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  • Apple Music celebrates Billie Eilish's record-breaking year

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    macgui said:
    I can't stand the affectation she employs as a singing style. That she was chosen to mumble the title song for No Time to Die was beyond disappointing. It's fortunate that it's easy to avoid her music.
    Still beats all the country artists who fake twang their vocals.

    "Dude, you're from around here - we don't have that accent!"
    byronlronn

  • Ultimate guide on how to use an external SSD as a working drive on macOS Sequoia

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    I wish it were a lot easier to understand the throughput capabilities of these darn things.

     Check out the description of the OWC enclosure linked in the article:

     Title: OWC 2TB Express 1M2 Portable NVMe Thunderbolt (USB-C) SSD USB4 Ultra Fast External SSD Drive with Aluminum Heat Sink Enclosure

     Yikes. (I like how "SSD" appears twice)

    About this item:
    • Ultra-fast: over 2x faster than Thunderbolt portable enclosures with up to 3151MB/s real-world performance
    • Ultra-compatible: use with USB4, Thunderbolt, and USB-C computers and devices
    • Ultra-reliable: aircraft grade aluminum offers rugged protection of your SSD while silently keeping drive cool for consistent top speed
    • Flexible DIY: use your choice of NVMe M.2 2280, 2242, or 2230 SSD
    • Portable: bus-powered and palm-sized for convenient use anywhere
    • Complete: includes 40Gb/s USB-C cable and screwdriver for enclosure
    Translating between megabytes and gigabits is left as an exercise for the reader.

    Finally there is this helpful note:
    Don't Get Fooled
    Because we're widely considered the Thunderbolt experts, we must know all the little details that others purposefully overlook or hide. For a bus-powered enclosure to be Thunderbolt certified, it must meet Inter power specifications. As such, speeds are limited to 1500MB/s. While many no-name brands claim to be USB4, they are in fact Thunderbolt 3 solutions that do not follow Intel specifications. Unlike those budget brand pretenders that will leave you being fooled and disappointed in far lower speeds, the Express 1M2's true UBS4 connectivity assures you of an astounding doubling of Thunderbolt's speed.

    Is Thunderbolt 4 the same as USB4 as the article implies or not? The "Thunderbolt experts" suggest otherwise.

    How the heck is Joe Not-a-Nerd Public supposed to get this right?
    Thunderbolt 3 and 4 are mostly the same (unless you're on Windows) although Thunderbolt 4 requires the ability to connect multiple monitors.

    USB4 combines USB 3.2 Gen 2, Displayport, Thunderbolt 3, and 100W Power Delivery with a Type C connector

    In many ways it's the goldilocks interface.

    This article does a good job of explaining the differences: https://www.macworld.com/article/675887/thunderbolt-4-vs-thunderbolt-3-vs-usb-4.html
    randominternetperson

  • iPhone 16 sales banned in Indonesia until Apple invests more in the country

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    anonymouse said:
    Thanks EU for showing the world how to shake down American tech companies.
    Hmmmm. The EU learned it from the "best". USA! USA! USA!
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  • Indonesia requests Apple block Temu from the App Store

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    danox said:
    How about roll up your sleeves and design something to compete against them? Instead of crying and giving up. Sanctions and banning particularly against big countries like the United States, China or India or even Russia don’t really work that well in the end.

    When I first saw Shein my reaction was that idea is ingenious why isn’t any American or European company doing that a big way using tech and I don’t mean Amazon? Where are our copycats or look-alikes? When needed? Maybe it’s the fashion/women angle and the supply chain-aspect in the west? In short the male dominated tech bro venture capitalists in America would not be sympathetic to such an idea like Shein.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shein I noticed all tech companies once they get big all have the same problems irregardless of what part of the world they started in. I remember writing something about this company couple years ago on this site I cannot believe that no American company is in this area involving fashion, maybe there is and they just haven’t gotten the traction yet?
    What, sell crappily made clothing that likely isn't as represented and will get thrown out after a wear or two as well and likely uses graphics and other designs (as Alandail points out) are often blatantly stolen from the original creators?

    Why would you want that?
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  • iPhone Mirroring may expose your personal app use to your boss

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    Panner_Nudding said:
    Today on obvious.com 
    Not really. You need to click the link to Sevco and scroll way down to see what the actual problem is.

    In summary turning on iOS screen mirroring shares the Spotlight search info from that phone to Spotlight on the Mac. Spotlight on the Mac can then reveal the apps and certain personal information from the iPhone.


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