Apple's got many faults, but their hardware has a very premium feel. I presume this is where Dell's additional hundred bucks went, because Apple's used to doing that and Dell isn't. They think they are, but they aren't normally as good at it. But they're going to deliver this PC with Windows, and there might be Linux issues — there's no way to know until it's in reviewers' hands exactly what hardware is actually used around the parts we know about. And unless you specifically need Windows, it's very hard to imagine getting excited about spending more money to run that.

I have to admit that I find the lack of a headphone jack offensive, but I wouldn't even consider buying a Dell that's trying to be a Macintosh over an actual Macintosh, and I say that as someone with very little respect for Apple. I don't hate Dell, but I've never been impressed by them either. I would describe them as "less terrible than HP".

The fact that it's a garbage off-brand speaker makes it more likely that it's possible, because people with valuable brands are the ones who are most likely to want to prevent you from changing it, and also the most likely to actually design their own product internals or have them designed to spec. The cheap brands are most likely to grab a complete PCB off the "shelf", or even more likely than that, just have their crappy brand put on someone else's complete product.

But, and it's a big one, they won't be offering the user the tools to do it with. They'd have to figure out who actually made it and/or what chip is on it in order to identify the tool, then they'd have to track it down, then they'd have to maybe short something on the PCB because it's not necessarily as easy as holding down a button, they'd have to do it on a windows PC or at least by attaching a USB hub to a windows VM so that when the device inevitably changes IDs during the reflashing procedure it remains connected, or with some kind of reflashing tool which is cheap but which they definitely don't own.

I guess that is the story. At the time I heard about it, I only "parsed" the headlines ... so it was not as bad as I thought, haha.

But still ridiculous, don't you think?

What is next, I practice Thai and write some notes in the curvy scribble, or worth I learn Myanmar - which actually has an indeed very strange script, inspired by moon phases - and get accused of doing black magic in an air plane.

And about that you are wrong.
Sorry ... why do not just google it?

Not really complicated.

And get some common sense, if corrosion would be an issue, no one would talk about building them. Oooops.

I just googled it, a photographer got killed - sad!

The EU Commission does not run ENISA which is an EU agency.

The NEO _IS_ built out of iPhone parts,
Unlikely. From where would they get the parts?

Everything from Apple is build on ARM SoC's.
The NEO most certainly has an Intel or similar processor.

Because my head phones have a 3.5 plug.

Stupid comment.

All my iPhones never lasted - with extremely sporadic usage - a day, or more than a day.

My old Android, with similar usage patterns, lasts nearly a week. My new Android sucks.

It even gets hot ... just when the hotspot is on. Not really sure where the power is going. Sometimes it lasts 1 or 2 days. Most of the time it is roughly 10h.

Keep in mind: all my phones are in flight mode over night till the first time I need them ... and the iPhone is dead when I go to bed. (iPhone SE ... from 2021 or so ...) It is dead from not being used at all in my bag. I mean: it runs some chat apps, and gets the notifications ... and that is it.

It does not provide any checks and balances.
As: it can not check anything.
Balance anything.
Do anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And, the citizens didn't put Trump/Vance in office... you can send thank you letters to the Electoral College.
The Electoral College is obliged to vote the way how the states won the election. There is nothing they can do about.

Child labour is a definition of what is a child. In South (East) Asia: schools are free. And Kids have mandatory school duty.

So, only dictatorships like Myanmar might have Child labour. How would that work in any other country? Oh, mother forgot to register the kid in a school? School forgot to inform the city, that a kid is not coming? City forgot to sent police to the mother?
There is a bus in the morning, full with kids, which does not go to school - but to a factory?

Sorry, there most certainly is child labour in African dictatorships, where kids are SLAVES. So call it slave work, that would fit better.

Fact is, your country is not doing any high tech anymore except a few niche companies.

I live mostly in SEA. Of course only Thailand and Laos ... there is no child labour. Kids are in school just like in any other country. If at all: then someone managed to get children as slaves, and that would obviously be a crime everyone involved would try to hide.

Solar panels etc. are build by robots. The labour cost of the people involved is absolutely not significant. Sure it hurts the bottom line, if you pay $100 million per year for labour, that would only be half or a quarter in another country ... but the remaining $20 billion costs dwarf that.

For their hardware. When you want to move to someone else's hardware, will it still be solved?

There is a story about a math teacher in a flight in the USA, he was taking notes, mostly equations while flying. His neighbour was a lady who could not read a thing of what he wrote. But panicked he would be terrorist.

Seriously: he is writing in a paper booklet, that made him a terrorist ...

For some odd reason the crew emergency landed the flight.

I guess with some google fu you find the story ... it was a few years ago, but not very long.

Well, there is still the likelihood that he named the thing long ago at home and simply forgot the name of the device when he put it into his bag.