iPads, and tablets more broadly, have always been a solution in search of a problem.

About the only thing I think they really do well, and better than either a phone or a tablet, is consuming video media. That's all they've ever been used for in my house, at any rate - by everyone in the house.

Almost everything else they can do, phones and laptops do better, and have always done better. They had a niche for a while due to battery life when paired with a bluetooth keyboard, but not so much anymore.

If they'd duplicate the Fujitsu Toughbook reversible laptop hinge from years ago, or one like it, so a Macbook could also be a tablet, I can't think of a single reason why you'd ever want to use a tablet.

But I guess Apple would lose out on a high profit margin gadget sale.

The balls on this guy...

Are we going to just pretend that systemd didn't just nearly introduce a FTW-level security event across every major linux distribution due to its careless ability to do entirely too much for something which should simply be starting and stopping services?

And we should listen to him, why?

His ideas are fine, but the implementation... good god. There was nothing wrong with what we had before, and now everything is markedly more complex with little to no benefit.

Man, I'd completely forgotten about those assholes, but that's the exact kind of scenario I was thinking of.

No, this doesn't violate the Interstate Commerce clause - at least not rationally, but I'm sure the Feds would likely to assert that it does.

Child sexual predation doesn't seem like something they'd want to get involved in at this time, however.

"To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"

That's it. The Commerce Clause is so broadly interpreted that it's been used to prohibit local-only production of raw milk for local consumption and has largely been used as a cudgel for political purposes.

It has been largely used since Marshall as the basis for arguments in favor for a centralized, planned economy, and for largely totalitarian control.

Just like the 1st Amendment and the 'free speech zones' and other similar breaches of liberty, the Commerce Clause has been hollowed out to mean exactly what the federal government needs it to say to exert more control over the populace.

What makes a porn site legitimate?

he sites that are more likely to leak and/or sell their data and password.

It's like you've only just now gotten on the internet for the first time. Do you think that sharing your data with 'legitimate' porn sites means you'll be protected from that stuff discreetly?

The sites that are more likely to have malware.

Because nobody has ever gotten malware from a "legitimate" porn site.

Yep. I've been bit by this several times myself. Thanks, Apple. You couldn't get basic bundled demo software to work...

I've been fighting reoccurring fraud charges on one of my cards for fucking YEARS. This explains why, after canceling my card, I soon start getting new charges on the replacement.

Absolutely infuriating.

I'd be pretty sad if I were stupid enough to finance $3900 on a gadget with no financial return potential. No idea what the terms are for such financing, but at 6% over 36 months (eg. similar to what you'd pay for a car loan) you're paying an extra $500 on that price. That's insane to me.

I was taught that financing things was foolish, and a waste of money. Only finance something that will earn you money or make you money: a car for getting to work, a house (which will appreciate, or at least not waste your rent money on someone else's financing), a business opportunity, or a degree (which is much less of a benefit today, than it was even 20 years ago).

I'm not sure what the whole point of this post is. I guess the OP is likely a new adult who's had very little real world experience to date with financing and getting suckered by a product launch marketing, and it's unfortunate they had to suffer $4400 for such an opportunity. At least it wasn't a college degree.

In retrospect, perhaps it'd have been better if everything ended back then.

Yep, lot more scammers on Amazon now than in the past, and the prices are massively inflated.

It's usually cheaper and faster to get something delivered from Walmart or Target for us, and we know it's not going to be a knockoff piece of crap.

If it's not needed immediately, I'll just use AliExpress.

For the first year of Covid, my deliveries were sometimes nearly next-day. I don't know how they did it: I could order something at 10pm and I'd have it the next day by 5pm, generally. Note: I'm 6 or 8 hours (depending on which way you're going) from the nearest distribution center.

Now, it's not uncommon for Prime items to take a week to get to me. Due to the added cost of most things on Amazon, I've been using AliExpress more often. It's the same shit, and you'll pay a lot less.

Shipping anything from UPS to any other location seems to start at about $25 here. It cost me about $70 to mail a teeshirt to Arizona with UPS.

Consumer goods? Sure.

Machinery, industrial equipment, and so on? Not even close on the high end.

But it's within spitting distance for midrange, and enough for almost applications, at a fraction of the cost.

If you're going to assert "won't" instead of "can't", you're effectively asserting a conspiracy: despite the clear and apparent benefits to EVs, these companies are refusing to make them. That's a fairly bold claim I'd like to see substantiated.

The alternative is that they can't make them (while being cost efficient/marketable and/or reliable).

Those are the options.

Ford has always been the 'more bling than sense' option, at least as long as I've been alive. Some are very nice vehicles, and their interiors are top notch for an American vehicle (vs like, a Land Rover), and they're often the vehicle most purchased by people who aren't smart enough to connect the dots or pay attention to their environment enough to not buy a vehicle which is obviously not well built. Case in point - middle aged Karens buying gutless Mustangs. Their reliability is even worse than VW.