Depends on the device, I suppose, but incorrect for the m2 version at least, where you have to use adhecive remover: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+2022+(M2)+Battery+Replacement/156551. I wouldn’t go as far as to call this “difficult” as they did, but def. time-consuming.

Also, you can’t source just the battery from apple.

Battery: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256043979 Angle sensor has since been solved, apparently: https://hackaday.com/2023/09/26/beating-apples-secret-lid-angle-sensor-calibration-with-custom-tool/

Noice. Would also be wonderful if they stopped pouring a shit ton of that nasty black underfill under the bga chips and used some regular red/clear compound around the corners instead like literally everyone else.

Yeah, like being forced to replace the topcase when the battery dies or having to repair the angle sensor 'cause it’s paired to the motherboard. But fuck sustainability and heil consumerism, I guess.

Not to say that I’m not an apple hater – because I certainly am – it’s just that there are quite a few reasons to be one.

Regarding the last point: it’s more of a bias, tho, so reducing it may even be a good thing. E.g. asking Kent Overstreet’s opinion on your bcachefs setup is probably useful, while getting relationship advice from him is ill-advised.

As always with crapple, the specs are solid… For smth that costs half as much as what they ask.

Ha-ha, classic

They also then started working on age verification on the device level. And, as the saying goes, those who give up privacy to get extra security, get neither.

Next step: convert docker to nspawn/portable sysd services

So, their approach can be used to flag likely hallucinated output and warn the user?

Also kupfer (pmos but arch), ubports (ex Ubuntu touch) and droidian (similar to ubports with being halium-based but Debian and conventional DEs, hence, it’s supposed to actually run software). Mobile-nixos, to some extent, although it’s more of a PoC, in my experience

Yeah, sure, semantics: when laydudes think about “vpns”, they expect exactly a set of features provided by a proxy, so it’s pretty much a marketing term nowadays. Nobody really cares whether the packets between their PC and the endpoint are wrapped in wireguard or socks5, unless some protocol happens to be blocked.

Forbid this, forbid that… How about actual fucking parenting instead? As a “zoomer” who used to use antisocial media back when I was 15 but didn’t end up encountering all this objectification crap 'til much later on in life despite being having better computer skills than my parents, let me testify that having hobbies helps. And most of my hobbies developed with considerable help from my parents whom I was able to ask for help/advice.