Might just be my experience, but men put in more effort. Probably because women are more desirable so they don’t really need to.

It is. Remember when they just made a new version every 3 years and you didn’t REALLY need to buy the latest one if you had the previous one?

Well that didn’t make them enough money.

I’ll take couch over all the fauxcest tbh

Tankies are out here calling for peoples’ deaths every day. I know this because I was born in the wrong country so tankies seethe just seeing the instance TLD. So many tankies think we should be executed for breaking free of the empire.

Ah okay, that part I got, I thought maybe you’d unlocked a hidden third meaning lol

2009 is newer than what I was referring to anyway. But also, that’s a super easy Mac to repair, the only non-Apple laptops I’ve found to be easier were the G1-G2 HP Elitebook 800 lineup and T series Lenovos up till like 2015.

And a quick eBay check will find the other motherboard

Not worth ordering, nor storing. The correct answer for that other model is that you just dump it in the trash after destroying the drive.

It’s easy to stock parts for most Macs when you’re running a refurb shop. With other laptops, you only have parts for the top 3 or 4 models per manufacturer because the rest aren’t worth the time or effort. It’s all waste when there’s something model specific that’s gone bad.

Also, since when did Macs go back to CMOS batteries? They’ve been using the main battery for that for a long time, though there’s a backup for when the main battery dies competely. That backup does indeed fail but it’s a nonissue if your main battery is good.

Wait, is there another meaning? All I got was that he’s describing a legend while the kid calls him a “fucking legend”

Hmm, I was under the impression that there isn’t much written about him until long after his death - but maybe I did let that one skepticon video influence me too much lol

Same tbh but if something DOES happen - I think zone.ee is more likely to respond to some Estonian org’s threats than Hetzner - and I think Zone would also likely become a target first.

Apple computers have always been on the lower end of support (see their support of hardware as they’ve gone thru different CPU architecture). Windows/Linux has never been this quick to drop support.

Except now Windows is dropping support randomly for older CPUs, including many that would run Win11 easily, just because they can. So they’re honestly the same as Apple in that regard.

see their support of hardware as they’ve gone thru different CPU architecture

They support the old architecture for several years, how’s that a bad thing?

Apple hardware has always been hard to repair.

They used to literally ship you parts with repair guides.

Non-standard parts, non-standard screws (pentalobe screws, etc…)

Non-standard parts are one thing (and a problem for sure), but keep in mind that they have way less variety. Go find me a motherboard for a HP Pavilion 15-n037so. Go find me a motherboard for 2012 Macbook Air 13". Guess which one will be easier to find in a company refurbishing laptops. I used to work at one.

The parts for non-Apple laptops aren’t always that standard either. You look at two similar WiFi modules, one has a D/PN on it and the other has an FRU code on it. You can’t put the D/PN coded part in a Lenovo or the FRU in a Dell, because apparently they use whitelisting! I’ve personally run into this.

And Apple does data collection and ads. Always have. iAd was Apple’s first and started in 2010. And Apple collects a ton of private data about you.

Of course they do. Now go look at how much Google does of the same.

They have always claimed to be doing one thing while in reality been doing the opposite. They get flak because they are the worst for this two-faced behavior.

Worst with the notable exceptions of Microsoft and Google.

They are a terrible company, and yet I’ll always bat for them online because I feel they get more flak than other, even worse tech companies.

Apple was the first company to give you several years of software support instead of one major OS version. Apple, for a while, made devices so easy to repair, it would’ve put them out of business at some point, honestly. Even with the first 8 or so iPhones, they were fairly easy to open up, but I’m talking of course about the PowerPC era, where they’d send you repair manuals with your spare parts. As a private individual.

Apple still makes the highest quality laptops, as far as actual build quality is concerned. That aluminium feels so nice. Also only running 2 or 3 models at once means they’re actually easier to repair, as spare parts aren’t nearly as diverse. I see a HP that doesn’t say “Elitebook” on it and I throw it in the trash, because I ain’t looking for parts for no Pavilion or Envy or whatever.

That said, do I think they actually have any social principles? Hell nah. But they aren’t worse than all the other companies. Apple makes money selling you an overpriced phone. Google only does if you buy a Pixel, which isn’t all that big a marketshare, there’s still Samsung and others in the same space. Google needs to be making money off those too, and they are, via data collection and advertising.

I reckon they have to at this point. Pay your dues and get to keep your business.

I was very close to installing MailCow, but I realized it might not be the best idea tbh

Shady entities outside your own country maybe. But shouldn’t you be more worried about the ones in your own country?

Exactly my point. Most of us customize our setup one way or another, usually. Few of us are ricers in the traditional sense.

For me it was the lack of knowledge tbh. I did already have a Hetzner VPS, but that doesn’t come with emails - I had to also add in the web hosting, which I’m currently not using (yet).

A month ago, I was very close to starting a company subscription, mostly for emails. Ended up going with Hetzner where I’ve got my server anyway and their email service is 100 accounts for the price of (their web hosting service), whereas gsuite and proton wanted about the same amount for every user.

It’s not a significant amount for single digit users, but I’m just glad it’s not going to someone publicly supporting Trump.

It’s a very expensive form of advertising. It means you have to have margins. There are a bunch of VPNs out there, so you’d expect the space to be competitive, but somehow a couple of them can spend like half their revenue on advertising?

Though I did just now realize that they do it instead by having enticing start-up prices and really expensive prices after the fact, so maybe they don’t have to supplement their income by selling data after all.

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Having other people on the network mess with them sounds kinda fun, but I think I’ll probably skip on account of all the other issues.