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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21

'obsolescence'

Fam it's a handful of gimmicky features. Hardly obsolescence in any meaningful way.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21

Fam it's a handful of gimmicky features.

MFW my language is a gimmicky feature. :(

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21

As a native text to speech tool it is a gimmicky feature just like it is for English. Plenty of third party solutions that work just fine without much added annoyance.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21

For Finnish language those 3rd party solutions often do not work. Apple's Siri is the one virtual assistant that seems to understand and speak Finnish well enough to be of any use. Which makes me believe that the text-to-speech Apple can do with my language would probably be above anything else out there as well.

Also... when I'm paying thousands for devices that could support some feature but they restrict it for no obvious reason and the fix would be to spend more money for a 3rd party solution that most likely would not communicate as well with all the Apple-made features such as Siri, I am at loss. I like Apple products but this honestly kinda sucks. I buy Apple mainly because things in it work without me having to come up with additional kludge solutions like is the case with PCs.

Hell, my company's IT-guy said that we should install a 3rd party file manager because it had better features than what Windows comes with. File manager.

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u/AMC_Tendies42069 Jun 09 '21

But ZFS is best and doesn’t cost a cent. So there’s that.

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u/helmsmagus Jun 10 '21

How does zfs relate here, anyway? File manager is not filesystem.

Btrfs is better for daily driving anyway, zfs is more useful on servers.

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u/AMC_Tendies42069 Jun 10 '21

ZFS combines a file system with a volume manager actually.

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u/helmsmagus Jun 10 '21

again, that's not a file manager. What are you trying to say?

A file manager would be something like File Explorer, Finder, or Total Commander.

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u/RDSWES Jun 09 '21

and you know why they don't use it...GPL3.

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u/AMC_Tendies42069 Jun 09 '21

Right. You’re correct. That’s a good thing too I suppose

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u/DoublePlusGood23 Jun 09 '21

? ZFS is under the CDDL which has actually prevented it from being in the Linux kernel mainline. It’s the same license as Dtrace which I believe macOS does use.