Thank you! I'm glad you weren't moderated down on the original post. I actually am a big Apple fanboy. Apple company that is. I've put shares of Apple away in my retirement account and I'm soooooo happy there are so many Apple addicts out there.

I heard that they don't run on industry standard 120v/60hz or 240v/50hz: you have to convert your home to Apple power which is 4 phase/150v and 200hz. The charging cable costs $400. I understand that the OS is stored on a ROM that is soldered to the motherboard so upgrades require a replacement motherboard and it is glued inside. To open the laptop you need special Apple screwdrivers that can "talk" to the explosive screws. If you don't use the authorized screwdrivers you risk severe injury from the explosive screws. Otherwise it seems like a nice way to go for a laptop.

I agree with you 100%. I have a Tesla which I like due to the acceleration but I CAN'T STAND the interface. On my other car I can look at the road, stick my arm out, feel the knob and turn the A/C fan speed up. The Tesla touchscreen, which requires me to take my eyes off the road and carefully slide my finger while the car is moving, is a "fucking abomination"

I've owned and driven a few different Teslas since 2015 and I have to say it isn't always an advantage to deal with a huge company instead of a local dealership. Remember, it was the big company who wanted to get rid of dealers and their reason was to increase their own profits. Here is my experience: Tesla service is terrible. You can not reach a human at all and there are insufficient locations. They don't care because there is no competition. If I bought a Ford from a dealership with service this bad I would have found another local dealer that worked to get me to use them. Tesla sales experience is also frustrating. When you buy a new car in my state you have to pay taxes on the cost difference between your trade. If I trade a $50,000 car in and buy a $100,000 car I pay 6% of the net $50,000. If I sell my own car and buy a new $100,000 car I pay the full $6,000 tax. Trading in a car to buy a new one is a very common experience and the Tesla system screws you there. I was offered a terrible deal trading in my old car in 2015 and I sold it on my own. Recently I went to trade in a Model 3 and I was offered $42,000 by Tesla. I could not shop around. I ended up selling it myself for $51,000. If there was a dealership system I'll bet someone would have offered me $46,000. Why should Tesla make an additional $9,000 or $10,000 on my trade in?

It moves people to the Yandex browser and their CA. I'm sure the Russian people will have a safe, secure and open internet experience with no interference or spying!

https://endurance22.org/ Why use the Time or the Guardian? There is no paywall.

I read this as Apple will make new CPUs available for customers to install. I thought Apple would be offering to sell you a new CPU so you unclip the old one, put a drop of thermal paste on, remount the fan and boot up your freshly updated Mac. Then I realized that everything is probably glued or soldered in place so Apple wants you to throw your Mac in the landfill and buy a new one. I can refresh my Windows/Linux PC made with standardized components and connectors. I think the phrasing of the story could be changed to reflect that there's no way you can refresh a Mac that you purchased.

I should look in to using my card through Paypal. IF the main source of compromised numbers is hacking into insecure online merchants this will help. If there is a lot of ability for criminals to generate valid numbers then there is nothing I can do. I wonder if credit card companies have a consensus on how numbers get compromised: number generators or website data breeches.

I think I will be using my phone and Samsung Pay or Google pay more often.

Cashback/points/miles and such is a major draw for cards. I could write a check for my auto insurance or I could pay by card and keep ~2% worth of benefits for myself. Debit cards don't have good fraud protection. I know how to live within my means and I don't buy anything I can't pay for at the end of the month.

I wonder how much card fraud is from hacking in to the online merchant that stored my card in plaintext and how much is from someone who figures out that 1234-4321-8822-1010 is a valid card with an expiration of 02/24 and a CVV of 123

I've used Privacy.com. I like their service. It doesn't allow me to accumulate cash back, points, airline mileage though so I don't use it much.

I like this. I use Firefox and I let them autofill my numbers