RCS is a terrible standard. But China wants it, so Apple is forced to add it.

This memory has1/4 the bandwidth of M series Mac’s. It may be possible to match current memory with 4 chips. But that would take a lot of room. And that leaves little room for growth.

My family sent me TikTok’s. I rarely use it, but have it installed for this purpose.

We taught our daughter to count starting at zero. Her kindergarten teacher was not amused.

You are both correct. They do stop things that would be ok, on say, a windows machine. For example, intercepting text messages at the system level. It prevents a lot of mischief but also stops legitimate software.

But we can already look at the Android market for guidance on what will happen. Few Android users venture out of the official store. It will take a large company with must-have apps to get people to go to another marketplace. Like Steam, Epic, or Facebook. Companies that either want to keep their cut or want to collect data to sell. This will likely not matter at all for small developers. They don’t have the clout.

They are not common because it is possible to use them incorrectly and cause a fire.

In the US we are seeing a lot of cheap products that are supposedly USB-C. Like the flashlight I got for Christmas. But they will only charge with a USB-A to USB-C cable. They are basically USB-A chargers with a different shaped plug. They will not charge with a real USB-C cable. Is this also true in the EU?

But this law is going to make changing when a better standard should take over difficult. Imagine if this was passed 5 years ago when the terrible one sided USB was common. The only group that will have the power in the future to update it is the USB group, and that is a group of manufacturers that have a driving goal of absolute cheapness at heart, not innovation. This is a terrible law.

Those targets seem unrealistic even without driving off a core group of heavy users.

And emergency crews carry the tool to cut them open if needed.

True. But what if Tesla has to pay a billion for producing software that runs people over? They probably would not have beta software on the road.

If you want to kill someone in the US with little consequences, run them over with a car.

I didn’t think legal contract could contain “forever”? Which is why Disney’s contract has the death of the last living monarch.

Their terrible business practices is why I refuse to use Adobe. I have heard too many horror stories.

They just updated one of them, I believe the 3. But that was possible when they had no competition.

I am not saying you are wrong, but when I was active on Reddit I rarely checked my mail. I still have like 12k unread messages.

I could really use a 20g 3080 in my gaming pc. How do I buy one?

There is a book about extreme economies. The author discusses it here: https://www.econtalk.org/richard-davies-on-extreme-economies/

They go through how the mackerel as money came about. Also, that expired mackerel, i.e. fiat, have their own lower exchange rate.

I take it you have never been to mountains or driven through rural areas? Cell coverage is line of site.

My kids laptop has 4 IIRC. Getting a PC motherboard with more than one on rear and one connector for front of case was impossible last I looked. I generally keep my pc’s for about 5 years and wish to future proof somewhat. It is beyond ridiculous at this point. Although, I haven’t tried to buy one for a few months so perhaps this has changed.