I scrolled through the whole thing on my phone and it was fine

I got tinnitus as a baby from ear infections and it sucks enough I’m very thankful I cannot remember life without it. That would be torture

It's not only reasonable the US government should be archiving communications between officials, it should be compulsory. We've already had problems with this re: agents of government agencies like CBP and big bankers using E2EE messaging apps to skirt regulatory requirements.

That said, whether this makes the situation better or worse depends on who can actually see these archives. "Smarsh" is a US-based company, but they acquired TeleMessage, which was (is?) based in Israel.

Some of the top US government IT contractors are British, Canadian, and Italian owned companies. Running servers in the US for a government contract isn’t a big deal at a technical level.

Yet Apple has reenabled Apple Intelligence multiple times on my devices after OS updates despite me very deliberately and angrily disabling it multiple times

I think Bernie Sanders is the only current senator I'd expect a random American to know. Murphy might make the top 5 highest profile senators but you wouldn't know him if you don't pay attention to politics at all.

Adam Ragusea made a pretty good video about this a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sew4rctKghY

I don't think they "gaslit themselves," but I do think M1 was good enough a lot of people stopped thinking about hardware and their frame of reference is horribly out of date

Also it can’t be understated how bad Windows has gotten and what that trajectory looks like.

> Backup: an ISP will give one device. Should it fail at an inopportune time, you will be off-line until you get them to issue a replacement. When you own your own hardware, you can buy a second modem and/or a router for emergency backup.

This is nicer than it seems because "I've already tried a completely different modem" is a good way to short circuit ISP troubleshooting scripts IME.

Names are hard. I'd say it says more about how little creativity we have in tech company business models

> Diminishing returns for investors maybe, but not for humans like me.

The diminishing returns for humans like you are in the training cost vs. the value you get out of it compared to simply reading a blog post or code sample (which is basically what the LLM is doing) and implementing yourself.

Sure, you might be happy at the current price point, but the current price point is lighting investor money on fire. How much are you willing to pay?