OctoMonkey

FileMakerFeller said:

OctoMonkey said:

So C$79.99 per month for 14 TB of storage?

I am in the wrong business!

As long as you are also paying for the AppleOne plan with 2TB.

Cloud storage is very expensive - you need to decide if the convenience and security is worth the price differential to operating your own NAS box.

commentzilla said:

I think they should abandon the Mac Pro  and revive the Mac Server with drive trays, slots for IO and redundancy. That would sell considering the power efficiency of the M series chips.

Starkoman said:

Anyone who says “Keep the fear going as long as possible”, in regard to the rapid spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus, clearly hasn’t lost anyone in their family to the horrors of Covid.

Sadly, some people — particularly those anti-mask/anti-vax/anti-safe distancing dimbos (particularly over in America) — are both ignorant and insensitive to the legitimate medical need to protect their loved ones (should they still have any who aren’t estranged or already disowned them), from the appalling misery of their unwarranted suffering or of those left behind in grief.

Had the Covid-19 deniers — in any country (but particularly in America) — been less irresponsible and therefore dangerous in the face of a viral contagion, they would not have lost one million four hundred thousand plus (1,400,000+ US), of their own fellow citizens.

As the rest of the world knows, China endured some of the worst of the novel Coronavirus when it first hit their country so badly in early 2020.  It’s logical that the Chinese are extremely keen to introduce compulsory lockdowns early — and hard — to prevent a fresh outbreak spreading to the rest of the provinces.

It’s regrettable that some people, even today, prove themselves incapable of understanding the basic epidemiology of lethal viruses and have learned absolutely nothing about virology or spread prevention from the past two years.

Harder still to see them recklessly politicising a public health emergency on the ︎AppleInsider site where idiots rarely intrude.

To use an old Liverpool adage: “Sort yer head out, mate”.

entropys said:

JFC: You put your birthday in your appleID. We set up our kids accounts so they can’t install an app without our permission, including IAP, movies and books etc. and family sharing.  Their complaints met with little sympathy.

But that is us, and this kind of a bill offends me.
i reckon eventually there will have to be a reckoning with the constant extension and intrusion of the nanny state in our lives. And it will be ugly.