I put Kali on an Alienware a few years ago. It was a good way to spend an afternoon. shrug

Take my money. I need this.

I don't hate Apple, i actually believe the Apple silicon laptops are the best consumer class laptops on the market.

They are well priced, incredibly built, and have great screens. They are wonderful machines for browsing, office productivity, coding, & video/photo editing. A windows laptop of comparable quality will cost way more and they absolutely stomp everything in their price class.

That being said, I abhor Apple's tendency for being anti repair, anti consumer, greenwashed marketing and building closed ecosystems. If they would support Vulcan, support RCS, and just be more respectful of their users right to own the things they buy, I dare say I would be a fan

Agreed.

>slight correction, it was the wall adapter they stopped including, right when they switched to USB c ends on the cables and most users would want a new adapter

Yeah their motivation was mainly money. That said, everyone who already had an iPhone could just continue using their existing charging setup. There were a lot of people saying this move forced everyone to buy a separate charging brick anyway, which is false.

In the long term, I absolutely support not including a brick in the box.

Yeah I definitely misspoke, that said dropping the adapter when they did was even more anti consumer than I let on because they also switched to including the USB C to Lightening at the same time. Most apple users would need a new adapter to use the included cable completely undermining their environmental excuse for eliminating the adapter in the first place.

What does the 4k and 16k mean?

These could be fun at a party.

It's pretty exciting and a neat little gadget, but the title is a bit misleading. It's not an X ray vision device. It's a high tech RFID scanner

Adapters, not cables.

Not Dissing India in any way, just talking purely from a supply chain perspective. Samsung has been making mostly ultra cheap phones and M series in India, so a bit ballsy to move S and the folds there where the volume and quality requirements are extremely high. These were usually made in Vietnam and not china anyways, so interesting to see this play out and even have comparisons of the India made vs Vietnam made

Nah they will shift just enough to serve the Indian market. Due to high taxes this keeps them competitive in the local Indian market.

Never said it was...

Last one I had was actually made in Korea. They don’t make any in China. The last Samsung phone factory in China closed in 2019.

Well considering many amount of companies are manufacturing in india compared to indonesia or Vietnam, something is really going well. Samsung already have quite a large mobile manufacturing facilities and now there are also some companies investing to making semiconductor so at least something is working.

TIL - that definitely changes my perspective. Although the reason I focused on the Apple example is because the Fold is also all about the chassis, the fact that Samsung has operated for other components means their learning curve is smaller relative to Apple.

Bonded labours sadly do happen in informal brick making but otherwise not really. I am not aware of prision slavery in india. The workers on factories are represented by various unions and so at the farmers.

Apparently Samsung has quite a history in India:

> Samsung has been manufacturing mobile phones in India since 2007, and is the only brand that is truly made in India. Samsung India has been populating Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) right from its inception.

> India will tally in 29% of Samsung's total global smartphone production --- a 9% rise from its current 20% contribution.

> Samsung's display arm begins OLED panel production at Noida plant

So with 15 years of experience making 20-30% of their smartphones in India, it doesn't seem too risky to finally try a flagship.

That doesn't compare to Apple experimenting with metal parts made by a car manufacturer, Tata/Jaguar.

Statistically the county with the most people should have the most slaves, rapists, murderers, and scammers.

Statistically they'll also have the most hard workers, honest people, doctors, engineers, and brilliant minds.

Population adjusted, North Korea, Eritrea and Burundi have the highest rates.

> If you care anything about fairness, equality, social safety net, environmental standards...

Whether or not we care is different from whether or not corporations care.

The bigger problem is thinking that corporations actually care about us and want to do good.

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Problem is that apple might increase price if they are stuck with the same terrible QC that the indian manufacture is giving them.

Apple's india manufactured hardware failed apple's own QC at about 50% (compared to under 1% from china).

> The first few generations of Korean cars had the same stigma, at least for the cheapest stuff.

Kias/Hyundais small 4 cylinder engines for the US market were all recalled from 2010-2019 for catching fire: https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/up-in-flames/kias-and-hyundais-continue-to-burn-after-5-8-million-cars-and-suvs-recalled

For 2020+ models, only time will tell.

I assume it was downvoted because out of most computers, old Macbooks seem to stay in use for the longest and also tend to get updates for a long time. Sure old PCs can run many lightweight linux distros (and so can old Macs), but OEM support from Apple for old Macs is something you hardly even see with other computers (maybe some business computers...).

I think that if you don't get locked out, they stay in use for a relatively long time and are also always sought after in the used market.