The stock-owning class is in a boom. The working class is in a recession.
(People who have stock-market investments and need to work for a living are somewhere in between.)
The average of one billionaire gaining £10M and a hundred middle-class folks losing £100k is solidly positive, so this looks like a "growing economy" to many of the usual metrics.
I am not sure whether the people who are benefiting from all this have noticed how often this sort of dynamic in the past has led to torches and pitchforks and the like.
You can use it as a glorified internet terminal with some light office apps within 256GB.
But it’s a pain in the ass to swap applications constantly, clear caches, delete large files and so on once you exceed those use cases.
512GB is a bit better, but then I shouldn’t have multiple toolchains or other large applications installed, multiple versions of Xcode, etcetera.
The audio world has history here. A simple TSR audio jack can be used for either stereo or balanced audio, headphone or mic or (multiple) line levels, hi-Z instruments, two incompatible MIDI (digital) connectors, multiple incompatible foot controller connectors, etc.
There is a mirror voltage on a second line that is mirrored and summed with the first again at the receiving end.
All noise picked up underway will affect both lines fairly equally, so the reversed line has the same noise as the normal line.
The noise will be inverted and summed with the regular noise, theoretically nullifying it completely.
I would rather have fantasy names than wrong names.