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Apple's a complicated story because they were arguably 2nd movers to some of the other early hobbyist PC entrants. But their history is so convoluted at this point that I'd hesitate to construct a narrative that wasn't book length at this point.

High-end gamers are a pretty minor slice of any tech segment including NVIDIA's.

Yeah. I won't say my nicely-paid tax preparer checks every minor charitable deduction but he certainly wants documentation for everything material.

You've described many things over the past few years. COVID is also one of them. Stuff that was just basically holding on anyway based on history and momentum just couldn't handle an additional body blow. (And, in a number of cases, didn't really care to.)

I live fairly near a commuter rail stop—about a 8 minute drive but not walkable or cycle really even if I biked which I don’t.

It sorta works for going into the nearish big city for a 9-5 event. But it’s worthless for the evening because of infrequent trains.

Companies have standardized on, mostly, 13” laptops with whatever accessories. But, honestly, for some people who never leave their desk, a desktop of some sort is probably a better choice— though just connecting to a server works too.

13 seems to have emerged as the generally best compromise for using at your desk and traveling. Even a 15” is still small relative to an external monitor and is getting large to fly with.

Many were almost certainly staged. At the time, people were not generally allowed to be casually snapping photos in work environments.

Yeah I hit the middle of the night microwave fire with two different extinguishers after the smoke detectors woke me up. No joy.

Did it need two additional fire trucks to assist my town? Don’t know. I’m not a professional in that field.

There was even an T apparently assigned to babysit me as I was underdressed when I left the house for mid-Jan.

Not always slow. I had a kitchen fire at 4am from a microwave spontaneously combusting. Had the local deputy fire chief and local fire truck there within 15 minutes plus trucks from two other local towns.

I am by no means a fan of JOAS in general but things like the maintenance of private roads including winter plowing do need to be dealt with and while a couple of neighbors can probably get agreements drawn up for “only” $10K each, that only goes so far if more people are involved.

And I have a house without a HOA but did go through a bunch of complicated (and expensive) easement agreements and survey definitions that LePage’s to a lot of loose-gooey hand shakes and outright mistakes over the years.

On general principle I’ll probably put some sort of pad down. Likely unnecessary but it takes 10 seconds.

Fortunately when I had to have my kitchen redone after a fire my brother already had it in his kitchen(s?). Which gave both me and my designer confidence that I would like it at scale that she was a bit nervous about.

Apparently (per neurologist) onset is basically bimodal—teens or so and around 60.