If that's true, it likely won't be true for long. Qualcomm modems sucked when Apple started using them, too — constant baseband crashes, etc. It took a couple of years before they were even kind of stable.

The nice thing about the Apple modems is that they are in control of the entire stack. That means when there's a bug, there's no fighting back and forth between two companies about whose problem it is. That means every baseband crash, no matter how rare, likely has enough stored data to figure out why it crashed, reproduce it, and fix it. That also means that they can do detailed analytics and experiment with different tower switching algorithms on a global scale to improve reliability over time. This is something that companies like Qualcomm simply are not equipped to do, because they don't make devices, and thus don't have the ability to send software updates or experiment flag changes to billions of devices out in the field.

The stories I've read say that Qualcomm's hardware is better (read: faster) when you have a strong signal, but that in weak-signal environments, Apple's modems are considerably more reliable. I hope so. I've found the Qualcomm modems to be absolute trash in moderate-signal environments ever since they made us switch us from Sprint towers to T-Mobile towers, and things have only gotten a little bit better in the half a decade since.

I'd gladly take a slower maximum speed in exchange for avoiding the constant problems I have with the signal dropping out entirely.

On land owned by someone else. The government compels the landowner to make that land available to whoever put up the pole. It's not like the landowner had any say in the matter.

LOL have you worked with the average home PC buyer like ever.

They never wrote down the local unlock code.

They forgot their password. - (This is why they called you initially, or the malware duped them into changing it)

They have no access to their e-mail, someone showed them howto connect Outlook 3 years ago and it has just worked ever since, no they can't even begin to guess at the password, even now their life depends on it.

They have no clue what a passkey or cloud wallet is, they only knew they never needed it before and don't want to did not want to deal with it, they have been "clicking - skip" for 2 years.

So yes, encrypting their data without making it damn clear to them what their key management responsibilities are, or alternatively if you manage the keys for them making sure they understand their identity recovery process before they have to use it, is not doing them any favors.

Like every "normie" I know has been thru at least two Google accounts, and some of assortment of yahoo, hotmail-microsoft, facebook/meta accounts they have to abandon because they lost access.

from the methodology that is exactly what happened..

In a book that refers to Netflix as "a new upstart service that Blockbuster Video should be wary of."

Yeah, I saw "...alternatives most people haven't heard of like... Patreon", and was thinking, "What year is this?"

LOL - from the representing the party of Swalwell. Dude, everyone knew and nobody cared...

Democrats basically invented all forms of modern political corruption. You need to let your hatred of Trump go and come to gips with that.

For the last 25 years or so the out of power party has usually polled exceptionally well at mid-terms anytime the economy isnt going gangbusters precisely because the nation is very polarized and the the 15% or so swing voters in the middle tend to vote their wallets.

Democrats are polling a lousy +3 right now. There is One and only One plausible explaination for that. Most of America is actually quite happy with the economy. It might be that inequities are disprotionately landing exclusively on people who are already reliable Democrat voters, but then who cares? You'll are America hating commie pricks anyway, so much the better.

That is my point thought. They don't know they need to do these things. They sign in with a pin or hello for years, forget their password, something happens to the PC and they are foobar..

Their past experience for the last 30 years was everytime they get one to many copies of bonibuddy installed their cousin does something with the hard disks and gets all their pictures, works/office/oo docs, and quicken files off there. This time is 'sorry can't help you'.

Is it Microsoft's fault - no not really, but it also kinda is because local disk encryption wasn't really something they needed, from a threat/theft security standpoint and they lacked familiarity with the subject to recognize just how dangerous FDE is to them from an availability, and reliability standpoint if they don't take appropriate precautions around key backup and account recovery options.

For most personal/consumer users FDE is not something that should be a default, it should be something opted into after some number of scary looking "are you sure" dialogs.

so you take a bunch model training on literature that include documentation about every populist uprising in history, then play act as a caricature of the most abusive nobility/gilded-age industrialist/dictator you can image, the models respond by intimating the response of the humans in those stories.

That isn't a surprise, it is what the models were literally built to do.

I am sick of people saying we are when all the statistics say the opposite.

Look unemployment still near historic lows.

African American unemployment (usually a recession bellwether) still near lows.

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Wage growth only this past month slipped blow the inflation rate, unsurprising with Iran going on

Markets doing well, despite Iran

all this in a flattish interest rate environment

- Reality is the recession is tech sector thing, and only if you pull AI spend out. The rest is manufactured media driven mirage. The facts are the economy is good, maybe even very good, unless you are only looking at the gas station signs or have an easily automated mid-level tech job. If you really don't trust the numbers coming out the BLS because TDS or something just look at how Democrats are polling nationally at a lousy +3 when the opposition party usually looks at lot better, and in this case would be expecting to be over polling due to Iran.. The reality American's are feeling good and pretty secure as long as you don't color the conversation by starting out with "with gas so expensive.."

I also think there is a lesson here about cryptography on consumer devices.

I really don't think encrypting data at rest, where it isn't absolutely expected like password safe should default on. Key management is hard, the threat model most consumers face simply has them needing (or at least wishing for) offline data recovery a lot more frequently than 'oh shit I left the laptop on the bus' when their reality is the laptop never leaves the house.

Mixing data encryption with identity tools neither of which they have taken the time to understand isn't do them any favors; its just increasing the likelihood they lose access to things they care about.

it is also possible that for all but perhaps presentation and UI, creativity in programing is a story we told ourselves and that is why some of this is so upsetting.

Correct in that for the same inputs they give the same outputs sure. However if we are being really honest either some are more correct or after the compiler removes all the formatting and strips the symbols and the resulting output is the same give or take some register choices and other trivialities.

The correct code is going to be the better more efficent algorithm or for some cases the most understandable verifiable one depending on what exactly we optimizing for.

adequate mitigation measures - Use a bitlocker PIN.

DONE... Unless of punishing Microsoft is a useful trade negotiating tactic this week.

Things like the CRA are vague and their only real use is as a cudgel for regulators to threaten anyone they don't like with. The result is politically capricious uneven enforcement. Note this isn't a EU problem specifically the USA has so much of this same frightening freedom destroying BS law on the books, I am not casting a stone here, but exactly nobody who cares about liberty or justice should be excited about these sorts of laws.

Not just not accurate but wrong.

That's like saying the price of the battery in an electric car is that car's price minus the price of a comparable ICE car. No, it isn't. There are more differences than just the battery.

And yes, of course they recoup their development costs. But that doesn't mean that the OP is right in this context.

As best I can tell the target market is the ignorant and/or confused; even by the standards of openclaw enthusiasts.

If you want 'local' those specs are going to be a fairly harsh limit; I suspect it is not for nothing that they avoid anything that even resembles a benchmark or a performance claim; while if you aren't doing the bot stuff locally the fact that the hardware is sitting on your desk is getting you basically nothing in security or privacy vs. having an EC2 nano instance or whatever VPS is cheap spilling its guts to Sam Altman on your behalf.

Depending on who they are rebadging this thing might even be a perfectly fine low end mini PC, if you want one of those; people have been making them for years with whatever why-care-more CPU occupies the bottom of Intel's range; and they can be entirely suitable if you just need a generalist appliance and don't really want to play embedded ARM just to get the thing running; but it is absolutely being insinuated that it's suitable for things that it is not; and that it offers benefits that it won't in the expected configuration.