For me, it just comes with Premium, and I buy Premium to support the creators I watch often without having to watch ads. I want them to get paid.

Are you running any extensions that modify content?

> Clearly the Canadian government doesn't feel the same way

Not clear at all. One of Trump's demands during this tariff negotiation mess was that Canada isn't spending enough on defense.

So now Canada is finding ways to spend more.

When Americans tell their ``allies'' that they're not spending enough on their military, what they mean is they're not buying enough American hardware.

This is likely an attempt to appease Trump on one of the many silly demands he's making in the silly tariff negotiations, this one being increased military funding. Gotta find something to spend money on.

It's downplayable because Trump isn't actually serious about it. He's serious about something until he learns what's possible. Some things are possible (absurd tariffs), other things are not (declaring war on a bordering country).

I think it says more about most people not wanting to bother to read.

Modern social media has only succeeded by moving away from text, and meeting the masses where they already are. They mostly don't want to read.

Definitely there has been a shift towards video content.

But I think there is a discoverability dynamic at play as well. Finding a blog post that isn’t garbage can be harder than finding a decent video on any given topic. This is clearly a feedback loop towards video but I think partly this is because up until now you couldn’t just create a spam video channel with the same ease that you could a spam blog.

Not just social media, at work you're lucky if anyone reads the docs, and blessed if you find someone writing docs. To say nothing about how the substitute for those is looping zoom meetings.

Can you be specific about your bad experiences with Apple hardware? I've gone through 5 MacBook Pros since 2008 and my only complaint was the old Intel models always got too hot. Nothing ever broke on them and I guess I kept them relatively clean?

I also have all of the adapters that came with the MBPs too, all perfectly functioning, the oldest still attached and powering my 2013 model with the dead battery (2008 model was sold, still working). The magsafe cable is pretty yellow now, and maybe a little wonky from the constant travelling, but no fraying/fire hazard yet.

Cast aside your doubts, I've been to different parts of Europe a few times with different, healthy MBPs (I buy a new one every 4-5 years) with healthy adapters.

Plugging into the wide EU outlet with the Apple-manufactured plug, from the "World Travel Adapter Kit", can lead to uncomfortable "vibration" that you feel when you touch the top case, depending on the the hotel/airbnb. Whenever I visit I expect I should charge while I'm not using the device.

> I am still shocked how no tool since has managed to come even close to VB

Over on OS X/macOS, Xcode's Interface Builder carried this torch a long way until Apple introduced SwiftUI. Windows developers just didn't notice because it was a different platform.

Same. My M1 Max only shows it age when building a few massive C++ projects, the M4 cuts down compile times to a quarter so I feel like I'm missing out there, but not enough to put down another$4k yet.

Compared to every Intel MBP I went through, where they would show their age after about 2-3 years, and every action/compile required more and more fans and throttling, the M1 is still a magical processor.