The FTC imposed a consent order on Meta in 2011 to respect customer data rights. They have repeatedly violated that order, and been fined literrally billions for continuing to violate it. So no, I don't believe anything Zuck says, because apparently he considers paying billions in fines as just a normal cost of doing "business".

I dated a flight attendent... one whose liquor inventory frequently came up short at the end of flights. I agree, she would be impossble to train to use nRFConnect; I have problems with it myself.

Not Bluetooth MAC Address, Bluetooth Company ID = 0x004C, which is assigned to Apple. So they show up in nRFConnect with an Apple Icon.

"How you get CD-quality sound depends on the codec your devices use:AptX Lossless & AptX Adaptive: These Qualcomm codecs compress audio data with mathematically zero loss, achieving the exact bit-for-bit quality of a CD (\(1.1\) to \(1.2 \text{ Mbps}\)). Both your smartphone/source device and your headphones/speakers must support Snapdragon Sound to utilize this."

>"Still, the XPS comes with compromises of its own"

Yeah, it runs MS-Windows 11.

Meta is in the business of selling your data, but I'm pretty sure the data they've raked in from the dozens of VR users isn't worth more than $80 billion!

The great thing about running an AI engine locally is that it completely replaces your home heating system on those cold winter nights!

The Neo doesn't have Thunderbolt. The MacBook Air I bought my daughter for Christmas has Thunderbolt, and on sale at Best Buy cost only $25 more than the Neo I bought her mom for her birthday in April.

Edit: Doesn't actually need 3 ports, the external keyboard and monitor could be wireless if you don't mind charging 3 different batteries.

Why would you need a headphone port when you have Bluetooth?

The NEO _IS_ built out of iPhone parts, so it by definition has iPhone-level performance. That being said, why don't manufacturers start replacing laptops with phones that plug into an external keyboard and display? Put two or three Thunderbolt connectors on a phone, and it's functionally equivalent to a low-end laptop.

Cool, but offtopic, and I personally believe any crease in a screen is an inevitable point of failure. But then, so are the flex circuits running through every laptop and flipphone hinge.

On a side note, I started running a Bluetooth BLE sniffer at home, and was confused why 2 Apple devices kept showing up when I have zero Apple devices in my home (can't afford the Apple Tax). Turns out the Dell KM7321W wireless keyboard & mouse advertise with the Apple manufacturer id, presumably to fool Apple devices into thinking they are Apple compatible. No, I don't think Apple manufactures mice and keyboards for Dell...

Every PHONE is potentially a Bluetooth sniffer... ever heard of nRFConnect app? It's free.

Probably should have turned off Bluetooth advertising while ON A FRICKING PLANE.