The other thing I remember of that era was the (unrelated) Talking Moose

> Why should they impose a limit at all?

Whenever I see apple silliness, I have to remember:

  "You're not the target market."

Yeah but. They happily sold it to you

They sold it to you, with a limit.

They have lots of keychron keyboards to try, even weird custom ones, at Central Computers in silicon valley.

I bought one too - most heavy and heavy duty keyboard I have ever owned.

I wanted to use it but it has one fatal flaw - the backlighting is unusable.

The keys it comes with are decent, but opaque, so the backlight doesn't actually illuminate the keys. And if you get shine-through keycaps, the LEDs are mounted below the center of the key instead of above, and you don't get good illumination.

sigh.

I used to use topre realforce rgb, then tried keychron, now use steelseries apex pro exclusively.

if they could fix it, giving me illuminated shine-through keys, I would go back to stay.

I accustomed myself to drinking coffee black. Then decaf. And later I tried camomile tea.

I found the need I really needed satisfied was a warm cup of something to curl my hands around in the morning, and they all worked after I let them. ymmv.

Might be road design. I think european roads are generally narrower than US roads which have 12' wide lanes. I remember the F-150 raptor was > 7' wide (without mirrors).

could be worse, there's always radio...

Regular radio with all the ads?

> they don't mind peeing their pants

more like letting advertisers pee on your pants

> Honestly, this doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

this is a slippery slope.

For every "must use a phone" there is also a dysfunctional "turn the tables on our customers" which some businesses will take to creepy snooping levels, or even drive "personalized" pricing or other nonsense.

I read an article about a problem with poachers grabbing these weird plants in africa. Can't find the article but it was about lithops poachers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithops#Conservation_status

But they were so cute, looking like weird butt-cheeks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lithops_salicola.jpg

So I picked some up at a local flower shop when I saw them.

they seemed to be selling them legally.

I think we wouldn't do anything with exotic flora and fauna unless smuggling had happened at some time in the past, then it got grandfathered in.

on the other hand, dandilions, eucalyptus, mongooses (mongees?)

Also tomatoes and potatoes in Europe, guinea pigs outside South America, pigs in the Americas, etc.

We love moving plants and animals around if they're useful or pretty. Conservation efforts that try to stop this for certain species are a relatively recent thing

> they seemed to be selling them legally

I think realistically businesses in other parts of the world have no incentive to fully enforce ethical provenance across the entire supply chain for these kinds of products, and in most cases, fully lack the capability either. You'd have to run some kind of ATF-kinda thing in a third world country where official rule of law is already dicey or absent.