But you're also in the tiny minority of Apple customers, because most people who need 512GB of RAM are not looking at Apple products.

A consumer computer company is not going to push people towards building a miniature HPC cluster. Closest we'll ever get to that is multiple GPUs for video games.*

*Nvidia is no longer a primarily consumer company, so all the other GPU stuff is no counterpoint

Let me rephrase it for you:

"We both want a docile American public who go along with our desires so we can achieve goals that may be contrary to the interests of the American public."

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Beginning to wonder if convenience is the root of all evil, and not money. Money's just a proxy for convenience.

More of us should learn to do things the hard way more often, and to be familiar with less-convenient things. There are life-changing advantages to doing things the hard way at least some of the time.