conciselyverbose

There isn't another viable option with just the performance/battery life combination, before even considering the excellent build quality, etc. Repairability has a major cost to space. They're in direct conflict. You can't do the form factor and have user repairable parts.

Buy a giant, bulky laptop that still can't match the performance for a full day of use if you want, but there isn't anything even in the same space as the Apple Silicon MacBooks, let alone competitive in that space.

If you don't have people cheating with your malware installed (which you don't actually have evidence for), the literal only possible explanation of that is that no one cares enough to cheat properly.

Using a video camera pointed at the screen to control a mouse and keyboard that are exactly identical in every way to a real mouse and keyboard is not hard to do and no level of rootkit can ever under any circumstance detect it. It's unconditionally impossible for their malware to detect any mildly sophisticated cheater.

But you have to climb Kilimanjaro and send a fax from there to the unlisted head office with a 500 character key they can't tell you, then cure cancer to cancel your membership.

Yeah the matching donations was the obvious answer. It's honestly a decent way to do charity as a company (obviously bigger ticket contributions are good, too), because it rewards them for their choices by increasing their value, and your contributions are going places that have some support behind them from your employees. Finding worthwhile causes that don't get money has value, but it's really hard and expensive to do.

That doesn't feel legal. They're blatantly using their market position to suppress competition for the sole purpose of suppressing competition.

Fuck Facebook as much as them, but if you're going to cheat that hard you're supposed to at least give yourself some kind of plausible deniability, like Google's "we're not trying to monopolize spying on users; we're trying to protect user privacy and prevent bots from harassing websites" to push their DRM shit.

The second the service has already been provided, it's a debt. Declining cash if they can't walk away without owing you anything can never be legal.

For goods and services. That's prior to the existence of a transaction.

The literal second they can't walk away without paying you, you unambiguously must accept the actual paper. You unconditionally can not mandate any other form of payment after the fact.

No, you actually are required to take cash. The pieces of paper must be accepted in payment of a debt. You cannot refuse them.

You absolutely could only take Canadian dollars at a storefront, because it's not a debt. It's a proposed transaction you are not obligated to accept. Chuck E Cheese doesn't have to list the ticket prizes at a dollar price as well. They are fully entitled to only do business in tickets at that stand.

Yeah, think I'll pass on doubling my wireless bill to get the same service, but thanks, Apple.

Paying for your meal after the fact is a debt. If you pay up front you can refuse cash. If you pay after you can't.

Ignoring that the point of Matter (which is so far not happening effectively) is to be a standard shared by all the major providers for smart stuff, this doesn't mean they're removing Bluetooth.

It means Bluetooth is a dumpster fire and they're switching their stuff to use better tech.

It's fake. It's always fake.

Lying about death threats is the standard behavior for getting called out for scammy bullshit.