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AppleInsider said:

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However, not every Mac user will be able to enjoy the visual changes and Apple Intelligence enhancements within macOS 26, codenamed "Cheer." Individuals familiar with Apple's internal operating system variants and pre-production builds of macOS 26 suggest Apple could drop support for multiple older, Intel-based Macs.

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“Cheer”? What in Kier’s name is that codename? 😂

manwithnoname said:

NickoTT said:

This is what is required when the man baby "chosen" to run the country has the mind, vocabulary and temperament of an five year old. Don't fault Tim. Fault the people that voted for Trump.

Fault the people who voted for Trump as opposed to the people who voted in Bied & Harris. Biden is a man who can hardly speak and most likely though he was president of Russia for the past 4 years! You people on this forum are so far out of touch with reality, it is quite frightening how you can function in society! I see lots of Democrats and leftists on here.

Wow. Either you’re in touch with reality and lying and projecting, or… you’re completely out of touch with reality and believe what you’ve just said, and… projecting. Do yourself and us a favour and keep track of stuff like the price of eggs, now. And health insurance. And other basic essentials. And stop watching FOX News, please.

By the way: we’re not just “Democrats and leftists” here, you’re assuming we’re either American, whatever you consider “leftist”, or both. In my case, I’m neither. In my country, there’s a literal Communist Party, and the only reason I don’t support them is because, well, I don’t think their supposedly “democratic” system works and because they’re basically tankies and, even today, Putin simps because whoever is the US’s enemy, they will support regardless of what ideology they espouse. As for Anarchism – and believe me, I have plenty of anarchist friends and know what it entails –, I don’t advocate for it either, because I don’t see it working on a large scale, but I’ve seen it, with my very own eyes, working at a smaller one, so there’s that. I do support a brand of leftism that is so far left of whatever you think “the left” is that it would make your head explode if I even dared explain it to you in detail. Whatever you consider “leftist” in your country is a bunch of centrist milquetoast dilettantes (oh, believe me, there are true leftists over there, but they’re not wasting their time hanging around on a tech forum, they’re instead preparing the upcoming resistance, in the form of direct action, to the fascist bs that’s cooking), and Democrats…? They’re just Republicans painted blue, who are better with their finances and show some token respect for most women and some minorities, but that’s about it, they’re pretty right-wing by ANYONE ELSE’S standards (anyone outside of US politics, that is).

TL;DR: your country is cooked, and you will now get to see and feel, firsthand, what it’s like to have the fascists and oligarchs truly unfettered and in charge. I just hope that it doesn’t take three or four decades to reverse it – as it often does, and I live in a country that had those fully on charge, next to another country that also had did, and which maintains strong post-colonial ties to countries that also did, so… it’s a bit of a pattern, and doesn’t really discriminate on nationality, you see –, because while you and/or your Christian nationalist friends (not assuming that you necessarily are, but a lot of them are) may love the new regime at first, because its mandate aligns with your values or something, at some point it will stagnate (I mean, it will immediately make the country poorer, due to its attempt to remove women from the workforce, Taliban-style) and make crucial mistakes (see above, but it’s structurally corrupt and will do much worse than what the Dems and classic GOP did before it), and you’ll want to get rid of the whole bunch every now and then – trust me, you will, because hunger, general poverty and fear for your own life can be powerful motivators, much more so than those stupid culture wars that FOX et al. shove down everyone’s throats, and look no further than guys like Luigi uniting surprisingly diverse swaths of the population in thought – and run into a brick wall, because, surprise surprise, that’s how dictatorships work. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

So that’s why Apple isn’t offering iPhone mirroring on the Mac here in the EU. The gloves are now off, it seems.

Meta can’t be trusted, and I hope the EU allows for OS developers to blacklist bad actors. I don’t care that Meta offers an interesting and affordable product; it is widely known to not act in an ethical and trustworthy way, as the infamous whistleblower episode proved, and I, for one, don’t mind having a private line of defense against those, even in those cases like this, when there’s an obvious conflict of interest (Vision Pro, anyone?).

Though I will say: people know Meta is a ****ty company, so… couldn’t they still have access to the screen’s contents, provided that people were warned before activating that feature, maybe in separate instead of as part of a permissions prompt package? It would be glorious to see Meta being denied that access by actual end users on a massive scale.

y2an said:

Sorry but this goes back to the PA Semi acquisition in 2008. A clear move to become wholly market leading in chip design. 

It’s almost as if Apple execs always regarded the switch to Intel as a stopgap measure, i.e. being dependent upon Intel wasn’t any better than being dependent on IBM and Motorola, in the grand scheme of things, but it was just technologically expedient for the time being. Steve and his minions, and their successors alike, have always been playing a really long game of 4D chess.