Yep, that’s the one. Utter shithouses.

Yes, I can’t see why people would hear ‘Autopilot’ and think it had anything at all to do with full self driving.

Opencore Legacy Patcher, but for cars. Nice.

This was really thrown into sharp focus for me a couple of years back, when I read an article about how people with ocular implants are being left to go blind again because the company who made their implant has been bought by another company who doesn’t want to continue support.

I just can’t think about how callous that is, and if a company doesn’t give a shit about that, why would they give a shit about a car?

Because a huge part of their business model over the past twenty years has been the upsell.

I bought my first MacBook in 2007. It had 2gb of RAM as standard. I asked about upgrading it, the guy told me to pick some up online as it would be waaaay cheaper, and he was right. Did the same for the MacBook Pro that replaced it a few years later, but in the meantime they moved to the soldered model so had to swallow the cost of the 16gb ‘upgrade’ in my M2 Air.

To be fair, the cost over time of my Macs has been incredible. My 2011 MBP is still trucking along, these days running Linux Mint. With the cost to upgrade the RAM and replace the HDD with an SSD, all in it cost me around £1200. Less than £100 a year for a laptop that still works perfectly fine.

I thought that too, but just looking at his channel it seems that he’s only done the storage on an M1 mini, not RAM.

It’s telling that my piracy of music all but disappeared when Apple Music came along. (Almost) Everything I want to hear is right there on my phone. I don’t have to switch between different services to find artists.

Now, whether such enormous consolidation of the record companies, allowing that kind of setup, is a good thing is another discussion…

Yeah, I’ve thought about this too.

Apple update their OSs annually now because the shareholders demand constant evolution, meaning the devs have to constantly be on top of changes to the OS. And it’s fucking exhausting how badly it affects us all.

Alright, check out Muscles Georg over here, with all his muscles!

Sadly.

I was in Corfu last week when the news of the Epic store came about, so tried to install it on my UK registered iPhone. All I got was a notification telling me that my phone isn’t eligible.

So yeah, no Fortnite in my phone for me. Not that I really care about that, I just like fiddling with shit.

This puts me in mind of Arkell vs. Pressdram.

My TV is a smart TV whose smart features I never, ever use because the first thing it does is switch to the input my Apple TV is on.

Ironic really that the reason I chose an LG is because webOS seems less cunty than Android TV and whatever shit Samsung are offering. But I still never use it.

The little bump on my iPad mini drives me fucking mad. I want to be able to put in on a desk and write on it, but no, fuck me. The case I have bulges slightly in the middle, meaning it still doesn’t sit flat.

I don’t even use the camera on the iPad, because I’m not a lunatic.

Primitive Technology on YouTube is waaaay ahead of you.

Yeah, my 2011 Macbook Pro has an i7. In computing terms, 13 years is an eternity.

But yeah, it’s also got 16gb RAM and a 500gb SSD and runs Mint like a dream.

We use Google Forms and Sheets at work, precisely because easy for a bunch of us to access, and our boss is tight as fuck, so it being free is a massive draw.

I keep looking to other ways to perform the few functions we use, but ultimately I lack the knowledge and resources to roll my own.

Yeah, that seems about right.

Anyone who doesn’t think that the end goal for the Cybertruck isn’t military/police contracts hasn’t really been paying attention to how tech firms grow.

I’m mostly surprised that no US police departments have any of them yet.

Elon basically saw the Robocop action toys from the ‘90s and thought “Yes, I want that to be real”.