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Unfortunately, there are other places that software launched at startup is embedded. It's almost as bad as Windows Registry.  

Apple's own launch agents and daemons are in :

/System//Library/LaunchAgents
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons

You'll also find 3rd party system wide startup items in 

/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons

That DO NOT appear and cannot be controlled or listed as described in this note. I've had to purge items from those locations too many times—such as MalwareBytes Mac which continued to launch services and a menubar applet despite not having any active services running (I was out of the trial period on the free monitoring).  

And user specific ones are held in 

/Users/<username>/LaunchAgents

where <username> is the user's home directory. When trying to remove things that launch at startup or login, you'll need to look first as described in the article and then backwards through the lists here. And possibly also when removing software you no longer use. 

Apple doesn’t need to frame it as a Win. It is a Win for the Consumer. Apple has already adopted it on their chargers, most iPads, and Mac. It was plain stupid to have a partial adoption and continue to have it on the iPhone, AirPods (pro and other) and the bottom end iPad. And not just the connector but multiple interface and charging circuits. Tired of the plethora of cables for different devices including USBC to lightning. At this point I’d pay a battery replacement fee to have my iPhone 13 converted. 

For those saying use the magnetic charger, I want faster charging at times —which necessitates using a USB-C charger and a USB-C to Lightning adapter cable (or adapter on a USB-C double ended cable).

Apple NEEDS to stop the drumbeat of annual  significant software feature enhancements.  Quality hit the skids when they started that BS. It’s time to recover quality.  

Rayz2016 said:

DRB said:

designr said:

razorpit said:

Only problem is the company will pull all the people that made the same bad governmental decisions in CA to TX. Eventually Texas will eventually end up ruined like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, etc.

THat's exactly what's happening in Colorado. Bail out of California. Come bid up housing in Colorado. Then start re-creating CA at the political level. 

Actually, I can't think of anything good the Republicans have done when CA had a Republican Governor..  Reagan shut down mental hospitals to save money and all it did was put mentally ill patients on the streets.   Way to improve California..  

Mmmmm.  The Conservatives did the same thing here. They called it ‘Care in the Community’.  

As I remember, it led to a number of ex-patients killing people. 

For those that don’t remember (or may not have been adults following the news during the time period—I’m old (: ), the reason for the increase in mentally ill homeless on the streets was not principally a political decision. It was the result of a series of Supreme Court rulings from 1971-1982 that holding that involuntary civil commital and confinement was a violation of the 14th amendment. Those decisions resulted in the release of essentially everyone that wanted to go, was not a danger to themselves, and capable of surviving on their own. See Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_involving_mental_health, under civil commitment, for a nice summary. 

That said, and back to the topic, happy to see companies leaving California irrespective the potential effect on destination political climes. Perhaps CA, and other states, will get the idea that taxation and regulation to death are not good for the economic environment.  Companies are following the manufacturing model. If labor, living, and regulation make it cheaper to operate elsewhere, companies go there especially when there is a available skilled pool of talent or talent can be induced to move. 

Personally, given the humidity and the potential for flooding in a large part of Houston, I’d rather not work there either. 

Well perhaps I’ll upgrade.  Still rocking the original series 0 watch (2nd one, battery swelled and apple replaced it) .  The ultra with all the bells and whistles looks like a decent buy. 

Any product “hookup” with any kardashian is a product I’ll avoid like the bubonic plague.

A bit behind again. I have a Chinese sourced non-Apple Watch, that is pretty much spot on with blood pressure compared to an upper arm cuff measurement… after it was calibrated, using said cuff. Cost less than $50. it also measures heart rate, SPO2, and temperature — and makes a guesstimate about blood sugar. However, the glucose measurement is wildly off and not in the least reliable. So the BP technology has been around for a while and proven.  Apple’s just refused to include it.