I remember reading somewhere that Apple kind of foresaw this coming and purchased extra memory so they wouldn't have to raise prices as long as possible.

It looks like they've reached the end of their extra supply.

That timeframe is ridiculous. There's no reason why the courts can't operate more efficiently than they do other than that the lawyers and judges have no incentive to move things along.

Tell us you don't know how courts operate without telling us you don't know how courts operate.

The parties have to file the appropriate paperwork and there are specified timeframes when they have to be done. For example, the plaintiff files to start the case, the defendant generally has 20 - 30 days to respond. Then the plaintiff has additional days to respond to the defendant's response. And so on. This doesn't even take into consideration the discovery process. Just getting to the point to start a trial can take up to a year with all the back and forth filings, motions, and so on. In many cases, one or both parties will wait until the last moment to file just under the last possible filing date to drag things out.

Then the court has to schedule the case in between all the other cases they're dealing with. The parties may be ready to go to trial on April 1st, but if the first available slot in the court's docket isn't until June 1st, guess when the trial starts.

I have updates turned off. Every time I open Fx after a shut down, it harasses me. Then, about a minute later, it does it again. Throughout the day it harasses me.

If I tell it never to install updates unless I choose to, don't harass me.

It used to be like that until a year or so ago. Check the box, never be harassed. Now it's incessant.

Have they removed the incessent harassment notifying you there is an update?

There used to be a time when you checked a box, you were never harassed. Clear, simple, and useful.

I guess that's no longer possible.

The ObamaPhone was started by Bush.

Well, school has been sucking the life out of reading for over a century nowadays.

It doesn't help that right-wingers have been forcing schools to ban books such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Frankenstein's Monster, anything dealing with slavery or how Native Americans were treated by Europeans, and yes, 1984.

CNN had an article about parents in Tennessee complaining their kids shouldn't have to read about slavery and how slaves were treated because it makes them feel uncomfortable.

In other words, the people who cry the loudest about participation trophies are crying about little Johnny having to read about how horrible white people can be to others. None of this helps the ongoing issue of Johnny not able to read.

Making money is more valued than making strangers happy.

But car batteries are quite large. Even my shitty Honda Prologue that was less than $35k new has an 85kwh battery. Yeah, you might not want to give up 50% of your battery. But giving up 20% of your capacity? That's as a Tesla home battery, which is a decently substantial amount. And you'd still get hundreds of miles of range.

USA average house consumes 30kWh/day. That and solar power and a little care not to run the AC or clothes dryer and you could probably run off the grid indefinitely.

Then again, he didn't issue 'pre-emptive' pardons for his family, friends, crackhead son, etc yet,

The only reason Biden issued those pardons was because Trump was bragging about how he was going to weaponize the DOJ to go after people.

As for the clemencies, that does not absolve the person of the crime they committed. All it does is show mercy on them.

Compare that to all the January 6th terrorists who have been pardoned. And now there's talk of paying them for their troubles. No, not the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund*. There is still talk of paying these people for their crimes.

* Anti-weaponization is straight out of Orwell. Or the Soviet Union. Take your pick. Apparently imprisoning people who attack police aren't criminals in his eyes.

Yes, Lenovo had this feature. They were called the Yoga.

if expense is the concern, don't buy a mac book

Fixed it for you.

You're right, claiming that "a product made by Apple is the cause of all this is silly." But that's not what the article did, did you read the summary? They argue 33-52%.

That is a feeling you have. You aren't supporting it with any evidence, just feels. There's obvious counter-examples - why are birth rates down even higher in places where there's socialized medicine, no student debt, heavily subsidized childcare, etc.? If you're going by evidence, rather than feel, that clearly suggests there's more going on.

Furthermore, you seem to have read the article, but you dismiss it with "it is still not magic." What a meaningless statement! Scientific method requires some kind of counter-argument, not just hand waving away the parts you don't want to be true.

Reminds me of that post (quoting from memory) where a guy says the reason he needs to own a gun is because if his child needs an operation, no one's going to stop him from going to Italy where it's cheaper.