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  • Senator Warren asks if Apple CEO Tim Cook's Trump playbook is blatant corruption

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    The level of stupidity among all positions of government is pathetic.  

    Tim Cook has also worked with the Biden administration too.  Why didn't she scream "corruption" back then too?
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  • Synology partially drops support for third-party drives in 2025 NAS range

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    MplsP said:
    DAalseth said:
    This is one of those cases where the article was interesting, but the comments really clarify what it really means. 
    Agreed - AI really should have done more reporting beyond simply jumping to the 'profit grab' conclusion.
    I think it's because faux outrage always gets the views, clicks, and responses to drive web-revenue.  I think Synology saw the writing on the wall and ran the numbers.  I bet the numbers showed that they were spending too much of their revenue supporting users that buy sketchy, incompatible drives and decided that for support you got to use drives that Synology approves of.  Makes sense to me.
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  • A call from Tim Cook helped convince Trump to introduce tariff exemptions

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    Hate what Trump is doing or not, but Apple carries that much sway in the U.S. economy that I would expect Apple's CEO to have some kind of red telephone in his office with direct access to whatever President is sitting in the chair.  
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  • Synology partially drops support for third-party drives in 2025 NAS range

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    avon b7 said:
    paulk91 said:
    I can understand why Synology did this.  I have been burnt (pretty bad) by buying four high volume drives that were marketed by Western Digital as "NAS" drives, and that totally failed hard in my Synology.  The compatibility requirements are really very fiddly and opaque for me as a very savvy prosumer.  Not an expert, but definitely in the weeds in detail.  The level of detail required to ensure that drives are compatible is crazy - many vendor sites for HDD don't have the level of precision necessary - don't show all of model specs or swap out as interchangeable minor differences without disclosing it.  I lost hundreds on those unreliable drives.

    Personally, have been bitten by Western Digital cutting corners, I view this as potentially similar to the "Apple tax" on memory but more understandable.  People may kvetch about it, but it's hard for Synology to not lose their brand reputation if Western Digital can't be trusted.
    As long as you stick to certified drives and pay attention to firmware requirements (compatibility listings sometimes also provide firmware versions too) you should be OK with just checking which drives are good for you (from a price/capacity standpoint) on the NAS vendors compatibility list. 

    Another key consideration IMO is to purchase drives from authorised resellers or trusted vendors. There is a lot of fraud in the market with re-badged, refurbished or outright different hardware under the label. 

    I use Toshiba N300 drives (RAID1) which some consider noisy but they have been ultra reliable for me. 
    "As long as you do this, then that, and especially this, then no problem."

    Actually, that is the problem.  I can understand why they're doing it.  Just go to the Synology / NAS forums.  There are countless people that focus on nothing more than the cheapest, questionable hard drives, stick them in a Synology NAS, and then go online to gripe and complain as to why it's not working right.  Why should companies like Synology deal with trying to provide support to users that - given the option - don't adhere to best practices?  

    And yes, that CMR and SMR debacle.  The hard drive market is convoluted with various type of hard drive technologies that don't play well with NAS systems.  NAS manufacturers have to take the reins since it's obvious the users don't care.
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  • Every Intel Mac mini is now obsolete or vintage, and will be missed

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    Intel deservedly deserved the boot.  I won't miss Intel on Macs.   What I will do is continue to keep my 2018 Mac Mini for the long, foreseeable future for those rare times I need to run x86 Windows natively.  That's it.  Other than that, it's Apple Silicon to the rescue!
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