They've sold it to everyone they can, there's only one revenue stream left to take advantage of, you.

You can build a Hackintosh that is 100% just as stable and functional as a Mac, it;s not easy, but you can except for two areas.

The first issue is power management, not a big problem on a desktop but a big one for laptops. Don't expect great battery life.

The second issue is speed.
Of course the latest and greatest will be faster, but by how much? Mac reviews always focus on a single Mac or a Mac vs Mac, the problem is Mac has been languishing and a new Mac isn't as big of a jump as you think. Jumping several generations hardly makes a difference in the seat of your pants feel but put Windows or Linux on both of those machines and the difference is VERY obvious between the them. This is because Apple has gutted Macos development and it's not able to fully take advantage of newer hardware. It works, but not efficiently.

If you want a Mac lapto buy a few generations old one in great shape with top of the line specs, put in a fresh battery, faster ssd, install more ram. You'll get 95% of the performance of the latest and greatest for far less but with a better keyboard and more ports.

Weighing the passengers does not save anything, the passenger weight is the passenger weight. Weighing a 300 pound person doesn't magically make them weigh 250 pounds.

This isn't a new or innovative idea which means this isn;t really a startup trying to change flying or even sell to airlines, but someone trying to sell an idea to investors.

I go through this every time I buy shampoo and conditioner.
It's either no longer offered, or the price has been increased by 20% since I last ordered. And it's not just them, they are all doing it.

I just went and looked, at this point both have doubled in price since I started using prime a year ago, it's at the point I can just buy it locally for the same price.
Looks like it's time to cancel Prime.

It's slow and lacking functions because Apple essentially gutted the Mac development.
Mac makes up 10% of Apple profits (as per a quarterly report I looked at), has some of the highest development costs and doesn't translate to app and music sales ($$) as much as the Iphones do, as such the device and OS has languished. It doesn't take full advantage of newer processor tech and increased ram as well as it should so while it's faster than the older models, it's not nearly the jump you would have seen on Windows or Linux with the same hardware improvements.

Apple is not the Apple of old, it's now a traditional corporation run by investors and a bean counter who couldn't care less about giving you the latest and greatest at a decent price. Until Mac diehards figure this out Apple will continue to prey on Mac users who keep looking at Apple as if Steve was still in charge. If Mac doesn't improve soon (and it won't with current funding), don't be surprised if Apple either splits it off into its own company or sells it outright.

He's going to look for the edge in Antarctica, because that is where it's drawn... By the same people who say the earth is round?

If you wanted to hide the location why would you draw it right there on a map?

It's availability.
The average user isn't going to wipe Windows and install Linux. Price, software, difficulty, none of that matters, Linux could run everything faster, better, the fact is they won't because Windows was included with the system and does everything they need.

If you ask them to switch the answer is "Why?", and they are right.
You can say it's X software or Y software or anything else but that isn't really an issue because most people do not use that software or there is an alternative. If you want a good example of how it can happen take a look at Android, people use it because it came with the phone, it's there. It doesn't matter if they prefer IOS, it's an Android phone. Want them to use Linux, you need a major marketing campaign and manufacturers with system in stores. Do that and software makers will come running, but until then it's not going to happen. Android and Chrome had Google backing it, who's backing Linux?

You can browse just fine using 8 or even 4gb of ram.
Granted it will begin to slow down at some point, much sooner than with more, but it will work just fine.

What you are seeing is the system doing what it's supposed to do, using what is available. What's the point of having all that ram if it's just sitting there idle? It will release it if needed, but it will take what it can because that's what makes it most efficient. This is especially important on a laptop where you can trade ram for cpu and drive cycles, both of which consume far more battery than the ram.

Also, run a good adblocker, on many webpages more than half the data is just ads and tracking data (mostly the latter!). It's insane how much tracking happens, particularly on news sites.

I just have to laugh...
Gives them a dose of the hell they give people who host user generated content (chat forums, image hosts, etc..).

I hope our A.I. overloads come for their heads (and Zucker_Borg) first.

and having to list that on your body of work.

Or the guy who had to justify paying for that.

Well there's most of your problem right there...

Sprint wrote the laws regarding carrier change and left loopholes they had planned ahead for. They do everything they legally can to lock you into them as a carrier. Of course they do , you say, but no, this goes beyond what other carriers do. And then there is their prepaid divisions which are somehow even worse. The first rule of phone modding should be to get rid of Sprint if you want to do anything with your phone.

If you want to play, you will usually want a T-mobile phone or unlocked phone straight from the manufacturer, both of which you tend to pay a little more for (always research before you buy though, even if on the Lineage list!). AT&T and Verizon is hit or miss and AT&T has even been known to lock the bootloader later with an update (they did this with the S4). You also will want to avoid Samsung, they are difficult and if you mess up they hard brick with no fix. HTC will give you the codes to unlock the bootloader and they have a good recovery system if you mess it up. LG is hit or miss but generally good, though some models are a serious hassle. I haven't worked with Motorola..

Windows 10 is not a bug, it's a feature!

Before you don't open a virus laden email?
Now I understand why some anti-virus programs refuse to properly disable when I want/need them too, it's because of of people like you who refuse to listen.

Central California (starting just north of L.A. metro) grows 2/3rds of U.S. produce consumed by people.

The rest of the U.S. grows more for livestock and ethanol than it does for human consumption (by a large margin) and it's been that way for a while now. This is why food prices across the U.S. go up any time California has a fight over water or they have a bad season.

and I’m willing to bet they used proprietary software that managed the infill for them, this is something aftermarket slicers allow you to change, not just the amount but even the type.

Even if you use proprietary that doesn't allow you to alter the infill, all you need to do to mess with their results is to rotate the object a small amount, it will alter how the infill pattern is laid down. If each file has a 1degree rotation the software would likely be unable to identify what printer did what because how the slicer would alter the infill regardless of the machine and how it handles the stepping.

This works fine in a lab where you can control all of the variables, like the slicing software, firmware, plastics and environment, but in the real world, it's completely impractical. People update software, change settings, nozzles wear, belts stretch, plastic absorbs water and requires different temps, different plastics need different temps... It's just too many variables.