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What is supposed to be the connection here?

Or get the international plan from Cigna and they will happily pay for just about anything from any non-US provider.

So far over $5M into complex cancer care at the fanciest clinics in the world and never been questioned on a single claim.

If you’re ordering “sparkling wine”, you are not going to get a wine made using the méthode traditionnelle.

You will get an entirely different style of wine.

The origin location is really secondary. “Franciacorta” gets you something like Champagne, “sparkling wine” does not.

You already owned the WordPress admin with your browser 0day, you don’t care if WordPress is secure or not.

Just do the KYC and it happily shits out 0days

Extremely good chance this particular issue is resolved by merely wiping clean the contacts on the AirPods and the charging case.

This is probably just your AirPods or the case getting dirty, doesn’t sound like a failing battery at all.

Loss obviously being the #1.

Dropping, and then stepping on them seems like a common failure mode.

Dirt can stop the charging, most people will just replace instead of cleaning.

Even replacing the rubber tips is probably too much to expect from most people.

This seems kind of obvious. How many Apple Watches and AirPods have ever become obsolete due to their batteries not being replaceable?

I’d guess the number is pretty close to zero, these devices aren’t used for long enough for this to become a problem.

If the goal was to sell more AirPods, not implementing “Find My” for them would’ve been a much better strategy.

At least here in Europe, even children know that “sparkling wine” and “champagne” refer to different things.

You are clearly being dishonest here, I can install many apps besides the two you named.

Things obviously aren’t as bad as you want to communicate, otherwise you would not have to rely on strawmen like this.

I sell these, have done many.

Basically just about any museum (or similar) in the world is happy to accept large sums of money from rich people in exchange for exclusive experiences. This helps fund the museums and everyone wins.

In a legal sense? Absolutely.

In a real sense? What.CD and it’s likes didn’t even come close to being a profitable use of their operators time.

It’s extremely telling that you couldn’t come up with an example based on reality.

But yeah, in that scenario it would be utterly nonsensical to force Apple to enable something which nobody wants.

Well, I’ve been having 5.6 sol work on tasks like “find every OTA app on the internet”

I find explicit time bounds are useful for tasks like this, otherwise the LLM will almost certainly return too early.

You aren't "Charming" the tech support, you are just badgering them and waiting until they do the normal human thing of trying to be helpful.

Exactly, you just ask normally. There’s no need for any special tricks. What would a real employee who can’t log into their account say on the phone? Just say that.

From who should I order the repairable wireless earbuds which are also better than the AirPods Pro 3 in every way?

It just doesn’t seem in any way reasonable to assume that “evil” is the simplest explanation here, especially since nobody is repairing the repairable wireless earbuds anyway.

If approximately nobody wants to repair their earbuds, why accept any design tradeoffs in the name of repairability? I can’t see it.

Shallow dismissals?

The claim that ‘Apple defined ICE as a "protected class"’ is explicitly false, there’s nothing more that could possibly be said to dismiss it. It simply never happened!

Boingboing lied, it happens.

Calling well-know human right activist NGOs "handful of nerds" is straight up misinformation

No it isn’t. But describing OWA the same way one might describe Amnesty International does feel somewhat dishonest.

That is an advocacy organisation serving the special interests of a handful of nerds.

I can play the same game:

“Not virtue signalling is evil”

“Doing performative things that don’t actually improve anything but make nerds feel happy is good”

Repairability comes with tradeoffs, I like the fact that I can wear my AirPods in the shower.

NATO has no capabilities for doing that, what you are suggesting is very very far from what is actually possible today.

But yes, Britain could lose its nuclear deterrent. That’s not going to matter for any conflict which starts in the near future though.

Somewhere under the sea at this very moment there is a British submarine captain who could nuke Moscow tonight if he (and his crew) wanted to.

There’s absolutely nothing the Americans could do about it.

Approximately no one ever breaks their AirPods, so the amount of waste eliminated through better repairability would almost certainly be non-existent.

The UK has nuclear weapons.

Neither side needs a peace deal as of right now, that’s completely ridiculous.

Let’s try:

Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took 3 years to fully cut ties (yahoo.com)

Apple routinely terminates relationships with suppliers when they identify abusive practices, sometimes they’re slow about it.

Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments (jessesquires.com)

Apple removes nearly 100 VPNs used by Russians to bypass censorship (elpais.com)

Apple obeys local laws

Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA (open-web-advocacy.org)

Apple chooses to maintain control over a specific implementation detail of their platform that a handful of nerds object to.

Apple defined ICE as a "protected class" in blocking anti-ICE apps (boingboing.net)

The claim made in this headline is just straight up false.

I don’t know, I don’t think their less-than-ideal behaviour is anywhere bad enough to reasonably be described as “evil”. Otherwise, we’re probably all evil.

None of this seems like it could reasonably be described as evil.

Why assume they’re skilled at social engineering? The victims tend to be trusting and helpful, they’ll just do what you ask because they want to help.

It’s extremely easy for a kid to commit tens, or even hundreds of crimes in a matter of hours on the internet.

I think this is merely a function of the sexiest art thefts being the least lucrative. The market for looted antiques is big because it’s typically extremely difficult to prove that a particular piece was obtained illegally.

What drives people to post blatant slop like this?