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Apple hourly workers feel helpless under punishing pressure & mistreatment

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December 2021

sully54 said:

georgie01 said:

This attitude of ‘I deserve better’ is literally ruining our societies. I’m not saying they do or don’t deserve better, I don’t know. What I do know is that ungratefulness, jealousy, and entitled attitudes lead to things falling apart. Not building things up.

It’s not even that long ago that people were grateful for their jobs, even if they weren’t ideal. Working is a privilege, but our culture looks at how other people have it better or just that we think we deserve better. Most people don’t understand that attitude breaks down the culture. A lack of appreciation ruins everything.

I’m grateful that I have a job to go to. But when a customer berates me because I can’t do a return on an Apple Pencil that has clearly been damaged, or when a customer spits in my coworker’s face simply because he was reminded to keep his mask on in the store, then it becomes a bit harder to wake up in the morning to go to a job where those things are in the realm of possibility.

If “deserving better” means being treated with a modicum of human decency, then yeah, we deserve better.

Spitting on someone is the same as assaulting someone. I hope management at least supports you and arrests any "customer" for doing such a barbaric thing. Many Apple stores I patronize have actual police officers guarding the stores. I would think an arrest is only moments away for some POS that degenerates an employee. Disgusting.

Reddit breaks down the math on how the new MacBook Pro saves them money

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November 2021

IreneW said:
Well, let's just say that if their engineers are spending 45 minutes per day, just waiting far a compilation to finish, doing nothing else, they are doing it wrong.

Even if they cut that in half.

Do you even develop software? I do. Compiling does not mean sitting on one’s thumb with nothing to do. It means monitoring the compile in the event of compile-time errors which then need to be addressed. If that means getting up for a few minutes to get coffee and come back, great.

Cutting down compile times like that is huge.

Apple's Self Service Repair unlikely to impact iPhone upgrade cycle, study finds

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November 2021

baconstang said:

I'm on my 5th iPhone. I started with a 4s and now have a 12 mini.
I have never needed to repair or replace anything on any of them.
So, I'm pretty indifferent about the repair thing on iPhones.
I have, however, added RAM to to my iMacs.
The money I saved buying the minimum amount of RAM and upgrading later, allowed me to max the CPU and GPU.

I bought a 2020 iMac. 10-core i9 w/8TB SSD. Had it upgraded to 128GB of OWC RAM by the reseller before I ever took possession of it and therein started my 3-month journey from hell. iMac could not be used more than 10 minutes of decent video encoding before crashing to the point it was almost unusable. It was past the 2-week return window.

After three months, multiple visits with iMac to Genius Bar (they found nothing wrong), the problem was the 128GB RAM sticks. They passed memory checks, but when I installed 128GB of Micron RAM (via Crucial), machine worked perfectly from that point forward. Thankfully, the reseller accepted return of the bad memory. Many others on Apple's support forums experienced the exact same problem with OWC RAM.

That was three months of pure stress and anguish with such an expensive machine.

After that experience, I can understand now why the memory can't be upgraded on the new Macs. OWC left a really bad taste in my mouth and even though I'm sure Apple will charge a premium on ASi's with extra RAM, I would not ever want to go through those three months again. Those memory suppliers can't get their acts together.

New OWC miniStack adds storage options, Thunderbolt hub to Mac mini

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November 2021

tht said:

sflocal said:

Finally someone is listening. I understand this is basically a Hub, not a dock but if there was a dock version of this with Ethernet, SD reader, etc.. then I would buy one.

There are tens of these available. Here's a Satechi model:

Other models have 2.5" HDD options in something this size. It's only the OWC that has a 3.5"HDD. 6, 8, 10, 16 TB drive capacity. That's great. And you can stack two or three! I've had so many HDD failures lately.

The Satechi model is a bandaid approach common to many dock manufacturers. It's a USB dock, not a thunderbolt dock, limited to USB speeds, whereas a Thunderbolt dock would providing SSD speeds of 2.5GB/s.