10TB 3.5" drives are common enough. 1000 of those could easily fit in a station wagon.

The cost of maintaining a presence on X or just about any other top-20 social media platform isn't much. Even if every posts gets "only" 1000 impressions per year it's still cheap marketing.

There is a good reason to leave X though: If posting on X makes you look bad, then leave.

But don't use "it's not worth our time/money/resources" as an excuse, not unless or impressions-per-year drop well below current levels.

Did they mention how many of their readers will go into a landfill, to be dealt with by others?

* No reasonable RAM upgrade path
* No reasonable storage upgrade path
* for some models, difficulty replacing battery

I would love to get something like the Apple Neo laptop if I knew I could extend its life to 8-10 years by upgrading hardware at the 4-5 year mark at a reasonable cost and replace the battery as needed at a reasonable cost.

Without those options, I'm looking at non-Apple hardware, which means a non-Apple OS and not being in the Apple ecosystem and not giving Apple the revenue stream that goes with being in that ecosystem.

I hope someone at Apple sees this and lets the right people know that their decisions to make hardware upgrades difficult or impossible is costing them future revenue.

At least one of the late-1980s/early-1990s Mac desktops and at least one IBM* enterprise-fleet-targeted desktop were designed for very fast in-the-field repair by corporate IT staff. By repair I mean "unscrew the case, replace the faulty component, screw the case back together, and get the customer back up and running ASAP."

I personally saw computers from both companies that had ONE screw, not counting customer-installed security screws/locking devices. Everything else was held in place by latches, friction, or other easy-to-manipulate no-tools-required connections. You could literally replace any one of the major components with less than 5 minutes of downtime once you'd done it a few times. Floppy drive, check, hard drive, check, power supply, check, motherboard, check, add-in boards, check, various cables, check, case, check. OK replacing the case might take 10 minutes but only because it requires moving all of the other components.

* IBM sold off its PC computing line to Lenovo in the 1990s or 2000s.

The future is to use AI to screen code before it is published to the world.

For code written or influenced by an AI, have a different, independently-developed AI screen it for security bugs.

Most Thinkpads have customer removable units: drives and keyboards. Generally, the batteries are not glued in. There are no security screws. Mine is a P15 Gen 2. Lenovo's repair videos: https://support.lenovo.com/us/...

They were named after people who did some pretty unsavory things during their times in power.

Doing unspeakably evil acts is part of many "successful business models." Whether it's mafia-style threats of "pay me or I will rape/kill your family," eliminate-your-competition/opponent mass-murders-and-take-their-property-as-spoils like you see in some wars ("ethnic cleansing" anyone?), or actually selling the "work product" of crimes (e.g. selling stolen goods or filming a rape and selling the photographs), there is money to be made from acts of evil.

Okay, I'm a bit slow on the draw.

AI has brought nothing good to the world.

Wait until people are dead long enough for most skeletons to come out of the closet before naming a building after someone.

640 days after death ought to be enough for most people.

Everything in the visible universe is subject to lunar gravity now. That's how gravity works.

I cannot believe that Microsoft is baffled why people HATE Windows 11, so much--or maybe it's just that people are HATING Microsoft.

Check it for yourself. Have 64GB of memory? Still Windows uses VM, and you pay for the SSD--all to make it seem less bloated.