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  • Apple reiterates stance on privacy as a human right in new interview

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    beowulfschmidt said:
    entropys said:
    Not a human right. But a constitutional right we all deserve.

    Constitutional rights are human rights.  I wish the phrase "Constitutional Rights" would just go away.  The U.S. Constitution is not a grant of any rights to anyone, it is a grant of power to the government from the people.  It is designed, according to the principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence, not to grant rights, but to protect from violation by government those rights that are yours simply by virtue of you having been born.  The Founders originally intended for the rule to be "if it ain't in the Constitution as a granted power, the government can't do it."  One of the reasons there was such a fight over the Bill of Rights was because some felt it to be too much like granting rights, which was to be avoided.  Turns out those concerns were correct, since that's how most politicians seem to feel about it these days.  "The Constitution doesn't give you the right to X!" is a refrain often heard from people who don't understand the principles that are supposed to underlie our system of government.  It should be "The Constitution doesn't give the government the authority to do that."
    This! Well said sir.
    williamlondonbeowulfschmidtwatto_cobra

  • Apple gives in on the End Call button position in latest iOS 17 beta

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    9secondkox2 said:
    Why the heck did they move it? People have basically programmed motor responses by now. That is just bad UX. and lumping it in with a group of other functions? Very strange. 

    Love to hear the rationale. Hopefully none of this makes it to gold. 
    This! the people at Apple must have no concept of muscle memory. SO MANY TIMES they have moved things around for no apparent reason other than to make it different. Highly frustrating for me.
    byronlOferright_said_fredwilliamlondonAlex1Nwatto_cobra

  • macOS Sonoma beta review: Few major updates, but very welcome

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    I HATE the new lock screen, it's a Mac not an iPad. What is with the tiny user icon and crazy wasted space? I hope they increase the size of the icon and test field significantly, and add back the name of the user...
    williamlondondarkvader

  • Why the new Mac mini is the perfect home & family computer

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    slow n easy said:
    I ordered one but it won't be here until the end of February, and it's also spec'ed out at $1,999.99. I debated waiting to see how it would compare to a Mac Studio but who knows how long it would take for the update to arrive.
    I'm in the same situation, I'm not sure which one to get. I have my money ready, I wish I knew when the new Mac Studio is going to come out. I can wait a bit longer though.

    DrBoar2 said:
    Half the HD space of my mid 2011 budget and half of what I upgraded the RAM to on my own.
    The real insanity is that with the M2 I have to pay as much for adding 256 GB SSD as getting a 2 TB external HD!  That is an 8:1 ratio
    And why do I have to pay as much for adding 256 (256 to 512) as adding 512 (going from 412 to 1TB) !?



    I agree it's insane, I wouldn't mind the soldered memory and storage as much if it were more reasonably priced. How much they charge for memory and storage upgrades is criminal. External Thunderbolt storage has a bandwidth cap, even a single NVMe 3.0 will be much faster. Move to PCIe 4.0 or 5.0 and there is no comparison.
    I'm a certified Mac technician, I've seen the inside of the M1 mini. There is SO much empty space, you could fit 2x 2.5" drives inside and still have lots of air movement, much less having a few NVMe blades. The logic board & heatsink only takes about 20% of the interior volume, the rest is just air space from using the same enclosure from the last 13 years.  It would be trivial for Apple to add that capability to the logic board, but they won't when they make as much as they do on storage upgrades.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondonFileMakerFeller

  • 2021 iPad review: The best iPad for nearly everyone

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    I had an 8th gen iPad (32GB) for my son who is homeschooled that we bought from Apple using the education discount ($299). They offered me $240 for the 8th gen as a trade in, I figured for $60 it was worth it to double the storage alone as 32GB simply wasn’t enough. We don’t normally upgrade devices after just a year, but I decided to this year for him since it was a pretty decent upgrade all around.
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