OctoMonkey

AppleZulu said:

If they update the Magic Mouse, I hope they make it compatible with the iPhone's Magsafe charger and don't acquiesce to the asinine demands that the lightning connector be moved from the bottom of the mouse. It's a wireless mouse. It takes very little time to charge it up. It doesn't need to plug in and act like a wired mouse. That defeats the point of it being a wireless mouse. Apple put the connector on the bottom on purpose specifically to keep people from leaving it plugged in as if it was a wired mouse.

So why is the port on the wireless keyboard situated to allow use while charging?  Per your logic the port should be on the bottom on purpose to keep people from leaving it plugged in as if it were a wired keyboard.

tht said:

hmlongco said:

"In addition, Compressor also opened much faster on our Mac Studio compared to a three- to four-minute startup time prior to the update."

Three to four MINUTES???

Yeah, WTF is it doing? Is it downloading a GB of license keys or something?

Time to upgrade from an acoustic MODEM to something a tad faster.

dewme said:

Such is the nature of subscriptions in general. When you get dinged a fairly small amount every month you don’t think about the cost too much. At some point everything that’s consumable in our lives will be subscription based. 

That's what my wife keeps telling me...  and what's THAT going to cost me per month?!?!

ApplePoor said:

One can suddenly realize that the incremental adding of another streaming service can make the total monthly bill for viewing choices far more expensive than the local cable service that probably also provides the internet access. Unfortunately, where we live, there is only one cable provider and one telephone provider. There is NO competition so their rates go up on whims because their service sure has not gotten any better.

We fired the telephone company (which could also provide slow DSL) because they just never had time to fix our line. The noise was so loud it was unusable. If one traces the money back, the culprit is basically AT&T.

When true Verizon 5G gets to us, the cable company that we get internet service from will be gone too.

The USA is getting ripped off by the fee schedules as compared to other countries. We had an apartment in the UK and there was a choice of many providers at different price points even though there was only one set of wires coming into the home.

Where I live 5G simply won't happen, the population density is too low...  so we are stuck with whatever alternative we can find.  When we purchased this house I did try a wireless (not cellular) internet service, but the distance to the towers was too great and would have required a giant mast to get the antenna high enough to clear the trees.  DSL is too slow in our area and so we were left with cable.  Plenty fast, but the price is an outrage!  However, once Comcast started offering cellular my opinion changed.  We are saving more each month with their cellular service (over our Verizon service) than we are paying to Comcast in total...  and if I add in the savings over switching our POTS line to a Comcast VoIP it's even better.  I think our total monthly outlay to Comcast is around $120 which includes 300/20 broadband, home telephone service, and 5 cellular lines.  Our Verizon bill was around $130 for 3 cell phones and two kids cellular watches, it would have gone up to $160+ with 5 cell phones.

If I had an "Easy" button, I would press it!

rob53 said:

OctoMonkey said:

I am in the minority on both fronts...  I do not love the experience and plan on reducing my streaming services from one to none (adios Apple TV+).  This also reflects my general distaste in paying for TV.  I cancelled my cable service 15 years ago and have not missed it (nor have I missed the bills!).

So no TV at all? Just DVDs? I don’t blame you, especially with cable and the larger streaming services. I get some services included in my Verizon cellular plan and have found some free services with old movies. Better to get outside and do something instead of watching TV. 

We do watch some broadcast TV (news and such), but all those years ago my wife and I decided to cancel cable when we realized almost all our TV time was spent watching locally broadcast content (and for me it coincided with SciFi going off the deep end with their content).

Several years back I decided to stop being bothered with stacks of discs and set-up a Plex server - still have the discs, we just don't have to sort through them or look at piles of them.  We have a very diverse selection of movies & television shows (DVD/Blu-Ray/4K) on the server and do not need to worry about something being removed from our "service" or paying any monthly fees.  Although both the implementation cost and ongoing operational cost (electricity) is a consideration

But yes, go outside and enjoy the beauty of nature, read a book, or play a board game with your friends/family!