No. No.
If he could've invented^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hripped off a "second iphone" then he would've done it. He had time. He ran out of companies to copy from and the cancer got him before he could bear witness to the world moving on without him.
Practising basic personal cyber security makes you a persona non grata according to banks and governments. I'm convinced that the future of computing for those who have that old school "hacker" ethos in this increasingly locked down world, is having the goy-phone for essential stuff like banking and digital ID to masquerade as a completely normal cattle unit, and hidden away salvaged old hardware purchased cash in hand illegally running shit like Qubes or whatever to do actual computing on. Although most everything's got an embedded spy computer "management engine" anyway...
The systemd dhcp client sends it unprompted.
Just symlink /etc/machine-id to /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid
Mac market penetration today is due to MBPs being the gold standard for tech workers and airs for college kids. They are the gold standard because of their build quality and macos is effectively built on a BSD kernel so it has none of the bloat and reliability issues of windows. I was always team thinkpad before they were sold to lenovo and turned into chinesium, but went Mac after trying an early gen surface. Dell/HPs remain crap and Apple support is so much better. I would love it if someone else in the market wanted to outcompete Apple on quality and service but hard to see that happening today. Best we can hope for is System
My take on this is that ideas are cheap. "pocket computer" as an idea has been around for decades. Being able to figure out why the palm pilot failed and blackberry would never see widespread consumer adoption and come up with a better product then building it is not particularly easy. His discipline about simplicity did a lot for Apple too - quality was so high because they had very few products and focused on making sure what they built just worked. Post-Jobs the normal MBA types couldn't resist squeezing marginal income out of the business by proliferating SKUs and now iOS has gotten worse with every release since ios6.
Where in the world are you? Macs have absolutely horrendous build quality and repairs of them are a joke ("mail it in and we'll wipe your machine"), while even chineseum stinkpads will have a repair man drive into the middle of nowhere to fix your laptop when you tip your coffee cup over it and some key gets sticky (but laptop still works while you wait because they have drain holes, and yes this is based on personal experience).
The US - I can RMA a laptop by walking into any retail location and walk out with another one. When I had an HP that needed servicing i had to wait a week for the technician to come and the laptop never fully worked right again. That's fine for you mot to like them, but objective reality is that most major companies with developer workforces have a supermajority of mbp users. Even if you think FAANG is pozzed, IBM went Mac-first a decade ago and haven't looked back bc they're easier and cheaper to maintain.
It's called FAGMAN you retard. And considering most development today is outsourced to India and in javascript, I don't care what the most popular among developers today are.
Instead of blaming Linux for Microsoft's retardation (deep sleep) go to BIOS and change sleep mode to S3.. If my chinkpad has this option then yours should too.