What kind of encoder do you use?

I’m an “older” tech enthusiast. I bought a quest 3. I use it to stream content or play movies more often than I play games on it. It makes a pretty great movie watching device if you anre watching something alone. Especially on airplanes. I wish there was more live sports in 3D. I guess a unified platform with all the streaming apps wouldn’t be worse, but I’m not sure it is actually better. One of the best part about watching sports on it is that you can have multiple giant virtual screens with different games on like you are in a sports bar. Sometimes the games are from one provider some times multiple so you just have different windows. I guess it all depends how they manage things. The Bigscreen app also does a good job while also allowing you to virtually watch sports, or whatever, with other people in different virtual settings.

It is lame though that Apple TV + does not work natively, even via browser or Remote Desktop. It used to. Amazon is the only major player that has an actual app where you can download for offline viewing. Though you can also upload videos you already own directly to the headset.

My MacBook Pro I got last year is usually charged via usb-c while plugged into my work station dock. However it also came with a MagSafe charger, including the wall plug. I heard they were changing that for the European market. But in the USA we still are getting both, for now.

The way European and North American private transport is set put PHEV are a better fit for at least half the households than full EVs. Likely the case in Japan too. However, if you have a room and budget for two vehicles, having the second one be an EV also usually makes sense economically. Even more so if they were priced like the Chinese ones. Most US households have more than one vehicle.

This would be the ticket. Include a voucher for a free charger. The customer can redeem it online and have one sent; or get some apple credits they can use of media, towards a mouse, keyboard, dock, or whatever else they sell. It fulfills the ending waste ethos without ripping off the customers.

I think it is BS for a device you are spending thousands of dollars on. It should include a charger.

That said 90% of the time I charge mine while it is docked into my the work station at my desk. I bring the charger with me whenever I bring the laptop elsewhere, but I rarely have to plug it in away from the desk because the battery really is all day and my office is in a room in my home. I did buy the cable to pug it into the dock though. At a minimum it should be included. But really Apple, and I say this as a stockholder (albeit one small enough I’m sure you don’t care), just include the fking charger. Because when you need it, you bloody need it.

It’s like all of you only read the first sentence before commenting and scoring. Geez.

Except that the only point I actually agued was "There is no population [collapse] crisis on the global scale."

It was merely preceded by desired outcomes. And in fact I explicitly relayed, "Globally, the societies with the most have the least children and the societies with the least have the most children." Your stated premised is proved out. As a society becomes one of plenty, that society trends towards less children per adult. I did not actually advocate any position beyond that there is no population collapse crisis. Just a societal one.

Just finished “Black Rabbit” on Netflix. It was pretty great.

On one hand, no one should go hungry. Especially children. On the other hand you don’t want to create a dependency and make it easier for people to have more children than they can afford. Contrary to the narratives in much of the developed world. There is no population crisis on the global scale. The world population keeps going up. It is on only in most of the developed world where populations are shrinking. Globally, the societies with the most have the least children and the societies with the least have the most children. This is the inverse for pretty much all animals on this planet. Though it is also true that those with the absolute most also tend to have many children. Musk has what? 11.

This will is well and good for the next several years. I know I am not the only one with way too many cables. In fact I mostly use charging pad/magnets. I pretty much only use it other than plug into my car, camping (plugging into external battery; though newer ones are magnetic), or the rare occasion I need to recharge my phone on with the laptop. But it will be a waiting game of new standards vs how fast the cables wear out. The pads pretty much never do. Eventually it will be a net negative for established consumers. It already is for new consumers.

TiVo said it remains "committed to providing support for our DVR customers and will continue to provide support for the foreseeable future." Translation. "You folks have 6 months to two years tops before completely abandon the platform beyond a token forum where you guys can share tips and vent frustration to each other. Hopefully that is long enough for us to convince the public Tivo means something else than its common vernacular."

Okay, but you probably got your music from Napster and Kazaa instead of the iTunes Store. I got most most my tunes outside Apple’s ecosystem too, but we were the minority.

Sothe transition for Apple was a lot smoother because you needed an account to use an iphone and needed one for iPods. The same account is used for Mac OS. If Zune and windows phone hadn’t been flops nearly everyone would already have a windows account. I used to have a hotmail address. I do have an outlook one I don’t use for anything, but I wanted to claim the name/address.

The fact you feel this way is precisely why the condition should be split.

The majority of the people diagnosed on the spectrum can take care of themself and be productive members of society. They are just what society would have called weirdos, nerds, socially awkward and/or very shy in decades past. Overtime most of those people can learn how to fake it when they need to when dealing with others. Or sometimes even just grow out of it entirely. Today those people are considered autistic, aka on the spectrum. Then there are the truly and completely autistic who would probably not survive without help. They are likely low IQ as well, but sometimes just the opposite. However without the ability to communicate and express themself in ways familiar to most other people.

It seems obvious to me those should be two separate classifications. The problem is there isn’t a definitive line. But the extremes on both end of the spectrum are blatantly obvious.