I fixed the eGPU disconnecting issue on my 2012 MacBook Pro by placing the entire motherboard inside an oven for 10 minutes (a rather unconventional solution for reballing). So, yes, MacBooks from that era were not as fragile as they are now. By the way, that laptop still works.

I cut my Apple-repairing teeth on an iBook G3 that would lose its BGA-soldered GPU if it overheated. The "fix" was to use a heat gun, propane torch (my choice), or even burning alcohol to gently reflow the solder:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/repairing-ibook-g3-grap...

I did it at least three times before that laptop died. Fun times.

On the other hand, many interesting links (IMO) I submit to HN also get zero comments

Worse, I've had submissions (both links and comments) get flagged in the past, and I have no idea why. I suppose they must have validated some HN policy, but if I had more information about the rationale, I could avoid making the same mistake again in the future (all of my submissions where that happened were for genuinely interesting contents or 100% non-offensive opinion comments).

They may have been SotA at the moment of writing

Sure, but they posted this 4 days ago. The minimum I'd expect for quality research is for them to skim the abstract before posting and change that line to:

"Models from leading AI labs" or similar. Leaving it like now signals either sloppiness or dishonesty

And I've seen videos from Ukraine war where tanks get destroyed by single drone, so it's not that far-fetched.

Didn't work for Elizabeth Holmes

There's a difference between "doing an illegal thing as a product" and "lying to investors about your product"

This is true, although it's also true that many startups lie to, or mislead, investors about the state of their products. If things work out, then the investors don't care, and if they don't its usually at scale and messy enough the government isn't going to prosecute.

Telegram's data centers are located in USA, Netherlands and Singapore

Why does it matter if staff with access to those servers are in Russia?

who told you that?

Telegram staff are all living in Russia, this is not even a secret.

Core team members are living in Dubai

Hey, get away with your facts and logic. It distracts from OP's agenda.

Awesome, now I can prove that my cell network (MegaFon Russia) blocks wireguard

Great! Did the test report the block accurately for you?

it's possible with virtlet or kubevirt

Is that a sarcasm? Whatsapp is not blocked in Russia

Aerospace shows which space you on in menu bar