I love the weight limits being described in case someone has a particularly chonky cat

Nice dodge! Unfortunately, this made it more obvious.

Those are really basic parts that are really cheap to make with current tech at least.

Which of the parts you mentioned are by definition more expensive? A modem? FaceID is 10 y/o now btw. You're just speculating and selling this as facts. Meanwhile actual material like aluminum, copper, lithium and others are genuinely expensive and the difference in weight of the precious metals and alloys used is obvious.

I think you can do a bunch of that on Digitalocean's GPU droplets.

Pressing Shift+Win+S is pretty instantaneous for taking screenshots, you don't need to open the tool.

the houses are really easy to find in satellite view on maps too

The DEC Alpha processor. DEC as a whole, really.

Isilon has their own filesystem that stores the data across multi-node clusters, you then export that out over NFS/SMB/S3, and the nodes load balance the I/O across the cluster.

I modded that mechanic out, it was infuriating.

I enforce a work/life balance and this is how the team loses a weekend when something goes wrong.