So you're saying that a US$212 replacement display that costs more than an entire Chromebook is going to be somehow better for these public schools over some period of time?

Right.

False. Not a single NEO config I select on Apple.com has more than a 3 day delivery to my address.

When you have to lie to make your point, its time to make some tough decisions in life. Will you forever push your false agenda and false narrative?

Do you think there's a world where Apple suddenly offers inexpensive replacement parts for anything? Sometimes the screens on Chromebooks are as low as $30. I'm sure they're third party panels, but they work and return the device to useful life. How likely is it that Apple offers screen replacements under $100, even to institutional buyers?

That is repairable by the standards of Apple computers, not the standards of open hardware.

My experience dealing with a Chromebook deployment mirrors one of the grandparent commenters: 90% of the problems are broken screens, Screens are quick and easy to replace if you have the part, but screens cost money and you'll never had as many as you'll eventually need. You'll have extra parts for everything else because of the staggering number of broken screens.

I have an occasional side job dealing with PC/laptop/Chromebook repairs at a local weirdo private Christian Academy. Given that the place definitely seems to have a "go pick the stick I'm going to beat you with"-vibe, I suspect there's actually fewer broken systems than I might see from a similar deployment at a public school. Chromebook screens are still the biggest problem. One of the reasons I got this side gig is that an acquaintance saw the number of devices being written off and just assumed their day-to-day IT person couldn't possibly know what they're doing.

Anything else Apple does, unless their screens are indestructible or only cost $20 to replace, isn't going to help with that.

Trump explicitly promised not to do this. So yes, I do get to complain about it, because this wasn't on the menu.

Increase of EV sales is the result of people justifiably worried about the oil crisis. Due to war with Iran global oil supply is down by 20 to 25%, if not for major countries, including China, using reserves we would already have shortages. More so, Ukraine is attacking Russian oil production and Trump started trade war with Canada, so replacement for this lost production capacity is diminished.

So ya, with all that even *I* considered buying a used EV. I don't want one, but I don't want to be unable to drive if I can't buy gasoline even more.

If its making the charts, its not bad and therefore not slop.

You are mistaken in your analysis. It is only better for now, until enshitification lands you right back into ad hell, only it is much harder to block because it is all single-source with content you want, unlike ad networks that are separate and identifiable.

Current generation AI is more than capable of reasoning toward answer it have not encountered in its training data.

The good should not be an excuse to introduce a bunch of bad, even if the good still outweighs it. The bad should be rigorously minimized. I am not against such cameras, under certain conditions:
1) Strict limitations on what they can be used for. That also sets limits on data retention and on who has access to it (absolutely no 3rd parties)
2) Audits and oversight of how the system is being used, with real consequences for violations. The benefits of each use case to be evaluated from time to time, insufficient benefit or too much opportunity for abuse means the system will no longer be used for that particular use case.
3) Ironclad security to ensure none of this data ever gets out.
And 0) Those limitations on use should be tested against a more fundamental set of (ethical) rules, to ensure that the use is not expanded from "protect the children" to "auto-fine jaywalkers".

Only problem is that I wouldn't trust most governments to get any of these points right.

Can you even filter knowledge for something like "how to make cocaine" without filtering entire domain of knowledge? Say you provide zero knowledge in training data on how to do this, it would still have training data on chemistry and know from general news that cocaine exists. So it would likely figure out "how to" on its own when asked to.

Markets have not yet priced Microsoft valuation in post consumer Windows world.

"Needs more Excel training" should not be the answer to any problem.

If you ever realize that that everything you thought was black and white in this world is actually shades of grey, you're going to have your worst and best day at the same time.

Would he have handed over the phone unasked and volunteered the password? Unlikely.
As far as I know, the phone behaves in a certain way when you enter the duress password. So it seems established that that is the password he provided. And at that point, it doesn’t matter if he wiped the phone earlier or not, that fact can no longer be established, and that alone would count under the (expanded interpretation of) that law.
Yes, we make assumptions. We’re not in court, we’re on the internet. Speculating on whether the state does or does not have a solid case. That is all.