Ram isn’t the only issue. It’s the bloat it needs to load even to display a simple UI.

Using electron for seemingly every app will do that.

Not arguing with your point, it’s valid. But I wanted to make it clear from OPs point about book DRM that this is not an issue with Kobo. The books themselves as mostly DRM free and you can put whatever you want on the device.

You can still transfer epubs and most books on the kobo store are sold without DRM (publisher choice)

Canceled my sub when that happened and won’t be back.

The battery in my 13 Pro is absolute toast. I was thinking of upgrading but really, what benefit is there?

It’s no lighter, it’s thicker, the performance may be faster on paper but I doubt I’d notice.

Maybe I’ll just replace the battery and wait a few more years.

His complete lack of self awareness and ability to own up and apologise when they’ve dropped the ball put me off the channel entirely. For example they found out one of their main sponsors Honey were scamming their viewers and essentially stealing from people, they just kept it quiet rather than owning it.

That, and Emily was the best thing about the channel and she left so…

They’re a business. Reducing their costs (while charging you a premium) is absolutely what they do.

Apple’s whole deal for decades now has been building a vertical supply chain. Using their own SSD controller is one less component they have to pay others for.

They just don’t give a shit about downsides: aftermarket repairers or user upgradeability.

It’s more cost effective to integrate the controller.

Being worse for customers is just a happy accident.

It’s replaceable, it’s not upgradable.

Apple doesn’t use standard NVMe M.2 drives. The controller is built into the SoC rather than being on the storage device itself.

Hotmail ran on FreeBSD when Microsoft acquired the company in 1997. They started the transition a few years later and it was entirely hosted on Windows by 2005.

Having borrowed a quest 3 last week I’ve almost pulled trigger on buying one.

The only thing holding me back is… it’s Meta.

Also they never sold it in many countries.

Not only do they cost more, the greater surface area means your cold drink warms up faster.

Neat.

I bought a Tesla years ago before Elon completely removed the mask.

No way I’d buy one now, but I also don’t want to sell it early and lose a tonne of money.

The Tesla board should intervene and remove him, but they won’t because he’s stacked it with yes men like his brother.

That desktop app really is super hot garbage.

There’s not much room in the Mac Mini for additional LPCAMM modules, or the MacBook Air.

The SSDs Apple use lack a controller (that’s built into the M series SoC). That drives down Apple’s cost of materials but surely it wouldn’t be that hard to support a standard NVMe M.2 interface?

The M4 Pro memory is quad channel, so I assume 256 bit.

The two LPCAMMS required for this would require a lot more space.

I give them a pass on memory packaging (but not pricing). SSDs are indefensible though.

I’ll hold out for the Pro Max Ultra

Linus is really, really shitty at responding to criticism. I don’t think it’s malice, it just didn’t occur to them.

He should just be upfront and say “you know what? We should have done better here”. That’s it.