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Some manufacturers and healthcare organisations are being to label this as a potential side effect. You can find a one line warning on NHS website now.
People take the drug are usually desperate and at their most vulnerable periods in life. It’s very risky to make life-changing decisions, more so without complete knowledge.
Doctors usually won’t even listen to cases of PSSD by simply attributing the SD as remission of depression. But there’re some recent studies on how SSRI could change neutral receptors in a non-reversible way, which could be the potential mechanism.
I think you’re being the sensationalist here by the prejudice of pure maths and literature being “unproductive”.
Besides, the iPad Pro is really not designed nor advertised as replacement for MacBook. They have very different audiences in mind. Of course it sucks for the desktop tasks that MacOS was built for. But the iPad Pro beats the Mac for artists, students, and researchers in most tasks.
I’ve been using an iPad Pro for all of my work as a mathematical physicist for many years. I think the iPadOS is absolutely fantastic for what I do on a daily basis: editing and reading PDFs (LiquidText), writing with LaTeX (TeX Writer), opening a ton of Safari tabs. It can even do an okay job on editing videos (LumaFusion), photos (Darkroom), writing codes (Textastic, Working Copy). Of course it’s not the best for all of these things, but it excels on where the MacOS sucks, and vice versa.
As for the new iPad Pro announcement, I absolutely don’t think the M1 is a waste. I can totally see myself utilising the extra RAM to stop Safari tabs from unloading, to working on larger workspace in LiquidText, to editing more tracks in LumaFusion, and etc.