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About a year ago I bought the TP-Link XE75 Pro AXE5400 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6E 3-pack from Best Buy. Normally $399 which is a decent price for a Tri-Band 3-pack, but was on sale for $349. Best Buy offers a 15% discount if you bring in an old modem or router for recycling, so I got another ~$52 off. The sales person did not know about the recycling deal, so I had to show him the web page. I just checked and the recycling discount page is still there, so here it is for anyone else interested:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/recycling/networking-recycling-offer/pcmcat1497300657381.c?id=pcmcat1497300657381

Even though not Wi-Fi 7, it made a big difference in my house in terms of both coverage and speed. I'm still pretty happy with it.

cpsro said:

The end of DEI means promotion of incompetent white guys--like Hegseth and RFKjr.  More competent women and minorities are the losers. So... no thanks, little man!

Reminds me of that Calvin and Hobbes cartoon circulating on social recently. Text below (not sure if actually penned by Bill Watterson, but really hits the mark):

"DEI initiatives were not put in place to ensure lower qualified minorities could get hired instead of more highly qualified white people. It was put in place to ensure lower qualified white people were not hired instead of more highly qualified minorities."

Nice to see all the love for the mini iPhones here. Two of the phones on my account are 13 minis, and those family members don't want a larger phone...

I get that the minis only represented a small percentage of total sales, but didn't Apple sell millions of them? Not every phone needs to be in the top 10 does it? Obviously, you can't lose money on every sale, but I wonder how many units need to be sold to recoup development, tooling, and distribution costs. Seems to me that if you could sell millions of anything, that's still good business. 

I was thinking that it would be cool if Apple came out with a 24" 4.5K display to match the 24" iMac, but unless it would be significantly less than $700, might be better off using Universal Control with a used or refurb M1 24" iMac, now that those can be had for ~$700 (or less). And of course it would be a perfect visual match.

For extra points, get two other iMacs for a "triple monitor" setup!

AppleInsider said:

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Regardless of your political beliefs, everyone can admit that the CEO of one of the world's most profitable companies cannot ignore a leader just because they disagree. It remains to be seen if all of this work will benefit Apple in the end.

Totally agree with this.