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  • FireWire may finally be dead in macOS 26 & Apple isn't looking back

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    citpeks said:
    Remembrances of FireWire would be incomplete without mentioning the procedure to reset the FireWire bus -- unplug all devices, powering down the Mac, and waiting for some time period I don't recall.  Or something to that effect.
    And FW Target Mode. Boot up holding Command T and the Mac becomes an external hard-drive on the connected Mac. 

    I also remember fondly the Iomega parallel to FW adapter for my portable Zip drive and the FW LaCie 250gb external hard drive.

    My dear old G3 iMac DV may have only come with a 10gb hard drive and USB 1.0 but FireWire kept it going for years!

    RIP
    spheric

  • GM's CarPlay replacement doesn't work well, and has a long road ahead of it

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    DAalseth said:
    To GM, the software is a potential big earner for the company. It reckons that digital services could produce up to $25 billion in revenue per year
    For me that’s the deal breaker right there. They want to sell me a subscription along with their car. No, I am not signing up to a subscription just so I can use the features in my car. I stopped even looking at GM when OnStar came out, and this is even worse. If I need roadside assistance or a map, that’s what my phone is for. I don’t need another service, another monthly bill, to get the same thing. 
    Exactly. And that’s the only way they could achieve that ludicrous figure of $25bn anyway. They won’t be ‘losing’ that revenue to Apple, they just want to sell additional services that by and large people already have on their phones!
    watto_cobralolliverAlex1Nzeus423

  • External drive support in macOS Sonoma is partially broken, and it's probably Apple's faul...

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    brianm said:
    webweasel said:
    ExFAT is an ancient format. There really ought to be something better. I used to use HFS+ with MacDrive on the PC which worked fine
    ExFAT was released in 2006 - not really ancient (APFS was introduced in 2016).  It was specifically developed for Flash memory like USB sticks.  Microsoft even published the full specification in 2019

    Maybe you are thinking FAT32? (which was 1996, itself based on the earlier FAT16, FAT12, etc...)

    HFS+ was introduced 1998, and was an expansion/improvement on HFS introduced in 1985. wouldn't call it new either.
    Yes I was thinking of FAT32 probably, AFAIK exFAT still doesn’t have journaling or metadata support unlike the ‘older’ HFS+ so technically it’s not as advanced. 
    watto_cobra

  • External drive support in macOS Sonoma is partially broken, and it's probably Apple's faul...

    webweaselwebweasel
    ExFAT is an ancient format. There really ought to be something better. I used to use HFS+ with MacDrive on the PC which worked fine
    pulseimagesAlex1Nwatto_cobra

  • Eufy SmartTrack Card review: A great Find My tracker for your wallet

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    Mmm, so Eufy get to track you too? Neat.
    WhiskeyAPPLEcider