What could have ruled

The apple car doesn't have a reverse gear. But the fan boys are like "It doesn't need a reverse, that's the point, Apple is all about forward thinking".
- Tell me that while parallel parking
  
  You're parking it wrong.
  
  This problem was already solved in the 1930’s with the 5th wheel in the rear of the car
  https://youtu.be/gyjfv3AnuYM?si=vj7iT9YH2wdIROrz
  
  You don't need to reverse to park between two vehicles, you simply go forward on the right angle, climb the curb and turn.
  But you do need it to get out.
  However, you also don't need it to get out as you just wait like an upstanding citizen for the person in front you to leave.
  
  What you do see, is you only parallel park if there’s enough space and you can slide your car in while only moving forward
- The thing about not having a reverse gear is literally describing a tesla
  
  wait wat

The difference is that you can install Linux on your Windows car and upgrade the engine if you want some more power. If a rear light bulb breaks in your Apple car, you will have to buy the new iCar 2 Pro Max™ or pay almost as much to get the bulb replaced.
- Not on silicon macs as far as I know. Asahi linux would be the best option, but I wouldn't want that as my daily driver. Virtualization is more viable.
  
  Isn't MacOS founded on Unix?
  I had at least one Prof at university that claimed MacOS and Linux have more in common than Microsoft and has with either. The only thing tying MS and Apple is the vampiric nature of the companies.
  
  You're right (although to my knowledge there is only one Linux distro compatible with the new Macs), I just wrote down the first thing I thought of to say that Windows PCs are mostly open systems which allow a lot of tinkering and even the complete replacement of most components (BIOS can sometimes reflashed with a custom build, I don't know how feasible it is on a Mac).
- installing linux on your pc is like 1UZ-swapping a miata (highly advanced toyotapilled car guy joke btw)
- What about Acari Linux?
  
  iirc, asahi is still not super stable and is very much still in development
  
  Took me a quick moment to realize that wasn’t a typo. Nice one
- I’ve owned Macs for years. Yes, it is the second picture, but if you take the shroud off you pretty much do whatever you want. Meaning, I’ve got a proper Unix terminal that I can use to do anything. You can tune to your heart’s content, you just don’t have to.
  Compared to my Windows machine, where I just count of doing a fresh install every year or two just to keep it running.
- Hey, I never said I was gonna buy an Apple Car. I know how they play their game. I'm not holding the wheel wrong.
- Linux users are the ricers of the PC world.

Linux is like the Windows car but the guy is smiling
- He's like - you know what? What if I do want to change out my seats? What if I wanna, idk, have a new radio interface or whatever -
- Like one of those hot rods you build yourself from parts you source from a co-op.
- And 350 lbs.
  
  What kind of car you're driving that's 160 kilos
- And he can't on most roads
  
  Windows propaganda, reee
  
  Where we're going...
- Stockholm syndrome

Linux
EDIT: That's Inspector Gadget's "Gadget-Mobile" for those not yet middle aged.
- I can hear this image. I can never get that song out of my head.
  
  https://youtu.be/0aw7nIF3Sbo?si=9IyVbVMXMTdBmkTE
  What about this fucking banger
  
  it'll be with us forever
- That's how I know I'm old, I immediately knew what it was. And that it's mid-transformation, to boot!

Oh, just as much can go wrong with the Apple car. You just don't have the tools to fix it when it does.
- All of the parts will be glued together and all of the screws would be the oddly shaped, non-standard pentalobed TS1 screws.
  
  So a heat gun and a screwdriver?
- And they will lobby to ensure only their dealerships can fix your car
- You can't even get past that engine cover to do any work on it.
- The image kind of shows that statement. The car is just a ~~black~~ white box with a power button, no clue how it works, just that it's working for now

The charging port is underneath the car

Linux is a top-fuel dragster where you rebuild the engine every few races /s Fitting linux into this meme is pretty impossible considering how different distros can be. Mint is a two-seater grocery car, debian is an old volvo, gentoo is the drag racer, etc. Its like comparing a single car to a whole company.
- It would be a car completely flat on the ground, made up of all it's parts neatly spread out. A geek stands in the center of it all holding an electric screwdriver in one hand and a blow torch in the other wearing a welders mask.

I’m going to be honest, I know people on Lemmy love Linux, but it always is kind of impressive that Apple has built a very successful brand basically catering to the 90% or whatever of home users who basically just use their PC for social media and video watching and maybe some very minor photo editing/management
- In my uneducated opinion it's two prongs:
  Average person doesn't want to fix or upgrade their computer even if they had the capability to do so, so it might as well be a black box.
  Marketing. People want to feel that they own something luxurious.
  It's a wildly successful strategy.
  
  I mean I’m a PC guy and I’m pretty handy with tech and even I have genuinely I don’t think ever fixed / upgraded my computer past cleaning it out and one single time re-setting a ram stick that had a bad connection.
  There’s simply no reason for a lot of people to do so. I’m not a huge gamer, I’m not running a database or a torrenting operation from my computer, and by the time one of mine starts to get slow or break down it’s been like 7 years and I’m just due for a new one anyway.
  Honestly the only reason I don’t get mac is the price point and .exe files
  
  I’m an Apple user. I used to enjoy tinkering with my system (this was in the days of System 7 and ResEdit), but now I just want it to work unobtrusively. I don’t want to have to think about my OS; I want to concentrate on what I’m doing with my OS. Apple certainly has its drawbacks, but I’ve yet to see an OS that’s better at getting out of your way and staying out of your way.
  Personally, I don’t give a shit about luxury, but then, I’ve never cared about that in any context.
- I'm a die-hard Linux guy, but nothing compares to Mac for music production. They've done something magical with the kernel that gives you almost no input latency, like I could plug my guitar straight into a MacBook and record over a backing track in real time, it's nuts. I've tried the same on Linux, and there's just nothing out there that can match it.
  
  Allegedly, Pipewire is a lot better at that now, you should give it another try!
- If open source projects had the marketing budgets of apple (and as early as apple did), they'd be in the spot instead. Hell, chromeOS tried, and kind of succeeded with it's Chromebook, but they still didn't market it like Apple.
  But Apple did some crazy effective shit, like donate full computer labs to schools. Hook em while they're young!
  
  which is what apple is doing in the education field in germany currently. almost giving ipads away to schools and large companies with a lot of apprentices.
  the only problem is they gave apple products to future electronics technicians. we all hate them (except for the few apple fanboys).
  an ipad is basically a regular tablet with a fancy-pants processor that you will never use to its full potential, horrible battery life, made out of expensive materials, with the most locked down OS ever.
  i've actually had to use my personal phone for work stuff that the ipad was just too locked down to do.
- And also, charging a bougie price for it.

Why did they bother putting a picture of a mechanic next to the disposable e-waste car that can't be repaired?
- Because users can't pop the hood to turn it on and off themselves. They have to pay that guy $500 to do it.

And the gas tank is on the bottom of the Apple car.

I generally like Apple, but I’m SO GLAD the “Apple Car” project was cancelled.
- They just couldn't figure out how to restrict it only to Apple Roads.

Windows is placing touchscreens with half the functions over the physical buttons, while Apple has vibrating touchscreens that do most things, but the SuperButtons that do everything are only available for Windows.

Man, I remember this image when my IT professor showed this image. Of course she was entrenched in linux ideology.
- entrenched in Linux ideology
  tell me you've never left your windows bubble even a little bit without saying it
  
  I mean, I have been maining Archlinux w/h KDE Plasma for about 3-4 years now. I don't want to go back to windows anytime soon as a daily driver. I just remember her being VERY preachy about linux. (Well, it was a linux class.)