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Phone bans are bad.

This hasn't been true for the time a typical American high school senior has been alive. Please stop repeating things people said years ago.

Yeah, you couldn't be more wrong here. The exact same people who thoroughly destroyed the 360 badly wanted to attack this system - they were just outgunned.

I have my doubts. I suspect that Nvidia have made mistakes.

Anyway, situations like the one you describe are one to be solved by legislation requiring certain devices be sold as open devices that put power in the hands of the owner.

Where are the slides at?

The tragedy is that 'right to compute' is such a great name for something actually useful. Requiring OEMs to allow users to load any OS they want, requiring OEMs to allow full control over a device/OS ('root access') etc.

Instead, it's wasted on AI slop.

You just linked AI slop.

Also a low quality source.

Something very wrong with you.

Unrelated to the laptops. Also, please don't link low quality sources (Yahoo) on HN.

In other words: you are a reactionary who thinks little of others. Noted.

Nope.

That would require those same companies from not abusing our political process to obtain illegal political outcomes - outcomes that are unconstitutional - like Citizens United, which led to PHrMA dumping unimaginable money into bad faith political advertising/lobbying.

Until or unless they stop being bad actors, everyone should pirate their stuff. Free Luigi.

That's nice. The rest of the world has price caps on what these companies can charge for drugs.

It's one or the other. You can have your ''patents'' and ''intellectual property'' respected...but that requires you not charge an outrageously higher price in certain markets, like the US.

Hn is loaded with bots and this thread in particular is full of things that somehow have less political literacy than the typical American 8th grader.

You are good.

I disagree with that analysis. It strikes me that a parent is denying a child access to something that the vast majority of other children have access to while that child is forced to live under a structure that prevents them from generating enough income to obtain their own device independently.

As that entire structure is illegitimate, the actions of the child are understandable.

This is pseudo-intellectual nonsense - we are strangers to ourselves, we do not truly know how the mind works.

And the parents feel entitled to the truth...why? Children are not property.

What specifically do you mean by 'stealing'?

You remain an awful person. I am happy to go through any form of humanity/identity verification that staff want me to. My posts are written by me and never AI - I strongly oppose genAI.

I think someone who is 22 was 17 in the not that distant past.

Apple hires talent, they don't care about anything else. Again, I am speaking to things I know from my actual life and people I know in the physical world.

Yep. They hire talent. University grads will work alongside red team folks that are maybe 22 years old and have been at Apple for two years. It's a thing.

I personally know more than one person who has a background along those lines.

Heroin is addictive. Physical compulsion is addiction. What you are talking about is not addiction. It shares some elements, but no one is breaking into cars so they can scroll Instagram.

Apple has an engineering base that includes people who were recently children.

Think about it that way: why would they make things harder for who they were in the very recent past.

The Gabb thing is the fault of the parent.

By buying a child a locked down device - a hostile device that few would have accepted for themselves as a child - they marked them as 'being a child' rather than blending in with the rest of the people on the Internet.

By marking them this way, they advertise the child to the predators of the world.

This is someone who is twelve. They aren't six. Life involves risk. Stop playing with account controls and let the person play Minecraft. This really isn't that hard.

Having thoughts about physically breaking a child's holiday gifts - of doing that in front of them - is suggestive of being a pretty awful person. You can't figure out something that the child does not want, so you want to break their stuff?

How much longer do you intend to keep this routine up? Is your objective for them to go no contact? What are you seeking here?

Hetzner is also sinkholed by lots of EDR products because they host a ton of malicious garbage. They are a bad actor.

It's almost like Clouds are really good at scaling and some rented server isn't! Perfect, almost poetic.

Idiotic piece - the purpose of 'the cloud' is to scale large demand applications. Rental hardware can't really do that.