Knew you couldn’t. I hope you know some real people who haven’t cut you out of their lives yet

Please explain why you think CSAM, gore, and revenge porn aggregator X is the entire internet and try to do it without being arrested

I’ve tried it and everything works, including 5G data, except calls and texts. My garbage carrier does not support it (not in america).

It’s called suffering from success, and Apple, more than most companies, has a lot of experience with it.

The usual path (something every chipmaker does) is to just disable the ‘extra’ cores.

They could also sell higher spec’d Neos, but that would never happen before the midrange macbooks are refreshed because it would mess up Apple’s very carefully formulated pricing strategy

unless you’re selling yourself to people who don’t know you, there’s no reason to be concerned about your labels

Nope

Another thing to consider is the decline in knowledge base growth. On top of not being able to find things with Google anymore, people are turning to discord servers, and increasingly chatbots, to solve their queries, closing off the possibility of new people learning from others’ experiences

Yes, if you’d read the link you sent and tried it yourself, you’d notice that the documentation is severely incomplete, and only points out steps privacy-conscious users have already made

I’ve had it enabled for a month and the only thing I noticed missing was iMessage backgrounds.

Get them breakfast?

The first time I ever heard of/saw one of these things was in the show Pluribus, how common are they??

Not following through on expansion plans indicates that they’re expecting the bubble to burst

Universal bootloader locking should be illegal. At this point i’d be happy to just be able to buy a more expensive “ownership edition” of my phone

More than 8GB of RAM is unnecessary, and getting around that limitation does not require any action by the user.

Setting up a NAS + tailscale solution is doable but not worth the hassle for whatever niche use-case that would resolve.

Even if tethering any portable device to an external drive wasn’t wildly inconvenient, you would be giving up your only usb port on this thing

Lemmings that focus on the RAM spec are telling on themselves. 256gb storage is the real travesty here.

No yeah, you’re 100% correct. I just no longer think (however mistaken I was) that it’s universally applicable. I’ve always seen it used as a good and easy way to dismiss conspiracies

Hanlon’s razor “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”

Evil does exist, and it wears the mask of imbeciles

8GB on a Mac is fine, you just won’t run any advanced LLM’s on it locally, which the vast majority of people won’t bother with anyway

It’s not even low powered. It requires low power to operate, but it blows every other laptop in the same budget out of the water, if benchmarks are to be believed. It’s roughly equivalent to an M3, which the newest and most expensive intel/AMD laptops still continue to struggle to measure up to.