You don't read the news, do you?

The Land of the Free is really becoming the Land of the Constrained. Pretty soon it will also be the Land of the Non-voter.

I can still run Eclipse without any issues on old M1 MacBook Pro with 8gb, about 5 years old now. Frankly Apple Silicon is just a beast and no matter how much people try to hand wave it away, these machines with the MacOS optimizations are beasts. I still take my M1 out on the road because if it gets damaged, it will still have paid for itself. I honestly cannot imagine going back to Intel/AMD and Windows, and every time I'm forced to use Windows, even on decent hardware, I'm come away realizing just how inferior the whole ecosystem is. It's sole advantage, and it's a big one, is that the software library for x64/Windows is massive.

The number of people that ever repaired their laptop has always been exceedingly small. Why would Apple give a damn about such a niche?

If even people who are in the US legally can be arrested and held, then it's just plain inhospitable to foreigners. I mean why not just close the border, don't let anybody in and be done with it, rather than pretending you ever want to see anyone that isn't American?

AppleCare means why the fuck do I care whether you can repair my Mac or not.

I would argue that when sweeps are largely indiscriminate, and being in proximity to a raid is enough to end up in custody, so that the odds of "wrong place wrong time" greatly increase, it becomes a much stronger argument for not being in the US as a foreign national at all.

Mistakes may happen, but the nature of ICE detainments rises far above mere mistakes. The intent of the current system is to make the US sufficiently inhospitable to foreign nationals that they don't come. So, I take that point, and won't come. And by the looks of depressed visits since last year from my fellow countrymen, many of us are choosing that route.

I'm unlikely to ever visit the US again. My daughter and I had planned on going to Comic-Con at some point in the next year or two, and we both agree now that while the risk of detainment is rather low, it is non-zero. There are other places we can go, and being Canadian, there are plenty of places in our own country that we haven't seen.

You don't see a problem with being arrested by an immigration enforcement agency as a US citizen? You think that eventually being released is a meaningful remedy?

And if a US citizen can be detained by ICE, why the fuck would a foreigner want to come to the US?

It was the courts that halted the Keystone XL pipeline.

And that only applies (in theory...) to US citizens. The Bill of Rights doesn't apply to non-citizens, which is what this issue is about.

So in other words, if the Democrats can adopt all the racist aspects of the GOP, but not the criminal aspects, you think the Dems will be great!

And Fetterman is basically a Republican.

Freedom was never the same after they banned five year olds from buy porn magazines.

And you answered the problem.

"Home computer users are here tomorrow."

They aren't going away. These companies can focus on the whales today secure in the knowledge that when the whales do die, they can just go back to relying on home computer users tomorrow. Home users can't go anywhere else, competitors aren't just going to pop up overnight and take away their business. And because of this, investors LOVE it.

The issue is that the companies that make RAM also need to report to their investors. So they have 2 options:

- Sell to the public and state "We made X profit this quarter"
Or
- Sell to the server market that will pay more to secure the RAM and state "We made X++ profit this quarter"

And when it's your job to make as much for their investors, which will you choose: to keep your job or be let go for someone else?