You seem to have lost the threadline here. Do a bit of reading and try again.

That wasn’t a question.

They gained a cost reduction for a single quarter of a single year. No further thought was put into it.

So you were lying before, then.

Right, but none of them are new. They’ve all been around for billions of years.

Remote device bricking is cheaper than researching part wear for planned obsolescence.

That’s not actually legal anywhere in the US. However, it requires being reported so it’s hardly ever enforced.

Yes.

I mean, yeah, but they could have decided that the eventual fines would be cheaper than the emergency fixes and let it happen.

It’s a slow and painful way to die. Or quick and painful if you accidently drown in the alcohol.

When you work in certain fields there are strict laws around accepting gifts from customers or clients. None of those laws allow the business owner to steal them from you.

This is illegal most places. Might want to look into that.

So trusting tech made by them is trusting them. Specifically, a less reliable version of them.

It’s kind of linux. Also kind of mac. They’re going to android and ios.

I don’t think their obnoxious behavior is completely unrelated. After all, people aren’t choosing windows phones or tablets either.

And they made the programs you seem to trust so much.

We’ll see if this gets anywhere. Right now it’s just one idiot pushing this.

I think the point is that this is not the path to general intelligence. This is more like cheating on the Turing test.

So you trust your slm more than your fellow humans?

If you have the funds you could self insure. You’d need to look up the details for your jurisdiction, but the gist of it is you keep the amount required coverage in an account that you never touch until you need to pay out.