tomahawk

Love how his own example blows holes in his argument.

"Yes, Apple built the iPhone hardware and they designed iOS, and they deserve to earn a fantastic return by selling their devices with their operating system, as did the railroads deserve to earn a fantastic return by profiting from selling railroad tickets and transportation services," he tells The Verge.

"But what they cannot do under the law, and under any principle of fair competition, is Apple cannot use its control over the hardware and operating system to impose trade restraints on related markets," he continues. "Apple prevents other companies from establishing competing stores on iOS. That's similar to the railroads blocking the oil refineries from shipping their products on the railroad in order to take over those related industries."

Apple isn't blocking him from selling his products (if he follows the rules everyone has to follow).  They are saying, if you want to use OUR tracks, that WE built, you have to pay a fee, just like everyone else. That's literally the equivalent of selling "transportation services" for a railroad.

He's basically arguing that it doesn't matter that the railroad spent the money to build the tracks, he should be able to put his own train on them and use the tracks at no cost since they're already there...

Probably really depends how it is used.  We have Find My (with sharing) enabled. We first enabled it to help with my dad, who was having medical issues.  If he was somewhere on our land and didn't return as expected, it would allow us to locate and help him if needed.  We also use it when my mom is visiting to tell when she's getting close, and in some cases, before calling her to see if she's home, so we don't interrupt her if she's not (she's the type to answer no matter what incase it is an emergency). My wife uses it with her mom in a similar way (why try to FaceTime Grandma if she's in the car).

My wife and I use it to see if the other has left work yet occasionally, know they've arrived at a destination when traveling, etc.  We also threw an AirTag in our 4yo's pocket one time when we were taking him to a larger event. If he did somehow manage to get separated, it was that much better chance of us locating him quickly.

To be honest, the Find My isn't all that different than the fact that either my wife or myself can look at the Ford app and see where our car is at any given time, it's just easier and more convenient in Find My.

I can picture it coming down to the individual relationship though. We have a high level of trust and neither of us are likely to abuse it heavily.

mikethemartian said:

I think they sell remotely controlled power outlet strips for this exact purpose. At least for PCs.

And I haven't used it in awhile but I think they can still be configured to automatically turn on after a power outage.  I would think a simple remotely managed PDU would accomplish almost everything I can think of that would be needed.

Heck, if they're still playing with PoE, they could kill the PoE at the switch to that specific Mini and then turn it back on again. It should power up if configured properly.

Also, if that rack is using the typical front to back cooling, isn't mini 16 getting way worse air than mini 1?  They may not generate that much heat but still. Maybe it's pulling cool air from the bottom of the enclosure?