noraa1138

dieter said:

MacPro said:

Or use Carbon Copy Cloner.  I just copied 12 TB without issue.

CCC didn't solve the issue... not over USB, ethernet, Thunderbolt. Disabling SIP did the job, but I'm without WiFi because of this.

You can re-enable SIP after making the NVRAM changes, and WiFi will start working again. I just confirmed, an the NVRAM changes stick even after re-enabling SIP.

ITGUYINSD said:

If you take the time to look at the 2018-2019 flu season statistics, you'd see that in CA, we had 30-50 flu-related deaths PER WEEK!  Why didn't we "lockdown" then?  Is the media blowing this out of proportion?  I saw during the 2018-2019 flu season that in the US, 80,000 people died!  Did we shutter businesses, stop travel, and basically turn everyones life upside down?  Did financial markets collapse?  

It's amazing that in past years, all the flu-related deaths we had, and nothing changed in our day-to-day lives except taking precautions and washing your hands.

Yet now, the numbers are much lower with COVID-19 and look what we're doing.  I'm trying to make sense of it.

There are a couple of reasons for this.

1.) This is probably the biggest reason (and has been stated ad nauseam...), the death rate for COVID-19 is currently at about 3.4% worldwide (this number is likely to fluctuate considerably before this is all over - but most estimates are for it to hover b/w 2% and 3%), whereas the death rate for the flu is usually around 0.1%. So we're talking about a 30 fold increase in the death rate.

2.) While the flu does mutate every year, the mutations are relatively minor and we have a good understanding of it. We know most of the systems, we know how to treat it, and most importantly we have a vaccine - that while not 100%, significantly reduces the number of flu cases every year while at the same time reducing the severity for those that do get it. By contrast, COVID-19 is a completely new virus, so there are a lot of unknowns surrounding it. Even now, months into the pandemic, with the genome of the virus fully mapped, we're still learning things about it.

3.) The lack of initial response by the U.S. has made things a lot worse than they needed to be. The biggest issue we're running into right now is simply not knowing how many people have been infected. This is because it took us way, way too long to start testing the populace; and even now we aren't testing nearly fast enough. Thus, governments and businesses are taking what may seem like extreme measures because the actual number of cases is going to be significantly hire than the currently reported number of cases, and if we don't start taking these extreme measures now (some that are already too late), this virus is going to spread through the entire population. Imagine, 7 million people dead in the U.S. (2% of our population) if we don't try and stem the tide.

panoptician said:

People on Reddit are saying that 13.1 enables night mode on their XS and XR. Here's hoping this isn't an accident and Apple actually gives it to us A12ers in the final release. 

I’ve got 13.1 running on my XS and don’t see any option to enable night mode. Do you have a link to the reddit thread?

mac_128 said:

noraa1138 said:

mac_128 said:

USB-A is a worldwide, international standard. At some point it makes sense to change, but not at the moment. Adding extra ports to chargers will just make the chargers cost more. For the vast majority of consumers, USB-A is still the primary port they use. It makes absolutely no sense to cater to a small minority of primarily high-tech users, and make everyone else pay for it.

When is the right moment to switch to USB-C? Sometimes, the only way to create change is to force it. This very same thing happened with the floppy drive, and if anything it was worse, as Apple provided no viable alternative to it at the time (Apple didn't add CD-R drives to their computers for a number of years after they killed the floppy).

There’s no need to do it at all. Usb-A vs. usb-c is not the same thing as replacing the floppy drive with CD-ROM. The number of people who need usb-c in any practical way, who are inconvenienced by the lack of uniformity in their tech setups are minute in comparison to the number of people who rely on USB-A worldwide. The floppy needed to be replaced because data size required it. The average consumer does not need USB-C, when the main reason they plug anything into USB-A is for charging purposes. For the average consumer, the world is moving toward wireless, and when that happens USB-A will drop away, and there will likely be a better standard than USB-C for those who do need a wired connection. 

So because the average consumer doesn't "need" USB-C we should just forget about it? Should Apple not have transitioned from the 30-pin connector to lightning because nobody needed lightning? Should we not have moved on from serial ports to USB because most consumers didn't need USB? Your argument makes zero sense.

I'd love to see an 80W charger for my 15" MBP. As far as safety is concerned, theoretically this charger should be safer than a standard charger (should be the optimal word here). The main reason GaN chargers can be so much smaller than a standard charger is because it produces significantly less heat than a silicon based charger. Heat is one of the main culprits in the cause of chargers failing and shorting out (heat causes the various components to expand, which could lead to a short circuit). Plus, RavPower has a pretty good track record. Time will tell however.