I was thinking about this and thought .. "Why not use USB-C?"

I suspect the reason is so that they can precisely control what device is on the other end.

If it were just a standard USB-C device, people would be using the cheapest piece of junk off Amazon to power this thing. And then with the magnet connector on the other side, any issues with that cheap-o charger could smoke the thing.

By using this integrated part, it's a non-issue.

Bear in mind that the "lightning-like" connector isn't exactly exposed, either. The battery + funky-magnet cable is a single assembly... It's not the kind of thing that's supposed to be plugged and unplugged routinely.

All that said, don't underestimate the awfulness of those "made from bailing wire and matchsticks" devices.

Not sure who the other one is, but Iâ(TM)m sure weâ(TM)ll both be sad.

Seriously though, Iâ(TM)ll just mirror it and park it on my NAS â¦. Back when I actively used OS/2, that wouldâ(TM)ve been unthinkable.

I actually disagree.

I have a Vision Pro on the way. The $3500 isn't cheap but it doesn't break my back, either.

But that 'boiling the frog' with these subscription increases really, really piss me off.

It's not about affordability, it's about perception. And my perception is that Apple is building a first-generation product and I'm willing to pay the early adopter's fee to play with it. But Netflix is just gouging me for content I really don't give a damn about.

Well, that's the thing.

Netflix deliberately has to go UN-check a box when they're publishing the iPad version of their app to make sure it IS NOT available for Vision Pro.

And they've chosen to do exactly that.

Seriously -- if they just left the default setting (Yes, make this available on Vision Pro) - there wouldn't be any discussion here.

But they're making a deliberate choice to block it... which has to be part of some negotiation - there's no technical reason to do so.

All it does is push me closer to cancelling Netflix, to be honest. They're getting way too expensive for craptastic content.

I have a valve stem remover in my car. Just in case I have a blowout on the road, or one of these asshats blocks the charger. Either or. F them.

Even early iTunes was ... 1, 2, 3, maybe even up to 4. Totally usable, fun, easy to work with.

Then the wheels came off.

Much like what is happening with macOS these days.

Or HPUX. I used to manage a farm of Superdomes loaded with Itanic CPUs.

There was a time they kicked Sunâ(TM)s ass. The I/O on Superdome was far superior to the Sun Fire x800 line at the time.

HPUX never caught on quite as hot as it should have. It had its quirks but man, once you had it humming, it just cruised.

Part of me (a very small part) misses it.

They deorbit naturally - gravity at 300mi LEO is still relatively strong - and then burn up completely. It's happened many times already with Starlink sats - there was a batch that were wrecked by a geomagnetic storm and they all deorbited naturally. There have been other satellites that have failed out along the way too.

The materials chosen are designed so they burn up completely on re-entry and pose zero risk on the ground.

Kinda cool - satellites that self-cleanse themselves out of existence at the end of their useful life. That's about as good as it gets.

Maybe for DR. Seasonality, not so much. The problem is, seasonality ⦠isnâ(TM)t. At least not if youâ(TM)re doing it right.

Youâ(TM)re spending the rest of the year doing integration testing, load testing, QA testing. Gathering metrics and results and making sure you have the horsepower for those seasonal loads.

And by the time youâ(TM)ve done all those, youâ(TM)ve got the supposedly-seasonal resources up and running for all those tests. Each one, burninâ(TM) dollars.

Iâ(TM)m not convinced that it really saves money over the long haul.

DR - similar. By using âoeburstâ resources, the tendency is to stretch time between tests to avoid costs. DR really should be part of daily business operations if done correctly.

Excellent virtualization, solid fast containers, no systemd, good documentation, native ZFS ... Sounds more and more like Solaris by the second.

Just a damn shame where it landed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Nothing to do with "climate anxiety" or social media or whatever ...

I've been looking at weather data since my first computer a gazillion years ago.

First time I saw a GIF file was downloading weather maps from Compu$serve. Why do you think they supported animation? Radar maps....

I'm still mourning rainmaker.wunderground.com ...

So this article can stuff it - has nothing to do with "weather apps" and all about weather DATA. Has been since the 80s. Want to take a good guess what it's going to be doing outside over the next 3-5 days. That's it ... I'm not anxious about climate change or whatever media-sensation crap this article wants to drum up. Just wanna know if I need an umbrella on Wednesday.

(ps - CARROT weather is the top of the heap present-day for me.)

Or, they gave up that garbage in the late 90s. Don't have time to dink around with configuring window managers... more important fish to fry.

Window Maker still around? Was always my 2nd favorite, to CDE itself.

Agreed, but you have to start somewhere. It's a chicken/egg problem. May as well let the first mover get it right and set a good model to follow.

If we let the rank amateurs set the pace, we'll be stuck with this completely stupid "Remember a 36-character password with 4 symbols, 3 digits, at least two uppercase letter and two emojis" nonsense forever.

I'm over it.
I'm over passwords.
I'm over password keepers.
I'm over managing authorized_keys files.
I'm over all of it.

Passwords can't die soon enough.

Once folks start getting used to passkey authentication, it'll get the rest of the industry moving.

This is one of those "we need big movers to move first instead of being fast followers" kind of things.

Let's do this.

Right, excellent public transit .... the place that has ONE EFFING TUNNEL in/out of the single train terminal accessible from its largest neighbor state.

One tunnel in, one track in. That's it. And now if you take the alternative, they're gonna bend you over with extra taxes for driving.

NY public transit makes the Botswanans look like transit geniuses.