I was running Apple WiFi routers for a good 20 years. Maybe 1/4 died in that time, but many ran 20+ years before I abandoned them for newer standards. Some are still going as whole house audio streamers.

Expectations don’t always match reality.

I’m guessing they were the old upgradeable ones or that they didn’t have significant need for memory or internal storage. Those are the only use cases where Macs make financial sense any more. On newer Macs you can attach external storage that’s as fast as the internal storage so you don’t have to pay the 10x uplift on storage prices at least. I’m still running the last version with upgradeable RAM and have all the storage external.

I’m psyched. Less work for me!

^ This is the most accurate explanation. I was on .ml for quite a while before I realized the pattern that any time I criticized Russian attacks or war crimes, I got downvoted and brigaded. Any time I promoted Ukraines right to defend itself I got downvoted and brigaded. Often my posts were removed. Try to mention tienamen square there ;-). They will come troll threads on other instances from time to time too. I just block them these days and refuse to subscribe to any .ml communities.

I was a Unix sysadmin for years and never once used the num pad. I’m in sales now for 25 years and still don’t use it. I mean, it’s always been a goal of mine but I just never think of it when it’s time to use it, and it’s slower for me to use it than not use it. And I don’t enter enough numbers to get enough practice to be good at it.

We just don’t work as accountants ;-).

I’m a full TKL man myself. I don’t mind the space, just don’t like using space for stuff I never use.

I spent 30 years thinking someday I’d start using the number pad and then finally gave up. I like having the typing part centered more.

Pretty!