For that matter, you can already get WiFi 7 equipment... you can get m.2 modules for 20 or 30 bucks, even with master mode. I spent under $30 for a complete MT7925 kit, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be 2T2R 2.4/5G/6GHz. It's only a 160 MHz chip but it was cheap and has pretty snazzy bluetooth as well. Anyway, oh well, at least it does all those other things. Anyway, can't vendors "solve" this (except for the customers being pissed off part) with firmware which prevents selecting 6 GHz? That seems like a pretty simple patch.

At the time I had no credit due to being a victim of identity theft.

Now my credit is fixed but I just like not having a contract, and it's $35/mo. I only get I think about a dozen GB of internet, but that is fine for my purposes since I don't stream video.

I realize I wrote that wrong, but what I meant to say, it's not slower than the old M chip. That is, it's not slower than all of the M chips. I realize that's a very different thing than what I wrote, my bad.

But it's also true that it's within the range of the M chips, and it's intended to be low cost and low power, and if you have low expectations then it should be plenty of machine. For your average web surfer, it'll be fine. I wouldn't buy one, even at their most Open, Apple was irritating at best to deal with. But to me the tradeoff is reminiscent of my AMD laptop, which has only a couple of cores and a few GPU cores (literally) and does all the things I expected it to do while using very little power. It was $300 in a retail box a couple of years ago. This is the Apple-priced version of that, which is another reason I wouldn't buy one.

"So when Microsoft continually abused their monopolistic control of 90% of the PC market, they were let off the hook"

Apple has not actually been punished yet. They still have the opportunity to pay a bribe.

"just allow side loading like mac os and alot of issues go away."

"Not really. If you aren't on the App Store your sales will take a hit."

Uh, you think the sales of apps which most users cannot now load on their devices will go down?

"Android makers are whining when they already own the biggest slice of the pie?"

They do not in the US, which is what this story is about.

IDGAF, I scarcely use gimp any more due to the interface still being shit even after they allegedly improved it.

I'm a VZ prepaid customer in the US and I get unlimited text.

It's not less capable than any old M chip.

Got any actual points?

Hurr durr both sides durr hurr

Don't go back and forth with them. Just go to your credit card company. They need to learn.

Luckily little requires it so far. Unfortunately GNOME is going all in which means GTK is going to become a problem. So now if you want to avoid the fuckery you have to find Qt based replacements for that stuff. Sigh.

"the problem (with Android) is that browser based password managers barely work for anything outside of the browser due to how poorly Android is designed to allow this to function."

This is one of the few parts of Firefox on Android that has been reliable for me...

"No way a million hunter and gatherers had any significant impact other than an occasional wildfire, which we still do by mistake today."

Dumb take which ignores known reality.

Natives in the US managed these lands sustainably for millennia using fire. They both expanded the plains to make room for more bison and maintained the health of forests by clearing brush... With fire.

I think Microsoft did the math and figured out that the money it costs to make a console has been increasing, not least because of security. And then it gets hacked anyway and doesn't achieve its goals as a result. Why bother? Needing exclusives to bring people to your console when you could do cross platform instead and not even need a console... Plus with the EU forcing platforms open it's only a matter of time before it happens to consoles. No console, no problem. Microsoft can simply lobby for the other platforms to be forced open.