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MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro: which one is right for you?
To borrow and modify a famous hockey quote.. Apple is skating to where the puck is going to be. All these complaints about a company that has been the only computer willing to break from the past consistently and frequently. No need to rehash all the choices made for the millionth times here..but if people don't understand by now what Apple's hardware philosophy is these arguments will continue forever.
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Apple issues firmware update for MagSafe 3 charging cable
Interesting decision to separate its firmware from the laptops. What else can it do besides charge? Will a future macOS update along with firmware updates for the cable expand its functionality beyond managing power? Ethernet/data like the M1 iMacs maybe.JP234 said:Now that's service! Who else is doing firmware updates on cables?
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Maryland man without backup sues Adobe over Premiere Pro file-eating bug
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Nonsense. Sure Adobe played a part but that is not the point. What if his hard drive had a mechanical failure after a few years? What if his house was robbed and they stole his external drive? What if a fire burns his house down with his equipment? Let's put blame squarely and solely on the actual problem. This "photographer".ecarlseen said:Can everyone quit slagging the guy for not having sufficient backup? Should he have had it? Definitely. But there's absolutely, positively zero excuse for vendors like Adobe (and Microsoft last month with the Windows 10 update) playing so absurdly fast and loose with customer data. These software vendors are forcing their customers into far more expensive subscription pricing models in a vain attempt to maintain revenue growth and correspondingly high stock prices for just a little bit longer, which is sketchy enough, but they're also getting much worse at quality control in the process, which is flat-out evil. Adobe has been one of the worst custodians of IT quality and security in the history of computing with their egregiously and shamelessly poor stewardship of the Flash plugin. Microsoft infamously fired most of their QA personnel a few years ago in order to foist that work onto their "insider" fan base, which has made their extremely poor reputation in that are decline even further. Yes, users do stupid things, but in cases like this we need to focus hard on the deeply evil neglect that certain software vendors have had for our data as well.
This clown had data from 2010 to 2017 on a single drive? That's it? He's not a photographer. He's a rookie. That's the problem with adults like him... it's always someone else's fault. There are a multitude of online options that would back up his data, and keep that data offsite. It's inexcusable in today's inter-connected world that he could not have taken the 1 hour out of his life to get his backup affairs in order.Get a proper, backup procedure in place and life moves on. Take the lazy approach, and this is what happens. No love lost here for me. Good luck having him explain his sloppiness to his "clients".Crybaby: "Uh... sorry.. Adobe erased all your pictures on my computer.."
Client: Okay... you didn't back them up?Crybaby: Uhm... that's not the point.
Client: "hmmmm......" *whispers to friend* "Is this guy legit?"
Fire, theft, etc what you stared could be other causes of data loss are things that would be out of a persons control. Installing an update provided to you is not a situation that you would expect to cause such a major loss.
In my experience not all Creative Professionals are also IT professionals that know all the ins and outs of computers, etc. They are masters of photoshop and that’s about it. They expect their tools, computers just to work. So calling him a clown and rookie is a bit harsh.
