Cloudflare sells domains at cost so yeah, they’re cheaper. Downside is they don’t have as extensive TLD support as Namecheap, but they’re slowly improving.
CloudFlare domains is a bit of an underbaked product, it's not bad but you should be aware that you cannot change your root nameservers . They must be CloudFlare. The only way to change them is to switch registrars.
I commend anyone for trying to make the tooling ecosystem better, but I’ve never once thought Prettier was too slow. It runs in a fraction of a second on file save.
The performance comparison on Biomejs’ site shows a Prettier run taking 14 seconds, which I can imagine on a very large code base might be true - but that’s a one-off case surely? Once it’s run, it’s just a case of format on save or commit which is back to near-instantaneous.
Typically, you would check the formatting of the entire codebase on the CI or even locally (to ensure that you are doing the same checks on the CI and locally). On a large code base this can take several seconds, reducing developer experience. Yes, you can use git hook to check only changed files. However, this requires more setup and may lead to some misses.
Biome can also format malformed code. It supports formatting as you type.
Biome has less known non-idempotent formatting (For some edge cases you need to run twice Prettier to get a stabilized output).
Biome is also a linter. You get two tools that are closely compatible.
git commit hooks & ci checks that ensure everything is formatted because that one coworker refuses to set it up to run on save and keeps forgetting causing merge conflicts down the line
Sounds like exactly what happened in the UK. New nuclear was proposed in 2010 by the newly elected centre-right led coalition government, with the aim of it being privately funded.
Since then subsidies have been agreed but costs continue to skyrocket. Only one plant is under construction and the time to operation has shifted from 5 years to 10 years.
Meanwhile pretty much all private sector interest in investing in nuclear seems to have dried up.
We seem to be instead putting all our eggs in the SMR basket hoping that there’ll be the economies of scale to make it viable.
Performing better than the other two major European economies, France and Germany?
Britain doesn’t seem to be an outlier considering a backdrop of an ailing European economy suffering the after effects of the energy crisis - though clearly it could be doing far better in the global context.
I suspect mainly the concern is that steel production is a strategic resource. The intention is to maintain a domestic capability given how critical steel is to the modern economy.
It’s dressed up as mainly about the workers and going green because it’s good PR.
Not to say you’re wrong, but “TSMC seeks $15 billion in US subsidies for Arizona chip plant”[1] and the fact they may get a sizeable share of the EU’s $46 billion subsidy pot [2], suggests that this is just the sort of money that governments are willing to spend to secure access to one of the 21st century’s most critical resources.
If anything, given China will not have access to ASML’s latest tech and will need to develop much of the tech itself, the $30 billion seems a bit low for a whole “network” of fabs.
I've always found it interesting that XProtect is completely invisible to the average user, whereas MS Defender is very much in your face (at least it was last time I used Windows). I suppose it's to quietly reinforce the narrative that Macs "don't get malware".
If they do, but you never know about it before its dealt with, to the average user it's as good as it never having happened. Unless of course, damage has been done/data stolen/etc - in which case I suppose the user never finds out?
I really wouldn't mind a UI for XProtect buried somewhere deep in the settings.
I would put it more towards Apple’s general philosophy of “the user shouldn’t have to care about that” than trying to uphold an image from a (extremely popular) 15 year old ad campaign.
That said I agree it’s great that it’s there and I like that it doesn’t bother if I don’t need to be involved.
> I would put it more towards Apple’s general philosophy of “the user shouldn’t have to care about that” than trying to uphold an image from a (extremely popular) 15 year old ad campaign.
Apple's general philosophy has always been "the user shouldn't have to care about that", but they've moved more and more recently to "the user shouldn't even be able to do anything about that" (I feel betraying their BSD roots along the way), and this seems to be an instance of that.
As a BSD 4.3, BSDi, FreeBSD, and now MacOS user, I'm not finding MacOS shell environment to be crippled in recent releases. If anything, even the ecosystem available to me through brew keeps getting broader as more and more tools add support.
What do you feel Apple has taken away from you at the CLI?
Two come to mind
1. System Integrity Protection breaking sudo (I understand why the trade off is worthwhile but it can be painful sometimes)
2. APFS pulling endless opaque shenanigans when it comes to what uses disk space and which tools report what usage, and where data lives. The permissions model clashes badly with shell usage, and blatantly disrespects sudo.
Not CLI related but here is a petty example of Apple taking something that worked for years and just dropping it. 1080i (interlaced) display support. My home theater tv supports 1080i but not 1080p, and I’ve been happily powering it with a Mac Mini running Kodi. A few years ago I “upgraded” macOS and lo and behold Apple just -decided- that I don’t need 1080i anymore and dropped support. No good reason, just “Fuck you, user. You don’t need this.”
Apple’s recent history is full of these “we know better and you don’t need this” decisions.
I think maybe this was changed quite recently, but for a long time Windows 10/11 would send you periodic notifications that Defender had done a scan and found no threats. Pointless and briefly alarming; I do not expect to get AV notifications unless there's a problem.
I'm glad there's a GUI though, which lets you do a deep scan on boot and other stuff.
I’m on 11 Insider Preview on my work machine and about once a week I get a notification that says something to the effect of Defender not finding anything after scanning five times.
In my experience the narrative that Macs don't get malware doesn't come from Apple themselves. Apple are not dumb, making public such a claim would be waving a giant red flag in front of potential malware writers. It would also be embarrassingly regurgitated if there ever was a serious threat.
My guess, based on the fact that Logic Pro and FCP, in the nicest way I can say this, haven't had any meaningful core upgrades in a while, is that they're planning some fairly major updates on macOS for both and the plan is to release them as new, subscription-only versions later this year.
Well, for a $200 app that was feature complete when I bought it, I am not at all sure what I'd want them to do with it. It'd be a really hard sell to go from almost a decade of "free and professional" to a subscription model- I'd much rather have them just keep maintaining the software exactly as is so I can use it when I buy my next MBP in 2026.
So I am a bit skeptical that your prediction is accurate. But I can't tell the future and I don't know folks at Apple so maybe you know something I don't.
You’re probably going to be pushed into it over time. Whether it’s because they will make it incompatible with newer plugins, or because they will make newer hardware incompatible with older Logic.
FWIW, I’m in your boat too. Logic is a PERFECT DAW for me the way it is. I would be so sad to have to switch to Reaper or something, and have to go hunt for plugins..
Logic is the only thing tying me to the Mac, so I guess that’s a plus.
On one hand, I do enough work that the price of Abelton (which is what I'd move to if that happened) isn't a big deal so unless there simply is no non-subscription tool I can use I'll be okay.
However, I remain hopeful. It's a 30 year old piece of software and my understanding of Apple's model for it is to drive hardware sales seems reasonable to me.
Are we talking about the same Logic Pro? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203718 shows quite a lot of activity of the last 2 years. Idk what you consider a "meaningful core upgrade".
Those are just releases that improve/change some small workflow stuff, fix bugs, or add minor or niche features like "Spatial Audio mixing with Dolby Atmos" that Apple cares about more than most producers do. The change lists look huge, but if you lose closer its all minor stuff.
The last release with a meaningful core update was 10.5 (May 2020) - the one that introduced Live Loops, major new devices like the new sampler, etc.
If it was a regular company selling its software, 10.5 would have been a paid update/major new version, and 10.6 and 10.7 would have been point updates.
It's nice, but I wouldn't go that far. Professionals who mix for Dolby Atmos do it with a Dolby-approved system, not their Atmos-certified home theater or Airpods Pro. For the prosumer market, it's mostly a gimmick to promote Apple Music.
It's not necessarily a bad playback platform, but neither is an Xbox with 5.1 surround hooked up. Apple's commitment to surround sound is far from revolutionary.
Mind you, I'm still running Final Cut for video making. Hope I don't have to bail on that too. I'll keep running the version I have, but much like I don't use Adobe at all, I won't run such a program if I have to rent it.
Exception, XCode :D most certainly have to pay yearly for that! But I view it as paying for authorization as an Apple dev, not so much as 'for the app itself'.
Platforms are weird. I'm a Godot user, but have made a game on Unity and have downloaded the Unreal environment. There are circumstances where I have to give all those entities a cut of whatever I do (except Godot is MIT-licensed open source, so I'm not restricted by them very much at all).
It's a bit like paying for access to Apple's Gatekeeper system? Without their involvement, I can't circumvent their code signing systems, so in some ways it seems to me like it's a given that if I code for their platform, I'm expected to pay for access to their security system that checks my submissions for malware. I could code stuff purely on the Unix layer to run in Terminal or something like that, but then I would clearly be an outsider with no association with Apple's 'walled garden'. The cost of entry to being considered inside the 'walled garden' and safe to use, is not just willingness to have my code audited and code-signed if it's safe to run, it's also paying for engagement with those systems.
I feel like if Apple both did that and prohibited use of any other dev software, it would flip something for me and I would be adamantly against their practice. Since it's for access to a class of developer that's meant to be treated as privileged and Apple-approved, it doesn't bug me to pay $100 a year. I would be distressed if I had to cough up $1000, and if it was $10,000 a year I might not be able to continue the practice.
don't you also have to pay if you want to load your app on your device? (aka side-load) So yeah you could dev with the emulator for free, but even if the app is by you and only for you, you have to pay
Damn if you're not right. I stand corrected. I wonder why I thought I needed to mentally camel-case it? Is that what it was? Was it ever capitalized this way or have I been making it up this whole time?
I think it's Mandela Effect. I don't know of any other words that can have the letters 'Xc' in sequence in a capitalized word, so my brain must just reject the idea even though I've literally seen it over and over right in front of my eyes.
As someone who uses these professional apps, maybe two or three times a year, the subscription prices would be an absolute blessing. The critical point is that there should be no reason for Apple to sunset the existing price. Surely they can do both. Offer a perpetual license to anyone who wants it. Offer a subscription price to anyone who wants it.
That said, a dual pricing model can get unstuck depending on the future development path of the app. Does the perpetual license include the next major version? What is the price of a major version upgrade? How does that compare to the value of the subscription price?
I don't know about Final Cut, but I do know lots of Logic users in the media composing world. Some will keep using it no matter what but plenty will leave for Cubase or Studio One if Apple forces a subscription on them. And Logic is probably the reason they buy Macs for producing music...
