IANAPhysicist, but isn't a thrust of 1g specific to the mass you are accelerating? Same device pushing heavier mass gives less acceleration?

Is a claim that you can create a thrust of 1g even meaningful without additional details?

But American users, too, would keep their freedom to choose what apps to run (including TikTok) if they could just download their own software to the iPhone. It's only Apple's control-freakery that enables this interference by governments. In 2000 the idea of banning a piece of software would have seemed unenforceable. Even if you block its main download site, anyone could download a copy from somewhere else. We live in a much less free world now, and that's mainly thanks to the efforts of companies like Apple to strip users of control over their own computing devices.

Well, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Apple has spent years building a tightly controlled walled garden and blocking any way for users to choose for themselves what software to run on their device. Only very recently (in the EU) have regulators started to push for greater openness. But of course, if Apple creates a locked-down device with total control, authoritarian governments will want to take that control for themselves -- and Apple, "obeying local laws" has no way to refuse those demands.

If your iPhone allowed you to download and install your own software, and not just as some special concession in certain markets but as the normal way it works, then it would be much harder for China or other countries to block particular apps.

And yes, there are certainly arguments in favour of a walled garden, for banking apps or for movie playback with DRM or for corporate paranoia about employee devices. And arguments against it too. It's not my intention to open a big discussion on those right now, just to note that Apple is getting a taste of its own medicine.

I reckon one of his biggest worries right now is how to find a running mate that won't backstab him with the 25th Amendment at the first opportunity.

Actually just the opposite, everything is coming from the vendors and you just need to not drag your feed too much in packaging and uploading it to your site. Or from the OS itself, like CPU microcode: https://www.kernel.org/doc/htm...

Unless you're something like Purism doing your own PureBoot and being engaged in a (losing?) battle with disabling all Intel ME management facilities and similar I don't see where that much effort is needed to support some x86 platform with all relatively standard components. Sure, if you see here or there a problem with some specific hardware combination you're using you might have to reproduce it and open a ticket with your vendor and follow up on that but it shouldn't be that much of an issue.

Where's Bert bot?

Technology "advances" to the point where a civilization has to expend 3.5 whatzits to acquire 1.0 whatzits, and it isn't even approximately sustainable.

I'm neither fine nor not fine with anything, I'm just pointing out the "charge back time" is gone for the vast majority of people having this game. Not what you might want to discuss about being right or wrong, but what actually is. So you need to get into some kind of lawsuit, err arbitration possibly.

It's a 10 years old game! Good bet most of the people that "bought" this didn't do it over the last months.

woke, adj. - "Not a knee-jerk reactionary like me."

"even use GPS tracking" isn't a low power use as you seem to imply, it's expected for the phone not to last the whole day that way. Many phones don't even last a whole day with regular semi-light usage anyway but GPS is surely not that. You might want to have it on for navigation, or if you want to log some track precisely but you use it for a couple hours and that's it; even then that might eat into your battery enough so it doesn't last the whole day.

You're saying that Android's tracking network that DOES NOTHING for now it's "the best"? By which metric?

Doesn't Apple have the best (by far) such tracking network and the iDevices have WAY better battery life, with smaller batteries? Never mind that Samsung had it just as well since 2020 or so, and they're the top Android seller ... this horse has left the barn and you're quite late to the bickering party.

I'm curious, why have the Mac Mini at all? You can plug the laptop into a dock and use the same monitor and keyboard, then take it with you.

It doesn't assume ONLY minutes of daily use, it assumes many things, like indeed a certain reading speed, general usage (indexing, serch, etc.), how WiFi/bluetooth/back/frontlight is used and so on. Specifically Kindle at some point had a pissing contest with some competitor where they were counting 60 minutes of use per day as opposed to 30 for the competitor and at some point they said, ok we are going to count 30 minutes ourselves too, now your Kindle has double battery life, from two weeks to a month.

In any case it's highly misleading to compare 13 hours of non-stop running with whatever longer time where the device isn't used for 95%+ of the time.