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Anyway, you will always just add time. The only difference is at the end of seven years, we won't continue your subscription. You don't have to do that manually. But anything less than seven years or whatever the ridiculous amount of time is, we will just add, we will just continue your subscription, your paying subscription after your gift subscription runs out. So yeah, gift membership.

Anyway, you will always just add time. The only difference is at the end of seven years, we won't continue your subscription. You don't have to do that manually. But anything less than seven years or whatever the ridiculous amount of time is, we will just add, we will just continue your subscription, your paying subscription after your gift subscription runs out. So yeah, gift membership.

That's the gift that keeps on giving.

That's the gift that keeps on giving.

We didn't talk about it last time, but it's in the front, which is interesting. So here's the thing about the headphone jack. I don't think there's any perfect place to put the headphone jack on a computer the size of the Mac Mini. Because you can make an argument for the front. You can make an argument for the back. You can probably make an argument for the side.

We didn't talk about it last time, but it's in the front, which is interesting. So here's the thing about the headphone jack. I don't think there's any perfect place to put the headphone jack on a computer the size of the Mac Mini. Because you can make an argument for the front. You can make an argument for the back. You can probably make an argument for the side.

I bet somebody can make an argument for the top because that thing is so little. You can put it in so many different places. It's, you know, people who want a clean setup, but they don't want to see that wire. They'd rather have the wire going from the back and underneath the desk and, I don't know, snaking up through some other thing.

I bet somebody can make an argument for the top because that thing is so little. You can put it in so many different places. It's, you know, people who want a clean setup, but they don't want to see that wire. They'd rather have the wire going from the back and underneath the desk and, I don't know, snaking up through some other thing.

People want it on the front because they're constantly plugging and unplugging it. People want it on the top because the Mac Mini is on a little thing next to them and they have good, easy access to the top.

People want it on the front because they're constantly plugging and unplugging it. People want it on the top because the Mac Mini is on a little thing next to them and they have good, easy access to the top.

Uh, if it's underneath your desk, all the, this changes, but so they had to pick somewhere to put it and they pick the front, which is so much more defensible sort of front and top are so much more defensible on a giant tower computer because it's just so hard to reach around the back of a giant tower computer, especially, you know, like it's, but the mini is so small, it could be literally anywhere on anybody's desk.

Uh, if it's underneath your desk, all the, this changes, but so they had to pick somewhere to put it and they pick the front, which is so much more defensible sort of front and top are so much more defensible on a giant tower computer because it's just so hard to reach around the back of a giant tower computer, especially, you know, like it's, but the mini is so small, it could be literally anywhere on anybody's desk.

So I kind of feel for Apple in choosing the placement. Uh, but anyway, they chose the front and I don't think you'll see a lot of pictures in Apple's PR photography, uh, showing a wire connection to the Mac Mini anywhere in the front, let alone a headphone wire connected to the front. But there it is.

So I kind of feel for Apple in choosing the placement. Uh, but anyway, they chose the front and I don't think you'll see a lot of pictures in Apple's PR photography, uh, showing a wire connection to the Mac Mini anywhere in the front, let alone a headphone wire connected to the front. But there it is.

People like the back, too, because they don't want to see the wire. Well, it depends what you're plugging into it. You're right. So you don't see the wire. It's like, I never unplug it. I just want something plugged in the back. Like, say you have it hooked up to some other, like, bigger, more complicated piece of audio equipment than just headphones. It's like, I don't want to see that wire.

People like the back, too, because they don't want to see the wire. Well, it depends what you're plugging into it. You're right. So you don't see the wire. It's like, I never unplug it. I just want something plugged in the back. Like, say you have it hooked up to some other, like, bigger, more complicated piece of audio equipment than just headphones. It's like, I don't want to see that wire.

Like, imagine if, I don't know, you explained to me they have, like, headphone amps or something. I don't even know what...

Like, imagine if, I don't know, you explained to me they have, like, headphone amps or something. I don't even know what...

kind of things you can connect to that jack but if it's something permanently connected and it's not your headphones like it connects to some other box that connects to a thing that connects to your headphones or connects to big speakers you wouldn't want that connected to the front because now you got to like immediately turn the wire around and have it go backwards like it's just so dependent on what your setup is what you're going to have plugged in there and how often you're going to plug and unplug it but

kind of things you can connect to that jack but if it's something permanently connected and it's not your headphones like it connects to some other box that connects to a thing that connects to your headphones or connects to big speakers you wouldn't want that connected to the front because now you got to like immediately turn the wire around and have it go backwards like it's just so dependent on what your setup is what you're going to have plugged in there and how often you're going to plug and unplug it but