this is cool but does it meet strong safety standards?

"strong safety standards" are what got us to the point of 5000lb pickup trucks and A-pillars that are so wide they arguably kill more people (predominantly pedestrians & cyclists) than their constituent airbags save.

It is cartoon villain tier to compromise the visual range of the driver at the safety expense of everyone outside the vehicle, who is not shielded by 2 tons of mass.

Much of what is wrong with automobiles is a severe inability to think in higher order terms.

I definitely have heard a frazzled shift in tone from the fine folks at donation-centered talk-oriented journalism folks which I have listened to obsessively for years.

I think it's OK, if there's a lion hollering you might need some gravity and momentum to hear it and they are certainly trying to find the new polarity.

He's making his own perfectly well.

I’m seeing a huge upswell in organic hate for Musk over the last little while across a bunch of forums online, as well as people making jokes about him in real life (this is in Australia), and the dropping Tesla sales seem to be confirming the trend.

So the simplest explanation is not anyone ‘steering’ anything, but just that he’s absolutely trashed his own reputation outside what is a fairly narrow political persuasion internationally…

(The kind of pro-Trump style conservatism is fairly large in the US but a much smaller minority in much of the rest of the world, and of course the overlap of that and people who would buy EVs is even smaller)

This even under sells it a bit. Trump style conservatism has turned toxic and Musk is heavily associated with its worst aspects (think the "salute"). I think a lot of Americans just don't get how angry the constant threats of tarrifs and attacks is making people. For a mental exercise they should try imagining how mad people were about egg prices, then imagine how much angrier they'd be if on top of that their largest partner started talking about wanting to explicitly ruin their economy if not outright invade them. It's insanity.

This is the kind of content I am here for

I wonder if there were a lot of support calls about people whose keyboards wouldn’t connect, etc.

Unlike a touch screen device, folks may not understand that disabling Bluetooth for no reason has input consequences

So there's multiple comments already saying this, but I don't understand how what you wrote jives with the paragraph of that post:

>"The prompt warns that I "won't be able to use a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse," despite the fact my Mac mini already has a USB keyboard and mouse plugged in. Indeed, the Mac isn't using any Bluetooth devices, and macOS knows this but doesn't care. Moreover, the Bluetooth prompt appears even when all Bluetooth-related features are disabled such as AirDrop and Handoff. There's no "intelligence" to the prompt."

macOS, like Linux, Windows, FreeBSD or whatever, knows what the device tree looks like. It knows whether there are any BT devices paired, what their capabilities are, whether the input peripherals are USB or not. Can you explain why making a prompt conditional on whether it'd disconnect the last input devices or not would not have reduced support calls perfectly well? Why do you think that paragraph is wrong, and macOS must be stupid and generic with a warning regardless?

Some devices report as keyboards in macOS but are not. My Logitech mouse for whatever reason shows as both. I’m assuming it’s the way Logi handles the extra buttons.

Exactly this. Like if you're in the 95th percentile on tech literacy it makes no sense. Congrats. Here's a medal. If you're in the 30th percentile and you turn everything off because you're paranoid about stuff you don't understand being turned on but you don't realize you're about to disconnect your mouse it may at least give pause.

Yes that’s definitely why this has been added. It’s kind of discourteous though to people who don’t fall into that category. Why not offer an I know what I’m doing switch that needs to be activated with a series of CLI commands with big warnings.

you're using applianceOS, power users are not the target market, people with too much money are

I’m a power user, but I also like not worrying about whether my WiFi will work today. And I don’t like dealing with whatever WSL thinks about file permissions in this version.

There doesn’t exist anything else at the developer-friendliness / price / build quality point Apple’s machines exist at.

It's just bad design. Rather than a confirmation/warning/nag Apple could've altered the existing UI to make it clear what devices would be disabled. Show a connected device count next to the on/off switch with little mouse/keyboard/etc icons. The interface should be clear, discoverable, and consistent. It shouldn't throw unanticipated popup windows and warnings at the user.

Seems like a really good opportunity for a browser extension to offer links to other sources

Great news for anyone who owns a “Smart TV”

it definitely seems like they're using "consumer privacy" as a way to gate/limit whether other companies are allowed to build certain types of third-party apps.

This is ridiculous… the only convenient way to quit now is by command-clicking the dock icon

same with third-party App Stores or any other thing like that