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@dirkpitt_73

Nostalgic contrarian drawn to the quirky - some of the stuff I'm into: Tech, Cars, Watches, Cult Movies, The Cosmere and "one more thing" ... Columbo 🥴

Katılım Mart 2009
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Basic Apple Guy
Basic Apple Guy@BasicAppleGuy·
Surf's Up in macOS Tahoe 🏄
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@stephenrobles Nice, I listen almost every week and love the video in one app vs switching between Podcasts and YouTube.
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Microsoft has now renamed this product four times in four years and each name is worse than the last. Microsoft Office (1990-2022). Thirty-two years of brand equity. Everyone on Earth knew what it meant. Your grandmother knew what it meant. “I need to open Office” required zero explanation in any language. Then: Microsoft 365. Then: Microsoft 365 (Office), because even Microsoft couldn’t stop using the old name. Then: Microsoft 365 Copilot. The app icon is now identical to the Copilot chatbot icon with a tiny “M365” badge in the corner. Users are opening the AI chatbot when they want Excel. “Office 365” still has double the search traffic of “Microsoft 365.” “Microsoft 365 Copilot” has virtually none. The reason this keeps happening is the same reason it will keep getting worse. Microsoft sells Copilot to Wall Street, not to the person trying to open a spreadsheet. Satya Nadella told investors 70% of Fortune 500 companies “adopted” Copilot. The actual conversion rate, the share of employees with access who choose to use it, is 35.8%. ChatGPT’s is 83.1%. When workers have access to multiple AI tools and can pick freely, 8% choose Copilot. 70% choose ChatGPT. Copilot’s paid subscriber market share dropped from 18.8% to 11.5% in six months. Gemini passed it in November 2025. So Microsoft did the only thing left: rebrand the world’s most recognized productivity suite after the AI product nobody is voluntarily using, and raise the subscription price to pay for it. This is the same company that rebranded MSN to “Microsoft Start” in 2021 and quietly reverted to MSN three years later after everyone ignored the new name. The same company that renamed Microsoft Remote Desktop to “Windows App.” 400 million paid seats. The switching cost is so high that Microsoft could name it Microsoft Copilot Clippy 365 AI Turbo and most companies would renew anyway.
P.G. Chodehouse@mynnoj

super funny that microsoft had a strong brand like 'office' and some mbas decided that 'microsoft 365' and 'copilot' should replace it

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Chayenne Zhao
Chayenne Zhao@GenAI_is_real·
unpopular take: 8GB is not the problem, software bloat is. i used an 8GB mac for years and it was fine because the programs were lean. now a browser tab takes 500MB and an electron app eats 1GB just to show you a text editor. we kept throwing more RAM at the problem instead of writing efficient software. if the industry spent half the energy on optimization that it spends on adding features, 8GB would be plenty in 2026. the real question isnt why apple ships 8GB, its why we need 32GB to run a chat app @steipete
Peter Steinberger 🦞@steipete

The new MacBook Neo has 8GB unified memory? Rough.

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WW2 The Eastern Front
WW2 The Eastern Front@ShoahUkraine·
This story was truly heartwarming. I found it in the CBS archives. A man approaches a CBS reporter in Russia after realizing they are American and shares the story of his captivity. He had been held in a concentration camp alongside American soldiers, separated from them by a large fence. Each American soldier received five kilos of food from the Red Cross every Friday, but the Germans allowed nothing for the Red Army POWs. They were given only a small amount of soup each day and were constantly starving. Some U.S. soldiers came up with a plan with the Red Army POWs across the fence to throw food over to the Russian prisoners. The plot was eventually discovered, and the Gestapo brought all 8,000 American soldiers outside and demanded they reveal the names of the Russians involved on the other side. Not a single American opened his mouth or betrayed them.
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@tomsmason91 The best Bond soundtrack IMHO, George Martin took it to another level.
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Tom Mason
Tom Mason@tomsmason91·
Every use of the James Bond Theme 8: Live and Let Die (1973) Particularly love the way the Bond theme is used throughout until the finale where it's replaced with Kananga's motif and the title theme (emphasising Kananga's control), before returning as Bond defeats the villain!
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@nothing @grok Phone 3 - I think the design would grow on me 🤔
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Nothing@nothing·
Hey @grok, pick a winner out of every 10,000th comment, they get the Nothing product they mention. Must be following @nothing. Ends in 48 hours. Let’s go.
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@AlanJParks loving the Harry McCoy series👏reading them back-to-back (currently on April). McCoy, Wattie, Cooper & Murray are living rent-free in my head!😆hoping there will be a July entry this year? US tour coming? thanks!
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Westerns & the Old West
Westerns & the Old West@DavidLambertArt·
In 1968, Joe Don Baker played the main villain in the Lancer pilot. In Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, the role is played by Leonardo DiCaprio's character Rick Dalton
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The Simpsons
The Simpsons@TheSimpsons·
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