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The core issue? Using Wintel.


The liquidation value of the average middle-class house is $10k - according to my divorce attorney.


$10k sounds high to me if we're talking about home electronics, furniture, etc?

Do people have a lot of expensive jewelry that's included, or does it include vehicles?


If we're talking the contents, you can get to $10k pretty easily, think appliances (a hundred or so each), laptops, stereo, etc.

If you held a garage sale today and let people go throughout your entire house, you could probably net $10k.


The ones I’m talking about are definitely not middle class.


My standard suggestion is to use Windows Server - which has none of that bloatware and advertising. The free OS you get from a vendor is free for a reason.


Strange world indeed


I know I'm dealing with a small company if their only web presence is Meta. A larger company with normal risk mitigation policies would not take that chance. So it's sort of self-selecting that only a company that's okay with having small claims court be there remedy would use Meta.


I'm even more disappointed that parents allow 11-15 year olds to be Instagram "influencers" where 85% of the people being influenced are creepy old men.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influe...


>Why would Apple be held liable for something you did to your device

Because Apple is worth trillions of dollars


So is Cisco/Linksys


Yup. Regulators would rather sue Apple than the end users for the same reason John Dillinger chose to rob banks - “that’s where the money is.”


Why do you think it odd? It makes total sense to me that they decide what software is allowed on their device.


I can't believe some people think this way. When did MY phone become THEIR device?


As long as I've had a phone - which is over 50 years now - it has been "their device".


Whose device is it again? It doesn't belong to the person who paid for it? Are computers a subscription product now?


shhh, don't put it in writing like that.


It is not their device... Or at least it should not be.


It stops being their device once they sell it to you.


> It makes total sense to me that they decide what software is allowed on their device.

What do you mean their device?

If they gift it to me for free, ok it is their device.

If I buy it, it is MINE and only I must be able to control what runs on it.


> their device.


I don't like this PC as a service era.


Did you read this comment twice yourself to see the problem?


"Users will also be required to enter 15 items of personal information, including height, educational background and occupation, which will be disclosed to potential matches."

Can only imagine the unintended consequences here.


I've seen an episode from Ricky Gervias's "An Idiot Abroad" satire-documentary, where this British guy was trying out a dating matching service in India around 2009 and you had to provide this exact kind of personal information, since as a man you were judged mainly on those factors: academic titles, career, salary, wealth, family background. Some parts of Asia seem very status and wealth oriented to me. Brutal and sad.


Wow! That is a lot of tools.


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