mrstep

I've seen predictions of this for the global food supply. Oh baby!

It's time we had sensible AirTags control.  Background checks, waiting periods, mental health interviews, government registry, limited battery capacity, the works.  If it stops just one stalking...

Or maybe the problem is the person misusing it, but who can truly say?

TripleTrouble said:

My Orbi Router set (RBR50s) is the worst piece of kit I've ever owned (at least since the Lowes Iris smart home fiasco). Bad build, bad user experience, bad networking, bad app, bad customer service, what's there to like?

I ended up going out and buying a Deco (been fairly happy with it) - my Orbi would consistently drop the WiFi connectivity of devices.  They'd claim to be connected, but have no data pass through.  Turn off WiFi, turn it back on, and you'd get data for anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour or two.  Of course, that meant you'd never know *when* it would stop, wouldn't see texts/mail in a timely manner... And it all started after some firmware update they did - it had been pretty good up until then.  After the update, I gave it about a year to get fixed, and it never did.  Awful to use at that point.  Maybe they've fixed it, I don't trust Netgear at this point.

People seem to like the Google stuff, Deco has been been good for my house, I really wish Apple had stayed in the router game... But I'll never get near an Orbi again.

waveparticle said:

chelgrian said:

waveparticle said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Apple really needs to start building chip fabs all around the world. The situation brewing between Taiwan and China poses an existential threat to Apple and the entire tech industry. It would cost Apple a hundred billion dollars or more but the investment would pay off for decades to come.

Not true. If Chian reunite Taiwan, it will be swift. Everything will return to normal shortly. And Apple wasted billions of dollars on other nations that are incapable. 

You mean if China invade and try and take Taiwan by force. TSMC want to keep things in Taiwan exactly because that gives the best odds that the US won't at stand for it and would defend Taiwan.

Everything would not 'return to normal', there would be a decade where America retools to have cutting edge fabs available locally. 

There will be no invasion. Everything will return to normal swiftly. Apple will continue order chips from TSMC. The only people that will be dismayed are China haters. 

Wow, someone's been drinking the "renegade province" Kool-Aid.

If I were the Taiwanese government, I'd make sure those fabs are destroyed before the CCP got their hands on them in a "military reunification".  At least the Afghanistan debacle didn't give anyone in China the idea that the US is a fickle partner, eh Comrade?

Loses SharePlay but gains Big Brother.