They’re a business. Reducing their costs (while charging you a premium) is absolutely what they do.

Apple’s whole deal for decades now has been building a vertical supply chain. Using their own SSD controller is one less component they have to pay others for.

They just don’t give a shit about downsides: aftermarket repairers or user upgradeability.

It’s more cost effective to integrate the controller.

Being worse for customers is just a happy accident.

It’s replaceable, it’s not upgradable.

Apple doesn’t use standard NVMe M.2 drives. The controller is built into the SoC rather than being on the storage device itself.

Even if I wanted to visit the states. Can I risk having my holiday ruined and the money I’d lose if I was randomly turned away at the border?

It’s not even safe to transit the states at the moment.

I goes the water misters to lower temperature at the likes of Disneyland would be illegal under that wording. They’re emitting a chemical (water) to explicitly lower the temperature via evaporative cooling.

Hotmail ran on FreeBSD when Microsoft acquired the company in 1997. They started the transition a few years later and it was entirely hosted on Windows by 2005.

They absolutely will. Those minerals are valuable.

They did the same with Star Trek: Enterprise. It finally picked up momentum in the fourth season when Manny Coto took over as show runner, then they killed it.

We could do so much more, but would we? USAID was just shuttered. There’s every chance that money would go into the military industrial complex or something equally unpleasant.

Not defending billionaires as a concept (they shouldn’t exist, and most aren’t as philanthropic as Bill), but I will acknowledge he’s doing a lot of good with his money.

Credit where credit is due, Bill Gates has been putting his money where his mouth is for decades now.

Having borrowed a quest 3 last week I’ve almost pulled trigger on buying one.

The only thing holding me back is… it’s Meta.

Nah, at some point the simulation we live in is going to round down to save computing power.

Also they never sold it in many countries.

Not only do they cost more, the greater surface area means your cold drink warms up faster.

Neat.

I bought a Tesla years ago before Elon completely removed the mask.

No way I’d buy one now, but I also don’t want to sell it early and lose a tonne of money.

The Tesla board should intervene and remove him, but they won’t because he’s stacked it with yes men like his brother.

Disease isn’t contained by borders so - ‘Thanks’ from the rest of the world.

Notifications etc I can understand if you don’t know how to use tech properly.

What I don’t understand is how every older person seems to have loud speakerphone conversations in public. They had landlines most of their lives so why do this?

That desktop app really is super hot garbage.

There’s not much room in the Mac Mini for additional LPCAMM modules, or the MacBook Air.

The SSDs Apple use lack a controller (that’s built into the M series SoC). That drives down Apple’s cost of materials but surely it wouldn’t be that hard to support a standard NVMe M.2 interface?

The M4 Pro memory is quad channel, so I assume 256 bit.

The two LPCAMMS required for this would require a lot more space.

I give them a pass on memory packaging (but not pricing). SSDs are indefensible though.