I would agree that its fine to not include it, had they not switched to usb-c right when they stopped including bricks so all my new devices came with usb-c chargers but I only have usb-a bricks

iPhones stopped shipping with power bricks with the iPhone 12 back in 2020, so it's not exactly new that they're not including the charging brick.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/13/21514480/apple-iphone-ch...

To be fair, they did include a USB-C charger with the iPhone 11 for one year. But yeah, people on a two-year upgrade (or longer) cadence will likely not have had an Apple USB-C power adapter included with any of their devices.

Only the Pro models, the base model still came with a 5W A brick

While we are at it, we should also add some technology that makes them non-fungible, how about a blockchain?

> (Obviously, we had NO idea what was coming.)

Yeah, those drone strikes from the Obama administration were pretty bad.

Obama certainly could have done a better job at stopping them (and done better at many other things as well), but those drone strikes started under Bush2, along with the rest of the mostly disastrous "war on terror". Given we experienced our first non-peaceful transition of power, it's absurd to pretend anything else in US history compares.

> our first non-peaceful transition of power

I know what you mean, but the phrasing seems odd given that the US has gone through multiple transfers of power because POTUS was murdered.

I'm not sure why that is relevant. "Transition of power" describes the period of time when power transitions from one administration to the next. A non-peaceful end of presidency can be followed by a peaceful transition of power.

If anything, this fact makes things much worse.

VPOTUS assuming the presidency absolutely is a new administration. Hard to see how anyone could claim otherwise.

Consider Andrew Johnson, who wasn't even the same party as Lincoln. He was impeached by Republicans and in his run for presidency got his votes mostly from Southern whites. He pardoned basically all confederates. The murder of Lincoln definitely was a violent transfer of power from an abolitionist to a Southern apologist.

> VPOTUS assuming the presidency absolutely is a new administration. Hard to see how anyone could claim otherwise.

I am not claiming otherwise. I'm saying: it doesn't matter if the last president dies.

> Consider Andrew Johnson, who wasn't even the same party as Lincoln. He was impeached by Republicans and in his run for presidency got his votes mostly from Southern whites. He pardoned basically all confederates. The murder of Lincoln definitely was a violent transfer of power from an abolitionist to a Southern apologist.

What violence occurred during the transition of power? Who tried to stop the political processes?

> What violence occurred during the transition of power? Who tried to stop the political processes?

There wasn't supposed to be a transition of power. A violent initiation to the transfer of power when transfer of power was not supposed to occur is a non-peaceful transfer of power.

> Stack Overflow would obviously be a much better source of quality training data for the kind of questions you presented.

I dont think we need a llm that only responds with "Your question was marked as a duplicate"

It is important to mention that FISA requests have something like a 98% approval rate and have a history of being overly broad allowing for dragnet data collection. So PRISM does still allow for very wide sweeping data access from tech companies. But yes, end-to-end encryption is one of the few things that can help with this.