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You're decrying this supposed issue, that multiple countries are all copying one another for legislation. You've repeated this multiple times in these comments.

And yet, after all this, you're not interested enough to remember who's behind this important issue for you. If someone really cares they should get informed.


So they don't really care, so what. It's Meta who are supposedly lobbying.

> you're not interested enough to remember who's behind this important issue for you

You're demanding that others spoon feed you peer reviewed evidence that water is wet. As you say, if you really care you should expend the effort to inform yourself. I myself have no need at present for the hazily remembered details. The only thing at issue in the here and now was the absurd claim that there's no centralized lobbying effort involved.


> if you really care you should expend the effort to inform yourself.

I don't care. Unlike you, I am sufficiently informed about how legislatures around the world operate to know that coordination of this nature is common, anodine, and the way they have enshrined a global economy that has unlocked unfathomable wealth.


Same thing with phones in school. When it's banned by a legislature, every kid's like this is actually great six months after being enacted.

Appropriate username!

Hey let's make a very versatile laptop with tons of options for consumers, and let's not offer the other Standard Canadian French keyboard, let's just have the old one Windows forces on people.

You could get a blank keyboard, and nice transparent stickers.

People age and change; Jony Ive overstayed his tenure at Apple, through no fault of his own. Cook, not being a product guy, kept Ive with massive incentives. Build Apple Park, take care of software, here's a bunch more stock. That led to very misguided products. Laptops without MagSafe. Ever so thin phones for no benefit. A pen that charges in the most insane way.

Ive should have left shortly after the death of Steve. He was creatively spent at Apple.


You still can right now.

Do Apple provide the necessary technical details for others to write it? I think wasn't that the complain with Asahi effort?

No, but I think it’s unlikely that Apple actually has this information in a format that it could easily publicly release. They aren’t going to make any special effort to make Linux on Mac easier, but they also aren’t actively blocking it.

They decided to leave the bootloader unlocked. I guess, in today's anti-consumer tech landscape, that's nice of them.

It's more complicated than that. The bootloader can maintain the chain of trust for macOS while allowing unsecured OSes next to it.

Well, I was more talking about the fact that you can still install Windows 11 on an Intel Mac right now; the drivers are still there for those few Intel macs still supported.

As for Windows on ARM, I'd bet that if Microsoft had managed to figure out their own product, Apple might have been tempted to support it. I mean why go through all the trouble of developing the most advanced firmware on the planet to support a fully secure macOS next to an unsecured OS if you do nothing with it?


> As for Windows on ARM, I'd bet that if Microsoft had managed to figure out their own product, Apple might have been tempted to support it.

That was totally up to Microsoft [1].

[1]: "Craig Federighi: Native Windows on M1 Macs is 'Really up to Microsoft'" — https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/20/craig-federighi-on-wind...


Why didn’t Apples stock tank when they started offering Windows drivers, that they’ll stop offering only this fall ?

2006 was a different time, and Apple was a different company. Now, having control is more valuable. See: iOS App Store.

Every phone should have a SCSI port with an included terminator in the box.

Yeah, I'll add that to my phone. what kind of scsi port, there are a few choices ;-)

It would seem the forewarning depends a lot on the distance from the epicentre. This quake, for Tokyoites, was far enough from them that they could beat the earthquake's speed. I'm fairly certain the people on the East Coast near the quake got no notification ahead of the event.

I was in a chat with people in NYC when it hit. They got advance notice, although it was just “why is everything shaking?” Followed by me going silent for a bit, so they didn’t know what was going on until it reached them.

Sorry? I don't get it. Why are you mentioning NYC? Was it a joke?

When the 2011 earthquake happened, those particular folks in NYC got a cryptic notice from me shortly before the shaking reached them.

I was thinking of the more recent quake which I very much felt and heard in my older detached home in Queens. I was in Farmingdale out in Suffolk during the 2011 quake. I got up to walk from my desk, took a few steps then suddenly became disoriented for a few seconds as if I was dizzy. Then my coworker shouts "Holy shit did you just feel that? That was an earthquake!"

Why are you only talking about gamers? Apple, the most cautious planners in the whole industry have straight up cancelled their 512gb RAM Mac Studio. Don’t ask; they won’t sell you one.

Everybody’s getting pinched, not just the gamers.


Seriously? One release is all it took to turn the whole ship around?

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