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Lol! and the Sun story was hysterical. Mailing update floppies to a target and letting them install the malware for you. That’s just priceless comedy

Wow didn’t see that coming. I met him at a HOPE conference with Steve Wozniak. Followed him for years from hacker zine texts distributed on CDs back in the day. Wow that’s really s…

no but maybe I should lol

Well it wasn’t paranoia because hours later they released the 16” crowdfund so obviously it was a PR campaign and from the looks of the sales a very successful one. Assuming they a…

We’ll see what the net savings in human hours really are when that experiment concludes

Not to negate the amazing accomplishments here but, is saved the right word? After all they were saved but only to later die of something else. So prolonged might be more accurate …

Yes but the AMD design draws double the power even though it was fabbed on a lower process node. I mean it defeats the purpose of a portable. Now you need double the battery weight…

The storage and memory upgrades are expensive and also have a penalty in terms of power. Memory draws the same current regardless of if it’s being used and that is significant. Uni…

Apple doesn’t verify that purchases from the educational store are from students it’s honor system. Those prices are available to everyone, in small quantities. Sit the 15 inch MBA…

Ok, but that same spec is 1699 plus tax direct from Apple without a discount so the same as frameworks pre built 16 inch option that ships in Q4. If you compare their “build it you…

No compare it to the MBA 15 w 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM upgrades and the 70W charger from their educational store + $150 gift card offer. $1575 inc Cali tax

I’ve seen it firsthand when I shared a doc

Macbooks use unified memory and ARM SoCs and substantially outperform Intel machines with nearly double the battery life. The MBAs can use two external displays either 4k@120 or 6k…

Wait you access a google drive document and the user sharing gets your email address. Sketch

Yes but it’s the only item on the list with a link and really shouldn’t be on the list at all. A laptop with a two hour battery is a long way from perfect. I’ve seen too many of th…

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You know 32 core NIB EPYC 7551s are $100 on ebay would make a very nice router w the right mb https://www.ebay.com/itm/394632582514