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“We’ll lose the store if we go any lower! Whaddadeal!”
Oh dear... this is something you can still buy new from Apple and other stores for about half of that price, including shipping.
Is this the same item….?
£49 Apple UK
Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter
Effortlessly connect your Mac to a Thunderbolt 2 device with the Apple Thunderbolt 3 Adapter. Buy now at apple.com/uk
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Edit: sorry just realised that you meant what I have shown….😬
It's only a matter of time before he discovers AI, assuming he hasn't already. He'll find a way.
A few months ago I passed my motorcycle test, and now Youtube keeps recommending AI-generated videos of bogus concept motorcycles, presented as if they were actual upcoming 2025 models:
Notice how they all use the same basic thumbnail image, pasted onto a different backdrop. Did you know that there are entire websites devoted to posting rumours about forthcoming products? They could so easily generate more content by just using AI to make it all up. They could populate the forums with AI chatbots, thus giving the illusion of a functioning, active website.
I like to think that many years from now the internet will consist of a single server, sitting in a rack somewhere, with an AI routine furiously generating content and content interaction and forum posts etc, while in the outside world the scattered remains of humanity forage for bugs and uncontaminated potatoes. There will be controversies and cancellations and internet superstars, but they'll only exist inside that server, and no-one in the real world outside will ever know about it.
I actually owned a bunch of old Kodak DCS cameras. Here's my DCS 460, demonstrating the sensor cleaning function:
e.g. you have to remove the Nikon F90 body. But you did get access to the entire sensor. One of the many, many problems with the system was that the battery was a kludge. It was removable but seemingly only for servicing. The later, gen two DCS cameras were a lot slicker (and surprisingly "normal" for quarter-century-old digital cameras). Fuji sort-of carried the idea on with the S1, S2, and S3 Pro, which were also built on film camera bodies.
Back in the mid-1990s there was a medium format back called the Dicomed Big Shot, which as far as I can tell was the only medium format back with a 6x6cm sensor, apparently made by Fairchild. It cost a fortune and you'd probably need a period-correct pre-G3 Power Macintosh to get it working. I imagine Fairchild ended up with piles and piles of rejected 6x6cm sensors that they had to just throw away.