Macs have had USB-C charging since 2015.

This was, in many respects, a downgrade, since Apple’s proprietary MagSafe was seen by many as a valuable feature. Power cords that pop out rather than yanking the laptop off the desk if someone trips over it are pretty handy.

In 2021 Apple started re-including MagSafe on their laptops. But since doing so, the USB-C ports have also been able to charge the laptop.

So since 2015 they’ve been compliant with this law, and since 2021 they’ve had the best of both worlds, with either option working.

https://puzzmo.com/play/circuits/ss5a7s174p/share

Crossherd #420
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩
Time: 0:48
crossherd.clevergoat.com?ref=shared 🐐

https://puzzmo.com/play/circuits/gvj6x18zx/share

Bloody hell, nice job!

Nice one!

Crossherd #419
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩
Time: 0:29
🐐crossherd.clevergoat.com?ref=shared 🐐

Nope. This is fake news. All it does for them is win them good PR, and help them direct which charities money is going to. But there is no direct financial benefit in it. They are legally obligated to just pass the money through to the charity they said it would go to.

And there can’t be any benefit in using it as a deduction. Anyone claiming they can has obviously not put any thought into it. In the best case interpretation towards this, if you donate $2 through this method, they gain $2 in income, donate $2, and then deduct that $2 donation. That just means they don’t pay tax on that $2. It’s net financially neutral.

The palantíri were created by elves and weren’t inherently evil. It was only when Sauron captured them and exerted his will over them to make it difficult for anyone to use them without sending straight to him that they became evil.

Oh, well then “seriously, OP?” Though in this case the grammar issues are not as bad, because I expect professional media organisations to hold themselves to higher standards than randoms on the Internet.

Though it adds a layer because I hate when people editorialise headlines without it being clear that that’s what was done. It’s misleading and in this case was totally unnecessary, since the un-editorialised headline got the message across just fine.

I know this isn’t the point, but ffs The Verge. “Add age verification to it is consoles”? Seriously?

I suspect that the thinking when he was appointed was that logistics was going to be key to Apple’s future success. And at the time, they also had a number of high profile creative people in other roles, though they have pretty much all moved on since. And if you look at their financial performance in the years since Cook took over—which is the board actually cares about—it’s hard to say that this was a bad approach.

Cook’s expertise was in the logistics. He’s definitely not been a great leader for them putting out exciting products, but he’s the reason they’re so much less affected by things like global shipping crises or RAM prices exploding than many other companies are.

the user needs to be smart enough to do whatever they’re asking anyway

I’m gonna say that’s ideal but not quite necessary. What’s needed is that the user is capable of properly verifying the output. Which anyone who could do it themselves definitely can, but it can be done more broadly. It’s an easier skill to verify a result than it is to obtain that result. Think: how film critics don’t necessarily need to be filmmakers, or the P=NP question in computer science.