Impressive patience you have. Patents surrounding H.265 are expected to expire around 2027 to 2028.

But if pretty much everyone has moved on to AV1 by then, or even whatever comes after AV1, whether the browser makers who don't wish to be patent encumbered will reward your patience with support for a then-obsolete codec remains to be seen.

Look for the other messages about using DFU update to initialize. Seems Apple did indeed provide a way for the storage to be changed.

Complaining about Macintosh e-waste, really?

PCs typically have short service lifespan compared to Macs.

Macintosh usually has excellent resale value. Most used Macs are sold and continue to be used for years to come, whereas most used PCs have little to no resale value and usually wind up recycled or in landfills.

Apple's M1 processor uses far less power than Intel & AMD CPUs, and nVidia & AMD GPUs, resulting in much less environmental impact.

Workstation class PCs which compete with Mac Studio are dramatically larger & heavier. Even if they last as long, get resold as often, and didn't consume far more power during their usage, when they finally are recycled or just thrown away, they contain far more material to dispose.

Apple goes well above most other PC manufacturers in use of recycled materials and other ways of mitigating environmental impact. Most PCs compete primarily on price, which leaves little ability for PC manufacturers to do such things.

If you so bitterly hate Macintosh, to such an extreme that you by extension also hate people who use Macs, considering them selfish assholes, I suppose you can twist anything to confirm your bias. But objectively, the plain reality is Macs last longer than PCs, they have good resale value and tend to be resold, since M1 they consume far less energy for the same work, they use much less material which ultimately becomes e-waste.

According to Hector Martin, those modules are raw storage media, not a traditional SSD. Details here:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/s...

Key takeaway: "Apple Silicon Macs don't work like PCs and you shouldn't expect them to. It's not Apple being evil, it's different. If you try to blindly apply x86 world concepts to them, from how they boot to how storage works, you're going to be very confused."

But it does have a headphone jack

If bitcoin was really regarded as currency, rather than some sort of asset, wouldn't headlines like this say the amount of bitcoin being given away for promotional purpose?

If someone were giving out cash promotions in Euros, Yen, Pounds, Yuan or any other genuine currency, you'd expect to see the number started as the amount of that currency, maybe with a subtext about how it translates to US dollars.

C "for" loops perform iteration test before starting. So if n = 1 and argc = 0, the loop will not run.

The question "Who writes crap like this?" could also be asked of your overly heated message with incorrect analysis of the code.

All social media sites reflect the values of the people who use them, and the people who run them. So yeah, you certainly could say they suck because they're inhabited by people who mainly engage pop culture, "small talk", and personal relationships you don't value. And you could say they such because they're run by pro-profit corporations who collect and manipulate vast amounts of personal information.

Both those "new" social networks also reflect the values of people, mostly folks consumed by crazy conspiracy theories, dangerous disinformation, and hate towards minorities.

In the late 1990s, it was said Windows 98 looked so much like Windows 95 because Apple hadn't done anything worth copying for 3 years.

Those were the last few years when Apple stagnated and nearly went out of business, before Steve Jobs returned.

But they also didn't have Facebook, Youtube and Fox News in 1918.

Asking what is believable, rather than what is true, or what is supported by credible facts & evidence is what's gone so wrong with political discourse.

Kinda sounds like you're saying Artstudio Pro "just might be fucking clueless" and suggesting their powerful ProCreate layer-based image editing app doesn't need 5GB RAM and could be "100X faster and uses 20X less memory, by having a clue how to program". But then you insisted you "actually knowing WTF I'm doing". I kinda wonder if that knowledge includes knowing anything about the specific memory-hungry app mentioned in this article?

TSMC & Intel's "nanometer" aren't at all the same thing.

https://hexus.net/tech/news/cp...

It's kind of like comparing cheap little computer speakers claiming to be 50 watts to normal a stereo system. They're just gaming the spec. You'd think more tech enthusiasts would take notice that chips claiming such different manufacturing specs have similar performance (Ryzen is faster but not massively so). It's a pretty effective marketing strategy.

Apple's main website no longer links to that old 21.5 inch iMac sales page. They discontinued 2 of the 4 prior storage options weeks ago. Leading up to the event this week, rumor sites were reporting many Apple retail stores had completely run out of stock on 21.5 inch iMacs.

Pretty sure Apple will not "keep selling that for at least the next decade".

As for what could be considered "pure profit", Apple's M1 chip is said to be about 120 square mm, which is about half size of Intel's latest chips. That half-cost chip comes with an integrated GPU that rivals the lower range of discrete graphics cards. The whole thing runs on only 15 watts, so they also save on power supply, voltage conversion and cooling parts. The whole computer fits onto a tiny circuit board, also lowering cost when manufactured at high volume.

Even at Apple's premium prices these new iMacs are going to deliver a great value, and at a much lower cost to Apple.

Yes, anyone who engages in sustained pattern of soliciting sexual favors from coworkers and colleagues should lose their job, especially when that job is a leadership or public spokesperson position.

But only the most egregious circumstances should they be publicly ostracized. Orchestrating a secretive process to return to a top-level leadership position after being ousted for a long history of such abusive behavior, without expressing any remorse, much less commitment to behave better, would be right up there in those circumstances where ostracized by public spectacle is warranted.

How overt sexual advances are communicated doesn't matter. Printing on a business card or any other media doesn't make this abusive behavior ok. But this is far from merely a case of one business card. It's a clear case of egregious & unrepentant sexual misconduct.

Anyone doing this at any corporation or large company would be promptly fired.