Not a lawyer - but I believe that is untrue. It is inherently illegal to lie to a federal officer. Even in a simple non-custodial interview out in public.

No a lawyer - but I've been told that crossing the US border is a special case and they can inspect your belongings. If you will not unlock the phone they are allowed to confiscate it.

Similar with laptops. When traveling to the EU for academic purposes our university told is not to bring out computers. That all sorts of things can trip you up at the border. For example a US version of software that has "military grade" encryption.

Not a lawyer- but I've been told that if you destroy data a judge may instruct a jury that they are free to interpret that as an attempt to hide evidence.

in an unregulated market (what consumers need), new businesses are able to create new competition if there is money to be saved for consumers.

My point is more about where they drew the line. Besides the performance items mentioned, the circa 2013 hardware would have been missing security related CPU functionality they wanted.

That was their choice, a convenience, and also had no downside for them since they were going to buy it anyway. So that is a bit different than the Apple case where buyers had no choice, where the hardware and OS were inseparable.

Again, a choice, and further evidence of the separability of the computer and the OS. Unlike the Mac buyers case.

Not really. Most Mac users judged superiority in terms of the user experience, not some synthetic CPU benchmark. They made a concious choice, Mac vs PC, and picked the superior for their needs/wants. Mac vs PC was, and still is, really about different tools for different jobs.

Me too. I have a retail Pro and a retail Home that are now Win11 boxes. The former the work PC and the latter the play PC. Although both can be used for testing.

For a while, that Win Pro was my Windows VM on an Intel MacBook Pro. Which was simultaneously my work Mac and my work PC. It had a Linux VM too. Convenient when on the road.

Started Unix in 1982 at college, CS program was Unix based. My PCs have been dual booting Windows and Linux since 1993.

Different tools for different jobs.

Their behavior changed instantly, when the most minimal, easily defeated DRM, appeared. Then they purchased the useful low cost software required for the class, integrated into the textbook.

It also mirrors experience from video games. It is a myth that low cost protects software from piracy.

Win11 requirements are basically a 2017 PC. A little room is needed due to the custom integration in the XBox One. Unified memory, fewer software layers between game and hardware, better low end GPUs, etc. A 2013 PC would probably have quite a noticeable slowdown compared to an XBox One. A 2017 less so.

Its not what I saw with useful reasonably priced software at a university. Trivially easy to defeat DRM, cracks that appeared online days after a software release, worked. Sales improved. It was like low cost was only a factor if there was some sort of barrier. With no barrier, low cost seemed to not be a consideration.

Again we have a trivial defeatable barrier working. This time it is making the download site slightly more difficult to find and use.

Very much so! Unfortunately, they're still vaporware.

Or more accurately, I'd very much like a $10k BYD, but Detroit has bought DC wholesale to block any meaningful competition for Ford's Coal Roller 150.

Because that is largely a myth, not reality. Over half of students at a public 4-year college/university graduate debt free, For the remainder the average debt at graduation is $28K. The horror stories you allude to are people who decided to go private schools for 4-6 years, in particular the more elite schools, and finance it all.

Also the example I offered was at a public 4-year, and the very same population pirated when there was not DRM, and purchases when there was the most minimal DRM that was easily defeated. People pirate when they can easily do so.

Experience with video games shows that to not be the case too.

That puts you on an iPhone 7 at the highest. iOS 15 is the oldest version installable on those, and not by coincidence, also the oldest iOS still receiving security updates. It was released five years ago as of September 20th.

So while you're 100% technically right... You might want to start planning for a new phone before October.

Nope. A good team lead possesses all 3. Things that affect the project. What a lead does not need to get involved with, compared to a manager, is the HR type stuff.

Every Apple computer shipped with an operating system. PC could be bought with various operating systems, or none at all. Microsoft offering some PC vendors with highly discounted Windows does not change this.

On the whole you're right because we simply don't know how to do it yet.

The GP isn't entirely wrong, though - It's also safe to say more training data is needed. Model weights vs training data follow a pretty clear power law, and current top models are already orders of magnitude underdetermined for their number of weights. Problem being, the current data set being used by the major players is effectively the sum total of all digitally-available human knowledge.

Unsupervised training is the hot new thing, but it doesn't really matter much if there's no more data for the AIs to find on their own.