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Yes, I agree. We have a very biased and politically controlled media. Things which they see as intrusive on what they wish to pursue are hidden and unreported. They only ever publish items that push there own agenda forward.

Take the Stop oil protests, the only protests that anyone hears about are the ones that put the protests in a bad light. We got to hear that expensive art was being vandalised, we got to hear that traffic was being stopped and drivers were very irate. We never got any coverage of the many other protests that are happening all the time. Stop Oil noticed the lack of coverage and decided to up their game for sensationalism. This just played into hands of Murdoch's media. Murdoch has managed to make them look like terrorists. He even got the Tories to change the law so that we all got affected because of the acts of Stop Oil. This again does Stop Oil no favours. Protests without the right sort of coverage is a total waste of time and effort.

Can you expand on that? I am not understanding what you mean.

Lol, seriously my friend do not repeat that argument. OFC people use very old PCs. If you had a mac running for 10 years, this is not a regular event. The guy mentioned in this post, Louis Rossman, has made a lot of cash from pointing out the flaws behind the Macbook design. He makes a good living repairing them.

The company I worked for had 286 PCs running the stock system all the way up till 2013. This is a PC that was running for 24 years before they considered replacing it. The company was not some back street mickey mouse set up who didn't want to spend cash. This was one of the major car companies. Large companies do not change things that are critical to the operation without a lot of effort to makes sure it goes right. They rely heavily on old systems because they know they work. This is very much the case across a lot of large companies.

The biggest factor in why an Ambulance doesn't arrive quickly is down to Tory management. The are missing the ball by a country mile when it comes to stop oil. No one (including Starmer) agrees with idiots blocking roadways. Near all agree that something more needs to be done with climate change.

My personal opinion and wish is that climate activists would wake up and realise the protests are achieving absolutely nothing. They have zero effect on the swing seat areas. It is the swing seat areas that decides who runs our country. The last poll I saw put climate change at number 10 in the swing seats. Political parties are not even considering this.

Proof of that is with the Tories jumping on the anti climate bandwagon all of a sudden because of the ULEZ in Uxbridge. This was nothing more than a local issue that will have next to no effect in the outcome of a GE. The Tories are pissing up the wrong tree: they are not even in the right forest. What makes this point of the parties ignoring climate activists is that incredibly Labour also jumped on that bandwagon. Starmer actually tried to make Khan a scapegoat for ULEZ and asked him to think of better policies.

The best place Stop Oil could spent their money would be with any party that will push for PR voting. PR voting would stop the opinions of those few thousand people being at the forefront of our politics. We would get a more representative push for what the country actually wants.

Because of the conversation thread.

natebluehooves@pawb.social indicated that my opinion was out of touch. Since you say his opinion is based on current editions of Apple Macbooks, then my original statements still holds up that current Macbooks are a bad purchase all round.

This is not a remark towards your input, and only that my opinion has not changed.

Sorry, but Techreader agrees with me on this one. Apple Macbooks are simply not worth the money spent on them. Techreader does not mention the way Apple inhibits servicing or upgrades. A problem that does not exist at that level on the PC platform. Even with a laptop the CPU, memory and HDD are interchangeable. Apple does not want you to upgrade; they want you to spend 10X the cost by buying a whole new product.

One of the biggest failings in Western economics is the prevalence for across the board percentage pay rises. People getting paid £40k get double those on £20k when both get an equal amount in pay percentage increase. This has been part of the reason why top bands in large companies have gained such huge pay scales. Percentage rises are nothing like an equal pay rise. It is way past time unions recognised this.

Kind of Kudos to the Chinese for this. I hope they see fit to roll it out among some of the more powerful families in China also, and not just use it to claw back some money from the middle class.

Lightning ports do clog up with fluff though.

If your phone isn't charging the way it usually does, your next stop should be to inspect the Lightning port. This is a lot more common than you might think. After all, we spend a lot of time jamming the phone — port-end first — into pockets, bags, and other places filled with dust, debris, and lint.

Pretty sad that the US treats reporters this way for outing crimes. Any guilty plea will only ever be viewed as a pressured response. "you can go to jail for the rest of your life or just admit it and we will reduce the sentence". It makes a mockery of free reporting.

When was the last time Apple used an Arm chips over intel ? According to the Wiki, this was 2005. X86 software and GPUs were behind apple by quite a way back then. Did they still add Arm to later versions?

Originally X86 was not built with graphics processing in mind. It did not really show anything worth while until the Nvidia viper GPUs in the mid 90s. Prior to that Amiga had the best for graphics processing. I seem to remember Lightshow being the software for Amiga (don't quote me on that, it is from memory). PC became the best for gaming when Voodoo release their first card (possibly 97/98), but they still could not compete with an Apple in graphic processing. Amiga had fell away by this time.

I use Iphone and Ipad just for the banking. I distrust Android. It is an open system, and used a lot more for data collection than Apple's ecosystem is. The return you get from a data request between apple and an Android system is vast. I refuse to use Facebook and the likes.

I never buy the latest edition of Iphone anymore. I have done in the past, but the idea of spending £1200 on a phone seems stupid to me. I have very few apps on both the Iphone and Ipad. I use a PC for other stuff. Iphone hardware is good with the CPU side of things, but the cameras are very inferior compared to some android phones.

I use a windows PC to move my own music to my iphone, but it is a hampered system. I really do not understand why they have not been brought to the spotlight of the monopolies commission because of how bad they hinder transfers. I have a process I have to follow to get new music on my iphone. Anyone who wants movies on their apple products should look at VLC. It is the easiest method. I should add I haven't added new music for a long time. This could have changed, but I would be sceptical until I saw it for myself.

I look down on anyone buying a Macbook. They are total dogcrap, and massively overpriced. They are designed to fail in many areas, the latest being the SSDs that are causing surges in the motherboard, which destroys it. Apple constructively inhibits any repairs behind software encoding and pressure it puts on 3rd party suppliers. They lobby US government to restrict self repairs. You are literally throwing money into Apple's bank account for very little return.

Russia has ports on the sea of Assaf though.

This! and the £1200 price tag.

This is hardly likely. China has a huge amount of resources to draw. Any fall in China will be a slow grind to a halt. Manufacturing will be the first to slow down as they cannot produce goods without buying materials from abroad. So long as they can purchase those then China will continue.

China was a backwards nation 20 years ago. Much like India, or most countries in Africa today. The EU are not talking about moving their purchases to other cheap countries; They want that manufacturing base in the EU. If they expand the block in the right countries, then this may be a reality China has to deal with. The aggressive policies China is adopting is what is causing this.

I don't think anyone has been surprised. The finances of the world have global impacts. China relies heavily on importing consumables to manufacture. This has indeed been part of the issue. This shows up in the PMI where China is sitting in the danger zone below 50.

I know the UK has removed limits on bonuses. I wasn't aware the US did this first. The UK will eventually be back in the EU and therefore those changes will be wiped out here. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

The US has made commitments to Taiwan and supplied arms. They are also looking to manufacture that tech in the states. I really don't see the Chinese going down that road, but they keep making threats, and while there is threats there is a chance they will be cornered into carrying them out. They certainly will not want to slide back into the economy of the 90's.

They were just first google links I found. Joe bloggs has plenty up to date information. Fill your boots.

Neither article nor the OP have credible conclusions to what is happening in China. China is in a debt spiral where possible options are becoming more and more expensive. The biggest property builder (Evergrande) has overstretched and there is a fear it is about to collapse. The people buy property in advance in China, before construction has started. The government will have to step in, but this is going to be expensive by anyone's standards. Think along the lines of the banking collapse of 2008 and then remember this is straight after Covid.

China's belt and road initiative is faring badly. They have loaned large sums to countries that were bad risks. With the world in the state it is currently, a lot of those debts will default. Russia is touted as being one of those, but I think they will give Russia a deal in exchange for cheaper oil. It is not like Russia has a lot of options there.

Manufacturing is on its knees, because of the deflation that is currently hitting the country - Archived link. They have made purchases for commodities to manufacture, and selling those at a profit is becoming difficult. Again government will have to step in here or loose some of the larger firms. Smaller firms will be allowed to go to the wall if they have no resources. China is a country where accountability is handed out at the behest of the party. I would not be surprised to see some managers imprisoned for being at the short end of this one.

The US's ban on tech trades is one that will bite. China will see their fortunes dwindle if they cannot keep pace with tech. This could lead to a backlash by invading Taiwan. This would not be good for any country as everyone buys from Taiwan. I think it is as much as 80% of all chips produced come from there. For high end tech that figure is as high as 95%. This would be catastrophic globally.

This would be a huge gamble for China to take on. If there is a protracted war similar to Ukraine, then this will cause global collapses, as people need tech for infrastructure. And even if China could make a snatch and grab on Taiwan, would the west continue to purchase tech from there in the future? I personally think that if China invaded then they would see themselves in a situation similar to Russia, although not with the pace that Russia suffered sanctions. This would be a slow march into a second cold war.

China has gained an arrogance in thinking that it is too big to fail. It is a form of Trumpism on a national scale. One where it thinks it can just ignore normal restraints due to the influence it has on the world. Russia has woken the west up to this reliance on rogue states. There will be a slow move away from relying on China as a manufacturing base for cheaper goods. The EU and the US have already stated this publicly. If China continues on the path it is choosing then the west will close ranks. This is not in the interests of anyone globally.