Slashdot is basically old techy people and this is a fashion label's product not Apple's.

My wife and me just now:

Me: Look at this iPhone sock thing.
My wife's words after I showed her: Is it available in pink
Me: Yes
Wife: Sugoi! Interesting.

She then proceeded to buy one.

There's zero hidden messages, zero virtue signaling.

It's a bag designed by a designer sold at a profit by a for profit company.

There's similar requirements already on the "TV" side of the business.

Similarly there's taxes on things like DVDs/CDs that go back to local artists (but those systems in some countries like Canada are fundamentally broken.)

It's definitely a trap.

Long term T2DM sufferers developer fairly permanent damage to their pancreatic beta cells which in most cases means they will continue to suffer from every worse T2DM and eventually they will get T1DM and organ failure - mind you the cardiac damage is much worse and has a faster progression so you'll die from that first.

Over the long term, T2DM causes permanent damage to the pancreatic beta cells. That damage does not reverse (except maybe it does in some cases, but probably it takes extreme amounts of time - think decades.)

For those people they will always have issues related to their beta cells.

Additionally, general insulin insensitivity decline can take several years. In some cases there's evidence that dietary ketosis seems to remit the condition for the most part. Its not a silver bullet of course, but its a workable solution for some people who can commit to that lifestyle.

> If you can not explain how the treatment works in non-snake-oil langauge, then STFU.

This will never work out - we don't fully understand how a number of medicines work and many of the ones that have been around for a very long time. Look at paracetamol - it does thing like stops stuffy noses in people with the common cold but we have no clue why or how it does that. (This isn't listed on the Tylenol box in part due to the mystery surrounding stuff like this.)

To fix the bugs introduced by the other guys using AI too much.

I have heard from people working on Metaverse that they have no clue what's going on and it's basically someone who ate an entire tray of green brownies while playing Shadowrun.

Without detailed numbers, I suspect it's economist bullshit.

This isn't about high functioning vs low functioning (which is really all Asperger's was. We realized that there were people who were able to mostly go about normal lives sometimes had the SAME executive function disorder as these people who in some cases are near catatonic - that's all Asperger's Syndrome was, HF autism.

Separate but equally, there actually seems to be different types of autism entirely - even among high functioning ASD people, you can see wildly different effects (some of which is coping and masking of course).

It's really similar to the issues currently with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetics - there's clearly multiple types of them, but they look similar enough we've grouped them the same.

In most companies, Developers and BAs are the ones using and demanding Macs now.

I mean creatives/marketing/etc already demanded Macs, but that's been the case for decades, my wife refuses to use PCs in any shape or form.

> PowerShell - ugh, probably because of lack of familiarity. It's probably fine.

This echos my assessment even if I'm much more intimately family with it. It's fine, it works for automating stupid shit on Windows servers and can configure the servers 99% of the time, but fuck if it's not a constant moving target and it seems like it was designed by someone with hardcore NIH syndrome.

If we include all our endpoints (which we would count phones) ... Apple is definitely #1 endpoint and its around 70% now. We're already discussing kicking Android off the MDM except in China (they have their own MDM and are around 90% of Android.)

Marketing/Creative uses Macs 100%. IT, at least the BA/Developer/etc types use Macs now almost exclusively. We don't really have much COTS using Windows now, it's mostly gone web-based these days. Office works fine on Macs and really I think we could kick Windows on the front end out and shift the rare stuff off to VMs. We cannot kick Windows out of the backend, tooo many COTS require Windows and AD is still basically required nigh universally for that stuff. In-house and BI are end-stage of being full cloud.

Damn I'm somewhat realizing we could finally do it ...

Nobody can really predict what will happen from here.

Most people circa 1995 wouldn't have imagined that home phones would go away. Cell phones seemed obvious at that point, but basically ALL phones everywhere AND payphones all just being poofed by 20-30 years later? Seemed impossible, but even my rice farmer FIL who really only has a single rice tractor has a cell phone and no house phone. Even had me run an electric outlet 200m so he could have electricity in the barn for a phone charger.

35+ will have seen a lot more "analog" tech that went poof and yet everyone still has a job.