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DHH · 2026-08-26 · source ↗ · whole document (27)

Obsessing about speed

`1:44:13`

Um, I heard it was your birthday. So I brought a little gift.

`1:44:19`

We are going to get you onto the agentic operating system whether you like it or not.

`1:44:24`

And I asked-... my friends at Dell whether maybe they had a machine that, um, I could get you for your birthday.

`1:44:33`

So here's the machine I use-... which is-... well, the same one I use, but it's now yours. It's a-... Dell XPS 14-... already set up with Omarchy 4-... ready to be configured for you. And once you realize that all your... By the way, we should almost time this. You can be up and running. You have to answer, like, five questions in about one minute. You could literally do it live if you wanted to.

`1:45:04`

Yeah, fill it out while I talk. So-... exactly what you realized, that pain on the Mac was the exposure I got for about a weekend, and I tried really hard, and I found some decent workarounds, the main one being that Homebrew now has tabs for GUI apps. Because it's hilarious to think upon the recent past where people would go to websites, like, "I need Zoom." They would enter zoom.com, find the download link, download a DMG-... double-click on that, see a weird manual interaction telling them to drag an icon from one place of the screen to the other, and that was how you installed apps. And you'd just do that over and over again until you had all the apps that you wanted, and if you were setting up a new machine and you had, like, 12 apps, you'd go to 12 different websites to download them like a total caveman. Homebrew has solved a lot of that, but it has not solved all of it, and has solved nothing in terms of the-

`1:46:11`

Oh, it's gonna be done in about 40 seconds. And then you're gonna be inside of Omarchy.

`1:46:21`

Yep, that's the Windows key. Oh, actually, no, no, you have a special edition. There are only about six of these computers in the world.