Right. Ultimately the only way to fix this is strengthen privacy laws and enforcement. The tech bros have a lot of influence; their brown nosing and corruption was really on display when the orange manbaby came back to power.

The enemy are companies making money of your data; business models championed by the likes of Google and Facebook. You could argue that they're just exploiting weak privacy laws and enforcement. The FBI aren't at fault for accessing publicly/commercially available data, unless there's some American law that forbids even this. Stop giving your data to companies. Stop supporting these businesses that don't respect you, your data or your privacy.

The printing on the keyboard is minor. The UK and US English keyboards are physically different:: e.g. just look at the enter key, which are orientated completely differently.

It was already building for Arm platforms. Iâ(TM)m sure they have NEON optimisations somewhere in there.

France also does it because it benefits their military nuclear programme.

Trump doesnâ(TM)t want Europe to lose its dependency on foreign fossil fuels because he wants American companies owned by his buddies to profit from this, not Russian and Middle Eastern ones. Why do you think heâ(TM)s so against renewable power? Itâ(TM)s not just about the view from his Scottish golf course.

So many forms of communication available, no wonder we struggle to communicate.

Thanks for rubbing it in that you're retired ;). Hope I wasn't too full-on before.

To be fair they haven't got anything there they didn't have a better offering for 10 or 15 years ago.

There, FTFY.

Jira and Confluence were seriously better in the past, then enshittification set in and they started forcing the subscription model. Now their updates fix things they've enshittified, but they enshittify something else. Just like Microsoft Office, there's been no improvement (quite the opposite in fact) for years, yet it costs more.

Iâ(TM)m using the term North American incorrectly; Iâ(TM)m really referring to people north of Mexico ;)

Example: Iâ(TM)m trying to organise tours in Tunisia right now. I donâ(TM)t want to be making international phone calls and texts. They all use WhatsApp. Itâ(TM)s enough work as it is without making my life harder.

Signal is missing features for businesses. It doesnâ(TM)t have a way to group a bunch of channels you can easily discover. Thereâ(TM)s more. As a replacement for simple texting with friends and family it might suffice, but you still have to convince them all to both install and use it in addition to continue using WhatsApp everywhere else. You just get left out of stuff. North Americans who donâ(TM)t travel out of N. America much donâ(TM)t get this. I travel a lot and tours, hotels, activities, restaurants, etc all use WhatsApp and assume you have it too. Itâ(TM)s the only form of communication in a lot of countries.

He described it as a "content consumption" device because he's belittling it in order to make it sound like it's inferior and incapable of being used for anything. He says it because he's scared. You could also take it as a tacit admission that their weak laptops are also considered internally as devices only suitable for content consumption ;)

Lightroom is available on an iPad and iPhone. Maybe you're referring to Lightroom Classic? I bet it runs the new Lightroom fine, but that's because it's crippled and relatively bloat-free compared with the older codebase of Lightroom Classic.

We can dream. MySpace didnâ(TM)t get as big, but it still seems to exist. Not a good sign.

Sadly canâ(TM)t get rid of WhatsApp because itâ(TM)s ubiquitous, at least outside N. America. Iâ(TM)ve managed to avoid Instagram, but some companies only provide information there, so sometimes I have to ask my wife to check. Itâ(TM)s annoying.

Intel is over. I accept this, but I don't want it becuause my 2019 MBP has a lot of life in it. Apple will support this new device for six years after they stop selling it, or at least that's a reasonable expectation of that.

I have a MBP I bought early 2008. Intel Core 2 Duo (two CPU threads) and 6GB RAM. It's still good for a lot of things. I don't think people on this site are particularly representative of Apple's target market with this new device and thus can't appreciate that 8GB will probably be enough for them.