sandor

entropys said:

Maybe some of these posters are Auxio, but that does not excuse Apple putting a product out to market that requires an adapter to charge a key accessory sold by the very same company, when a design tweak of the accessory (a USBc connector, it could be a pencil gen 1b) or adaptation of the iPad to the 2nd gen pencil already available for years. doing this is a despicable move that is pretty damn shameful. And worse, user unfriendly.

What would Steve Jobs have done? Tore the supply chain bean counter that proposed the very idea a new waste disposal outlet.

Apple has been the king of dongle world forever!

At work we have a drawer full of ADC to DVI/VGA/USB, DVI to VGA, FW800 to FW400, Thunderbolt 1 to everything, Lightening to 3.5 mm, Lightening to SD card, HDMI to DVI, Lightening to USB, USB to ethernet, plus all the 30 pin adapters, plus all the Thunderbolt 2 & 3 adapters, plus all the USB-C adapters.....

The list goes on and on - usually $29 a pop, but necessary.


Jobs would have loved a single-port Macintosh, regardless of dongles. He loved "There is no step 3!"
While he made some great moves for the company, remember, he also brought forth some doozies, things like Ping (if Coldplay and Lady Gaga are hyping its unveiling....  )

This will give us pause to upgrade - especially the rack mountable part.

ihatescreennames said:

Yeah, update now! Because having a "critical security issue that could allow attackers to take control of affected computers" that was previously unreported sounds like a great selling point. Yeesh.

Maybe delete Firefox and switch to a different browser. 

What browser do you switch to?
Chrome had a zero-day back in March and another in November
Safari had 2 back in March
...

Would anyone really be surprised if >50% of Twitter accounts were not "fake" "spam" "bots" "non-human"?

He didnt expect the Tesla stock hit, so his $44 billion in funding suddenly represented a majority of his on-paper fortune.
Hopefully Twitter holds out for the $1 billion payment from him if he does back out.


One of the most immediate fixes social media could implement is human-backed accounts.

MrBunside said:

They also put the exhaust ports on the bottom - is it possible that the bottom is actually the top?  Functionally, leaving it black-side up makes more sense, right?

i was thinking the opposite - that there may be some ?fluid dynamic? reason that airflow may be impacted if it is not on a hard surface? this i am just guessing at - but i remember the Apple laptops that couldn't be used on a lap because they would overheat.

 https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

about 1/3 of the way down, "Built to Chill", there is a good animation of the air flow - Apple says all the air "flows through the foot" so the power button and vents are definitely meant to be on the bottom.

programmer said:

It’s almost like they don’t want people pushing that button.  And don’t want accidental pushes when trying to use the ports.  And the machine is tiny and weighs practically nothing, so if you do have to push it tilting it slightly is hardly a problem, if even necessary.

Seems like making a mountain out of a molehill.

 your use case is obviously not an office of dozens of mounted Mac minis.

One home user's molehill is a small business mountain.

Intel is still highly successful at building their chips on a 10 nm process, Apple has *never* been able to do that

AppleZulu said:

eriamjh said:

Let’s just hope that Apple doesn’t repeat this of they ever get glucose monitoring working.  

I would expect blood oxygen to return in Watch 10 or 11.  

It appears Apple expects to win the current appeal, and it’ll be available on all watches, including the 9s sold with the app currently disabled. 

If Apple wins the appeal and Masimo is shown to be a tenacious patent troll, then it wouldn’t be about Apple ‘repeating this’ with glucose monitoring in the future. Other than by vigorously defending cases like the current one, Apple doesn’t control whether others will try to come after them with patent litigation in the future. 

to be fair, Masimo is a legitimate medical device company that brought functional pulse-oximetry to hospitals almost 30 years ago, decreasing the need for arterial blood gas measurements & improving patient outcomes in NICUs and ICUs & hospitals in general. 

Yes, there are other methods and algorithms, yes, Masimo has typically led the medical field since they introduced signal extraction technology pulse-ox in the mid '90s.

If tech companies ever add OCT to their devices for monitoring your retinal health, i see similar patterns of issues coming from the likes of Zeiss and Heidelberg Engineering and other patent holding companies that have invested vast amounts of time and money into maturation of a concept on the medical side. 

Not speaking to this case in particular, but tech companies seem to think they can flaunt rules and regulations & ignore the status quo (read: rules and regulations) that "traditional" companies have to follow (see NYC/London/others re: Uber/Lyft/AirBNB.... see Owlet selling a baby monitor as a quasi medical device, but with none of the actual testing or ability) 

To be fair, we have watched the 1%-ers in the US steal from us for generations. And get rewarded with more concentrated wealth.

I know it is not an exact comparison, but when you watch the rich lay off your parents & move the factories to Mexico, you watch the rich lie cheat & steal with impunity. You watch the filthy rich oil companies demand tax-payer subsidies & you watch the system break the backs of the workers  more with every passing generation you become slightly immune to the shouts of immorality & societal decay coming from the ivory towers with clear glass walls.

Tax the poor so the rich may live. 

sflocal said:

sandor said:

blastdoor said:

kiwimachead said:

Apple silicon is a game changer but people forget how much of a difference SSD hard drives made when they were introduced. Our 2011 MBA (SSD) died this year. It kept going well beyond software support ending and the only repair was a battery replacement. Without SSD the Intel processor would have been practically unusable a long time ago. I had a MacBook Pro with HDD (also 2011 model year) for work around 2014-2016 and it was so slow as to be almost unusable compared with the humble MBA.

SSDs were definitely a huge upgrade.

...Mac OS does a great job of prioritizing system responsiveness to the user,...

We must not be working with the same Finder. 

I have seen no substantive reduction in beach balling from 10.13 through macOS 14.

in our environment, i would estimate at least one daily force restart (hold power button down) because of a beach balling Finder.

Kernel panics have definitely improved - we have 10.14 & 10.15 machines that panic at least once per week, however we very rarely see the macOS 13/14 machines panic.

I go for months without rebooting my Mac.  If you're doing a daily restart to resolve this, sounds like there's something completely different going on.  Troubleshoot and figure out what's going on.  

my personal MacBook i am the same way - 198 days is my current uptime.

I have been talking about the hardest used workstations @ our office (4 out of about 50 machines)
their use case is utterly different & incredibly data heavy on an 8 Gbps fibre network with multiple 100+ TB RAID arrays.