Next up, ML-generated fantasy sports.

> It's not Apple's job to police for theft.

They aren't policing theft. They are deterring theft.

As long as the devices haven't been released from the Apple Business Manager account for the organization, IT can disable both User-Initiated (Locked to a user's personal Apple ID) and MDM-Initiated (Locked to the ABM Apple ID) Activation Lock. That's not a good reason to stop users from logging in to their personal Apple IDs on the devices. Most of my org's user-assigned macs/iPads allow the user to log in to their personal Apple ID, and I've never once had trouble disabling the Activation Lock--even if the device was wiped before disabling it.

I think it's a user education issue and kills the market for stolen Macs.

Oh no! Anyways.

You didn't answer the question.

Wasn’t really the point I tried to make, just by sheer percentages alone, China must have some real innovators.

The main issue is the political culture and systems of government and business.

Chinese people are just as capable as anyone else but only certain cultures seem to produce free thinking, trend busting and renegade inventors.

Look at the peak of the USSR, produced some of the smartest people in history. Unfortunately the rate of technological advancement stalled and suffered, because of the corrupt cronyism that’s rampant in communist states.

China isn’t a meritocracy, only favourable people to the regime are allowed to succeed and this is what stifles real innovation.

Productivity ground to a halt in the USSR due to massive corruption and I don’t see much evidence that this won’t happen in China. The regime at the top has tightened, Xi has surrounded himself by weak, yes men and expelled any dissenting voices.

The West tried to move closer to Russia and China, opening their economies up, hoping it would bring the nations closer. It has failed. Putin built an army with the profits and is trying to rebuilt the Soviet Union, Xi has centralised power and doubled down on Authoritarianism.

It will be interesting to see how the two economies manage without Western input, they might do fine but history is not on the side of corrupt, authoritarian regimes.

Tesla even made fake commercial with pre programmed path and movement ;).

Why are you obsessing with defending con man?

Yes, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

That’s part of the sustainability, though. Large portions of it don’t make it to the 4th step: waste. It mostly resides in the 3Rs, which is better than most other companies can say.

It makes sense though, why are they destroying hardware this new? Just seems like an absolute waste.

I get it that it's for a security reason, but still.

they also demonstrated making laptops that can last more than a decade

my current home computer was purchased in 2011 i believe and i have trouble justifying an upgrade even now

i think what is 1000000% real is there is a tax on their best selling products. mac minis and Airs are decent priced when compared to premium PC options

roast these companies for shit they actually do not the sterotype. it's 2023 people, be smarter about how you perceive the world

Then use a different distro

No need to be polite about it, we can scream at them and throw things - they'll understand.

Right, the government isn't buying up shots anymore, and people aren't going to buy the shot on their own if they feel like they don't need it (or can't afford it, like most medications for a lot of people).

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Indeed. Talk about corporate welfare.

gee, there are two stories about tesla which I have commented on and I am obsessing. you do know how reddit works right? Someone posts something and then people make a comment about it.

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Edit: Now I get it, you are one of those people that is dumb enough to have tsla stock.

Why are you obsessing over Elon Musk?

Good to know.

So I can buy one and then go to my carrier to activate it?

To my understanding though, you generally only have to do that when incorporating an application or complete piece of code like a module, function, etc? Am I off base?

A lot of these PCs are normal consumer computers that were improperly wiped when sold or stolen devices with activation lock. Either way its still e-waste and a huge issue.

Ohh no anyway

Pfizer can politely fuck off.