I often defuse like this by referring to my age. “My reflexes were great when I first started playing video games in the 1970s—now I am just slower and not much I can do about it.”

I will second this. My wife and I tried all the instant coffees on some review site and one of the mid priced ones was surprisingly good. Originally it was for camping, but it was so smooth and didn’t upset our middle-aged stomachs after we drank a lot of it, so now we drink it all the time.

I use https://macmousefix.com/en/ on my Mac mouse. I’m not sure of its range of features.

Or even, “fuck your privilege “! Unless my wife wants to paint holding the brush in her mouth don’t kick her in the expression. You want royalties for artist or advance optin for model training I’m with you.

Edit:Didn’t realize the community I was in. Sorry all.

It’s such a game changer!

I had the pleasure of working with 8” floppy drives with the Social Security Administration.

I hate that they renamed it on iOS but not Mac. Now my fingers can’t remember just one thing.

I’ve carefully unsubscribed to everything with PaperKarma. Now I schedule a trip to my mailbox each Sunday. It shares a few package delivery boxes and I don’t want to accidentally monopolize one too long.

This work between certain states. For instance, you can drive into Oregon and shop with no sales tax then return to California or Washington with your goods.

Liquor is also much cheaper in some states than others—you can really stock up if you are already driving through a state.

You absolutely can roll back to previous versions using the steps in those links. I believe it has a 30 day limit, but that is pretty good for a consumer product.

OneDrive does offer restoration of individual file versions or even the entire OneDrive contents (for things like ransomware attacks). Details are here

I think OneDrive is a pretty good (but paid) backup utility especially for non-technical people. There are a lot of things that I could nitpick on, but for some of the older people (octogenarians) that I am the family support for, I set it up and anytime I interact with their computer I click on OneDrive to ensure it is replicating. I very occasionally have seen a single file not replicating, but never have I seen it fail completely. These people previous had NO backups of any kind.

I use it myself as an additional backup location, but not in the way most people would.

It’s so hard not to clank dishes together. I won’t do them if I am up late.

For my Asus laptop the setting is maintained at the hardware level. I didn’t bother trying to find Linux software that could control it (I think there is one) but instead just booted into Windows and set it there and it will persist after that in Linux.

I use an Asus laptop I bought during COVID as my server. I dropped in 64GB of RAM, a pair of NVM drives and an old 2.5” SATA SSD. More than enough for my use cases. The only real software tweak I made was limiting battery charging to 60%.

I’m so used to using powershell to handle collections and pipelines that I find I want it for small scripts on Mac. For instance, I was using ffmpeg to alter a collection of files on my Mac recently. I found it super simple to use Powershell to handle the logic. I could have used other tools, but I didn’t find anything about it terrible.

I even use powershell as my main scripting language on my Mac now. I’ve come around.

I have seen the same brand of cheese at Walmart in a slightly smaller knot I think. It is such a great melting cheese.

Mmmm……and that giant Oaxaca Cheese Knot they sell. And 3 pound blocks of tillamook cheddar. God I do love cheese.

Edit: I’ve lost the thread a little as this started about laptops not mobile phones. I’m leaving this comment here as the points may be valid even for laptops, but I’m too bored to do any more research. Thanks for the great and civil discussion.

I would agree that a theoretically completely upgradeable and repairable device is better, but I think the real world implementations generally aren’t that good.

It’s hard to get to statista’s summary of lifespan of phones without a subscription, but many summaries that use their data say something like:

In general, the average lifespan of a smartphone is 2 to 4 years. According to reports, the iPhone lasts 4-10 years, followed by Samsung units, which can last 3-6 years. Huawei and Xiaomi units have an average lifespan of 2-4 years, while OPPO units have 2-3 years.

Perhaps there is better data out there that would change my mind, but I haven’t seen it. If Apple products are iWaste, then it appears nearly all other products are even more wasteful. All the data I have seen points to Apple products as generally having a long lifespan followed by an excellent free recycling policy (https://www.apple.com/me/recycling/).

If you are saying the “iWaste” comment is about repairability not reliability, I get that. My take is maybe that if something has a long lifespan despite not being repairable, it might be have a longer life before becoming waste or recyclables.

I do like that the EU is mandating user replaceable batteries and other changes and support most right-to-repair legislation.