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drblank said:

macrumorssucks said:

As you can tell from my username, I’m not happy Macrumors closed comments on this mundane story.

We the people should be able to comment on any story.  Thank you AppleInsider for keeping the flow of opinions open.

That said, who cares.  X is the #1 social media platform for news.  Why shouldn’t they advertise on X.  It makes smart business sense.  It makes more sense than the Apple Vision Pro toy for $3500

Elon funds far right wing extremist group AfD in Germany politics, and I watched an interview of Elon's father admit that Elon's grand father in Canada supported the Nazis.  My father served in WWII and he would be absolutely disgusted by the support of Elon and X if he was stlll alive.   It seems as though America is becoming a cross between Nazi Germany and Russia.  disgusting.  Tim has no moral compass.

I'm an old American. I have observed my entire life that Americans never really hated the NAZIs - at least those born after the war. Post war the American fascination with everything German and NAZI was widespread. We even made a sitcom about Germans and NAZIs. People ravenously collected any sort of WWII German memorabilia and the more NAZI it was the more valuable it became. I knew some people who had a German Shephard named Rommel and a little black cat with a white face and tiny black mustache named Adolf. Americans have been obsessed with NAZIs for a long, long time and it'snot surprising that once a national figure gave them permission to openly love NAZIsm that they would jump at the chance. Tim is no NAZI and is doing his duty as CEO to protect the company and the shareholders from destruction. Not to mention I believe Tim really loves Apple and he won't let anyone hurt it.

So it sort of seems like the AI pushers are trying to get us accustomed to it's quirks nd unreliability. That way when it or they start using it to purposefully lie and manipulate, we won't notice or care.

dewme said:

One fly in the ointment right now is the Time Machine unattended backups are having a problem completing since the release of macOS 15.1.

This Time Machine problem is seemingly widespread. I've seen a lot of threads on this. My TM stopped working on my 2023 M2 MacBook Air running Sequoia 15.0.1, but my wife's MacBook Air running Sonoma backed up to TM just fine. Both TM drives (partitions) are SSDs inside a 2012 Mac Mini that I hope to replace with a new Mini soon. I will wait until Apple fixes the TM issues before buying a new Mini though.

9secondkox2 said:

No more “band” news please.

One of the most stressful and traumatic jobs in local television news was the Chyron operator. This person typed in all the name supers, sports scores, weather reports and other text based graphics used in the live newscast. A lot of the data comes in late and even during the newscast. Chyron operators are typing, listening and sending supers to the output channel for air. Back in the 80s at KXAN in Ft. Worth/Dallas news inters who showed soem initiative would be trained up and allowed to do newscasts on occasion. One time a we were doing a story about some conflict between a school and the marching band. The intern typed "Bad Parent"  instead of "Band Parent" for an interview with one of the involved parents - that's how it went to air. There was an on-air apology later in the newscast. Nowadays most news supers are generated by the script managment software and controlled by the newscast producer. I think some stations don't even have Chyron Operators any longer. Chyron was a ubiquitous brand of text generator with few competitors back in the day, thus the name "Chyron" being used generically by TV people like Xerox was for copiers. The first Chyron I used had core plane memory - that's how long they've been around. They still exist, but the market is totally different today. So yeah, no more band news.

Trump is the unsurprising result of concepts and rhetoric that were started by Reagan. He used his phony, homespun speaking style to convince people that it was okay to dislike your government. It was okay to disassemble your government because "big" was bad. It was okay to think that helping people in need was an intolerable expense. While Reagan is not so popular with young extremist conservatives now, he and his goals were worshipped by Republicans for a couple decades. During that time you can see how each wave of conservative victories at the national level led to incrementally more extreme positions. Newt Gingrich, Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, GW Bush, neo cons, the Tea Party and now the most extreme - MAGA. Reagan started the ball rolling and Trump is the result anyone paying even slight attention should have expected was coming.