WTimberman

Because I have a relatively small living room, I bought a pair of HomePods to serve as both music and TV speakers. For music, they're really superb--the computational audio makes a huge difference in staging when you're not at liberty to rearrange the room to suit the speakers. I find most audio systems designed for TV to be far too bright at one end of the frequency range, and far too boomy at the other end. The HomePods are more neutral-sounding to my ear, and seem to more accurately represent transient bass/treble peaks while not at the same time muffling sounds which fall into the more normal dynamic range of, say, intimate conversations between characters. I do agree, though, that HomePods as TV speakers are just not loud enough overall, although the trick of switching from automatic to stereo sound playback on the Apple TV pretty much solved the volume issue for me. (Thanks, Appleinsider staff and editors, for once again going the extra mile for your readers.)

Weird. I set a root password eons ago, Leopard or Snow Leopard, or whatever -- I forget. (my iMac is that old.) I just assumed that it remained set throughout all the subsequent OS updates. I never checked it, because although I do use SUDO, I never log in as root. Imagine my surprise to discover that, as far as High Sierra was concerned, no root password had been set. Go figure....