Why? There is no evidence that ARM is the only power efficient CPU. i5, i3 and n100 are all power efficient.

> no video, no audio

Why? Disable onboard video if you care that much.

> lots of memory (or SODIMM slot) and 10+ SATA ports This eats power, conflicting with the rest of your requests.

> Sure, anyone can buy a self-powered USB3 hub and add 7 external HDDs to a raspbery, but that level of performance is really really low, not to mention the USB random disconnects. And no, port replicators aren't much better.

No, that's not what you do for a power efficient NAS. You build an i3, i5 or n100, turn off all unneeded peripherals, and configure bios as needed to your level of desired power consumption. under 10W is achievable.

Not a computer or operating system I paid for.

> Amazon doesn't allow suppliers to offer direct sales to potential customers.

Not a computer or operating system I paid for.

> Even Visa and Mastercard officially don't allow merchants to offer discounts for cash transactions (although many do anyway). Etc, etc.

Not a computer or operating system I paid for.

In fact in every single case you listed a free platform that makes its money by charging fees per use. This is radically different from Apple's model.

Apple makes computers. Apple iDevices are some of the most expensive computers on the market. Apple cloud services are some of the most expensive cloud services on the market. Apple's operating systems hardcode the software to the hardware, meaning neither phone nor laptop can be upgraded. In every single case these are expensive devices and services that people already own. They should be free to download whatever software they want without a monopolizer telling them what's allowed to run on them.

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That doesn't align with how industrial air pollution works.

Exactly. This has been my experience. The political axe grinders get hired. They bring their personal politics to work. Slowly they hire people who agree with them. Then they're all bringing their politics to work. Finally, the entire company changes and becomes dysfunctional.

This is what Coinbase and Kraken FX stopped in their company saying it was destroying them.

- First real 3D FPS game using OpenGL (GLQuake)

- First real multiplayer 3D game with 16 players

- First to introduce the idea of a "clan" or "guild" for a multiplayer game. It's where the term "clan" came from

- First esports game

- First instance of Capture the Flag mod later used in other games

- First instance of Team Fortress later used in other games (e.g. TF2)

- First game to have "demos" (aka VODs) where you can rewatch / replay a match

- First game with a multiplayer competition match mode (Clanring or CRCTF or CRDM)

- First web service allowing you to see what's going in in games from the internet [qstat](https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/qstat)

Aside from all of these firsts Quake 1 and Quake 2 were incredibly executed.

- Soundtracks made by Nine Inch Nails. Who at the time ever heard of a tier 1 famous band making entire videogame soundtracks?

- Creepy gothic lovecraftian demonic theme combined with space. The space parts were later ripped off by Half-Life. And you can see the influences even on modern cultural artifacts like the show Stranger Things (which itself seems to rip off Half Life's storyline).

Quake is basically the original online multiplayer game and had almost everything we have today but had it all the way back in 1996. The only things that game didn't really have was deep API integrations to websites the way games have now or complex matchmaking with elo and ranks.