It's one of many reasons why you should do your pr0n browsing on a separate, encrypted user account (not that it's terribly easy to do since the introduction of FDE came with the removal of user account encryption) even if your stash is on an external drive.

8+? Yeah I just got one too. I always put a case on anyway and found aluminium slippery too, and am glad for wireless charging as it means I don't get a bunch of marks around the connector where I've tried to put it on a charging stand in the dark / when drunk / etc when going to bed.

I love that because Apple keep the updates coming, I won't have to worry about FaceID or notch BS for a good 3-4 years, by which time hopefully there will be better solutions.

Hm. I'm sure they probably weren't the first, but I'd say the closest they've come to innovation is turning personal data into a currency, thereby making various services like Gmail "free" in terms of classical payment methods. The problem now of course is more and more people are wising up to it.

I can vouch for Fastmail and Zoho. Both great, switched to the latter as I'm penny pinching.

Name a legal, non-proprietary way of watching, say, Star Trek Discovery. I'll wait.

That is indeed capitalism and why it needs some degree of government control to tame it (see also net neutrality)

and stop involving innocent consumers in their stupid school playground squabbles. There is no technical reason I should have to have a Google box, an Amazon box and an Apple box because the childish fucks are determined to shut each other out. It's wasteful (energy, material and money), it's unnecessary clutter and I don't even have that many HDMI sockets. There should be enforced standards.

Don't Microsoft own the Skype servers already?

But with different levels of privacy, transparency and different motivations.

Apple and Google are actually both very transparent in their privacy policy documents, though I tend to trust the former more simply because the nature of their business is hardware rather than the data economy.

Worth a read of the Apple one here, they keep what they can to the device and use rotating random IDs to anonymise the queries they do need to send. https://www.apple.com/uk/priva...

Please use one word to describe their magical fur.

Buy the 8, SE, 7 or 6S (or Droid) and vote with your wallet against this half arsed system AND save a bundle in the process.

I don't recall Esc ever having disappeared when I needed it. You also don't have to look down to find it as the touch area for it extends to the edge of the touch bar.

Esc is in the top-left as it's always been. You don't even have to look down as it follows Fitt's Law and extends to the edge of the touch bar.

You can also set it to display F-keys by default.

>infrastructure business have a responsibility to uphold free speech

What's the legislation setting this out as a requirement, out of interest? Assuming we're talking about the US, I'm aware of the 1st amendment argument, but also the State Action Requirement (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/state_action_requirement) which suggests that no private company is capable of violating it. Am I missing something here (I'm British so don't know the US Constitution back to front)?

You could of course argue in favour of nationalising various internet services - if they're owned by the state then it looks like your first amendment rules would then apply and ISPs could be compelled to host neo-Nazis and uphold their freedom of speech - but I'm not sure how this is practical since the internet is global and I have a feeling that if for example Cloudflare were to become a US state run service, the rest of the world would start thinking about moving to something else.

Nah I'm really starting to see through this whole "neo-Nazis are an oppressed minority" thing... the thing is, their targets usually have no control over what they are (black, gay, disabled, whatever) but you definitely choose to be a neo-Nazi. You're not just born hating people.

I offer an alternative theory: that forcing companies to accept them on their platform gives them a feeling of legitimacy, emboldening them, making others feel more welcome to join them and increasing the problem. Whilst stamping them out at every turn sends a message that their hatred (and the attempted genocide it's been shown in fairly recent history to escalate to) is not welcome anywhere in modern society.

Deep down I think most people want to be accepted. Not making them feel accepted, instead getting a door shut in their face everywhere they go, might cause some to think "gee why does no one want to associate with me" and re-evaluate their positions.