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  • IBM cuts 3,900 jobs in latest round of big tech layoffs

    darkvaderdarkvader
    "Profits are up!  What should we do about that?"

    "I know, let's fire the people who made it happen!"
    n2itivguyStrangeDayslkruppjcs2305

  • Apple releases macOS Ventura 13.2 with security key support

    darkvaderdarkvader
    lkrupp said:
    The old-fashioned in me thinks I should know when an update has happened, so I can suspect it the next time my Mac plays up. Discuss.
    A tiny, tiny minority of users will always have their Macs “play up” after an update. Unfortunately that tiny minority is very vocal, very paranoid, very accusatory, damning, and quick to blame the update with false logic rather than their own practices and crappy maintenance routines, third party software, etc. In that minority’s mind is Apple is required to test every single piece of third party software ever released to make sure it works with any update Apple puts out. That goes for printers and scanners too. Apple is responsible for 12 year old scanners continuing to work with Ventura, not the scanner manufacturer. Get my drift.
    Scanners rarely fail.  20+ year old scanners generally work perfectly.  So many fully functional scanners have been sent to e-waste because of lack of software support, it's disgusting.

    Who is responsible?  The scanner was working fine until Apple updated the system software in a way that broke the scanner.  The scanner manufacturer didn't change anything, Apple did.  The scanner still works with Windoze 11 and Linux 6.1.7, so... is it REALLY the scanner manufacturer's fault?
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • New Microsoft 365 Basic subscription is only $20 per year

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Sleepyhead-312 said:
    Great, now hopefully Apple Insider will stop posting links to those shady $30 lifetime licenses
    Why would you want that?  $30 once is a FAR better deal than a subscription that doesn't even include the software.  If anything is shady it's the subscription.
    appleinsideruserdanox

  • Apple Silicon Mac Pro in testing with macOS 13.3

    darkvaderdarkvader
    lkrupp said:
    Best to not launch the Mac Pro until it’s good and ready to destroy everything else. 

    If it’s just a Mac Studio class performer in a different box, then wait until the m3 extreme, desktop specific D1, or whatever is ready. 

    Don’t launch it after all this time an anticipation and have it become a meme. That’s just wrong. 
    Nonsense. Real pros want to know what it does for them, how their software runs and can be optimized for it. ‘Destroying everything else’ is not on their list of priorities. That attitude is for spec monkeys and benchmark junkies. And rest assured that no matter what it is and when it is launched it will be deemed disappointing, underwhelming, insufficient, lacking, too little too late, and a failure. 

    Real pros want to know how well it works with their existing hardware and software workflow.  It's not about how their software "can be optimized for it" it's about how it works NOW.  And if that fails, it's worthless.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • Apple slammed for not doing enough to prevent CSAM distribution

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Australia needs to fuck right the fuck off.

    As we've said before, this isn't about CSAM, it's about getting a backdoor into encryption.
    baconstang