On Apple products used for fighting a war

On Apple products used

for

fighting a war

and never letting

a nomad down

Ditch the digital, say your goodbyes,

give away most of your possessions,

and join a modern fighting force in an

uphill battle against the terrorist empire.

That’s what I did — now happy than ever, having found a new purpose and a sense of being and belonging. But there’s no reason not to effectively enjoy technology still.

Being a fighter goes with a vagabond lifestyle, anchoring nowhere (bad for the heart, good for the body). Everything I own could be fit in two giant ransacks, which is a problem, since it should only be one. Most of it is clothes and gear.

If I had to ditch everything else, I’d run out with my phone in the pocket,

my laptop in one hand

and my rifle in the other.

The rifle is the AK-74, and the laptop is

Macbook Air M1.

Truth be told,

I can’t decide which one is more reliable.

The military business is strict in absolutely everything, as it should be. The common baseline is the people’s heartbeat’s on the stake regarding every vital process. (If the process isn’t vital — then, excepting the successful new experiments, it will be ditched because people won’t care about it. Natural filters!).

But I love my laptop. It has never let me down. I’ve used it in the active frontline operations every day for more than a year.

You’re always surrounded by misery and destruction here, including being actively hunted with missiles and drones; your tech not working or being slow is the last thing you’d need. But it never does that. It just works and it’s snappy and it’s light and it lives forever.

The frontline areas often don’t have access to the electric grids, either because they’re in the middle of nowhere or because they’ve been fucked down by the enemy’s shells.

Electricity, then, is a valuable resource same as oil. While my Linux / Win colleagues need their second charge, my machine still has more than half.

That’s whole two shifts for me!

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P.S. If they made the same kind of “tough” variants of their laptops as with their watches, I’d buy it in a heartbeat — as would at least a few of my colleagues in the warfare business.

P.P.S. Somehow I anticipate the following fallacious argument in response: “b-but it’s flimsy, it won’t survive an explosion or a gunshot”.

That’s true. But If something hit you that close, then you’d worry about your own survival first, precious devices second (a lot of military tech / gear is expensive and often gets wrecked regardless; that’s why it’s hard to save up).

And the second-to-worst conditions is where I actually often work from (35c / 95f heat, dust, smoke, dirty hands, spills, ground drops etc.).

The only thing that did it in was a cat bite.

Went dark

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