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anoylla said:

"I strongly dislike the facelift of System Preferences in Ventura. Older is better." I totally agree! If the purpose of updates is to make users' lives easier, then one thing is certain, System Preferences (System Settings in Ventura) has made users' lives a nightmare.

I wouldn't say older is intrinsically better, but it does feel like the apple faithful are being asked to accept a number of downgrades of late, in the name of... progress? the new system preferences is a prime (if relatively innocuous) example of this. 

Anyone know if Sync.com will be affected? doesn't seem like their end to end encryption would be compatible with this new API

So I just got in a reply from the wonderful folks at Caldigit regarding my in query about how the USB ports do or don't share busses: "The short answer is that there are a total of 3 USB buses for a total of 7 USB ports. The USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 + 1 USB-A is on one bus. 3 Rear USB-As are on the 2nd bus. Front USB-A and USB-C are on the 3rd bus. "

cgWerks said:

If there are other ports on the eGPU like Ethernet or USB, do they function regardless of whether you 'eject' the GPU or not? It would be great if you could use the eGPU or not (i.e.: say you want quiet), but still utilize the extra ports. Though, I guess that would require video passthrough as well for an external monitor.

I have the Mantiz as well (with Vega frontier) and yes the ports work regardless of whether egpu is active (or even installed). same is true in bootcamp.

This article makes it sound like Siri (not to mention Apple Pay, the original iPhone itself, and numerous other Apple products) weren't launched in apple's own home domestic market first. Granted, more people around the world speak English than Korean, and at this point voice recognition tech should be beyond such rudimentary growing pains, but the tone of the article seems to suggest that if it doesn't serve the American market first and foremost it's intrinsically a failure.