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  • 'Severance' tops 'Ted Lasso' as Apple's most-watched series for good reasons

    Count me in as an addicted "Severence" fan.  It took me a few episodes for me to get interested (like "Silo" too) but once it did, I was hooked.  Thankfully, I didn't start watching any of it until a couple weeks ago so I got to more-or-less binge-watch the entire show rather quickly.
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  • CalDigit's new Element 5 hub brings more Thunderbolt 5 ports to the Mac

    dewme said:
    sflocal said:
    I don't understand the need not just to place way too many USB-A ports, but to place non-TB-enabled USBc ports on the front.  I'm buying a Thunderbolt hub.  Make all USBc ports thunderbolt enabled, or don't put them on to begin with.

    Does this mean that I can't plug in my external Thunderbolt3 SSD drive in the front ports of this hub?
    It looks like the front USB-C ports are USB 3.2 Gen 2 10GHz ports, not Thunderbolt. If your external Thunderbolt drive can fall back to using USB 3.2 Gen 2 for compatibility it would work, but it won't be using Thunderbolt protocol.
    I’ll take that as a “no”.  I have a TB3 SSD from OWC.  It does not fall back to USB.  

    Lame.  There’s zero excuse for Caldigit to not put a TB5 port in the front of their TB5 hub.  Just silly.
    jeffharris
  • Trump hesitates over instituting China tariffs that would hurt Apple

    T**** (the convicted felon and sexual predator) is a criminal. 

    Tim Cook is complicit with a criminal.
    Get over it.  

    Cook is playing the cards he was dealt.  
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  • How to upgrade the SSD in your M4 Mac mini

    I think this is a great option.  What I do see happening are users that have zero business doing this, attempting it without doing the proper research, bricking their Mac mini's and blaming Apple for it.  They will be the ones ruining it for everyone else and could result in Apple putting in some kind of firmware lock on future Mac mini models to prevent the upgrade.

    I would consider this if/when I purchase one.  I'd do an 8TB upgrade simply because Apple charges an obscene amount for that.
    watto_cobra
  • Newly-appointed Apple CFO denies 75% App Store profit claim in UK trial

    My service dealership charges $200/hr.  I think that's too much.  I demand the courts force this business to charge $10.  
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