You haven't offended any Apple users. You have given them a good laugh at your expense. Do you think even a single Mac or iPhone user takes you seriously?

What a nonsense. If my wife wanted a computer, she wouldn't need more than 8 GB (she is very happy with her iPad by the way). So why should I have to pay more because some numpty on Slashdot wants me to?

Step 1: You buy a Mac with as much RAM as you like. No problem at all. They have these things called "Apple Store" with people who are actually there to help you buy the right stuff that you need. Step 2: You stay away from memory eating browsers like Chrome. Step 3: If you want a large SSD drive, just go and buy an external one. They are cheap. They are big. They are not very fast, but the slowest ones are still four times faster than any hard drives.

And then you read up. Like memory compression. Apple has memory compression built into the chip, so you get two or three extra gigabyte without touching the hard drive, and without you noticing anything. Direct connection to your graphics card. There is no duplication between RAM and video memory. Saves a lot of storage. Fast swapping: The built-in hard drives are fast and once they start swapping, they swap compressed memory which saves time and effort, and they have minimal overhead.

I bought 16 GB RAM. Because _for me_ 8 GB is not enough. For many people, it is.

None of the arabic or muslim countries around there wanted to take any refugees from the area. Because they wanted a population that was going to create conflict. And the only peaceful solution they will accept is Israel being wiped out.

I don't know how the maths works in the USA. But I used to commute into London, at a cost of 15 pound a day. Times 230 days a year, that's 3,450 pound a year. I pay 40% income tax and 2% national insurance on that money, so you have to pay me (3,450 / 0.58) or 5,950 pound a year extra so that I have the same money in my pocket after paying for my train ticket. In addition, my employer pays 15% employer national insurance, so it costs them 6,840 pound a year to put the same money into my pocket.

That only pays for my train ticket. It doesn't pay for me driving to the train station, it doesn't pay me for three hours commute a day, it doesn't pay me for exorbitant prices in London to get some food at lunch time.

Now if I work from home, I do more work per hour because I'm not exhausted from the commute, I sometimes work longer because I'm in the flow and don't notice that it is 5 o'clock or because I just want to finish something and don't have to leave to get the train. The employer saves the office space.

So this is a win-win situation for everyone. If you don't count the benefits for the employees, just realise that given the choice between job A where I work from home, and job B where I go to the office every day, even spending 7,000 pound extra money from your annual budget doesn't manage to make your company more attractive.

He entered dozens of contracts and is obligated to pay the same amount as a normal customer. Just because you lied in the contract doesnâ(TM)t remove your obligations.

Iâ(TM)ve seen it differently for shipping insurance. If it costs $100 to build an item that I sell to you for $200 then I only need $100 insurance to build a new item and send it to you. But if the item gets stolen and I lose $200 because someone buys the stolen item, then I need $200.

No, that just means AWS isnâ(TM)t cost efficient for crypto mining if you pay the bill. Like digging out copper wire to make money from scrap is g cost effective if you pay for the damage.

AWS isnâ(TM)t designed for efficient crypto mining. They donâ(TM)t have specialised hardware, and they are most useful for businesses because they can react quickly and efficiently to changing demand. If I need 5 servers usually, but sometimes I need 100, then AWS has a good deal for me.

Since the guy racked up a 3.5 million dollar bill, what will happen about paying this? Will Amazon etc. be able to get most of his pay check for the rest of his life (thatâ(TM)s what would happen in Germany), or will he more or less get away with it after he is out of jail (the British method).

Hereâ(TM)s a real good use for an AI: Built a feature into Safari so that it checks all the messages you read and detects âoestupidâ characters like around the word âoestupidâ. Then changes them when you post, and when the messages are displayed.

You want an LLM accessible as an API. With usual settings to allow it or not. Like the camera, where you need to deliberately opt in before the first photo was taken, and can be removed at any time.

Compare the amount of money that Apple makes by selling iPhones with the amount of money they could make spying on you without getting caught. If anyone at Apple suggested spying on customers their CFO would slap them silly.

You donâ(TM)t need AI. But there are lots of useful things it could do. For example, the apple âoephotosâ app recognises some of my family members from age 3 to age 20 and knows they are the same person. My wife had an app that would recognise all the plants in our garden and give you information like are they healthy, how to look after them.

Now if you let your dog in your garden, wouldnâ(TM)t it be great if an app could detect dog poo everywhere in the grass, and not detect brown leaves? So you can clean up the mess? I could come up with 100 examples.

A good saying is: âoeIf freedom of speech is the only reason why your speech should be allowed, that means your speech has zero value.â

What are you on about? Whitespace characters are space, tab, line feed, line tabulation, form feed, and carriage return. Thatâ(TM)s what the Unicode standard says.