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I think geographic dispersion of batteries is going to be a big plus. If the "battery" is a giant lake or a big plant with a spinning mass, the power has to be transmitted from that facility to the end user over the grid

Putting a ton of smaller chemical batteries at distribution substations means when the grid is at the peak, you can cover that peak without transmitting that power over the transmission system. Putting the battery near the consumer will take a big load off of the transmission system which as much of a bottleneck as the lack of generating facilities

you would be way way better off just buying some actual batteries

I wasn't trying to excuse anything, just explain that they haven't done nothing, but also why it's still an issue. I agree with you they've dropped the ball here. If I were a betting person I'd guess this is just something that slipped through the cracks and there will be changes whether that's to the release process for pushing OS updates, to the fast-track security update process, or to the OS so that everything is working off the same trust store

That fast-track method was used, but it only applies to "graphical" software which really means, software that uses Apple's macOS specific APIs and frameworks, not the lower level UNIX stuff like /etc/ssl

I suspect the fast-track background security updates can only update the databases and revocation lists that live in the proprietary APIs, not any arbitrary file on the system

I'm not parent comment OP

I mean in many (most?) states travelling in the left lane is a moving violation

Using it to fish for other violations is where it crosses into the fuzzy and sometimes outright illegal

The counter to this is demand that they write you the ticket for the moving violation, don't answer any questions other than providing the legally required license, registration, and insurance, and move on

If they don't have evidence of a crime, they can't detain you forever on the roadside

>or a reception desk at a business

This is basically 99% of the proposition of the iMac at this point. If you don't need the specific all-in-one, color, and other design aspects of the iMac or can afford a Studio display, there's no reason not to buy some other display + a Mac mini or a laptop + display

In a world where most stocks don't pay dividends, rationality is kind of out the window. As long as these companies don't go outright bankrupt, or have to sell a bunch of new equity to stay solvent (and therefore dilute existing shares) there's no actual monetary consequence of a company doing good or bad. It's literally just going on vibes

Honestly, in a company that isn't returning capital to shareholders, I don't see the point if it's a company that isn't somehow subject to a potential acquisition. If you don't have a path to monetize your stake, why buy it? These days, just vibes. TSLA and SPCX might as well just be another crypto like Bitcoin

But Microsoft has turned layoffs at the end/beginning of the fiscal year into an iPhone-like release schedule. It's so reliable at this point that it's a meme outside the company amongst its customers. I know for a fact each June/July I'm getting a new account team as people are shuffled around, and low performers are shown the door

Even with these buyouts, there will be layoffs next summer. And the summer after that. And the summer after that.

they know for sure many fewer will accept. there's probably a clause in there that only so many people will be allowed to accept

Your municipal ISP is buying upstream connectivity from someone. You're lucky that your local government is competent enough to run an ISP and keep it secure and reliable. At least we assume they are, maybe they've just been lucky till now. If that works for your town, go for it. In many places, though, that would be a tall ask

As to the wholesale network being GPON, there's always a point at which the network goes from a shared medium to a dedicated strand to the house. Wherever the PON splitter is, multiple splitters could be co-located, or, direct connections to be patched into for ISPs that don't want to use GPON. A dedicated connection is another place competition could exist, for example

There's more than just the physical pipe from the distribution point to your house

ISPs could compete on lack of congestion on their backbone, privacy, latency, price, "value add" features (like email, website hosting, etc), and speed depending on the model of the wholesale network

just about every provider of any significance has dropped data caps in the US. Once fiber hit a critical mass, the cable companies dropped their limits

Wireless is much different, one physical piece of infrastructure covers a wide area, vs. wireline requires touching literally every location along the route. The economics are very different

It's why at one point we had 4 satellite TV options in the US at one time (C-Band, Primestar, DirecTV, and Dish Network all existed at the same time) but in 98% of the US there was only ever one cable company (some small cable companies did try to overbuild but it was and is extremely rare) and certainly only ever one landline phone company