Applecare for the last Intel machines wont expire till summer 2026, Apple was still selling the 2019 Mac Pro new and eligible for Applecare in June

Thatâ(TM)s the problem with averages. Like you I work from home. On any given day I may drive to get coffee or hit the supermarket but if I do more than 10 miles per day on an average weekday I would be surprised. My wife and I do more on the weekends but rarely over maybe 60 miles each way. On the other hand about twice per month I do a 500 mile round trip - 250 each way. My average isnt the part I need to plan for, that regular but less frequent 250 mile drive is

At least this particular provider sunsets data after a year. A lot keep it indefinitely to build a massive database to sell which makes this *slightly* better than a lot of options in that end of things

As a NYer whoâ(TM)s spent time in London: NYC has a *substantially* bigger public transit system than London does, FWIW, you dont need a car to get around most of the city That said this is going to penalize large chunks of folks in Brooklyn, Queens, and on Long Island when they need to drive out of the city, either directly via the toll or indirectly by shifting congestion north onto roads that cant really handle more either, so thereâ(TM)s that My feeling is overall it probably will help things, especially if the city really does direct the revenue to subway and bus improvements, but itâ(TM)s going to suck for me personally. I can live with that if it does work, Iâ(TM)ll be pissed if itâ(TM)s just double suckage. Only time will tell

Someone training a LLM focused on audio would be my first though

I have a 2010 Mac Pro that was my daily driver on my desktop for 12 years. Upgraded nearly everything at one point or another, those machines were built to last. I also have a Mac SE thatâ(TM)s still working just fine with a couple repairs here and there, itâ(TM)s nearly 36 years old now

I mean the EU is better on data protection than the US so⦠eh, ok

Yup, my boss is 2000 miles away from me, and I work with coworkers that far and further in both directions from me around the globe. Being in the office is mostly being on the same video chats, teams chats, and meetings Iâ(TM)m on at home. Even before the pandemic this was true, it would be silly for me to commute into the office all the time

Iâ(TM)ve spent the past 3 years making sure my home office is perfectly suited to my work needs, going into my open floor plan is just awful by comparison. I pole my head in on e every other week to see some coworkers who are friends for lunch, which really is only in the office because we all originally moved to be relatively near it pre-pandemic so itâ(TM)s the most central location, and thatâ(TM)s it. Most of my coworkers arent nearby anyway, and I spend lots of time on video chats. What possible advantage could the office configuration give me that even my dining room table let alone my nice home office doesnt?

To be honest if a coworkers gets their work done and is pleasant and helpful in video calls/meetings, at least somewhat similarly active in chats, and available when needed, I really couldnt care less if they get shitfaced every day. Itâ(TM)s not like folks didnt go out and grab beers with lunch at the office, or take vape breaks, for that matter plenty of startups pre-pandemic tried to entice me with a âoebeer cooler always available, vodka and red bull always in the fridgeâ pitch. I will make an exception for folks that have prod access on important enterprise deployments, they should stay sober, but again that really doesnt change much from being in the office either unless youâ(TM)re proposing drug testing regularly and breathalyzing everyone multiple times/day. To some extent you do have to trust your employees, doesnt change in the office or not.

High vacancy taxes, maybe progressively tied to owner valuation, would help this. You can make the hedge funds hurt financially too if they get whacked hard enough. Add in a vacancy flip tax also tied to owner valuation to avoid them just creating tax dodges and âoesellingâ the buildings. Making is a set of progressive taxes means you dont screw over small owners while causing pain to force hedge funds hands at the top.

Itâ(TM)s a point upgrade on both versions of iOS it affects, nothing is going to change for your wifeâ¦

Thereâ(TM)s a corner of my brain that wonders if thereâ(TM)s some sensitive govt site in the county thatâ(TM)s classified, that would explain a terrorist attack But yeah, the likely answer is rednecks shooting up the substations on a bender who happen to be friends with the sheriff

The EU wasnt about to ban it right then, and Apple didnt move away from lightning on any other devices except the ipad pro and air in 2020, when they moved both of those to the same standard they were already using in laptops and introduced the magic keyboard and mouse support for the ipads. The reason for the USBC switch there was positioning the higher end iPads as closer to laptop replacements.

Well, that was one part, unfortunately the other part of it was natural selection and selection of traits that were resistant. In other words: a lot of people died, some people developed some immunity directly and survived, some people had genetic mutations that proved beneficial to either resisting the virus directly or to helping the immune system handle it and survived, even if it could cause other problems (for example: the trait for sickle cell and it's relation to malaria). For both those components, as I said, a *lot* of people died along the way. We don't really want that to be our modern solution.