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From the wording of the parent comment my understanding is that 24 hour period applies to the MacOS VM, not the hardware itself. Since they split each physical host into at least 2 different VMs the 24 hour period is for that VM. Even stronger case if they also lock the core affinity to the physical layout like Max editions having multiple Pro chips/dies within...

For Amazon EC2 the case is different since it doesn't allow VMs but only possible to get dedicated bare-metal hosts. Obviously Amazon could offer VMs but they would not because the current way allows them to charge 24 hours even if user uses the host only 1 hour. And obviously no body big enough challenging the status quo and impacting AWS' revenue hard enough.


Typical $MSFT behavior, I can see why NightmareEclipse (ie. YellowKey zero-day exploit) got released without prior fix.

Well - Elon said every day is a zero-day. That also applies to him and his companies...

On a given day people from USA usually criticize EU for regulatory stuff. But on the contrary regulation is what you need here. The fine to spam people even though they have opted-out is so huge that pretty much nobody spams in EU


I always set `static-only` via `defaults write com.apple.Dock`. Highly recommended...

link: https://macos-defaults.com/dock/static-only.html


What does it do? It sitll shows non-active apps. Unless I quit it and if I quit it then it goes out of dock even without this setting unless I've set "keep in dock" which keeps the icon in the dock even with this flag. Genuinely curious. Is it something more nuanced?


Did you kill the dock and re-launch it?

Most set-defaults take effect the next time something is launched, and basically all of the things that affect the dock are only read at launch time.


Yeah, did `killall Finder' quite a few times, just to be sure

Some apps just don't leave the dock.


Clippy rebranded and added more capabilities via LLMs


Alternate reality: AI agents break their "alignment" and escape sandbox using Spotify comments. /s


May happen with Android, not going to happen on $AAPL devices... Heck, even the battery is non-swappable!


This is such a funny comment. I’d been hearing about the un-repairability of Apple products for years and I believed it. Then I went to Shenzhen and walked past an entire floor of individuals doing all sorts of “impossible” repairs right in front of the customer.


My speculation: "impossible" repairs work a lot better when you buy replacements parts for near-market price from a competitively priced seller next door, rather than having to order your parts online from one of a handful of distributors substantially upcharging even for the off-brand version.


Tbf that's where many of the phones stolen by muggers in western countries ultimately end up.


That's "despite", not "because of" Apple.


When someone else -whether AI agent or a human- solves the recurring minor problems for you, those problems become non-issue, get swept under the rug, just to accumulate more dust.

One day, those may become bigger as they are forgotten, causing havoc. The standard root-cause-analysis depending on systems having certain retention period, which may be expired at that time.

It is important to get real hold of one's systems from end-to-end aspect, which holds true for both AI and human operators...


Internet being full of bots, I usually do the s/users/bots/ automatically in my mind.

Even some users are just bots... (At least their behavior is/are)


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