Weird story. If they needed rescuing and had cell coverage why would they need to wait for an incoming call?

Windows doesn’t run Xcode. macOS does run Office.

These are enterprise drives, they aren’t going to contain anything pirated. They are probably going to one of those cloud providers you don’t want to upload your data to.

I’d want to be able to lose two drives in an array before I lose all my shit. So RAID 6 for me.

Repeat after me: RAID is not a backup solution, RAID is a high-availability solution.

The point of RAID is not to safeguard your data, you need proper backups for that (3-2-1 rule of backups: 3 copies of the data on 2 different storage media, with 1 copy off-site). RAID will not protect your data from deletion from user error, malware, OS bugs, or anything like that.

The point of RAID is so everyone can keep working if there is a hardware failure. It’s there to prevent downtime.

You don’t define the norm with characteristics of edge cases.

Exactly. So what are you made of, hydrogen or helium?

Something I’ve never done, or wanted to do, in my life.

If it’s wafer thin it isn’t going to fit the battery I want it to fit.

Personally I don’t care about the size of the battery, I care about how long it lasts. There have been rumors that Apple is working on improved battery tech. Their SoCs are also crazy efficient and super fast.

What I expect to happen is that they will equip the iPhone Air with this next-gen battery tech (probably not a massive improvement, but something like 10-20% more energy in the same volume would already be a big win), combined with a throttled down SoC with fewer cores (still plenty fast for anyone but the most demanding users), that will allow them to reduce power usage by a lot. Add to that the already excellent power-management in iOS, maybe tweaked a little more aggressively, and they’ll have a phone that’s super thin and lasts all day.

People will hold this phone for 3 seconds and be sold.

A wafer thin iPhone won’t be shit though. It will be slick as shit. Sure, there will probably be compromises and it won’t be suitable for the most demanding users, but most people aren’t that demanding of their phone. As long as it manages to get through one day it’ll be good enough.

Don’t underestimate how important the size, weight, build quality and design is to the user experience. I have a 13” M4 iPad Pro which is also crazy thin yet feels absolutely solid and that makes it look and feel like a magical piece of technology. It has a huge impact on how it feels and that is ultimately what matters to people. Not the specs or the benchmarks, but how it feels to use it.

Slim phones are coming, but most of you don’t want them

Our polls show that, if anything, you want thicker phones.

Yeah, some poll on a site for tech nerds is not really representative of the general public. Thick phones with huge batteries exist and they sell like shit, it’s a super niche market.

Expect these thin phones to sell like hotcakes.

The IRS does not know how much you owe.

Why don’t they?

The problem with the democrats is that they are too honest and don’t play dirty.

They should have lied and told the public what they wanted to hear with no intention of actually honoring their promises, just like the republicans.

They don’t, the only people who own many guns generally do so as a hobby.

If you look around the internet a little you’ll find plenty of people who apparently need 50+ guns for self defense.

But it’s not a requirement to survive

Then why should anyone be allowed to own a device that has no other purpose than to kill other human beings?

While the US is certainly more dangerous than most of Europe, the risks of being harmed are still quite low if you’re not involved in illicit activity or looking for trouble

Then why do people need to own 50 guns?

What do you mean brand? Bacon doesn’t have a brand. You go to a good butcher and buy bacon. No brands are involved.

Same. Turns out I do like cheese, just not the cheap rubbery crap they sell in the supermarket.

There’s also some stupid UX choices that show they simply don’t give a fuck. On the Steam Deck when you want to update something and you don’t have enough space it simply says “not enough free space”. What use is that to me? Tell me how much you need!

Which is how fast?

And what is the memory bandwidth on these APUs?

you’d definitely be able to do it cheaper with PC hardware.

You can get a GPU with 192GB VRAM for less than a Mac? Sign me up please.

I’m straight up telling you that anyone unable to walk to a store is not going to be able to make do with bikes and scooters.

Yeah that’s bullshit.

Sure, there may be some people for which that is true, but anyone unable to walk to a store can’t go by bike? I know for certain that’s not true: one of my mates ex-GF had issues walking, certainly couldn’t walk to the store. She had no problem cycling though. She used a 3-wheeled e-bike. Cycling is much easier than walking, you spend way less energy, especially with electric assistance, and there’s trikes for those who have balance issues.

Go watch any busy street anywhere in the Netherland and count how many elderly people you see on bikes. You’ll be amazed.

that’s going to be a horrible time any foul weather days.

Like any Dutch mom would say to their kids complaining about having to cycle in the rain: you aren’t made of sugar, are you?

The way to fix that that’s the most kind is to subsidize shopping delivery the way you’d set up parcel post.

You don’t have online grocery shopping with free next-day delivery there? Hell, we have 10-minute delivery on groceries if you’re willing to pay a bit extra. (Delivery is done by bike, of course).

Or set up shared transport that ferries the disabled directly to and from places in a realistic, bearable time frame. You could maybe hybridize that.

That also exists, at least in my country. It’s run by volunteers and you only pay a small fee (mainly to cover fuel costs).