And the other half are lying.

No. The shareholders won’t like this.

Not a single Jonathan who has been through the UK school system in the past forty years has gotten away with being asked “Have you got a rubber, Johnny?”

Not one.

I once tried to say “I don’t fuck about” in Italian to my Italian friend. I ran it through DDG and replied to him with something along the lines of “Non cazzetto”.

He was a little surprised that I’d admitted to him that I don’t fuck, but treated me with sympathy all the same.

$28bn is A Lot Of Fucking Money, my dude. Like…a lot.

At a rate of $20 an hour, it would take a person almost 160,000 years to earn that kind of money.

Given how much they’ve shrunk the Mac mini down, the next Apple TV will either be a surprisingly powerful gaming console in its current form factor, or they’ll keep its performance roughly equivalent to how it is now but have it in a far smaller form.

My money would be on the latter. Smaller devices mean more can be shipped for the same cost in less expensive packaging, and that’s the Cook Way. They’ve no real interest in offering ‘proper’ gaming on ATV, so as long as it can work with 8K signals it’ll be powerful enough for what it needs to do.

I was going to say, depends how far north/south you are.

Down here on the south coast you’ll be looked at with extreme scorn if you try to fire up a conversation with a stranger. As god intended. People who can willingly talk to strangers are utterly alien to me.

Reaper is available for Linux. I can’t vouch for it as I’ve not used it on there, but I’ve used it on Mac and it’s great. Generally well regarded and is pretty inexpensive.

Picture someone who’d hide behind his bigger mates if he was threatened and you’d be closer to the mark.

I am so uninformed over the last year

Being uninformed is ok as long as you pair it with knowing you’re uninformed.

Our Stupid Monkey Branes aren’t designed to be filled with doom all day long, they’re designed to know a handful of people in our tribe. It’s not healthy the way we chase after trying to know everything about everything in order to satisfy ourselves that we’re informed.

If I didn’t already think that Musk is a fucking shithead, him stanning for Tommy fucking Robinson would have sealed it.

Tommy Fucking Robinson (or Stephen Yaxley-Fucking-Lennon to give him his actual name) is the worst. A racist thug through and through, who, by being banged up, is in the right place.

The trouble is, people like my MD has an accountant, and accountants are really good at showing rich people how to save money. So my MD takes essentially no salary.

But he does take home in excess of £300k a year in dividends. As does his wife, who hasn’t worked for the firm for six years, but is still a director.

Then he gripes about pay rises for the 120 people who work for him.

I have an M2 Air, and all mine is missing from that is the SDXC slot, third TB4 and HDMI, and honestly, it’s fine. A third TB4/USB would be nice for when I’m doing my radio show and have to plug in my controller and mic while also charing my phone, but I already have a hub so it doesn’t bother me.

That said, the limited ports on my M1 mini are quite problematic. Two TB3/USB and two USB3, but one of them is lost to a DisplayPort cable for my second monitor. So I have a desktop computer that functionally has three USB sockets, which ain’t great. But again, I have a hub, so it’s not a huge problem.

“Oh, you want to install software from Github, do you? Well, unfortunately, fuck you”

• macOS Sequoia

The sign for Shitterton had to be carved out of a big chunk of local stone, because the normal metal ones kept getting nicked. Obviously.

This does make me wonder whether the entry level mini is something of a loss-leader at this point. Literally just a way to get people into the ecosystem.

I wouldn’t have thought Apple are using flash chips that are two or three times more expensive. They’re just price gouging at a point where consumers have literally no option.

It does make me wonder what value there might be in a third party offering, tied with a local repair shop who have a Mac running Sequoia that can be used to restore it. Assuming the boards are reasonably easy to produce (easy for someone who is able to do that kind of thing), it’d be pretty straightforward to take your Mac in to a shop to have it restored.

As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only animal that can make its own custard.