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  • It's tough, but you can hack a M4 Mac mini to get power over USB-C

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    AppleInsider said:

    A typical USB-C Charge Cable, sold by Apple and supplied with some of its products, can operate at up to 60 watts without being a problem. Based on Apple's usage description, it will pretty much cover the processing capabilities of an M4 Mac mini.

    Nonsense, only the el cheapo cables without eMarker chip are limited to 60W, but they usually have other limitations, too (like only supporting USB2 or no data at all). Any proper USB-C cable has an eMarker chip and is rated for 5A (which can go way higher than 100W with the latest EPR voltage ranges), Apple itself has been offering a 140W USB-C power supply for it MBP series for quite a while... And of course even the standard 96W brick requires Apple to ship a proper 5A rated cable... Probably the only cable in their offering that doesn't support 5A mode is the cable shipped with the iPads and smaller portable devices.
    watto_cobra

  • What you should know about Apple's switch from rsync to openrsync

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    dewme said:
    Very interesting. 
    I’m surprised that Apple’s legal department didn’t deal with this concern earlier. GPL has long been a slippery slope for creating legal issues that can potentially result in your proprietary product code being opened up to public use. This has been the case for close to 20 years. I recall the Linksys WRT54G router being in the crosshairs until they caved and released their product source code. 

    Every product I worked on after the Linksys case had to go through the legal team to ensure we were not exposed. 
    This story is quite a bit different than your usual OSS license compliance. Linksys wasn't the only license offender back in the day or after but a good case to test the legal grounds of the GPL license. However other than other vendor, Linksys was quite understanding of problem and decided to not try their legal luck in court but rather work with the community and turn the problem into an actual benefit for the company by releasing the source code. I happened to be involved in that process.

    Other companies decided to try their luck in court and lost, proving that the GPL license has bite and can be enforced.

    GPL in general might be annoying but GPLv3 doesn't contain that many critical changes compared to GPLv2 (mostly compatibility with other licenses, TiVoisation prevention and patent usage) so I'm very much at a loss here why Apple would have a problem with GPLv3 that doesn't exist with GPLv2. Kind of sounds like a lame excuse to slowly phase out the release of source code altogether...
    appleinsideruserthtwilliamlondon

  • Apple's fight with Trump's tariffs will shift the cost to customers

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    A margin drop of 8.5 to 9% isn't sustainable for the investor crowd. 

    That made me laugh really hard. For one Apple has ridiculous gross margins, more than pretty much any other company in the world, a reduction may not be great but "not sustainable"?!? GTFO. The other neglected part here (as usual, US people only know/care about 'murica): the US is the largest regional market, but the rest of the world is still larger and not affected by the tariffs.

    muthuk_vanalingamrjb2112jroyFileMakerFeller

  • iOS 18.4 lands with more Apple Intelligence, Apple Vision Pro app

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    The killer feature of this update: Updates from the App Store are finally as quick as they should be. Almost too quick, the update buttons (and changes) shift quite a bit when installing a ton of app updates.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple doesn't appear to have plans to revive the iPhone mini

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    hmlongco said:
    People say they want one. Apple makes one. People don't buy one. Apple stops making one.

    Rinse. Repeat.

    People did buy it, one dealer I know told me that they sold more iPhone Minis months for months than any other non-Apple or Samsung brand model. Sometimes it's not entirely clear why Apple ditches a product; all bad sales rumours are only unconfirmed speculation. One other products I totally loved was the 17" MBP which was killed but luckily reintroduced as the 16" MBP. Maybe the same will happen to the Mini but maybe not... with that product I have the suspicion that they feel they can't get the margin that they want because people see it as a lesser instead of a more premium product... it's funny to see how that "oooh, but thinner is better and more premium" iPhone Air will play out.
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