"Apple has never offered a product that justified a large chassis. It used to be lots of slots, hard drives and other storage that justified it. Macs have never been about that"

I see you don't remember the 68k Macs OR the PPC Macs. Apple offered machines with lots of slots ever since the Macintosh II line. HTH.

Too much latency for RAM.

You mean running them on an external GPU? That doesn't take much bandwidth unless you're constantly loading new models.

Oh the time where Biden tried to do a thing, the SC said to stop and then he stopped and even when he tried a different way and the courts ruled against it then he respected the court (and said as such) and then stopped it.

Also unlike the tariffs the SC actually stayed the plan until judgement unlike the tariffs where the SC allowed them to just go on. Hmmm, almost like this current court leans a certain way. Hmmm.

Now, I want to be very clear — (applause) — very clear up front: Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology. I know because I’ve been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.

Ohhhhh so divisive you big fat baby.

Ahh yes those BLM of protests of 2021 who could forget.

Motherfucker who was President in the year 2020?!?!

Sorry but it's 2026 and this just means embarrassed conservative.

Biden constantly reached out to conservatives, he made sure to say that it was "not all Republicans", he worked in a bipartisan manner on legislation on the infrastructure bill, he was ready to sign the very conservative Lankford immigration bill. He appointed a very moderate AG who didn't immediately bring the hammer down on Trump (his fatal mistake IMO) and even with the very obviously illegal Mar-A-Lago documents case the National Archives gave Trump over an entire fucking year to just give the shit back and Trump basically forced their hand to go raid to get it.

Sorry but the Biden era was extending a hand of good faith to Republicans to come back from the brink of psychopathy and all they did was slap it and digress into their worst impulses even more.

No more, Republicans want to act like children then they need to be disciplined like children.

Oh they won't give it up willingly and they have every incentive to keep acting authoritarian with Trump-ian rhetoric and actions. That incentive needs to be broken and punishment is exactly what's needed to do that. If Republicans suddenly know that acting like amoral sociopaths will net them prison or political exile than we've created a deterrent.

I mean, DOGE? Also they didn't need to do it, they were able to leverage the existing agencies by gutting them and replacing the leadership with loyalists. The FCC is a perfect example, the current commissioner is threatening entertainers and license holders while wearing Trump lapel pins. The concept of independent agencies is out the windows.

This was all in Project 2025 and our media also failed by letting Trump just lie about it during the campaign when it was clearly transparent he supported the measures in there.

Biden and other corporate-friendly Democrats are the center. Certainly right of Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna. Biden is equal to or possibly left of Kamala Harris.
Even Bernie is somewhat moderate depending on how you measure him. He's certainly not New Left, as he eschews multicultural identity politics. While mainstream democrats play nice with corporate donors while simultaneously carrying water for intersectional grievance groups.

A true left wing party doesn't really exist in the US. Certainly nothing strictly socialists or marxist is main stream. And even being pro-labor has become a liability when it comes to fund raising these days. Instead of left you get welfare capitalism, a moderate position, and now called Progressive. Even Democratic Socialists are few and far between despite being a "big tent" group that tends to focus equally on social issues as labor issues without. Members might espouse anti-capitalist slogans during protests, being at least true to DSA roots, in practice the party does not hold any significant anti-capitalist platform.

P.S. I'm fine if you're all pro-capitalist. I made a lot of money off capitalism. I'm just willing to admit that rationally speaking, there are problems with it as a system. Especially without putting some guard rails in place. People are not well-represented when money buys political influence. And when wealth concentrates under a few, future generations have even less of a chance to wrestle their government back into the hands of the people.

Why would the GOP willingly give up power? They've gone all-in on this man, much of the GOP's very survival depends on not letting Democrats back into power. 2026 is going to be a huge surprise to Democrats that thought we are still following "established norms".

Classic autocrat behavior is to get every industrial leader under you. Scratch each other's backs, and shut down any opposition to the arrangement. I know I'll take crap here for bringing up Mussolini, but what do you all think the odds are that we'll soon have a Department of Corporations not unlike Italy's old Minister of Corporations?

Just like the tariffs they admin does unlawful thing, probably knows it's unlawful and is able to just do it anyway and reap the political benefits (here they were able to smear Anthropic's reputation in the public sphere) and the only consequences they face is "hey, knock it off". The admin got to do their tariffs for over a year even though we all knew it was illegal. No consequences thus far.

God-willing when the new non-GOP admin comes back into power the newly appointed AG will be prosecutor (like Jack Smith) who will investigate and start punishing these people and follow through.

We had a President who tried to unite the nation, put the past behind us, not antagonize the opposition party and his name was Joe Biden. That approach of being the better people, taking the high road obviously did not work so the nice guy approach has to stop. Some people need to go to prison and every member of this cabinet should be barred form holding any future public office.

Chinese law doesn't require a warrant for such access and it may be done in secrecy (i.e. without informing the user) if necessary to perform duties. The problem with Apple in China isn't that they aren't following the law, it's that they are and the law is openly fascist.

Check his posting history and it's very clear that he is not.

If he is not a trollbot, he is so frothy as to be indistinguishable from one. Every comment is the same.

Mobile Firefox has become nearly unusable. It crashes on me at least once per day now. The memory leaks are worse than ever.

Dice isn't relevant here, it's B1zX

Our military-industrial complex would normally not bother. Which is why it helps to occasionally reverse engineer stuff instead of depending on the free market to determine the price.