Sometimes you can get a really good trade in deal. Just pay it off immediately and it will be unlocked, then you’ll usually get bill credits for 2 years. You’ll have to stay with that carrier for 2 years if you want the full discount but every month is you saving off of the full retail price, so as long as you plan to stay a few months anyway you’re still saving.

I’m American and I went!

It’s not too bad actually. There’s a bunch of rules technically (all imposed by the American govt because they think they can control what you do abroad…) but really it’s not to hard to follow. Have to stay in a Casa Particular instead of a hotel (because the hotels are state run), which basically means get an AirBnB. Prices are very affordable. I paid $100 for a week in Old Havana. Flights from Florida were very cheap. Then you have to avoid government run things. I found some private tour guides for some trips outside of Havana but most days we just took taxis or walked (it’s quite safe) around Havana talking to people, seeing some monuments, going to bars and such.

The real pain is money. Your cards will not work at all anywhere in Cuba due to the sanctions. No ATMs because of this. So you need to bring all the money you need. Many places will take USD or Euros, some things you need Cuban Pesos for and you’ll want to find someone on the street to change it out with and haggle the rate. The official government exchanges give abysmal rates.

Cell service on your domestic plan ranges from non-existent or still stuck in the early 2000s where moderate usage will cost $1000s… But I was able to get a local tourist sim for $14 for a week and just didn’t use my home cell data.

The Treasury can ask for receipts for 5 years after your trip but as far as I’ve ever heard they haven’t asked anyone about it.

Cuba is also popular with Canadians

They sent us an email saying that we should only use Copilot built into the Microsoft 365 stuff work provided, if we use AI.

But no mandate or instructions otherwise thankfully. But I don’t work in tech.

I really hope you’re joking

I’ve had one for years and it looks great. But yeah depends entirely on your water probably.

I have one that looks just like this but black plastic not red. It just clicks.

These glass Cosori ones are pretty good in my experience

Reuters cited sources to report that US tech giant Apple plans not to comply with the mandate and will convey the same to New Delhi.

Pretty much all phones still have SIM card slots.

It’s really mostly North American models that have been releasing with no SIM card slots lately, but they usually release it in other markets with one.

Pretty much all phones still have SIM card slots.

It’s really mostly North American models that have been releasing with no SIM card slots lately, but they usually release it in other markets with one.

At least the shit is all cosmetic not like EA sports games with their UT packs I guess. Low bar.

Usually because they include by default some proprietary software. Usually that is firmware for processors or graphics. Or they by default include repositories with non-free software. Also media codecs are a common one too.

The FSF takes a pretty extremist approach to FOSS. Which isn’t necessarily bad.

Sure, but for say the average laptop buyer nowadays not really.

It is - that’s just how URLs in non-latin fonts look unfortunately. URLs, (and a ton of tech infrastructure) is hugely English/latin script biased.

The URL is Japanese.

Locked down would probably be a plus for enterprise.

But honestly I’ve never got that argument. In what way is macOS more locked down than Windows? In the hardware that it will run on yes. But for the average user it seems fairly similar on the being “locked down” front.

I have a Roborock that supposedly has Matter support (over WiFi not Thread, but still) and integrates into my Home assistant fairly well.

I wonder if it would break without Internet.

Should be able to unlock it if you get it retail. Mainline Linux I very much doubt it.

For Linux, you find out if there is a package. If not you go to a website and see if there is an app image or zip file. You then need to know where to place the downloaded file, how to get it running (making it executable), knowing how to chmod and chown (it is better to have to do it like in Linux, but it is an extra step), and how to add it to your desktop (there is no right+click and add to desktop/create shortcut option in Arch based distros like there is on Windows). If there is a service component you may need to go into command line and systemctl to enable it.

I don’t think I’ve ever followed that workflow to be honest. Except for when doing something niche and way above and beyond something a casual user would do.

Open the software center, search what you want. Click install. Done. I use the terminal to the same effect but that’s by preference. Installing packages as you described is not at all recommended… They won’t update with the system.

The “add to desktop” thing really depends on your Desktop Environment too. GNOME not really, KDE and most others yeah.

I don’t think the learning curve is any harder than someone who’s learning Windows for the first time.

It’s just different. Honestly in some ways simpler IMO. But if you were a life long Mac user and touched Windows for the first time today you’d probably have a rougher time I think.