First they wanted me to donate cash, now they want 8.7 MeV per Wikipedia article....

Wouldnâ(TM)t nuclear have been a better choice? Presumably he could have bought a nuclear propulsion from the Russians on the cheap.

Now please tell us what you really think!

Lisa 2.0

Although In the past I had purchased MacBooks for family members, I purchased a MacBook Pro to replace my own Thinkpad at the end of 2016. Experienced more than just keyboard problems: speaker failure and wake-from-sleep issues as well. Had the top case replaced. Sadly the 2nd keyboard had started to fail, H key no longer works. The first solution was to buy an Apple Magic Keyboard which I fitted with some felt pads to rest it on the Macbook Pro and elevate it above the built-in keyboard. I can once again type without entering a rage about how shitty the f***ing butterfly keyboard is. The second solution was to buy a Thinkpad X1 Extreme gen 2, which I did the other week, which I expect to be with me later this month. Will get the butterfly keyboard repaired as part of the Apple keyboard recall then give it to the kids. (It was a top-spec model at the time a should have lasted me 5 years but just cannot handle another year typing on it...)

Long time Windows/Thinkpad user here. Ignoring the 3 Macbooks I had purchased in the past for my family, I purchased my first Macook Pro in 2016. Paid a fortune for 2TB storage, dongles, extra power and not to forget: a bloody power cord. Had problems from the start. Not waking properly, one speaker failed, shitty keyboard. Took it in for repairs, acknowledged wake from sleep problems and said it needed a new âoetop caseâ. Keyboard, speakers and battery all fused together so Appleâ(TM)s course of action was to swap the entire top case. Claimed liquid damage so would not cover under warranty, cost £400/$500USD. Assholes. Took 10 days to repair, fell back to my old thinkpad which luckily I still had on hand at the time. Well, new keyboard started failing. H key, spacebar. Plan to get it repaired under the keyboard recall, but holding off as Iâ(TM)m going back to thinkpad. Spent $150 on an Apple Bluetooth keyboard which sits on top if the laptop. Gets me by for now. Lastly, and please donâ(TM)t laugh, i managed to spill some water on the laptop a couple weeks back. Glass on desk, tidying up, knocked it, splashed computer. Hey, iâ(TM)m human and like to hydrate at my desk. Well f**k me, water leaked onto the left USB-C ports and shorted one of them out! Sizzling smell of electronics. Down to 3 usb-c ports now. What the fuck Apple? USB-C connectors suck. They are small and fragile and damage easily. Also they tend to wear quickly meaning that the power connector can come disconnected even though it looks to be plugged in. Oh, and one of the dongles ended up with some dust or shit jammed in the USB-C connector and attempts to plug it in made it worse. Luckily I have a microscope which i used to pick out the crud and get it working again. F**k these connectors. So much wrong with the 2016 Macbook pros. Never again: i need a laptop that is more robust and cheaper to repair. Macbooks are designed to dazzle and look pretty on a desk, but are not built for day-to-day mobile use. I should be getting 5 years out of it, but cannot wait to move on to my next laptop. Never experienced such disappointment with a laptop before, clearly made worse by both high expectation and high price. Thinkpad here I come...

Iâ(TM)d recommend giving dBase III+ a chance first.

Presumably it would be pretty easy to build something that both detects and fries the offending circuit. A charging cable should be nothing but two connectors and a cable. By running high voltage and the max current tolerated by the connectors and cable it should be possible to destroy the embedded circuit. Anyone for a Kickstarter to build such a device?

Can he stop my Windows 10 PC waking from sleep in the middle of the night? Surely this isnâ(TM)t the most power conserving behaviour...

As a child growing up in Ontario in the 1970s we would occasionally spend the day at Lake Erie and I have memories of collecting up pink plastic applicators from tampons which had washed ashore. I had no idea what they were at the time but there were a lot of them and would feature in the sand castles I would build.

No, that was someone cosplaying Steve Wozniakâ(TM)s corpse.

Brilliant response and fascinating read.

Really enjoyed Doom. Played it while between IT jobs in 1994, then bonded with new colleagues death matching after work on the 10-base-2 LAN. Fun times, but girlfriend came along and my priorities changed. Last time I DMâ(TM)d was Quake Arena, again, while in between jobs.... perhaps time for a revisit...

How the fuck can this be up here for 12 hours? What the hell happened to /.???? Mods?

But if millennials stop drinking coffee how will they stay employed as baristas?