What’s crazy is you can build a kit plane for less than what this costs, and flying a kit plane does NOT need a pilot license in the US.

Materia Magica has had a playable race called dracon since the 1990s. Back then it was called Moongate Online.

It’s a MUD. The precursor to the graphical MMORPG genre.

And yes, people still play MUDs online.

It’s Apple. They make everything other than just using their own stuff harder.

It’s kinda their whole shtick.

If he doesn’t want it, I’ll take it! 🤣

Prebuilt is almost always the wrong answer. That holds true in way more fields than just technology as well.

The phrase “bought versus built” comes to mind.

You can almost always build exactly what you need for less money or headache than you think.

Will you maybe spend a little more than buying some cheap one-off? Possibly. However, the best part of building it yourself is that you’ll also typically know exactly what you’ve got, and if you use off-the-shelf parts, replacements and upgrades are easier in the long run.

TCO. Total Cost of Ownership.

Except you don’t need to have bought one to be affected by it. Maybe your employer bought one, and infected a computer you use at work.

+1 For hass.

The dominant failure mode of an SSD is to become read-only. There’s no data loss there…