I'm not saying cloud is necessarily riskier than on-premises*, but cloud failures can easily make headlines due to the scope, and such could set the likes of MS into a financial tailspin. While that is perhaps a good thing, they'll hurt a lot of customers in desperation for cash during their spiral to Hell.

* The average org didn't manage on-premises well either.

If you are transgender then you pretty much need to avoid red states, as frothy evangelicals would be happy to hang you or lock you in a "correctional facility". And they are growing ever more medieval.

That's the secret to the Chinese government's success - they give a shit about the citizens

Good one. Most leaders, including Xi, don't have a flying fuck about their citizens and one should never assume they do. They care about personal glory and power. If helping citizens HAPPENS to help them reach their personal goals, that's great, but it doesn't always align.

Ranting about Teams is our best social gathering.

The Clippy Army. Clippernators?

..."non bold" bets before this? HyperboleGPT?

I don't think that they ever will invade because Taiwan might retaliate and blow up the Three Gorges Dam. The devastation that would cause isn't worth gaining control of Taiwan. Instead they'll try to exert soft power to gain control in a more diplomatic fashion. Even if they believed Taiwan couldn't pull that off or that they could stop any attempt, any invasion doesn't guarantee control of valuable resources. Im sure TSMC has someone whose job it is to take a hammer to all of the machines if an invasion occurs. Being willing to destroy the things your enemy wants to seize and letting them know that you'll do it can also do a lot to dissuade aggressive actions as well.

China isn't stupid and after spending the last several years watching Russia destroy itself as much as Ukraine, I can't imagine they're looking to put themselves into a similar situation.

Making something small and compact can easily be more expensive than a product without those constraints. The resolution on most phone displays is close to as good as that on many laptops or even desktop displays. It's more difficult and hence more expensive to make a high PPI touchscreen display for a phone than to make a larger desktop monitor with the same resolution. Boards don't need to cram everything into as small of a space either. A laptop doesn't need to contain a cellular modem/baseband either.

Apple already makes iPads that are much larger than their phones, but also cost much less. I'm more surprised that they would do this because it means that they're cannibalizing some of their own Mac sales that are sure to have better margins. Their phone SoCs aren't that much less expensive than their basic M-series SoCs. Either these are compromising a lot on less expensive components across the board and are being positioned as a more expensive iPad replacement or they think they can sell enough of these to make up for lost profit from purchases of other Mac models.

To look rich to your shallow friends.

I thought that was Orangelini?

I trust bots somewhat more at that task.

What's your favorite Bible search engine?

You're not wrong, but this is a website populated mostly by that 1%. I suspect that most of the people here do upgrade components or build their own PCs from parts.

You'd have to pay me to take it. I don't like ads on my television or my computer, so why would I want them anywhere that never not existed previously? If they are willing to pay me, then I'll take a few million fridges. If they were free, I'd take them as well. They'd look lovely lining the ravine near my house.

Dude, gitta real girlfriend.