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OWC Express 4M2 SSD enclosure delivers USB4 speeds & smart cooling
To Nicholfd -- which fan at Amazon? I have two of the current (old) Express 4M2, and the fan on one of them definitely needs to go. A pointer would be great.
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'Marvel Rivals' players face 100-year ban for play on macOS
"...players are penalized by having their login details suspended, sometimes for over a century."
I wouldn't worry, the game isn't going to be around that long...
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Spirit Airlines pays off victim after Apple Watch proves her luggage was stolen
I frequently fly; I'm an amateur photographer and sometimes have my camera gear with me, as well as a MacBook and an iPad. All of this gear is never checked, no matter what the airline demands. If they refuse to let me board, so be it. There is nowhere I have to be that is so urgent that I'll let my gear be checked and then stolen, which it will be. And no matter what a gate agent promises about security and compensation, the airlines will not honor such promises. The gate agent's job is to get you on the plane, not speak for the airline.
Some tips if you are in this situation --
-- tell the gate agent that you have lithium batteries in your gear. Lots of them and they aren't removable (or if they are, you have many of them, like my dozen camera batteries). Lithium batteries can't go into checked luggage. Now your gear and bag are back with you.
-- tell the gate agent that you have medication in the bag (don't lie about this, they may ask to see it). Their rules won't allow them to separate you from your medications. Now your bag is back with you.
-- consolidate your tech gear into the one under-seat bag you that you are allowed. Sucks to do at the gate but one should never, ever put tech into a checked bag. As long as that bag fits under the seat you're good.
Never, ever check a bag containing your tech gear.
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Medical records company Epic partners with Apple on a Mac tool
I run Epic on my Macs daily using the Citrix app. It’s the only way my hospital will allow it to happen, and all the Windows users have the same restriction. Citrix creates a virtual sandbox in which (and a number of other apps) run; the interface looks like a blend of Linux and Windows 95. The idea is that the program,era don’t have to worry about Windows or MacOS, they just have to worry about Citrix. -
AirTag helps man discover lost luggage graveyard in airline offices
A similar thing happened with me a few years back. I left my iPad in a seat-back pocket on a plane after a Southwest flight. After I overcome my initial anger at my own stupidity, I decided to see if I could locate the iPad using 'Find My ...' from my Mac at home. Sure enough, it was sitting in a SW facility in Denver; apparently that's where all the lost and found goes for SW. So I called the baggage claim people there (much, much harder to do than using 'Find My'; do you know how hard airlines make to call about lost baggage?). A woman answered the phone and after I explained the problem, I got the usual answer to 'fill out a form and one day we'll look for it". So I said, wait a sec and listen, and from my Mac at home, I 'pinged' the iPad to make a sound. It chirped. I could hear it over the phone. The woman paused a looong moment and then said, "do that again!" So I did, and kept doing it, and sure enough, she pulled it off whatever shelf it was on. A couple more minutes of discussion and a credit card, and my iPad was in a box headed back to me.Bonus: the iPad at that point still had enough battery power left that I could track it from Denver to the FedEx facility in my home city, to the distribution facility, to the delivery truck, to the daily route the driver took, right to my front door.Yes, I have a bunch of AirTags on all sorts of stuff.
