For notebooks, a MacBook hardware wise is as good as it gets, unless you throw in 2016 era MacBooks that had upgradable components and better keyboards before they got too thin. The trackpads are bar none.

Thousands of big office printer / scanner / all in ones use binary drivers. Check scanners from the likes of panini also come to mind. There are millions of peripherals that will be a headache unless the emulation layer is that good.

In all seriousness this is a good development. If people are using AI to grade Essays, you can imagine a future where the coursework is given to you as a series of tasks and the university can get your essay and determine your level of subject matter comprehension without the house per year expense of a professor. Lectures can be videos, assignments can be automated. The AI can and if used will undoubtably get better and better at grading. Imagine if your essay was trained on how well you did on subsequent courses to get how well you actually knew the foundational material, or even extending into your career. Successful professionals will have their essays ranked higher than those who failed for future students, or some other regime where university becomes more valuable as a predictor of skills and subject matter comprehension. Everyone wins. Cheaper for students. Cheaper for administration, more accurate assessments of applicant for employers. Except professors, so.. dumb for them to kick start it.

Well, keep kissing the governments ass as it kills your wife and kids. It has done far more harm than good. You think our food would be as shitty as it is if the FFA didnt come around telling you cereal is safe? Your kids eat that shit. Dont get me started on when they kept beta blockers out of the US for a decade while they were available elsewhere. Turns out your dad (or grand dad depending on your age) didnt need to have that coronary that put him the ground. But thank god government is there. Am I right?

It isnt that now people will die, its that LESS people would die, if we had a smaller government. But my point remains about the FAA in this case. You dont need millions of dollars to let people know dont fly here or risk losing a jet. That much, even a diehard communist would see it shouldnt cost millions.

Never play the stock market with emotions. Itâ(TM)s the surest way to lose. Both sides are doing it here. One side loves DJT and will buy the stock like they buy his hats and flags. The other side hates DJT and see shorting his stock as a way to flip him off. Both sides will lose, at different times. Dont do it. Buy stocks whos products and value you like and understand. Be like Warren Buffet. Buy good companies and hold.

The FAA is there to protect the aviation industry, not the Space Industry. During a rocket launch, they arent worried a plane will get in the rockets way, they are worried the rocket will blow up and debris will hit a plane. Here is an idea, instead of paying billions to government for something as simple as a broadcast to airlines and the public that reads: on this date, we plan to launch a rocket from here. Advise you stay away during launch window for a few hundred miles down range.

The airlines will handle the rerouting. Problem solved, and look! Less government.

You do realize that in all likelihood, Musk is likely going to be the first to reach Mars, if not also the moon with his starship, right? With Starlink making money hand over fist for them, they likely wont give two fucks what NASA chooses. NASA was a stepping stone for SpaceX, but once they started landing Falcon 9s and building Starships, NASA is being left behind where it comes to space vehicles. They will likely be relegated to scientific instruments in the next 10 to 20 years. Their glory days are behind them. Sorry if this hurts your world view, but NASA is not equipped to compete with them. They rely on Congress for funding, and have to many inefficiencies making vehicles because 50 congressmen will need parts made in their district, that they will just be over budget, behind schedule on anything they do on their own. The best NASA can hope for is to use tax money to commandeer (nay, buy) the first flights of Starship to those places. But honestly, why bother? SpaceX will go either way. Just for the flag? Picking the first people? Waste of tax funds if you ask me.

If you have never set up a network, youd probably buy that. It was a hacker movie. In one scene Trinity uses nmap. One other character is called mouse. What are you implying?

Listen dumbass, get your TDS out of a conversation that has nothing to do with you and your political beliefs. Fucktard.

I am not a psychiatrist, but probably a similar way we treat schizophrenia, or other reality distorting mental illnesses. If you have multiple personalities, we don't go around asking people to give you multiple votes, and ride in car pools by yourself. If you have schizophrenia, it wouldn't be helpful to demand everyone else tell you the voices are real and demand they acknowledge them. Same thing with gender dysphoria, except I think much of it is brought on to children by their parents who are themselves unhealthy. Perhaps multiple parties should be treated.

That makes me consider. If you get tortured and need treatment for PTSD, your abuser probably also needs treatment for having the inclination to torture in the first place. The injured may not be the only one who needs treatment. I get that torture itself is a crime, but the point is that one person's illness can inflict injury on another in the form of mental illness. Get it?

The Matrix series was made in 1999 to 2003. Andy and Larry Wachowski "transitioned" in 2012, which in my book is when they had mental issues surface. Because in the USA we lack adequate political will to treat and help these poor souls, we witness their mental illness in practically everything they do. They can not function normally, and their entire world-view revolves around their illness, based on the overwhelming majority of my observations (I live in California). Because of the lack of care and treatment, even acknowledging to them that they are suffering an illness causes them distress.

As such, this movie is bound to have baked more of their reality-distorted views into it, and likely focus on such distortions. It ruins it for the causal viewer, which is why many of these re-hashes or sequels to great movies in the past is such a let-down for those not suffering from said delusions. Until that resolves, entertainment is going to be lack-luster in its performance at the box office. I hope Andy and Lary, or Lilly or whatever he wants to be called is gets the mental treatment he needs, and can continue to make great screenplay like their original 1999 matrix movies. Huge fan of those back in the day.

HomeKit works on the device locally. The hubs are local, and their communication to your control surface is local. For example, disconnect your 5G and internet. Then use an iPhone or iPad in the same network to command your home to do something. iPad talks to Apple TV HomeKit Hub, which talks to device. Internet not needed. That is all I need to know to feel secure in its operations for a long time. HomeKit is really beautiful that way. It does need the cloud for remote control when you are away from home, but it works for free on iCloud, and that function for me is secondary to a totally local solution. I can upgrade it how and when I want to.

Nah. HomeKit comes with most Apple devices for free. I donâ(TM)t need to upgrade anything to keep the automation level where it is now. When my internet is totally out (usually because I am messing with P.F. Sense or changing the hypervisor hardware) my HomeKit network works as expected. Nothing relies on the cloud. So, no⦠your statement is patently false. I upgrade what and how I want to.

With Google, advertisers are the customer. With Apple, you are since you are the one paying.

This poor dude really chose poorly. I use HoneKit for my smart house from Apple, since I use Mac, iPhone, and have iPads for my kids. I have Siri HomePods of various gens throughout my house. I also have a Raspberry Pi running home bridge that helps me integrate many non-HomeKit things with it. For example, my Pentair swimming pool control panel. I can say Hey Siri, set the Spa to 98. Turn on the spa, turn off the spa, pool lights, etc. I went all out, I bought auto-igniters for my fire pit and both fireplaces, and connected them to HomeKit with home bridge. I have an Apple TV behind every TV in the house, and I use Ecobee for the humidifier. My HVACs have communicating thermostats that canâ(TM)t be changed to Ecobee (carrier infinity / Green Speed). But, homebridge has a plugin for that too. Most all my light bulbs are Meross or Philips Hue which is HomeKit compatible, my garage door is on HomeKit, so are my door locks from Yale. I also put an Moen U Valve system in my master shower, which is awesome. It is HomeKit out of the box.
All of this will never go obsolete. Because HomeKit doesnt have a dependency on the cloud. I even made a disrtinct VLAN and WiFi for the IOT network which canâ(TM)t talk to the internet. Only the Apple Hubs can. Sometimes I remove the firewall block to run updates on things, but generally only if I am having trouble or there is a new feature I want. Otherwise, no thank you.