Where is running Linux being criminalized? I dual boot my MacBook Pro with Linux just fine.

Totally agree and why I’m cautiously optimistic about Ternus.

Nah, I don’t think that’s it. Cook is 65, and retirement (or semi-retirement) is appropriate for his age.

Termus is a hardware guy, and if AI is going to play a part in Apple’s long-term plan (and I agree that it will,) it’s going to skew heavily on-device. I don’t think we see any big AI changes from Apple just because Ternus is now CEO.

Agreed, it has been somewhat underpriced. But I also generally prefer my plex setup, and have only had Apple One for classical music, Friday night MLB games, and F1.

Strongly considered and almost cancelled Apple One this morning, but figured I’d hang on until the end of baseball and formula 1 seasons. This price jump changed my mind, and now cancelled.

We have no assurances of anything in this life, but if I’m a betting man I put money on these stupid names being reverted when/if an adult is in the White House again.

And unless you work for Google/Apple/Microsoft in the GIS departments, you really have no idea if they do or don’t have legal obligation to pass through GNIS data.

Obama reverted it’s name to Denali, but of course Trump undid that.

Ultimately I think the solution is to call the mountain itself Denali (because of course that’s its name), and if you have to placate all the idiots in Ohio, rename the national park (because the park is a federally administered thing) to “McKinley.”

That’s my knee-jerk reaction too, but on further reflection I’m not sure.

Sure, Google making sure it’s Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico in Google Maps is a nice thought, but that would be a strong political stand. Simply passing through the “official” names isn’t political, and I can’t judge too harshly companies not making specific political stands.

Ultimately, we have to all know that the names of these bodies of water will revert to their real names as soon as 'ol Donny kicks the bucket, right?

It’s always the Democrats fault for not fixing everything the republicans wrecked quickly enough. Fucking Democrats!

Are you referencing that comment that mirrors mine? “CIA bot” or something. Don’t know what that is, what they’re trying to say, or why it’s being upvoted. It’s not mine.

No, you correct once so you don’t have to inspect every time.

And in the culinary world, melt and thaw indicates different temperature ranges and that has a signifiant effect on food safety.

Too many people taking things literally.

Saying I’ve spent most of my life in and around kitchens, the implication is professional kitchens/restaurants. And around professional chefs.

The distinction between thaw and melt, at least in culinary terms, is actually one of food safety. In a professional kitchen, melting is always going to involve the application of heat, where as thawing (or “temping” as it’s often said) is the slow and controlled bringing it to refrigerator or room temperature at which time it can be cooked. A thawed item may or may not be safe to eat, but something melted always will be. Take any course on food safety and the range and time food can and cannot be at certain temperatures, and it’s clear why there is a difference between these two terms.

As a way to illustrate why culinary terms are sometimes different than scientific ones. Take a tomato. Scientifically a fruit, right? But you wouldn’t put it in a fruit salad or fruit juice. It’s culinarily a vegetable, even though we know it’s technically a “fruit.”

No-one is ever too busy to bust on FNG.

Sure, and I’m sure in any competent kitchen they’d be called out. Nothing is defined by what is said once out of one hundred times, it’s defined by what’s said 99.

Gallium will also kill you if you eat it, and in the context of this meme, we’re talking about culinary items and culinary terms.

I have been in kitchens my entire life. No-one will ever say any food, pasta sauce included, will be “melted” when temping to refrigerator or room temperature. Melt, in culinary terms, is reserved for things like cheese that is solid at room temperature and liquid when heated.

Sure, that distinction has no difference if we’re talking about water.

But if you put a frozen chicken breast in the refrigerator, it will not be in liquid form the next day. It will simply be “not frozen” any longer.

2. to become free of the effect (such as stiffness, numbness, or hardness) of cold as a result of exposure to warmth

Or another example. You have a block of frozen cheese. You put it out on the counter for 24 hours. Would you say that cheese is now “melted” and ready to be put on nachos?

I feel like the subtle burn in this is the implication that the undereducated don’t know the difference between melting and thawing.

Wow, that’s quite a jump.

I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that he’d be listening to only lobbyists. Theoretically, one could surround themselves with a diverse group of actual experts.

You’re right that it’s nowhere near 100% like I suggested. But ya, I wear that bias with pride.