If you're a US employee being paid market wages, the cost of the Macbook is rather trivial compared to how much you cost the company, and how much it costs them for you to be not working. But some lower-level managers and employees don't seem to understand this.

By "nuclear battery" do they just mean the same kind of battery we've been using in spacecraft for over 70 years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...

I do wonder how notifications that are synced/mirrored to the Apple Watch and newer versions of Mac are handled.

It's for Mexican citizens only.

And, of course, they will prove it using their digital IDs.

It's possible that DVD players are extremely low quality now, since there are very few people still buying them.

They are, after the second Walmart cheapass dvd player died, I bit the bullet and got an Xbox Series ProMax X 360 Copilot whatever.

It's a glorified blurry player, and it works fine as such.

As they say, you get what you pay for.

There are a lot of new $30K EVs on the market right now, as manufacturers have added a lot of incentives since the EV rebate expired. And a lot of slightly used EVs are coming off lease this year.

Tesla is going to struggle since their brand no longer has any cachet and people aren't interested in subscribing to a kinda-self driving feature.

It's not that it doesn't have cachet, it has anti-cachet.

People of Musk's exact political stripe absolutely are not impressed if you drive a Tesla, and everyone else, at minimum, is silently counting it as a character flaw and judgment problem.

To top it off, they're not the latest or the greatest EVs available and it's common knowledge at this point. The two metrics that they maximize, range and 0-60, are not really a big factor in day-to-day ownership in the way that a smooth ride and build quality are.

The difference is that the parts we're making unlivable for humans already have millions of people living there already.

Now we need some unnecessarily large, transparent monitors and we've achieved 2054-era Minority Report.

Whenever I see X used, I wonder if the author will return to replace the variable with the actual name.

Joining the military is not just a job. The baggage is considerably different than every other job.

The obvious difference is that you cannot quit.