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s.metcalf said:

Presumably the pstopdf Terminal converter remains…?

Yep - in fact I converted it's man page to PDF and stored it in Books.

   man -t pstopdf | pstopdf -o "Postscript to PDF man page.pdf"

I hope like hell they also add a Thunderbolt/USB4 controller while they're at it.

If they're going to be adding USB-C and allow users to take Pro Raw photos and ProRes video, they ought to supply a way to get the content off the phones in a reasonable timeframe.

What you have to realize is that the USSR generations just watch television for all their information, and TV is totally controlled by the government.

Younger Russians use VPNs and get information from the internet at large, and most of them are against the Special Military Operation.

The thing both have in common is they all seem to be totally divorced from what their country is doing; none of them thinks that anything they do make a speck of difference in what Putin and the Russian government is going to do. Russian elections are going on right now, and all opposition candidates have been jailed. Anyone who vocally opposes the war has had to leave the country - even calling the conflict a war can get you a 15 year jail term.

Interviews with remaining Russian citizens seem to show that practically none of them is introspective and thinks about the atrocities being committed by Russian forces - they all seem very privileged and think they should have the freedom to travel to other lands, and even the newly minted Russians say that if they're denied travel visas the offending country is an enemy - so the difference between the USSR generations and post USSR Russians may simply be a new coat of paint. Russians seem very naïve, though that naiveté may simply be them being cagy and avoiding persecution.

There are rural and urban Russians, and all the troops come from the more impoverished rural setting.

Of the urban areas, only Moscow and St. Petersburg really count, and none of grunts are from these areas.

Russia is throwing forces in Ukraine as fast as they can, and they come from prisons and anywhere they can get personnel - a big source of troops is the occupied areas of Ukraine taken by Russian in 2014, and men from those areas are being conscripted at an alarming rate.

Anyway, enough of this off-topic post, except to say that Apple gear is a ton more expensive now in Russia than it was when Apple marketed devices legitimately.

Despite claims here that there's nothing wrong with the USB-C connector, I find that it really sucks.

I have Thunderbolt cables coming out of the back of my 2020 iMac 5K going to two storage units, and find that if I think about going near them they disconnect with dispiriting frequency.

If USB plugs had a simple spade connector like lightning I think the cables would be reliable - but with that stupid female connector within a sleeve design, you just don't get a durable and reliable connection.

rezwits said:

Guys come on, quit playing Fox and the Grapes...

I am a 100% macFanBoy, have purchased over 100 apple product in my lifetime, since 1985!

If they don't get a Flip and/or Fold next year for the 2023, "iPhone 15"

That's that... Samsung kicked our ASS.  I am not gonna sit here in denial!

I had a Motorola Flip (2-3 of um) back in the day and it's NiiiCCCCEEEE...

Sorry, face facts dawgs...  They have the SCREEN TECH, and Apple can't do an F-ing thing!

Get real boys...  BUT we kick their ass on EVERYTHING else, so... you know the saying:

You can't win um all...

This is … on the Z-Flip.

As for Samsung's glass slab offering: I'm buying an iPhone 14 Pro Max next week. Only decisions are color and storage - the latter being dictated by whether they increase lightning speed or not. I'm currently driving a 13 Pro Max 512GB which will be going to my wife - my daughter will be taking my 12 Pro Max (and maybe my Apple Watch 5).

There's just no getting around the synergies of the Apple ecosystem.

With Applecare+ with loss and theft, I no longer need a backup iPhone, and with Focus I no longer need to keep a zeroed out iPhone to fly my drone.