I always thought of Macs as not a good value before, but nowadays for laptops at least they seem to be relatively good.
I still find them annoyingly unintuitive, but that's probably due to lack of experience. At least they come with some (old) version of bash and support standard stuff like ssh out of the box from my understanding.
My point was that american companies have in the past on purpose designed cars, washing machines, etc. to fail so you need to buy another one in some years. Both EVs and ICE cars at ford, GM, etc. adhere to the same leadership and company goals regardless of how they spin it.
Ford was known for letting a failed known design flaw kill people in the past since they ran the numbers and it was cheaper to battle people in court (a topic in ethics classes). Once the trust is gone, it's hard to get it back.
We do know the reliability of american cars though. We dont buy american cars any longer on our extended family.
Interference engine paired with a timing belt that touches oil so they can blame you for "not doing maintenance" when it snaps and implodes the drivetrain? GTFO.
We'll be performing a surgical procedure on your anus. We've heard it is not the best anus around, so we took the liberty of removing it without your knowledge. But it was surgical and you just need this bag of shit on you going forward.
They actually do sell peel and stick "stainless steel" covers which should work well on a fridge since it has no parts that get hot in the front and sides.
If you leave it up to them, they'll start burning that toxic cheap marine diesel to power the generators. Its not like its hard to get some states to give you exceptions for pollution with some key donations.
Noise pollution around data centers is very bad already based on some news reports, they'll push the limits to save a dollar.
I grew up eating them and cook them often to this day. I just would not personally call that frying in the same way I would not call vegetables, meat, etc. cooked with a similar ratio of oil to veggie fried. Or at least where I'm from frying implies submerging in hot oil, but it could be a regional thing. And true, we still call them fried or refried beans.
Interestingly some variations of the recipe with higher oil ratios for special occasions like birthdays we call "frijoles chinitos" which kind of translates to "shivering/goosebumps beans" since their texture changes to mimic skin when shivering with little dots after cooking. Not sure how the chinito (curly when referring to hair) part comes in since hair is more straight than curly on those conditions...)
Neither are refried beans, but I see your point.
I remember reading an article about how those programs would increase your speed if you shared more files. Sharing "My Documents" was the only logical action to take...
Luckily it was just school essays and the like, but that was dumb.
Big brain time was using limewire to download limewore pro to get the blue download bar and (provably faked) 7KBps speed instead of 6KBps.
Just one?
Steamy.stuff.avi.exe is done downloading.
I only had an older iPhone (which I liked for the most part), but it was announced to not be getting security and related updates soon (what apple calls vintage at this point) so there wasn't much of an ecosystem once I got a different phone and exporting my pictures to my NAS, new phone, desktop and laptop made more sense.
I supposed I could lose everything if all of those burn in a house fire, but since I always have my phone on me, I'd imagine there would be more pressing matters like not burning to death myself.
Edit: I also have some stuff at my relatives, but their internet sucks, so I only sync family and more important pics there.
It would be nice if its both (drop down with default to the best guess of your hardware).
No longer would you have to believe nvidia or amd, you can lookup real numbers from existing players. They will need to account for fsr and dlss so fake frames are taken into account but it could be a nice tool for planning hardware updates.