The unstoppable tyranny of Big Ben Pies continues its war of terror on the people of Kiwi.

That tracks. I say this because of all the things Trump has done, going with Dana barely moves the needle in terms of what we expect out of him.

I will steal a joke from Beavis and Butt Head.

“I see you have already given yourself military rankings, Major Woody and Private Parts!!!”

Of the big three I would say that Apple is the lesser of three evils.

From Shanghai with love.

“Butt him engineer! Him good for company!!!” - Nope, just another one like the others. Same people keep floating to the top.

I know someone who in the 1980’s/90’s used to run a society for the abolishment of TV because he saw it as the worst things that could have happened to society. Nowadays he is absolutely beached on the shores of social media slop beyond reason.

Dodged one bullet but took the next.

*** Angry Karl Marx sounds rising! ***

Why has it taken me so long to hear the term Slop-bowl’s. I love it!

Does that make delivery drones, Slop-birds?

And they say spotting Psychopaths is difficult.

David Graeber might have something to contribute to this subject.

We could call it the Intel Principle. ;)

To be pedantic, value is in the eye of the beholder. Cost is how much goes into something, Price is how much someone wants to pay, Value… that is much more subjective.

Oil costs $50 a barrel to pump, priced at $100 on the market but when it comes to value could be seen as providing $20,000 of human labor.

Not trying to defend AI junk, like seriously people, just do the work yourself. But value is such a hard thing to quantify.

About the only time I have been like ‘Yeah alright, I get it’ is if you have a sort of writers block. Get a rough draft spat out but then bounce of that, but do not rely on LLM junk for anything more than that.

Five figure!? That’s a bargain. many are going well into six figure territory nowadays.

Have said it for ages, it is End to end encryption, the question is if they are the end or you are? Is it Your end to Apple, Apple to them? Plausible but hard to verify.

For all the problems of Steve jobs, he at least kept the company fairly honest in this sense. But the instant he died, Tim cook immediately rushed to install PRISM backdoors into all their systems while still carrying the image of privacy.

To answer what other have missed, if you run Linux then that will fix this.

I had always wondered why so many people have had compatibility issues with Linux systems, that was until I realized that because I am basically a computer scrap-man, I almost always a decade behind and everything had been long hardened by then.

I will not post a link to it for privacy reasons, but I wrote an article on this the day before the original M1 was announced warning of this situation. Apples move to their own chipset meant that any attempts at maintaining compatibility would always end up behind the curve.

I am surprised that Apple manage to keep their chips constantly changing as much as they do between generations. Most others seem to be on the ‘same but more’ path nowadays but Apple is still shifting the baseline almost yearly.

The real issue will come if they lock down the boot loader.