helps you.
Because you are an analogue and biological create living in an analogue biological world. The inter5ent is neither analogue nor biological.
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A subconscious mind is much greater and more real than the conscious mind. It does not stop working or affecting your life when the lights go out. You really don't have to be a meditation guru or a "Think and Grow Rich" kinda guy to figure it out.
Music can be seen as a manipulation tool as it goes straight after your subconscious mind.
Put it where everyone can see it(the "reality" you are so insistently talking about or a first order consequence) and nobody will be able to see it(people in general are not expected "to see" a second or third and so forth order consequences which are almost always negative and contradicts your seemingly favorite first order consequence aka "reality".
But I do get your point about "immediate reality" like rain when you first have to find shelter and only then try to figure out how to keep your subconscious mind healthy and not let social media to dumb it down or take over it entirely.
Hmmm. No. Do you fart?
Get past the he ore tension, and you are human, not “posthuman”. You eat, you drink, you fart, you ****.
Your devices are very useful snd very well crafted tools, but that’s all they are.
Don’t confuse gadgets. I have a wife and children. That’s far more important than an OS. There’s nothing wrong with using tech to make money, and there’s nothing wrong with being interested in tech as a hobby.
But the analogue world around you is far more important.
No-ones going to love you easily fir a comment on on a forum, or how much tech you have, or how much you know about that tech.
They’ll love you because you are a living, breathing, tactile human being.
Haptics are not really tactile.
Go give your significant other a hug. Don’t send them a text saying “hug”.
Go visit your mother.
Technology us fun, but it’s not reality and not important as the people cure care about and the people who care about you.
Hell, there’s no amount if phones that is mire valuable than your cat or dog.
Technology is just tools to make luge better. It’s not life, and it’s but a replacement fur life.
The reality is that it won’t really matter at all, in the greater sxhene of things, what new video us on YouTube or how glassy iOS 26 is. What’s important is that the device you gave in your hand enables you to talk snd scare with people you care about.
There’s a lot of stunted growth on this forum. You’re just imperfect people. Go and naje another imperfect person feel better. Because no matter how perfect or imperfect your device is, it’s just a tool.
Life matters. Devices enable you to enagsbke with life.
Don’t obsess about the map. Enjoy the actual location.
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