The authorized repair certification has some huge catches. You have to sign away your ability to use any third party parts whatsoever. And there are a lot of cases where that ability is more important. There are other restrictions that I can't remember for the moment outside of the cost.

The tokens are the actual cost. They directly relate to the resources used and could really be correlated pretty accurately to the electricity used. Though the parameter size of the model will determine the cost of each token for that model. The problem is that these are numbers that are easily inflated. A so-called thinking model doesn't really think - it just spits out loads of extra text talking to itself to guide its own output. Sometimes that is actually necessary to get good output.

Hiring / being hired is just as useless as web search even with SEO. We don't need resumes if an AI can parse large amounts of data. We need a good source of large amounts of data that can't easily be faked in order to make hiring work. I don't have any suggestions but probably something that worked for web search will work here.

They pushed themselves into a resource shortage by overselling at the giveaway price. They can't scale up even with unlimited money, so they can only reduce demand. And price is the easiest way to decrease demand right now.

Yeah, this is a terribly inaccurate article. You have to run a version of macOS that is supported to get the latest version of Office that is still supported. Unsupported versions are unsupported, sure, but the licensing cert really shouldn't be considered an update - they have no problems activating Windows XP with or without a licensing server.

A certificate in a certificate store is an "update" but it's not like it's an actual software update if they're doing it right. It kind of violates the very idea of a perpetual license. If someone wants to run outdated software they have always been able to in the past. The copy protection is only for their own benefit and not part of quality or security updates.

You don't need to bring anyone else into it to make a judgment on it. Their choice can stand on its own merits. But i would say in general, companies do the bare minimum they can legally get away with in most cases.

With Apple, they will rent tools to end users and only if they self-certify that they aren't hiring any professional help in the process. Independent shops can't even buy the tools.

Just to add, my 2nd Generation Nest thermostat was I think 11 years old when it was force-disabled by Google last year. The lithium battery was still good. They only charged it to 50-60% or something like that. Good hardware design before Google took over very much.

Up until very recently. Some of the newest laptops and flagship phones avoid charging past 80% now unless you need it. And even the displayed 100% is lower than the true capacity. This is the best thing you can do for battery longevity is to eliminate the extreme ends of the charge cycle.

And then the phone isn't waterproof either. Adhesive based seals only work when something's not heating up and pushing it apart.

To be honest, I'm not even sure that some OLED phones don't get hot enough to soften the adhesive on their own when used in sunlight.

Not being up front about it is the nefarious plan to get you to upgrade the phone. The justification for the slowdown makes perfect technical sense but the decision to not disclose it really isn't excusable.

The very article links to archived press releases but I'll save you the trouble. They rebranded to the all caps version later when they added support for additional architectures.

It should be obvious that hunger affects behavior. It's a fundamental survival mechanism. They might be surprised at exactly what effects but shouldn't be surprised that there are any. Hunger changes priorities and should affect the brain. However, it gets rid of call kinds of hunger because it isn't selective. Sounds like we're learning that people "hunger" for things that aren't food - drug addictions, success (or lack thereof that creates anxiety), and probably several other things that share chemical signaling with or hijack chemical signaling for real needs.

So you can use a 32-bit emulator for the 32X? Or did you just miss the joke?

Even the Wikipedia article lists NeXTSTEP with a lowercase e while showing the logo with all caps. The article does show NeXTSTEP. It wouldn't be surprising if the official spelling doesn't carry to the logo but neither one matches NeXTStep from the summary.