> states that already have the most restrictive gun control already, yet to nobody's surprise, hasn't done much to curb violent crime
The "most restrictive gun control" states in the US would still be generally by far the least restrictive gun control states in the rest of the developed world (you know, where gun-related deaths are a small fraction of here?).
Your answer smacks of "well, they tried and surprise surprise it doesn't work so why are we doing it?", i.e. "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens".
Hah. Yes. Couple of drops of water on an an MBA... laptop worked fine. Battery, fine. Healthy. Charging circuit would not work. Perfectly functioning laptop on AC, but unable to be on battery because 0% charge.
Me, at Genius Bar, expecting you know, maybe $300 with parts and labor?
"Here's a quote, sir, we're looking at $850+tax, perhaps we should talk about getting you into a new Mac today?"
No. The laptop was primarily connected to AC anyway and only 18 months old, if that. Sorry, Apple.
Same here. Bought an Apple Keyboard a long time ago. Spilled some juice on it. Some keys stopped working. That's when I learnt that a $200+ Apple Keyboard isn't even water resistant unlike the previous $25-50+ keyboard I had. That was the first major red-flag about Apple I had. The soldered RAM and SSDs, and locked bootloaders on the Mac were the last straw. Will never purchase an Apple device again.
I think it's a little disingenuous to try to compare high/er end Apple laptops with soldered storage to $2-300 Chromebooks and budget devices with soldered eMMC (which is much more like a CF/SD card than anything else) in your argument in the first place.
As you acknowledge. When you look at actual competitors to Apple, you're forced to acknowledge that yup, no other manufacturer solders storage.
But yes, with due pedantry, the statement that "no other laptop has a soldered SSD" is technically wrong.
You could get into additional debates on whether eMMC and eUFS would map to most people's understanding of "SSD", but...
This is absolutely endemic to many police departments.
Remember the case where the cop arrested the nurse for refusing to administer a blood draw without a warrant following a car accident?
He was so anxious to get the blood draw because his supervisor had told him to, because the other party in the MVA was an off-duty cop who was drunk and had blown through a red light. They were desperate to find anything to pin on the person in hospital (who later died) while stalling on a blood test for their fellow cop, so they could shift/diminish liability.
A lot of people just don't understand how thoroughly rotted our policing institutions are in the US. In any other scenario if someone pulled something similar they'd be blacklisted from their career for life. But the cop in question got rehired elsewhere after being fired. Corrupt cops never leave the system, they just get shuffled around.
It's funny, such a blacklist/register actually does exist in the US, of LEOs who were fired or resigned/retired in order to avoid termination...
... and the entities (local, state) who employ an estimated 70% of LEOs around the country are prohibited from using it for hiring decisions based on their CBAs with the local police union.
I have a sibling comment about this but I know a lot of cops in AA and drunkly crashing the squad car and pinning it on the victim is among the most common reasons they end up in there.
And I mean that they choose to go to AA after successfully doing that, not that they are forced or otherwise experience any consequences for it.
I'm on your side that 1. Public servants should be held to a higher, not lower, standard and 2. There is a huge problem in this regard with the current US police situation.
Even with that extremely aligned base you still lose me completely when you say things that start with "no cop has ever...". I've never seen any system at scale with such absolutes so this immediately makes me doubt your other story and your take (which is what I already believe!) in general.
I'm sorry but if you honestly thought I was claiming to have privileged insight into the inner workings of the nous of others I'm not sure how to approach this.
What I assert is that working as a police officer in the US is incompatible with a sincere and complete passage through several of the 12 steps, beginning with that one. I've known some retired cops who I believe to have done it though.
I just tried to put Monterey on a 2021 MBP and holy hell.
USB installer. "Not supported OS, you can quit, or install in reduced security mode". Reduced security is fine for me.
"Installation of Reduced Security failed." Cool.
"Get the IPSW and do a DFU install". Nah, you can't do that. "Drag the IPSW onto the target Mac where it says DFU in Apple Configurator". Nope. No error, just nope.
Dig dig dig. "You might need to do this from an older computer. Even an Intel MBP running Ventura". Hey look, I have one!
Alright, install Apple Configurator.
"Nope. You need Sequoia to install Configurator."
Jesus wept. This is an OS that is 4 years old, on a 5 year old laptop. Apple, "It just works".
Find an old version of Configurator from some guy on Reddit that zipped one up.
Helped an aqaintance set up a new computer with pre installed Windows 11 a while ago. As in Windows was already on there. How hard could it be?
Just getting past the mandatory online account ID took us half an hour, and only worked because she was diligent in writing down her password for Skype 10 years ago which somehow (I realize why but it's insane) now is her Microsoft account and involved in logging in to Windows. Then we stared at a non-interactive initial update screen for another half an hour before it offered the option to postpone updates. I assume if you ship your new computer somewhere without Internet, you simply cannot use it?! And of course all the dumb dark patterns, as if designed by a scumbag pick-up artist.
Then I had to deal with Windows file sharing to copy stuff from the old PC which was exactly as intuitive as it was in LAN parties around 2000 (used mostly the same UI, as well); but at least unlike the new quick share features worked eventually.
Don't get me started on how we got her old printer to work. It's still a miracle to me and involved multiple reinstalls of multiple drivers and finally digging through to a Windows 2000 era dialog listing various printer interfaces and manually selecting the right one that at some point popped up. I was all but convinced she'd need to buy a new one.
I mean, I agree, and that is one of the reasons I left the Windows ecosystem. My partner has Windows on her work laptop and ... oof.
But still...
> I assume if you ship your new computer somewhere without Internet, you simply cannot use it?!
This is true of new Macs too, for the MDM enrollment check. The OOTB installer will not complete without internet access. Back in the days of Monterey you could "black hole" those DNS records, but not any more. No functional access to at least half-a-dozen Apple services and you cannot complete OS installation.
It’s a BYOK so the ai is optional. (And if you really don’t want it it’s a package in the open source app that can easily be pulled out) Since it’s markdown and on filesystem you can just edit your notes with Claude code if you want similar to obsidian.
By lightweight I mean it’s not a super heavy and bloated electron app on desktop and a slow and janky capacitor app on mobile that takes 10 seconds to launch and that the project can be greppable in a day to build on
> When Peter Thiel started a bank run by telling all his investments to pull their funds, that exposed the SCB mismanagement.
I think he did more than that. He either has precognition Nostradamus would be proud of or he absolutely had insider information, and a good amount of it.
1. He knew that when the bank closure would be, because despite how the FDIC has very detailed and historically very successful efforts at keeping such plans highly confidential (for obvious reasons), like agents in hotels under fake names, etc., he told his investments on Wednesday night that "all funds must be out of SVB by COB Thursday". FDIC rolled into SVB 8am Friday morning.
2. He had also had instructed another of his companies to build a website and app that was able to handle applications for business bridge loans, and it "needed to be tested, and ready to go live, by noon on Friday".
Also, not for nothing, causing a bank run is a federal felony.
I don't think you can credit Thiel with smelling smoke, he lit the fire. He heard the same statements from SVB leadership about the problems with T-bills and higher fed rates, realized that there was a huge spread between current market value and long market value of SVBs T-bills, and threw a match on it.
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