like I spell it as “centre” and it seems perfectly fine even though phonetically it doesn’t make much sense

it’s identical to vscode, except that a few extensions don’t work (notably, intellicode and the ms c/c++ extensions)

I like VSCodium, a vscode build without ms telemetry and such

yeah. It would be interesting, but Apple obviously wouldn’t ever do that unfortunately.

update: I’ve pushed the changes, you should be able to see them now!

I wonder what a motherboard designed by Apple would look like…

also, given Apple, they would probably try to make everything proprietary (non-standard motherboard shapes, non-standard connecters, etc)

also, it would be really tricky to get people to buy new, probably expensive ARM motherboards (especially with Apple involved)

But it sort of makes sense. If you use english words to name a product, it would be great for english speakers but terrible for anyone else due to translation issues and such.

I do think that they should just name their products with a sensible letters and numbers that’s easier to understand. Instead, you have a race to see who has the biggest number and the most letters :(

okay, I’ve added supertelephoto lenses to my list, once I get back to my computer I’ll push the changes!

fair, using more words doesn’t really solve the issue.

fair point. Dell in my opinion isn’t so bad at this, especially given their extensive range of products for both consumers and businesses

interesting

darn it capitalism

Ah right that makes sense.

and it’s not even consistent: the WF-CH700N doesn’t get an “M2”, the second version is called the “WF-CH710N”. Also, what does the “CH” stand for? cheap?

also btw, I’ve been thinking of trying to restructure and un-confuse the names of things with terrible naming schemes and pitch them to manufacturers. Is that a good idea? (maybe not the pitching to manufacturer part since they probably won’t listen)

exactly! Just give us numbers and words that MAKE SENSE

that naming scheme at least makes a bit of sense, but you’d need to KNOW the naming scheme. Most people probably aren’t well-versed at the naming schemes of every manufacturer. There are probably too many models forcing manufacturers to make alphanumeric soup names.

Why not something like the “Dell Ultrasharp 27” 1440p 2024“ (Ultrasharp doesn’t need to be repeated again as a “U”, instead of ambiguous numbers it’s more clearly defined which is screen size which is year)

for samsung phones, you’ve got the “A” series for cheaper models (which are A0x, A1x, A2x, etc. but why can’t it be something like Ax, Bx, Cx, etc? Otherwise people might think that an A51 might be newer than the A36, for example. Having more than 3 letters , 4 if you count the “M” series, would make things much easier. Overall though, I think Samsung’s naming schemes (for their phones) make a bit more sense than some others.

I was mostly talking about Apple and the “Pro” designation not meaning what it means. And there’s also quite a few phones with “Pro Plus” which 1. isn’t professional and 2. aren’t plus-sized models of the original “Pro”.

And yeah, I think the point you make on “obfuscation” might be correct.

CPUs aren’t named after serial numbers, yet they are still confusing as all heck. Laptop processors are much worse with even more letters to choose from. Motherboards are also very weird, what’s with the superfluous “0” at the end? It’s never used for anything.

Besides those however, regular things are also terribly named. Besides headphones and smartphones which I have already mentioned, there’s also shoes, cars, door locks, light bulbs, flashlights, tablets, laptops, etc. Jeez that’s a lot, and those are just the ones on the top of my head