Accountants, and individuals within all kinds of businesses (what we today would call shadow IT). Imagine something like this:

* Person who deals with numbers all day goes to a computer store to browse.

* He sees VisiCalc, and immediately understands what it can do. It *blows his mind*.

* He wants to buy it right away. Pays for $2000 Apple II computer with disk drives to run $100 software; price is no object.

* Shows friends and colleagues.

* They rush to computer store. Repeat.

If you haven't donated every cent you have to poor foreigners, you have contributed to their deaths. How can you live with yourself?

There is a precedent for "doctor", based on how people pronounced the company's "DR Logo"/"Dr. Logo"

>Apple sold the the base model M1 Macbook Air through Walmart for $600 between when they stopped selling it directly up to early this year.

I took advantage of this after the fact. I bought a pristine open box M1 from VIPoutlet (Walmart's closeout brand, as I understand it) on Walmart last month for ~$350 as a backup computer.[1] The Neo reinforced the wisdom of my purchase, as M1 has slightly better specs for less money.

[1] If the M4 Pro MacBook I am typing this on needs repair, I will use the M1 with a bootable clone of the M4's drive made with SuperDuper!.

At that time I don't think I was using either spreadsheet program at a level where I would have needed advanced features. I remember using both, and looking now at old screenshots of the splash screens, I think we did eventually upgrade to SuperCalc 4, probably because of better 1-2-3 compatibility.

There was a "red carpet area" in the office where the high-ups worked, and I remember they all used 1-2-3 and we had to support them sometimes... But we pions were using SuperCalc. More than that I don't remember, it's just been too long.

>I've been in tech for ~40 years now and I've never seen anything like this.

Then how do you not remember the DRAM shortage of the late 1980s?

At worse back in 1988 it impacted only PCs.

This shortage in 2026 is more consequential across the board and impacts consumer electronics as a whole and the fact it's going to last years means that many low cost manufacturers are going to close up shop because they won't be profitable.

I'm pretty sure there were more DRAM manufacturers back then, and spinning up a new fab probably didn't require as much know-how, capital or even time.

>a nz cit can live in au for 4 years then become au citizen then move to the US

Canada is also used as a stopover in this way for those bound for the US.

>I read as "Whoops we made the M1 Macbook Pro too good, please upgrade!"

>I think I will get another 2-5 years out my mine.

I only own a M4 because the M1 had a hardware fault and I needed a replacement ASAP. (I sold the M1 after repair.)

Although I'm glad to have a newer machine with longer future support, I have yet to notice any meaningful performance difference.

Ditto. Though, I fixed my M1. I have an M4 max for work; the nano screen is a win. The perf is better, but it's really marginal unless actually doing stuff with the GPU, then it's super slow compared to a decent GPU anyway (i.e. h100, gb etc)

Relevant: TIL that ATMs are robbed with explosives. Criminals fill machines with propane or acetylene then ignite the gas, or use external bombs. Germany (where 60% of attacks succeed) is Europe's #1 target; landlords don't like to lease to banks with ATMs, because blowing them up endangers other tenants. <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1im37e4/til_t...>

>Changes things a bit.

No, I don't think it does.