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by MBCook 7mo ago
The standard federal limit is 18 months. An appeals court said that didn’t apply to him because he was violating a plea agreement that he voluntarily entered into.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
“Federal law generally limits jail time for contempt of court to 18 months. But a federal appeals court in 2019 rejected Thompson’s argument that that law applies to him, saying his refusal violated conditions of a plea agreement.” https:&
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by MBCook 7mo ago
This link said that his contempt violated a plea agreement and that’s why they were able to hold him longer than the standard limit of 18 months. https://apnews.com/article/tommy-thompson-gold-coins-shipwre...
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by MBCook 7mo ago
I wonder if there is a statute of limitations on suing an estate. Let’s say he dies in 5 years. 10 years later his children suddenly clearly become rich and can’t explain how. Clearly it looks like he passed the gold to them somehow. Could
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Isn’t that exactly what this article is about? A guy that was released from jail on contempt because it can’t be used indefinitely?
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by MBCook 7mo ago
As a longtime Google Fiber customer, it’s Google Fiber. My service has been effectively perfect. My price has barely changed in a long time, though they’ve added faster tiers as options. They let me use my own equipment without any hassle.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
I don’t think it would be an antitrust risk. I don’t understand the argument for why allowing it would mean more Apple computer hardware sales though. Could you explain why you think that would happen?
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by MBCook 7mo ago
I thought it was emulating everything like QEMU, not using virtualization hardware like you normally would on a computer.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Oh I have another year? Phew.
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TrueNAS Deprecates Public Build Repository and Raises Transparency Concerns(linuxiac.com)
8 points by MBCook 7mo ago|0 comments
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Yep. A Neo will win a race with a similar speed Windows computer full of bundled crap and security slop. But it would work the other way around too. The nice thing about Macs is even if you see a lot of what Apple puts on the computers as u
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by MBCook 7mo ago
And Windows laptops are such a commodity business that prices are incredibly low. So PC makers load ‘em up with junk because they get paid for those deals. They are more incentivized by that than the few lost sales from people who know bett
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by MBCook 7mo ago
In college I remember one room had some kind of all-in-one PCs built into the desks. It would have been useful. Except they were unusably slow. Literally. Log in when class starts, you may get control after 10+ minutes. Opening a web browse
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Speculation I’ve heard from Ben Thompson of Stratechery is this machine is, in part, a way to get value out of iPhone Pro chips that had defects. The Neo has a 5 core GPU. The iPhone 16 Pro had a 6 core. So, if he’s correct, these are the s
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by MBCook 7mo ago
But they also had iPad chips, not iPhone.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
The M line was derived from the A line in the phones, and the individual cores are generally the same (though not in the same year). Counts, accelerators, other stuff on package/die is custom. I think it was a fair question too. Even i
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Ish. It’s better in some ways, like single core and maybe multi, but not by a ton. At the same time I think the M1 may have more raw GPU power, though missing a few fancy features. Hardware is mostly worse, but that’s to be expected for the
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Possible catch: Rosetta 2 goes away next year in macOS 27. I don’t know what the story for VMs is. I’d really like to know as it affects me. Sure you can go QEMU, but there’s a real performance hit there.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Yep. Scammers have managed to get people to install profiles on their devices so they can run non-appstore approved scam apps.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
I hadn’t thought of that. In my mind I think Apple will say “not an iPad, you don’t get it” but the distinction (hardware UI wise) would be much much fuzzier than today.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
The last 25 years of Apple has made it pretty clear that’s not “the Apple way”. Yeah they could . They could do a lot of things people constantly ask about, like upgradable RAM. But there is no reason to think they will.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
There are other reasons. A big factor in the success of the iPad and maybe just some degree the iPhone, but especially the iPad, is that it’s “unbreakable”. All out restrictions mean it’s computer people don’t worry will suddenly stop worki
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by MBCook 7mo ago
That would also seriously hurt the sales of Macs. Even more so now that the Neo exists.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
I’ve been hoping Apple would allow this for years, although it doesn’t seem like something they would do. The fact that iPadOS now has windowing seems like it would only make it work better. iPads can already do everything necessary, so why
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Cost. It’s 100% cost. The USB-C port that’s already there anyway is free, thus way cheaper. No special port. No special cable in the box. I don’t think it will come in the next revision.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Yep everyone has their preference. A lot of us have done both. I’ve run multiple distros. I’ve played with low level software. I have used and continue to use open source tools in places. And I prefer my Mac to this day as my main machine.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
I see no reason they couldn’t. But we know there’s lots of other models that they’re already working on. We don’t know how similar or different it is from an OS perspective.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
I took the article as talking about the difference between reviews that say “this computer is not going to be great at X” and the reviews that say “this machine is only good for office tasks or Y“. The gatekeeping tone. It can do most anyth
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by MBCook 7mo ago
> then what most young people use daily. Most people are using Windows or phones where that isn’t an option. Yeah you can root or change the OS but that seems outside the spirit of the comment to me. These are Macs . They run Xcode and
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“This is not the computer for you”(samhenri.gold)
1011 points by MBCook 7mo ago|380 comments

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