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@carnage4life my Uber drivers in Lisbon last week were not happy. This was definitely a huge issue for them.
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Parent, husband, and distributed systems person. Not sure which is easier. Working on databases and caches at Meta by day.
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@irene@discuss.systems
@mattly@hachyderm.io I guess that makes sense. If it's one file, Preferences makes sense to me (#old). If anything more than one file, I guess app support? But only my 2c.
@mattly@hachyderm.io if it’s something I’m expected to edit, just use dot files? Or does Apple make that a permission thing to read?
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@djstarr@mas.to
@djstarr @asymco Cost is a really interesting question. My son's school-issued Chromebook was $250 retail (not sure what the school pays). That's literally half the cost per device.
The economics aren't simple. The devices will have different lifetimes, different repairability, different reliability. The upfront costs are not total costs.
I think you'd want the Neo to hold up longer. The specs will last longer, but we'll have to see about the durability in practice.
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@djstarr @asymco I used Jamf. I've used Google Admin Console. I've even used Apple Business Essentials (shudder).
You can do most of the same stuff on a mac, but everything is 2-3 times slower, more likely to have a surprise issue, and more likely to change how it works with a new MacOS release.
Then you get the integration: Drive, Docs, Classroom, Backup have a smoother story. These things are all possible on Macs, but the 100% Apple solution is more limiting, and the hybrid Google/Apple solution is more complex.
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@asymco The really interesting thing is a huge educational discount to $499.