In the UK (and broadly under the UK GDPR and PECR – the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations), yes, you generally do need to get consent before setting non-essential cookies, even if it's just for rudimentary analytics like a unique visitor count.
Here's the key distinction:
Strictly necessary cookies: No consent needed. These are required for the site to function properly (e.g., shopping cart cookies, login sessions).
Analytics cookies (including the case with a unique ID for tracking visitors): Not strictly necessary, so consent is required.
Even if the data is anonymous or pseudonymous (like a randomly generated unique ID), if the purpose is analytics and it involves storing or accessing data on the user’s device (like setting a cookie), you must ask for consent.
No, you dont! Only if you use third party services to do that or collect data thats not essential to your business. Its just coloquially called a "Cookie Banner", but the laws DONT require you to put up one as soon as you set one cookie!
It does if the cookie contains any uuid that might be linkable to a user's identity (which is obviously necessary if you want to perform rudimentary self-hosted analytics on unique user visits)
It's not exactly an out of the park win though as it's only $100-$200 cheaper and it trends poorly the farther from comparing base models you go (particularly after 64 GB, for which you need to leave the Mini family for the Studio). By the time you get to 128 GB, which you'd want for the 70B class AI models, you end up back at the original statement.
Huh. Ate my words then. I briefly checked Apple's page and didn't see them.
However those are the base M4 chip and not the M4 Pro. You need the M4 Pro to get competitive in GPU compute numbers for a more like to like comparison. The M4 Pro mini comes out at $1800 with the 48GB option, or $2000 for 64GB. For the same price the Framework machine gets you 128GB.
I think you're probably right comparing to the M4 Pro would make more sense but keep in mind you don't really need much compute, it's just that the M4 Pro has memory bandwidth more similar to the AI Max 395+ while the "normal" M4 doesn't.
Every large AI model is heavy memory bandwidth constrained to the point my 9800X3D (with the extra L3 cache) and 128 GB/s memory attached is only 60% utilized running a 32 GB model in CPU only mode (no NPU, iGPU, or GPU offload enabled). Really small AI models can start to be compute bound but, at that point, you don't really need the 32 GB of memory anymore and probably just want a normal GPU.
The entire offline installer of over 15 years worth of features is 120 MB for Windows, it's quite impressive really considering the amount of features that includes. If they took the typical approach of web pages run in Chrome that might be multiple GB by now.
They didn't self censor, they had to change the name because most tourists behaved like assholes. Stealing the road signs, parking anywhere, walking into peoples gardens, etc.
Also the road safety sign, while a funny combination, is pretty standard and can be found all over Austria.
In which case, the GDPR doesnt even apply to you! Only if you collect/store PII the GDPR starts to apply!
> Thanks to the GDPR I cannot do this without the stupid cookie warning popup.
Again, the GDPR has nothing in it about cookie banners.
> the GDPR is clumsy lawmaking
It isnt, people are just complaining about it without ever actually reading it or doing much research.