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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook attending Trump inauguration after $1 million donation

    NickoTT said:
    This is what is required when the man baby "chosen" to run the country has the mind, vocabulary and temperament of an five year old. Don't fault Tim. Fault the people that voted for Trump.

    Fault the people who voted for Trump as opposed to the people who voted in Bied & Harris. Biden is a man who can hardly speak and most likely though he was president of Russia for the past 4 years! You people on this forum are so far out of touch with reality, it is quite frightening how you can function in society! I see lots of Democrats and leftists on here.

    Wow. Either you’re in touch with reality and lying and projecting, or… you’re completely out of touch with reality and believe what you’ve just said, and… projecting. Do yourself and us a favour and keep track of stuff like the price of eggs, now. And health insurance. And other basic essentials. And stop watching FOX News, please.

    By the way: we’re not just “Democrats and leftists” here, you’re assuming we’re either American, whatever you consider “leftist”, or both. In my case, I’m neither. In my country, there’s a literal Communist Party, and the only reason I don’t support them is because, well, I don’t think their supposedly “democratic” system works and because they’re basically tankies and, even today, Putin simps because whoever is the US’s enemy, they will support regardless of what ideology they espouse. As for Anarchism – and believe me, I have plenty of anarchist friends and know what it entails –, I don’t advocate for it either, because I don’t see it working on a large scale, but I’ve seen it, with my very own eyes, working at a smaller one, so there’s that. I do support a brand of leftism that is so far left of whatever you think “the left” is that it would make your head explode if I even dared explain it to you in detail. Whatever you consider “leftist” in your country is a bunch of centrist milquetoast dilettantes (oh, believe me, there are true leftists over there, but they’re not wasting their time hanging around on a tech forum, they’re instead preparing the upcoming resistance, in the form of direct action, to the fascist bs that’s cooking), and Democrats…? They’re just Republicans painted blue, who are better with their finances and show some token respect for most women and some minorities, but that’s about it, they’re pretty right-wing by ANYONE ELSE’S standards (anyone outside of US politics, that is).

    TL;DR: your country is cooked, and you will now get to see and feel, firsthand, what it’s like to have the fascists and oligarchs truly unfettered and in charge. I just hope that it doesn’t take three or four decades to reverse it – as it often does, and I live in a country that had those fully on charge, next to another country that also had did, and which maintains strong post-colonial ties to countries that also did, so… it’s a bit of a pattern, and doesn’t really discriminate on nationality, you see –, because while you and/or your Christian nationalist friends (not assuming that you necessarily are, but a lot of them are) may love the new regime at first, because its mandate aligns with your values or something, at some point it will stagnate (I mean, it will immediately make the country poorer, due to its attempt to remove women from the workforce, Taliban-style) and make crucial mistakes (see above, but it’s structurally corrupt and will do much worse than what the Dems and classic GOP did before it), and you’ll want to get rid of the whole bunch every now and then – trust me, you will, because hunger, general poverty and fear for your own life can be powerful motivators, much more so than those stupid culture wars that FOX et al. shove down everyone’s throats, and look no further than guys like Luigi uniting surprisingly diverse swaths of the population in thought – and run into a brick wall, because, surprise surprise, that’s how dictatorships work. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobrabyronl
  • Apple Podcasts no longer king as competitors gain ground

    I will NEVER use any platform other than Apple Podcasts. NEVER. If it wasn't for iPods and iTunes way back when, podcasts wouldn't be the vibrant, DRM-free, royalty-free medium they are now.

    And I like listening to podcasts, much like I enjoy reading media through RSS/Feedly/NetNewsWire, because I hate being completely dependent upon an algorithm, content blocking, etc. If I'm following a certain content producer, I want to make sure I have access to EVERYTHING new they produce, as they publish it, with no weird third-party curatorial shenanigans.
    tokyojimudanox
  • macOS 26 may not support 2018 MacBook Pros, 2019 iMacs, or the iMac Pro

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    However, not every Mac user will be able to enjoy the visual changes and Apple Intelligence enhancements within macOS 26, codenamed "Cheer." Individuals familiar with Apple's internal operating system variants and pre-production builds of macOS 26 suggest Apple could drop support for multiple older, Intel-based Macs.


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    “Cheer”? What in Kier’s name is that codename? 😂
    randominternetpersonwilliamlondonAlex1N
  • Review: Apple's 13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

    sirozha said:
    daekwan said:
    rob53 said:
    Do you like your Mac? Would you like one of the latest MBPs? If so, then quit complaining and buy one and use it. If not, then go find a Windows PC and see it that satisfies your urge to waste your time fixing things instead of being productive.
    Oh burn!!!

    I've never seen it stated it better.  While I dont agree with many of the changes to the new MBP.  I realize this is what Apple has always done.  They have always been expensive.  They have always been controversial in dropping legacy ports/devices.  They have always had proprietary dongles, cables and devices.  

    But you know what else Apple has always done?  Always delivered the most stable desktop OS and rock solid software.  Always built robust, quality products that outlast, outperform and hold their value much better than their competitors.  Always provided an unmatched user experience.  

    So this 2016 MBP w/TouchBar presents potential buyers with a choice that so many previous Apple products have done.  Do you more money for the product from the company who has built a reputation of "just working"?  Or do you save some bucks, choose a competitor.. and probably end up seriously regretting a few months later.. as you find out exactly the competition costs less and creates more headaches.  
    Mini display port and/or HDMI will
    be back in the next generation unless they cannot fit the ports on the side of the body because of how thin the body is. I suspect the MagSafe will be back too. They tried to kill FireWire a few years ago but due to an outcry they brought it back for a few more years. 
    … Seriously? I'm royally pissed at Apple because of their dumbheaded decision to solder in the SSD and will not be recommending the Touch Bar to my colleagues/customers, or not without issuing severe caveats (many of them didn't indeed know that their Unibody MacBooks were upgradeable at all when they bought them, but after spending years putting Fusion Drives and extra RAM on the latter and seeing how happy they are with the results, I know for a fact – it's just human nature at work – they will buy their next Mac under the assumption that it, too, will be upgradeable; I had already started warning them that RAM wasn't upgradeable anymore with the advent of the first Retina models – and advising them to upgrade it by default and buy BTO machines only, because the price difference isn't that obscene –, and it is now my moral duty to warn them about how storage upgrades work in the same way and just how expensive they are, sosumi… And AI should at least help me/us out a bit; shame on you writers and on you fellow forum-goers for excusing them, as the after-market upgrade path – or, sadly in this case, its lack thereof – is indeed a materially relevant information for all the buyers that may not follow all of AI's posts on the subject, which will quickly get buried under newer articles), but not even I think that the decision to axe all ports in favor of 2/4 Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports was as stupid as many people like to teasingly tell me, nor do I think Apple will ever reverse it. Not in a million years…

    In fact, since I/O ports are a user-facing feature and one about which Apple seems to be very proud and smug, I'd venture to say that it's actually more likely they will redesign both Touch Bar models' internals over the next iterations so that they may feature a discret SSD (hey, I know this “prediction” of sorts is mostly wishful thinking on my part and should be taken with a big grain of salt, but I do believe Apple designers will keep the current design for a little while and maybe the engineers may put slots on it again if they manage to miniaturize the logic board further with newer, more efficient chipsets, CPUs and GPUs) than they would reintroduce any specialized connector. The only different connectors you may ever see on Macs (if they do last that long as a platform) will be a newer, more powerful replacement for USB-C in 10-20 years' time and, since those headphone jacks' days are numbered anyway (Phil's PR “truths” notwithstanding), a Lightning connector for newer wired AirPods and Beats products once the market is saturated enough with iPhone 7 (and newer) units.
    freethinkingentropys