cougarmeat

What does being a "Tiktok User" have anything to do with this? It sounds more like the author is (not so) subtly trying to throw shade on TikTok. If the user had eaten oatmeal for breakfast the article title could have read "Oatmeal Eater Got conned ..." i.e. a hidden warning not to eat oatmeal.

The problem I have with trackers and similar "Alert" devices, is the frequency of their chirp is outside my hearing range. Chipolo addressed that somewhat by having their devices "play" a note on an ascending scale. It's too bad there isn't a way to set the Chrip's frequency (tone, not rate of occurrence). Because of my high-frequency loss, my hearing is above average at lower tones.

You suggested an incremental backup "setting" and mentioned a default "fill disk" setting. I couldn't find any setting for that in the options I was presented (M2 Mac, OS 14.4.1).

The one time I wanted to use a TimeMachine retrieval was to re-establish a wallpaper photo. It wasn't clear if I could just use TimeMachine to reset the system to some hours (or a day - whatever the increment) earlier, or just recover the wallpaper photo file (the laptop owner didn't know where she stored it).

I could see how to copy known files over but not reestablish to an earlier system status. The wallpaper photo wasn't in any obvious place.

For my own work, I set up an SSD for TimeMachine with a 2-hour increment. But you can't run from TimeMachine if your system drive goes down. So I use SuperDuper to make a nightly smart backup to a Clone. If there's a problem with the main drive, I can operate from the clone until the issue is resolved.

Note that there are 3rd party TimeMachine apps that provide more options - especially in scheduling.

So how again did the watch save him? The driver of the vehicle, as well as three nurses, were on the scene to help him. I'm sure they could also call for assistance. Just because someone is wearing an Apple Watch doesn't mean it "saved" him. If Apple has to reach that far to promote its product, its value is questioned.

Once I read about a ham radio operator who broke his ankle on a hike in Oregon. The piece said he was able to connect to another radio operator in Montana who contacted S&R to assist the person on the trail in Oregon.  I contacted the ham because I was curious how, with a broken ankle, he was able to put up the required Antenna (usually a 30 ft length of wire).

Turns out, the guy was assisted by four hikers who were on the same trail; one was an EMT. The other hikers put up the antenna. The EMT attended to the ankle as best he could. The injured hiker had shelter and food. Because there was nothing left to do but wait for S&R to arrive to help him out, the others continued their hike.  Quite a different take than the original headline.

So again - how did this watch save the pedestrian who was already attended to by the driver and three nurses?

"... the document, this this anti-disinfectant warning highlighted ..." What I don't understand about this generation is the amazing number of typo/grammar errors I see in their published work.

These errors are so easily picked up by using simple, inexpensive software grammar-checking tools. Also, listening to text read back (Option-Esc) would audibly point out the "this this".

I am not picking on the author; he had the misfortune of being at the tipping point of my ire. It just amazes me how blatant and frequent such errors have become. The younger generation thinks we are picking on them because they didn't invent the transistor, or laser, or space exploration. They give us Rap "music". But then again, to be fair, they are improving battery chemistry.

I'm avoiding making this rant a commercial for a grammar-checking product so I won't name, names (and there is more than one). It's just that more and more, with professional online posts, newspaper articles, and even headlines, such errors stand out so clearly to non-professional proofreaders. And they take so little effort to avoid. Why not try?

I certainly make mistakes in mine, but I'm not a professional writer. I don't get paid for the quality of my product. But I do make an effort to avoid such mistaks.



Yes, that was a joke.