...it would also be nice if Debian (Ubunutu and other derivitives) stop shitting on pip in some ridiculous paranoid attempt to stop breaking apt packages (that don't break apt packages anyway) or because of "muh security".

Huh? Messing with the system Python install absolutely can break your system.

Just use venvs, or install separate Python versions for development e.g. via pyenv. You likely don't want to use the relatively outdated Python version shipped with Debian anyways.

When I was I preteen in 1980s I loved MAD. I even had a collection, I resisted the urge to fold the back page just to keep them nice and instead folded the back page of a copy in the grocery store

YOU! My mom would always come home, and claim it "was that way" when she bought it for me.

I thought she was doing it. But it was you.

Personally, I don’t use a case on my iPhone 14. I pay Apple every month for Apple Care +. If I break it Apple fixes or replaces it for free

I use a case for grip, not for the protection it provides. I'd be dropping this slippery device pretty often otherwise. I haven't been able to go case-less since the days of the iPhone 4.

> Apple fixes or replaces it for free

Where? In the US they charge $29 and up for repair with AppleCare+. $29 for the screen, $29 more if you damage the glass on the back too. $99 if you damage the camera or anything else that requires replacing the phone altogether.

If these were for sale I would buy one

Can you post the word 'cis' or 'cisgender' on X?

Yes.

Funny, I got perma banned from X for calling supposedly insulting a pastor. So much for free speech.

The cybertruck will never pass pedestrian (and other) safety tests in Europe. It will never be sold there in its current form.

He started and grew some amazing companies, but free speech... You might be drinking too much of the koolaid.

He as achieved?

Who exactly build the rockets?

My MacBook Air M1 has 16GB RAM and the base 256GB RAM. I decided I wanted to try some native Apple Silicon games like “Resident Evil: The Village” and “Death Stranding”. So I took a 1 TB WD_BLACK external SSD, installed macOS Sonoma and made sure to boot from that hard drive when I wanted to play games. It works perfectly. Sadly there is no way to add RAM externally ha ha.

I boot from the 256GB storage that is soldered on the MacBook Air M1’s logic board when I want to do anything else. I have about 174 GB free currently.

Is all device functionality otherwise supported booting off an external drive?

As an Apple fan, what Apple charges for RAM is insulting. Pre 2012 it was standard practice to buy your MacBook Pro with the minimum RAM, and you could upgrade the RAM yourself buying from Crucial and the like for WAY CHEAPER than what Apple sold the RAM for. To stop that Apple started soldering the RAM to the logic board. I’d have no problem buying RAM from Apple if they charged a fair market price. Sadly Apple seem hell bent on ripping us off.

> Sadly Apple seem hell bent on ripping us off.

Did you mean "Fortunately, Apple are laser-focused on maximizing shareholder value"?

While some customers will end up paying a lot for more RAM, I have to wonder if Apple really has a good idea about how many potential sales they're losing at the same time, too.

They've lost several Mac purchases I would have otherwise made over the last decade, thanks solely to the unjustifiable cost of getting a reasonable amount of RAM for my needs.

Yet, as far as I know, Apple has no way of tracking those lost sales. They've never asked me, and I've never told them.

I know I'm not alone. I have a number of colleagues, friends, and family who've been ready to buy different types of Apple computers, but then opted not to once they see how much even a relatively small RAM upgrade will cost. Again, I doubt that Apple is aware of those lost sales.

I assume that they do take this into account and come to the conclusion that the real existing profits from the outrageous prices on RAM and SSD storage outweigh the potential profits from people who don't buy their hardware b/c the refuse to pay the hefty markup.

I totally bought a MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon, fully knowing that I'm getting ripped off big time with added RAM and storage. Yet, it's still the least painful platform for me, and the hardware is really nice, even a few years on. In the end, I expect get a meaningful lifespan of 5+ years of daily use out of the machine. I wouldn't know any other laptop which could provide this kind of service life while constantly being a joy to work with.

Apple know that their user base consists of many people like myself, and milk them accordingly.

I have to agree. In an alternate reality where their RAM upgrade pricing is in line with normal market prices, I'm probably a Mac user for the past 10+ years.

Every couple of years I take a good look at their machines and I always reach the same conclusion. Even though I could afford any specification of MBP, their upgrade pricing always feels like a rip-off and I don't enjoy feeling ripped off, so I buy something else.

100% - almost bought a mac mini, but the RAM was a deal breaker.

The sad part is that people assume those two ate roughly inversely related. But I feel like there’s a lot of negative externalities and long term system effects that would disprove it.

Why not both

It's easy to assume it's malicious. But instead this allows laptops to be thinner, cheaper, and have MUCH better performance.

Nearly all PC and laptops have 128 bit memory busses, which is a major bottleneck for iGPUs, as well as weird use cases like LLM.

However the M2 pro doubles the memory memory width. M3 Max doubles it again, twice as wide as an AMD threadripper.

THey did VERY similar with HDD's.

We were well into years of SSD's in laptops in the 2.5" sata format and Macbooks of the time (ie: 2012 models and even some after) were still chucking 5400 rpm spinning rust in there AND charging SSD prices for it.

It was bananas then, and they are just doing the same with a different component now.

There were plenty of other reasons they started soldering the RAM, and their desire to lock in customers to bogus upgrade prices simply meant that “but customers will lose the ability to upgrade their RAM from third parties for cheaper!” argument to not solder the RAM fell on deaf ears.

Can’t say I will miss her. She was a tyrant who bragged about shutting down free speech and censoring people she did not agree with, the standard communist tactic of controlling language.

Good idea!