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  • New HomePod parts are 'decently replaceable' says YouTuber

    I was surprised that they place the woofer directly under the touch panel which would attenuate and cause to diffract the acoustical wavefront.
    Say what? What do you do in your spare time? Critique Einstein's General Theory of Relativity perhaps? 
    watto_cobra
  • Google & Microsoft each laying off over 10,000 employees

    avon b7 said:
    mike1 said:
    DAalseth said:
    lkrupp said:
    Because profit comes before people in the end but I need to spew some platitudes to make it sound better. And this goes for all corporations, including Apple.
    True that. It’s always about the bottom line. In big companies the employees are just interchangeable parts, no more important than pawns in their chess game.

    As it should be.
    Not all the time. I've worked with a company (one of the largest in its field in Europe) that could have easily justified layoffs during the economic downturn. 

    The problem was that in some areas where they had factories, workers were the only members of families with jobs. Laying them off would have caused severe harm to the local communities so they kept them on. 

    Shareholders agreed with the policy. 
    Companies are duty-bound to receive advice from their bean counters. Bean counter advice however, is only one perspective. Companies asking the question "but what is the right thing to do? seem to be few and far between. I read somewhere (can't recall where) that many companies, if they were individuals exhibiting this behaviour, would be diagnosed as sociopaths.
    muthuk_vanalingam
  • Australia's Apple Store workers plan Christmas strike

    A thoughtful intelligent response from @FileMakerFeller (@kimberly in Brisbane). 
    muthuk_vanalingamJaiOh81
  • Apple Watch battery blowout sends man to emergency room

    Apple watch battery calls it a day.

    watto_cobra
  • Compared: Parallels Desktop 18 vs VMWare Fusion

    JP234 said:
    It mystifies me as to why anyone would want to run Windows on a Mac, silicon or otherwise. Sure you can do it, but in the words of my late mother, "JP, just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD." Mom was wise.

    With Windows PCs available for next to nothing, both new and refurb, with Windows pre-installed (you know Windows is not included with either emulator, right?), please, someone provide me with justification for not just buying a cheap PC to run your QuickBooks Pro, or some other application not available on MacOS?
    If you have to ask, don't mess with it.
    chadbagdewmeFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra