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I've never heard of a 7200RPM SSD. Must be some extremely cutting edge 2010 tech. 

Well, was going grab a macbook when my current laptop is dead. After the shitty keyboard and this, windows based laptop is only option for me.
 
Linux would be great, but at this stage some software just don't play well or work at all.

I can't help but point out this is exactly the core point of the video.  People can whine all they want (and more often than not when it comes to Apple they don't even do that much) but ultimately all that matters at the end of the day is if they buy it or not, and if they do, there's no reason for Apple to change, and you have to accept whatever experience you get at that point because you went in fully informed and knew what you were getting.

So this may be a bit of a stray from the normal news formats, but Louis Rossmann just got in a Macbook Pro with a failed T2 chip.
 
Now, I know T2 has been covered here on the forums, but I think this instance is a really quite scary example of the issues it can cause, and is therefore potentially newsworthy.
 
For those who need a refresher, what is the T2 chip, and what does it do?
 
Straight from Apple's own website:
 
Added security and features sound great, right? Hold on.
This chip can ONLY be programmed by Apple, and it is TIED to the important hardware components inside the Macbook. The most important of which, is the SSD, which is ENCRYPTED by T2.
 
If something goes wrong in the Macbook, such as a bad wifi chip, you can't just desolder the old wifi chip and install a new one, the T2 chip must be reprogrammed to the new one. (I'd link another Rossmann video on this, but it seems to have been taken down, so I'm not going to quote this as a factually documented example for now)
 
The same applies to a T2 failure itself. If T2 fails, you can't replace it and get a working board again. Apple, and only Apple can repair such things, which they could very well simply refuse to fix, like they did with Linus's imac pro.
 
And since T2 handles encryption of your SSD, you can say bye-bye to anything on your SSD. Its gone, all of it. Time machine works great, but its not an excuse for such a volatile internal storage. If the point of encrypting the internal storage via a hardware solution was the idea, then time machine would be a bit pointless since it doesn't (to my knowledge) use T2's encryption, and by default isn't even encrypted, which seems like quite a security problem if someone were to nab your time machine backup, since it contains a full copy of the machine's disk.
 
Older macs used a System Management Controller or SMC, and it handled a fair amount of tasks, like power management, and although you couldn't program one off the shelf, you could desolder one from a donor board, and put it on the one you're fixing. They weren't specifically tied to the rest of the hardware, and they did not handle disk encryption.
 
Apple HAS documented that data recovery on a T2 mac is possible, however is requires that the machine be at least somewhat working. And in the event of a T2 failure, you're not going to get anywhere. T2 handles really basic but important stuff, like powering up the board's voltage rails.
 
In Rossmann's video, the customer was told by Apple that the mac had suffered severe liquid damage, which voided their warranty, and Rossmann shows is clearly not the case.
 
 
So because the T2 chip failed, and apple refuses to fix the faulty board, the customer has now lost all their data and needs a logic board replacement. Rossmann cannot fix this board, or any others with a similar failure.
 
What does this mean for the consumer of such products?
 
This means they have even less repair options for failures like this, and increased points of fatal failure.
 
On older macs, you could pull the SSD and put it into a new machine, or replace the logic board, and all would be as you left it.
 
On the newer but pre-T2 macs, the SSDs were almost always soldered, but a breakout point existed to connect to the soldered SSD and recover data.
 
But on these ones, not only has T2 locked out data recovery, it has also locked out a lot of repairs on the system that would have been possible before. Apple has essentially forced the consumer to go to them, and only them for repairs. And they don't really do component level repairs, usually just board replacement, as each unit is treated as a whole, like the fiasco with Linus's imac. This means you could need a new board at Apple instead of maybe just a new SMC, which would cost a fraction of the price to repair as a third party shop such as Rossmann's than a board replacement would.
 
Apple's fighting hard against consumer and third party repair, and personally, I think it needs to stop. I work at an independent repair shop, and I've already gotten fed up with mac repairs. They're always so much more annoying and expensive to repair, but changes like T2 could change "annoying" to "impossible"
 
also its late and I typed this entire article on my cell phone so if something's not quite right, sorry, I might be changing some stuff up if someone points something out, or I feel like it >~<

That title...

I just don't see the advantage of not touching the device. Seems like a lot of work for a pretty gimmicky feature. I'd rather have a second front camera. 

I’m going to level with you, Android is following in the footsteps of Apple. Headphone jacks are basically non-existent, notches are prevalent just for the sake of it, and SD cards are a thing of the past almost. 
 
Android OEMs are taking all the bad things Apple does without doing any of the good things that make people stick with iPhones. 

You can download all of your music purchases from iTunes and transfer the files to your future Android phone manually. iTunes songs are not protected by DRM. If you have an Apple Music subscription, you can simply download the Apple Music app for Android. 
 
Why exactly are you looking to switch platforms? 

My dream is one day I can work as a software developer/ web developer in Singapore. 

My dream is one day I can work as a software developer/ web developer in Singapore. 

The Mac mini should be faster given that the Mac mini has a desktop class CPU and is not as limited by thermals. The Mac mini is also significantly cheaper and if you can get away with just using a desktop, I would defiantly do it. You can almost pay for the whole thing be reselling your current MBP. (especially if you can get the keyboard replaced and the display. That way you can say it's refurbished).

Excellent choice. It's an excellent remaster. For once.

The Modern Warfare trilogy is fine. But the ones with the missions you mentioned are MW1 and MW2.

Pretty sure the one in the snow and the sniper mission was in Modern Warfare 2.

It's the 2

Just an extra large mouse pad for my desk
 

Flexing my wallet for Cyberpunk 2077
 

I bought this used to $440~ USD (converted from local currency)
 
 

 
taken with the phone itself  

My Element case arrived for my Xs Max, I feel complete now : ) 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Bought an Alienware R5 case that I’m gonna make a project out of. To my surprise, it came with the PSU and the threw in a new power cable as well.
 

I bought AirPods Gen 2, non-wireless charging, because I didn't feel a $70 premium for Wireless charging was worth it, when I haven't bothered to invest in a wireless charger yet.

Not tech related, but my attempt at satisfying my OCD has failed.
 
My Proto Impact sockets go from 10mm to 24mm, and I bought the Westling Machine socket trays to organize them, but of course the trays go from 9mm to 27mm, so I had extra unpopulated pins. So like any crazy person, I ordered 9mm, and 25-27mm Proto Impact sockets in both shallow and deep just to fill the tray, but of course, the 9mm shallow is on back order, so for the next few weeks it's still going to drive me nuts.
 

not in hands yet, but will be after work tomorrow

yes he bashes them, but he's not delusional when they do something right. he's regularly praised Apple for some of the things they do.

A peer dependency means that the package does not explicitly require the dependency, but features may be missing. In the case of bootstrap there, jquery is what makes the dropdown menus and such work properly, but the CSS styling will work without jquery, so it's a peer dependency instead of a hard dependency.