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ionicle said:

Difference between matter and thread??

slow n easy said:

ITGUYINSD said:

Anilu_777 said:

Twitter has become a sh!tshow. A dumpster fire of epic proportions. But the parody blue check account posts were epic!! Hilarious!!

I saw on the news today that bankruptcy for Twitter isn't off the table.  Is this how he operates Tesla and his rocket ship company?  Jeezus!

Thankfully, no. The rocket ship company is actually very well run and it is literally changing the world. So far, Elon’s company is the only one in history to ever land an orbital rocket. Bezos can land his rocket but it’s only sub-orbital. Elon should be launching his spaceship to orbit for the first time by the end of next month.  

jimh2 said:

JP234 said:

Is anyone surprised that people who can work for a psychopathic a-hole are a-holes themselves? The boss a-hole has already crapped out and flushed anyone who isn't his brand of a-holery, and not just in Tesla. He should wind up just like his hero, Nikola Tesla, a con man/hustler with one good idea and a lifetime of bad decisions leaving him alone, friendless, staggering drunk on his own Kool-Aid.

Can you provide us a list of your accomplishments? I will say 100% certainty you have done little to nothing that is even noteworthy whereas Musk, whom you describe psychopathic a-hole, will remembered as one of the greatest leaders in history:

• Tesla: Against all odds he created a successful car company and brought EV's to the masses. No other car company has been able to come close to what he has done and they are established manufacturers with everything to make a car in place. They chose to get passed by a newcomer. I still do not have much hope for Ford or GM and Toyota has mostly sat the quest for EV's out. I am not sure how anyone will catch Teslain the near term as he is years ahead and not letting off of the gas.
• SpaceX: First privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to put a commercial satellite in orbit. First private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft. First private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Has rockets that return to their takeoff spot. Prior to SpaceX Lockheed Martin and Boeing sat on fat, competition free contracts with NASA delivering the status quo, with no hope of every doing what Musk did.
• Starlink: Created a company delivering Internet to numerous area and countries that stood zero change of getting high speed service. The market leader prior to Starlink was Hughes Net which pales in comparison to Starlink even though it is early stage.
• PayPal: Cofounder.
• Add in battery production, work on solar and probably some stuff I cannot think of.

Note that this is more than one good idea. That is four game-changing companies he founded, co-founded or leads. As close to Steve Jobs as anyone has been in a long time. No question his behavior is questionable, but he has gotten results. If you have someone to compare him to please let us all know.

JP234 said:

For some insight into the personality and inspiration of Elon Musk, please read this biography of Nikola Tesla. "Tesla: Man Out Of Time." The only difference is the money.

https://www.amazon.com/Tesla-Man-Time-Margaret-Cheney/dp/0743215362/ref=asc_df_0743215362/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312155960128&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6767994804293495056&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021715&hvtargid=pla-451064473356&psc=1

bgardman said:

It would be nice if Apple could allow us to clean the keyboards without starting the Mac up with a key press. This is part of the auto on they use now. I have a MacBook Pro M1 and it is really annoying when I clean the keys to have the Mac startup. Any key.

Madbum said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

Madbum said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

Madbum said:

Joe Biden needs to go. I am sorry but I am not usually political but this guy is ridiculous 

This started two years into the Trump administration.

And it was dead when San Jose court decided for Apple but brought back when Biden appointed the socialist Kanter . Did you even read the article above?

Considering that I wrote it, yes, I did. The DoJ didn't stop after the trial. It may have slowed, but didn't stop.

Epic v. Apple was ruled on in September 2021. Kanter was appointed on November 2021.

I read up on Kanter after seeing  your article here. This is 100 percent Kanter, the guy  is a communist socialist if you read what he has wrote in past.

Anyways, you can defend Biden if you want to but I have a right to my position as well . Or do I?

retrogusto said:

A few years ago I wrote to Apple to ask for something similar for laptops. I mostly buy laptops, but 99% of the time I use them at home plugged in, and on occasion I use them elsewhere, but almost never far from an outlet. So I basically always use them plugged in, and like to just leave them plugged in rather than unplugging them every time I turn them off, but as a result my batteries periodically swell up and need to be replaced. I think it’s happened 4 times over the years. One Apple Store employee told me their laptops “weren’t designed to be left plugged in,” although they obviously were left plugged in at the Apple Store. With a previous model, I eventually just took out the battery and used it without one, although it’s nice to have battery backup for emergencies, and these days removing the battery is not as easy. What I asked for was a “desk mode” that would just maintain the battery at a modest level without charging frequently, and if I knew I was going to need more of a charge I could just switch out of desk mode ahead of time. Maybe someday…

araquen said:

I’ve dabbled in third party solutions, and tend to give up using them. Some of them got my money, and I have no regrets.

Grammarly - I found this intrusive, plus I was not going to pay a subscription. 

1Password - I was NOT a fan of moving to a subscription, and there was one update that “broke” attachments. If Apple’s native password manager lets me maintain parity between my Mac and my frankenbox (though with Microsoft screwing up Windows 11 as it is, I may not need the frankenbox anymore), I don’t mind removing another subscription from my budget.

Windows managers - I’ve tried them and this functionality doesn’t really work for me anyway.

Calculators - I never needed anything fancy. The apps on iPhone and my Mac are fine for my needs. PCalc has a digital dice app, which I did buy and I am sure Apple has no interest in. So if anyone wants to keep supporting PCalc, especially if you’re looking to get into TTRPs, Dice is worth the price.

Calendars and task managers - there has been NO calendar solution that does what Apple’s Calendar will do, with the exception of Palm’s Palm Desktop calendar, which maybe clung to live as late as 2008: which is the in-line coordination of to dos and calendar entries. Even Fantastical keeps reminders to a sidebar. I have been begging for “threaded” tasks and calendar entries for almost 20 years. If there is another calendar app that will do this, I can’t find it, and if Fantastical can do this, I was never able to unlock that feature (unless it was gated behind a subscription paywall).

Journals - I have never been able to journal, even though I bought several journaling apps (some of which switched to subscription, and I draw the line at subscription models for software.

The one app I really wish Apple would sherlock is TuneUp. To date, has been the best tagging software I have ever used - as long as you are diligent. It is no longer in development and can no longer be used with Apple’s jukebox (Apple Music). But TuneUp worked from the same database Apple uses, not the insanely inaccurate Musicbrainz current full featured music taggers rely on, and was able to determine what was an album track versus a complication track. It allowed you to force a recording into an album even if the identifier believed the track was from a compilation, and was able to use duplicates to build out multiple albums before flagging the file as a duplicate (great for, say, The Beatles, where the same songs appear on a LOT of albums, both as stand alone albums and compilations). It could also bulk process files, and didn’t require music files to already be in an album folder. You could literally have a drive full of music files and TuneUp would sort and tag all of it without you having to micromanage it. APPLE! SHERLOCK TUNEUP!

charlesn said:

I understand why you love this device--it's literally a dupe of the Kindle Oasis from 5 years ago that I own and love, with the addition of a color screen in the Boox. Don't take my word for it--have a look at the Kindle Oasis page on Amazon and you'll see an identical device. So that extra wide bezel on the one side with the page turn button is hardly "genius" on the part of Boox--that's called "theft," lol. Fortunately for Boox, Amazon has already EOL'd the Oasis and you can only buy one used, so if you like that form factor and want a new device, Boox is now the only way to go. 

I would really appreciate more specifics in a product review than the broad generalities given here. About the only thing we get about "performance" in the performance section is a vague comparison with an iPad and an iPhone... ummm, how about performance comparisons with other e-readers? How quick are the page turns, how fast does it boot up, how subject is the screen to ghosting, what is the OS like, how even is the backlighting--where does Boox position the LEDs and how many are used? What is e-ink color like compared to what we're accustomed to seeing on backlit screens? Is color all that useful or necessary in an e-reader? Also, since it's now 17 years since the Kindle debuted, do we really need to be telling people that e-readers are not gaming devices? Honestly, with Amazon seeming to have suspended further development of the Kindle (I don't know that for a fact, but it sure seems that way) the most curious potential buyers for this Boox device are likely current Kindle owners looking for a next gen device. Is there any way to use their Kindle library on a Boox? Is there an equivalent to the Amazon Kindle Store for purchasing books for the Boox? Overall, this review reads more like the written version of an unboxing video and is a missed opportunity to really inform. 

I do wonder about the future of Kindle hardware on Amazon. I'm sure that entire business amounts to no more than a miniscule rounding error on their balance sheet, so in this era of cost-cutting at Amazon, it would be hard to justify the R&D investment to continue bringing new Kindles to market for a loyal and passionate user group that is unfortunately fairly small. Perhaps Amazon abandons the e-reader hardware business and focuses on being the best online bookstore for e-titles no matter what brand of e-reader you use? Maybe--if they abandon the hardware business--they make Kindle purchases readable on other brands of e-readers so that people can continue to access their Kindle libraries. I'd be curious to hear what other e-reader users think in the comments below.