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joemot said:

Saklad's post above is not accurate. Apple's Private Relay does not work exactly the same as a VPN. In addition, a VPN encrypts all internet traffic and Apple's Private Relay only encrypts traffic when using Safari. There is no encryption when using Chrome or any other app unless the app has built in encryption. I use a VPN 100% of the time, even when on a trusted network. I do not use Apple's Private Relay because both a VPN and Private Relay slow internet speed because of encryption that they both use.

I have Private Relay turned on for my Macs and iPhone. However using a VPN causes Private Relay to be "Unavailable" for me, besides working only in Safari.

yamagato said:

Perhaps I'm missing something, but why on earth is this not aluminum instead of cheap plastic? It looks like molding I could get at Home Depot for $0.39 per linear foot.

Have you read how it works? No. That wouldn't work well or at all if made of metal. It would also cost much more.

 It does look cheap though. Being a Twelve South product I knew it would be pricey. But $30? Fno. Even the twofer price of $40 is too much.12S could have spent a little more money and gave a couple of color options. It would probably have been $40 a copy.

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Because all candidates were jokers, and many citizens did not want to vote for either of them. We are brainwashed to think we have "freedoms" and one of those is the voting. We get vote for one candidate out of two, neither of which we chose and they are two cheeks of the same butt.

They are idiots who incredibly shortsighted as in HUA. Your cheeks of the same butt remark shows the same incredible idiocy that gave us Trump and Musk. You think we'd enduring any of this crap with Harris/Walz? That's rank stupidity. No, people incapable of critical thinking, thinking they're making some kind of statement could have made a difference, if they got off their lazy ignorant asses and voted for Harris. Now we have someone who thinks they  are king. We, the people didn't give him that authority. That was the Republican Party. And those who weren't smart enough to vote for Harris/Walz.

We have the freedom to vote, but that freedom must be used. All those who decided to 'sit this one out' deserve what they're getting and more. Those of us who voted to save Democracy have to suffer with your non-critical thinking. Thanks for nothing.

I spoke with Tim Cook of Apple.

Extort $1M out of a guy, and he finally uses his correct name. Right Whiners say: "Why are you all so focused on his crimes. Let's ignore those and all his grift and just move forward". So we can watch him do it all again, and pretend it didn't happen. Already a lot of his cult base is whining about the Melania crypto coin. You asked for the leopard to eat your face. it won't be the last time it happens.

It's going to be an ugly four years and probably at least another for clean up some of the MAGA stain. 

blastdoor said:

godofbiscuitssf said:

You can thank Tim Cook’s “donation” to the inauguration for shareholders being extra emboldened. 

More likely — you can thank Cook’s personal donation for giving Apple the space to stick with their DEI policy. 

This. Cook took the bullet to keep Apple as unrestricted as possible, and not saddle the company with the complicity of supporting Trump. Nobody seems to understand this. Or I missed one or two posts pointing this out.

As unfortunate is this is, this is not tribute to the Grifter in Chief but extortion paid to keep a company viable. Where as some payees have probably done so because they support the GiC most have paid because they understand the grief their company could suffer and the hands of a manic how is arguably the most powerful person in the world, short of full-blown dictators he admires. That's extortion. Protection money pure and simple. Calling Cook Tim Apple was the very first sign of trouble for Apple, to us the unwashed masses.

The GiC has promised favoritism to oil companies who donate $1B to his war chest. That's bribery as it's voluntarily. It the past these monies would have gone to lobbyists not POTUS. Now, in either case the middle man takes a back seat.

How many posters who decry Cook's action own Apple products. How many of them would whine when Apple suffered at the tiny Hands of Trumpp and import tariffs either restricting the availability of product or increasing the price of same? Would they blame the GiC? Nah. They'd blame Cook for not capitulating.

When Trump shows over the next for years that his policies offered no restriction on free enterprise and we the people didn't have any inflation increases and were better off than during  Biden, then I'll stand corrected that Cook failed in his position as CEO.  But I won't because none of that will have happened. Unless you're a 1%er who the convict approves of.