I think the key difference is that is you uploading data to Googles servers. I think the owner of a server checking what is being uploaded (via hash) is a lot more reasonable than a company scanning user devices. I think most people would be fine with this if it was only iCloud content. I am not taking a side here, I just think that is an important distinction.

Not sure if you are joking, but it is a 32-bit ARM processor. The article is either trying to be cute or trying to make a joke about the B&W nature of the console.

The 999 MacBook Air and 1100ish MacBook? Not sure why you are bringing up the Pro when I even included the price range in my post...

âoethey absolutely should not be selling machines running a new CPU architecture with such inadequate RAM.â

By they do you mean everyone? I, unfortunately, know for a fact that at least Dell and HP still sell mechanical HD, integrated graphics (meaning part of that paltry amount of RAM is forfeit) machines with 4GB of RAM running Windows 10. While they donâ(TM)t experience âexcessive SSD wearâ(TM) (what with not having a solid state drive) they do experience excessive running like garbage and hard disk thrashing under any sort use.

These are not really high end machines mind you, but they are very much in the general M1 price range. If you think I exaggerate, get a new i5 range laptop and slap some low end (but 7200 RPM) drive in it with 4 GB of RAM and integrated graphics and try to do actual work. For a bonus you can try to do this after a fresh install while Windows is thrashing through updates. In the around 999 ish dollar machine racket I would ideally not take either, but I would prefer wear over hot, power consuming paperweight if I had to choose.

Yeah. It happened in 2010 or 2011, so it sounds like it is still the same. Maybe they should consider preparing for it? It is not like prepping for and dealing with cold weather is the same as massive wildfires. It does not exactly spread or grow like a fire and you do not have to put it out, just endure it and you can ask the parts of the country that do how they do so since they deal with it regularly.

Ignoring the fact that they probably had an agreement with Intel for that CPU and the fact that you canâ(TM)t just change your entire supply chain at the drop of a hat (that would also entail changing the motherboard etc), every OEM overcharges for things like RAM and you know this. Saying what you can get the parts for is irrelevant.

The people buying those computers are not going to buy parts and build a machine, just like people buying a Dell etc are not, so why even bring that up? That is like bringing up the price for a bunch of nails and wood when discussing what houses go for in a given area.

Correlation does not inherently imply causation. That is important to remember with things like the link to diet soda. Is obesity caused by diet sodas or are diet sodas just consumed more often by people who are obese?

See Betteridge's law.

So now we are on Snowball VI?

I mean you do not have to use Pocket. As long as it is optional I see no problem if it helps keep their lights on. Granted that is a big if, and I have no idea, but at any rate it is far tamer than what Google and Microsoft are doing.

Pocket seemed a strange acquisition to me but I assume if Mozilla did they did so because it helps their bottom line.

I think I read that someone is trying to bring back Radio Shack, give them time.

It is in dire need of a good text editor though...

I just have a splinter ridden abacus and carve output into my skin with dull flint you insensitive clod!

Did you start by letting him know that pistols are not a particularly effective method for killing infectious diseases like COVID? Because I would have started with that...

Yeah, I do not think Apple is going to steal Bluetooth from Microsoft, assuming that was possible, to go make an Xbox controller...