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Could be where your VPN is hosted. If your traffic appears to be coming from (for instance) an AWS data center, it might appear to be coming from a known spam source (since there are some spammers which have used AWS). The instance you’re on might just be using an overzealous spam block IP list.

Half of all people are dumber than average, yes.

That could theoretically be misconstrued by some users as meaning “not connected” to any network, though. And explaining it might be a little wordy for a notification. Maybe “VPN disconnected” or something.

They could just provide the facts: your connection is not protected by the VPN. The scaremongering is just marketing for the next renewal.

Four months ago, we packed up our family and moved from middle America to New Zealand. It’s been amazing, eye-opening, terrifying, beautiful, fascinating, freeing experience. But through it all, I’ve fallen even more in love with my family.

And I’ve always been a family sort of guy, but facing this challenge with my wife as a teammate (she’s a force of nature!) and seeing my kids take to the new situation and flourish…I love these folks. It’s been hard, but they’ve been not just the reason we did it but also the reason it’s been a good experience.

Yep, I didn’t say it was likely. But I also never thought Windows would lose market share to Linux.

If there’s enough pushback, they’ll eventually either do it or they’ll die.

Interesting. In the video with the CEO and the product manager, they specifically called out that the old battery is compatible with the new chassis but not the inverse. I wonder what the deal is there.

And that’s an artificial limitation. The game would work fine if they didn’t go to extra effort to hamper it; so the technical hurdles have been overcome.

Old battery works in new chassis, but new battery doesn’t work in old chassis.

Not anymore. Most corporate environments I’ve been in use Office on the web or Google Docs.

Gaming is better on Linux than Windows now. I said what I said.

It’s built with a lot of off the shelf components and the schematics for the parts that aren’t are open source. So even if they stopped tomorrow, the stuff they’ve already sold will always be repairable.

There are still a lot of Chromebooks kicking around, too. And those are technically Linux.

In fairness, from MacBook Neo teardowns I’ve seen, it’s only slightly more involved. But then again, the Neo doesn’t have a haptic trackpad. For the Pro’s haptic trackpad, yeah, I would bet it’s a pretty huge pain to replace.

Those nine months are a pretty consequential nine months for your point, though. How much would that laptop have cost today if released new? How much is repairability and build quality worth to you?

It’s slightly more expensive than a similarly-spec’d laptop from another company. It’s really not crazy.

That’s about the same price as a MacBook Pro touchpad replacement. Just the touchpad.

The DIY version also doesn’t include a Windows license unless you want it.