Which is absolutely fine for most people, not least because any location you work at remotely often will have a dock or similar anyway and if you are on the go and carrying around enough peripherals for it to be an issue then don't bullshit that a tiny dongle is somehow a problem.

If you're carrying around a USB-A keyboard then fuck off pretending that also carrying a much smaller USB dongle is somehow an issue. If you're only using the keyboard at a desk, then you likely have (or would benefit from) some form of dock/hub there anyway and the size of the hub is irrelevant.

Some much of this port argument smacks of laziness or just a general inability to make perfectly viable adaptions to the modern world. You mention USB type B as though that makes your case because of the difficulty of finding a Type-C to Micro-B cable, but it does the opposite because you can buy easily buy a tiny little Type-C to Micro-B adapter which you can use with any Type-C cable (as you can lightning, mini USB etc) that are far more convenient than carrying cables around for each of them.

The rest of your point just reads like using strawman arguments because the underlying point is weak. What laptops don't have 3.5mm ports? Other than USB-A which of your 'top 4' ports are laptops regularly missing? Are you carrying a HDMI cable around with you as well, or are you just relying on their being cables wherever you need to connect to a screen (yet somehow not docks or dongles)? Who cares if you can't get USB-C to RS485 adapters, you can plug a USB-A one in via a Dongle or buy a tiny USB-C to USB-A adapter, and if you are carrying adapters like that around you can carry a dongle about the same size as well.

I work in IT, supporting equipment in a factory, and can do it all via USB-C ports, a small dongle, and half a dozen dongles smaller than the end of a USB-A cable. The vast majority of people want the devices to be more portable, not festooned with half a dozen or so extra ports that add no value for them and bloat the laptop.

Whereas you just teleport into the shower magically? Put the charger on your nightstand or whatever, drop watch on it on the way to shower, put back on when you finish getting dressed...

You have to be pretty naive to think 4chan has no business in the UK; if they didn't then Ofcom wouldn't be fining them or they'd have no issue blocking UK IPs entirely, but as they have a large number of UK users and thus viewers, which is their source of revenue, they won't do that.

Try running a UK based porn site and not requiring age verification from visitors in Utah, which did this 2 years before the UK, (or most other US states by this point) and see how long it is before you're in court.

Some US states have been doing exactly the same thing for a while now; Do you really feel happy with the status quo where what is on the internet is extensively controlled by the USA (see Steam delisting games globally due to demands from payment processors based in the states) and meanwhile parts of the US are deciding what can or can't be allowed, but the UK just needs to suck it up and accept anything that US decides is ok?

I'm not a big fan of censorship, including this specific law, but I think like most people there are some things I'd prefer weren't freely and easily accessible online (child porn for example) just because they're hosted out of a country where it is legal or isn't actively enforced.

There's definitely an element of this, and actually it goes beyond just when there's an event. We have our security assessed and doing user training is one of the criteria. There is no assessment of how likely our users are to fail or not though just that you do training.

There's a few including don't retain people who are particularly high security risks (if you buy into the idea that people don't get better), through apply more aggressive security restrictions to people who are particularly likely to be compromised; for example allow people who consistently pass security training to release emails flagged as spam/phishing but require people who regularly fail training to request the release so it can be checked first.

I don't think that figure means all that much, and certainly isn't as important as you think it is. India's population is over 5x Indonesias so 15 million Indians moving into manufacturing would only drop their agri percentage by 1% but the same number would drop Indonesia's to virtually the same as China's. India has a roughly similar rate for tertiary education, which means their are 5x as many Indian's attaining that level of education. That doesn't mean Indonesia is a bad option, or that it can't be the better option, but it highlights that this measure alone is pretty meaningless as an indicator of where manufacturing will move to as China becomes more expensive.

The article doesn't dispute your initial point but what it is about, and you seem to be missing, is that China required significant chinese ownership of the outsourced industry. This meant that an iPhone was made for Apple but the chip designs etc had to be shared with foreign companies, and the equipment used to make them was operated and maintained by foreign companies. This allowed Chinese firms to shamelessly ripoff and independently produce similar products.

What China is doing is setting up factories that belong to Chinese companies, with advanced knowledge restricted to Chinese nationals, meaning that India will not have the same opportunities to benefit from the outsourcing by building its own companies and technical knowledge in its population.

Given that Apple is cutting off updates for the last intel devices in an even shorter period then I have to assume you have chosen to move to Linux? You say it isn't a smart business decision by Microsoft but they got your money for Win 10, you wouldn't buy Win 11, and you're already in the distinct minority in buying something in 2020 that can't support Win 11.

I think it's wrong but hardly bad business. If anything I'd like to see people have the right for a refund, at least in countries with strong consumer protection laws. If I buy a laptop that comes with an OS then 5 years is a reasonable expectation for it to operate and it can't operate safely if the OS doesn't get security patches.

No, and any requirement to do so would just increase the extent to which we get subscriptions foisted onto us.

Your Mac point in particular is impressive in showing your lack of knowledge in the area and bias. My recollection is there was less than 2 years from them stopping selling the final intel based Mac products to intel chips not supporting new OS versions, and it'll be 3 years from last sales to the point where their OS version won't get patches.

The worst issues we've had from updates in the last 3 years have been from Mac OS releases up to and including changes that left Macs with endpoint protection software virtually unusable.

It might be an edge case but it is an example of why the final piece of the summary, and part of the lawsuit demand, is valid. It is reasonable for someone to expect a paid commercial operating system bought with a new system to be maintained for say 5 (or longer potentially) years unless explicitly told the life would be shorter.

There's no reason you can't blame both. If you stay at my house then leave without closing the front door then I'm perfectly entitled to be pissed at you for putting my property at risk; if I pay an IT team to keep my business secure then they are also to blame if they don't do it.

Answers like this seem to ignore the realities of what a business actually runs on. They didn't go bankrupt because they couldn't recover an Excel file in someone's oneDrive. The summary even says they locked access to internal systems. You need backups of virtual servers, cloud hosted environments etc.

It's hard to imagine that a proper backup solution implemented correctly wouldn't have made a difference in this case but unfortunately we'll never see enough detail to know what the attackers did and thus how extensive and effective the security measures were.

The market currently values activity around AI. I share your view that this is likely to be a bubble at least to some extent but it doesn't stop it being true. I think the wider context is important though. Apple has become gigantic and has done so while becoming almost a one trick pony. Half their revenue is iPhones, half of what is left is services, meaning everything else (Macs, iPads, watches, Vision) is a quarter of the company. iPhone innovation from model to model is pretty modest and that's a risk both in terms of slowing sales and in terms of leaving a larger gap for a competitor product to go for.