Wear a high-vis vest, have a hardhat dangling from your belt, a lanyard with some id, and carry a clipboard.

Nod to security as you walk past.

How Cook makes money:

1. Non removable batteries
2. Non-upgradable parts
3. Glued together cases - ooh, so thin

He took the iPhone model and mapped to all their products. Since the battery can't be replaced easily, and the spares are so expensive,he forces customers to upgrade to the current/next model.

I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro 2012 edition updated to 15.6 using Opencore-Patcher. Upgraded RAM to 16Gb, and the drive to SSD myself, swapped the battery out once.

Apple is adept at this game.

That is not allowed in India any more.

Credit card companies and banks are on the hook to send a reminder prior to the auto renewal OR disallow auto renewals.

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⦠bigly during covid by a big beautiful Donald.

Unreliable is not the word I would use.

Transactional is more like it. Once you understand this, it becomes easier to work with them.

How is it interesting? Most Ukrainians speak Russian. Even Zelenskyy had to learn Ukrainian after he became president.

Itâ(TM)s like being surprised that most Scottish people speak English.

I would dump Infosys stock ASAP

We switched away from Windows to Linux and macOS years ago for much less serious issues, namely innumerable software updates wasting time and bandwidth. As a small company, we could not afford Microsoftâ(TM)s âoesolutions.â

Best decision we ever made.

I still have my HP-16C and it still works. I still have my Agilent scope and it still works.

While HP printers today come to a halt crying about DRM â¦

Sad state of a once great company.

They got outed because of their reaction.

The Coldplay guy would not have noticed or commented on them otherwise.

If they had had the presence of mind to just act normal instead of hiding, 2 seconds on the big screen and they would have been done.

It will cancel after the first year automatically.

Sign up is slow and might appear to time out, but youâ(TM)ll get an SMS confirmation.

It shows Grok 4 as an option but no way to check what is in use.

Remember how long it took for Lucent to unravel, including their Alcatel phase? Almost 15 years.

Remember how long it took for Motorola to break up into little pieces being sold off here and there? Including Huawei if memory serves me right.

The bigger they are, the longer it takes.