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I'd say you are in a very tiny niche for the SIM and stylus alone. Which vendors/brands does this leave you with?

Personally I previously searched for:

1. Super fast CPU (got the Ryzen) 2. With enough RAM (32GB, unofficially) 3. At a cheap non-Apple price ("gaming" laptop) 4. That looks somewhat professional (Lenovo won against the ASUS which screamed teenager) 5. That runs Linux well enough.

Your reply does not follow based on the original comment. An app that generated millions to Apple made multiple millions in revenue from users that found it useful.

There is nothing Apple needs to do to 'protect' you: people are buying the app, it's probably doing something well.

Apple is just milking the developer.

Sure, "agreed upon". Since it's very beneficial for a country to grant immunity to a large corpus of foreigners with guns.

Ha, US military has immunity in every country they go to.

If they kill somebody in a car accident (which happened more than once, even in Europe) they will not go to trail but be sent home and "judged" there.

What is power without hypocrisy...

Of course, this is only a problem in Afghanistan. It can't possibly be a problem into western democracies :)

The instrumentalization of western states is so good the populace might as well be a crop.

Corporations are also an artificial construct.

You are dismissing exactly the strategic move that's within reach.

Windows basically does not exist for home users except a few Western countries, and even there it's just due to inertia.

I've had great success with Ubuntu for non-technical users. For games you get a game console or play something in the browser. For everything else Ubuntu will do just fine.

Same with macOS... Regular folk have no reason to buy macOS. It's pure class signaling at this point.

Of course, there are business tools on each of these OSes, but if you make money with Adobe tools might as well buy the Pro OS.

Well, smartphones must be updated to include better spyware.

And newer computers are also better locked down to allow better surveillance.

So, the older ones can't break down fast enough!

You don't want a repairable computer so creeps install, like, a Linux distro. You want disposable TPM machines with Windows 11 Home Edition and unstoppable "telemetry".

Whataboutism.

People complain about Google and Apple too.

Though, not even Apple applied such dark patterns to force you to create an account with them. There's still time though!

Haha, how can you defend Microsoft like this.

Imagine McDonald's applying such dark UI patterns: maybe forget part of your order, put your change on the table under a napkin so you don't notice it, only offer you the free ice cream the 3rd time you ask, etc. People would be up in arms!

But Microsoft?! Well, they are the darling of the tech world now so it must only be a prank no?

No evil to see here, sir!

... in the UK.

Bravo! I wonder what these 3 companies have in common?

Wow, wish I made 200x return!

I think the CDC had a pretty good image based on... I dunno, Hollywood movies.

I don't think the way they handled all this shows them to be as competent as advised.

This is very neat. Though, I still don't have an ARM workstation... Will we leap-frog to RISC-V workstations in a few years?

I guess that new Apple M1 ARM would count but I have yet to get one.

What's the difference between this an Aave?

Why not?

Let's see... the past year the was a big scandal because apparently multiple non-profits were selling the .ORG top level domain name for $1B. They got these top level domain for free from the US government (or some institution thereof).

I would certainly like the EU to regulate more of the Internet instead of it being an US territory.

So you're saying that it's the high earning savers that are screwed but professionals that took a mortgage will ride the inflationary wave. Got it. Everybody most be over-leveraged for the system to work.

It's someone that believed the story and now sees the game has many more strings attached and the political class is throwing this promise to the dogs.

Sometimes even the beasts of burden rebel. Though it may seen they should be grateful for getting their guaranteed hay at the end of the day.

> Just as hacker news has rules so does Facebook, if you don't like it, go somewhere else.

Sometimes those rules are illegal. For both Facebook and HN.

But sure, let's just pretend money means you don't live under any state jurisdiction.

It's possible that the maid dies randomly but if the Lord of the castle had some previous revealing interactions with her and the murder scene was scrubbed clean and no investigator was allowed in the castle for a whole year... then perhaps we can't rule out murder?

> records and uses your browsing history to sell online ad services.

Such lack of imagination... The recorded data build behavioral profiles of the whole globe on multiple dimensions.

This reads like a dystopian novel.

People expect this and that from corporation, they should share their wealth, etc.

You have a STATE! USE IT!

People are lost and hurting and they are looking at corporations to save them?!

How long before a FAANG badge is worth more than a passport from any country?

"Son, you learn real good and perhaps you will get a tech citizenship and escape this country".