Sure. Though I will also point out you can pinch and zoom both on a trackpad and the surface of the “Magic” mouse. And Microsoft never tried to use a smartphone also as a desktop. Smartphones were not powerful enough back then. Also back then containerization was hardly a thing. That is an apples to oranges comparison.

I am only surprised it wasn’t already the policy. Anyone who would not only do this, but not stop when asked; doesn’t deserve to be in a confined space with other more civilized folks. It would be even better if the policy included the words “early evacuation” and “parachute” in an affirmative fashion somewhere in the clauses you acquiesce to when you buy your ticket.

You can run a mirror of your iPhone in MacOS now, it works fine with a keyboard and mouse. However, you are correct that it isn’t ideal. The is that is why you have the MacOs running so you don’t have to rely on iOS for anything while in a desktop environment. In the desktop environment it would default to the MacOS. When it isn’t plugged in it would default to iOS. Both OS would live on the same hardware.

“ And how would this dock interact with an iPhone where iOS is designed around touch controls?”

Run MacOS and iOS on the same device as containers and which OS is available depends on if it is plugged in to a screen/dock or not. My iPhone has 1 TB storage, so disk space isn’t an issue.

Who would have thunk a camera strapped to your face recording everything it sees and sending the video to a server would actually record video and send it to a server. Further more color me surprised that the people mechanical Turking Meta's "AI" are underpaid serfs somewhere in the third world. Who would have guessed any of that? Said no one with more than minimal understanding of how things work.

If anything is ever shared online, on a private or public network you can be assured that someone, somewhere can look at if they really want to. Bet on it.

I have hbo (no commercials) included with my cell plan from back when AT&T owned HBO. They started charging and extra $10 for it some time ago, but it is still cheaper than if I were to get it separately. Are they going to kick me off now, too bad so sad? Up my price? Or honor the contract I signed all those years ago?

So more radioactive heat directed to an already warming planet, BRILLIANT!

Exactly why I sold all my Magic cards twenty years ago. I was at a tournament and had just one my forth game, when someone offered me $200 for a card. I looked and the cardboard, I looked at the cash....I looked up the value in a magazine...I sold and gave away all the rest of my cards within the month.

"60 miles away from where I was cost me almost $10k in all expenses"

It cost us less to move a family of four over 2500 miles away. And that was moving enough stuff to fill a 2800 square foot house. And even after all that, I wish I would have just gotten rid of more stuff. I still have boxes that I haven't opened three years later and furniture that I replaced because it didn't quite work. I don't know what possessions are such an anchor around your neck. But if your situation is so dire, cut the chain my friend.

I will say this as well, if you can't hack it in the midwest, the most places near jobs on coasts are not going to be any cheaper. Though most jobs to pay more. However, land is still pretty cheap in Alaska. And if you can hunt and fish you can cover a lot of your food that way. However, groceries and gas are not cheap up there.

Americans used to walk across the continent seeking a better life. People still walk from South America to here to do the same. No one said it would be easy, but if you want it bad enough it is still possible to better your situation. If you don't do it this year, you will be one year older when you do. The try not to focus on the things you can't control, but instead focus on the things you can. The trick is having the wisdom to know the difference.

I’m hoping they work out the kinks in the R2 over the next 4 years. That’s when I am planning to replace my current ICE SUV.

I sold my old ‘95 Jeep at 185k miles. It had a minor oiled leaks. But no major problems. I have a 2015 Jeep that has 85k miles and has had no issues except the start/stop gas saving feature no longer functions most of the time. Apparently it has to do with some faulty sensor in a door that doesn't affect anything else. Frankly, I don’t miss the feature and the car drives better without it anyway. Both Jeeps were/are great. They legit take care of business off road and in a storm while being a comfortable around town and highway cruiser. I hope they have a full EV at a reasonable price in another 4 years or so when I pass the Jeep down to the kids. Otherwise I’m probably going to jump ship to a Rivian R2, also American by the way.

I have 2/3rds of a spindle of blank blue ray discs. In 2010 I bought a PC tower and added a read/write blue ray drive to it. Turns out writing blue ray disks were about as useful as a ZIP Drive from the 90s. Can't win them all I suppose.

That 2010 PC is still chugging along though primarily so they kids can play old games, do homework, surf the web, and watch streaming video.

"A bank error in your favor, collect $120 million in Bitcoin."

Yeah, I am a pretty honest guy and I love my currently life; but if I saw that much in show up in my account I would move it immediately and then seriously consider disappearing to another country and starting over.

Good luck getting that $9 million in untraceable money back.

Ummm.I am in the US I just paid $18.23, including tax, for peacock premium and it literally has live feeds of every event in real time. As well as replays of each event. I can also run multiple feeds simultaneously on different devices on same Wi-Fi network. No commercials. What you say used to be true, but hadn’t been the case since the last summer Olympics.

^^^^This!

It took me moving 2100+ miles away, for a completely different reason, before I could legally pay to stream my favorite sports teams. A full season cost of less than decent tickets to a game. Before I moved I watched pirated feeds. I’d pay, but they wouldn’t let me without having to also pay for 135+ other channels I had no interest in. Not going to do it. The local mlb team in my new city actually lets people stream the games for slightly less than the cost of two cheapest tickets a month.