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by alwillis 8mo ago
> does tahoe 26.3 protect against this? Apparently if you have Lockdown mode enabled, then yes.
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> I have a feeling even Biden/Harris would be in Iran right now. I seriously doubt that; certainly not under the current circumstances of rising inflation with negative economic growth.
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by alwillis 8mo ago
There are things that have never happened before in the 250 year history of the United States. No sitting president has ever enriched themselves by billions of dollars. We’re in a completely different universe from the days when Jimmy Carte
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> So if your phone is infected, you have no way of knowing this, because there is no software that can scan it. You cannot trust it. Not true. There are commercial apps that can scan your iPhone for vulnerabilities and exploits [1]. Appl
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by alwillis 8mo ago
He sure doesn’t.
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by alwillis 8mo ago
The odds are probably pretty low. The notification is hardware based; the manufacturer of a USB keyboard or mouse won’t matter. If you plug a hard drive into the slow USB port, macOS will let you know. There have been thousands of different
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by alwillis 8mo ago
Like I said, this ain’t about you . Whether you read it or not is irrelevant.
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> I sure hope there's a way to disable the touchscreen Apple is usually good at letting users turn off most features. The article suggests the touchscreen will be a secondary input mode and the keyboard + trackpad (or mouse) will st
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Apple's M5 Max Chip Achieves a New Record in First Benchmark Result(macrumors.com)
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> And you're cherry-picking the US market only. They say reading is fundamental; you might want to practice to get your comprehension up. I literally provided the top selling smartphones in China, Japan, Australia and a group of 5 c
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> want to make this about a brand, and not a platform, because the Apple platform is very low ranking in the larger world of Smartphones. Let me get this straight: you believe the iPhone "is very low ranking in the larger world of S
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> but Android mobile devices far outsell Apple devices and always have "far outsell" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The iPhone has a market share of 60% in the US [1]. The leading Android manufacturer Samsung has a m
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> I've read and heard others say this is the opposite of the truth, that Apple never gives bulk discounts. When I worked in higher education at an Ivy Plus university for 14 years, we were able to get discounts. We also had a campus
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> The worst case today for the most popular mid to low spec phones is twice the "a few years" you claim, which suggests you're out of touch with the changes in the industry over the last few years. Are you sure about that?
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by alwillis 8mo ago
Yes, the Mac Neo will tell you you’re plugging in to the wrong port! And while the ports aren’t labeled, if you plug an external display into the “wrong” port, you’ll get an on-screen notification suggesting you plug it into the other po
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Thoughts and Observationsp on the MacBook Neo(daringfireball.net)
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by alwillis 8mo ago
As they say "past performance does not guarantee future results". That version of the Magic Mouse is also over 10 years old…
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by alwillis 8mo ago
Say what you will about Microsoft but the performance of VS Code is really good.
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> This is such a better deal than I had growing up, Apple has to be taking a bath on these. Apple doesn't sell anything where they're taking a bath; their margins have been high 30's to low 40's for many years. All of
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by alwillis 8mo ago
FYI: Apple added support for Linux containers to macOS Tahoe [1]. [1]: https://github.com/apple/container
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> 8 GB unified memory is brand-new e-waste today. macOS 26 makes it even worse. One reason Apple can get away with 8 GB of RAM is their SoC does realtime compression of data in RAM and they use high bandwidth memory; the A19 Pro RAM band
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> cheap laptop with 8gb of ram and using USB 2.0 ports. A nitpick: there are two USB ports, one of them is a 10GB/s USB 3 port.
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by alwillis 8mo ago
You can make a pretty good electron app or one that kinda sucks. Slack is in the latter category.
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> "You're holding it wrong" - Steve Jobs > Apple has put out plenty of subpar experiences in the past, and there's no reason they wouldn't do it in the future. Come on—that was 16 years ago! Y'all gotta l
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> If you buy Android flagships after 2022, they also last 4-6 years. The hardware lasts but they usually stop getting software updates after a few years, especially if they're not high-end models. Last month, Apple released an updat
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> This doesn't compete with Chromebooks in schools at all. Of course, it does. The price difference is small enough now that the Neo is in the running. There's no doubt the build quality is going to be much better than a Chrome
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by alwillis 8mo ago
Bootcamp was a hedge when Apple was a lot less dominant than it is now. When Apple transitioned from PowerPC to Intel, it wasn’t clear that was going to work. Being able to boot into Windows was sort of an insurance policy that’s no longer
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by alwillis 8mo ago
I believe you’re being downvoted because your logic is from 20+ years ago when Windows compatibility was important. Also the era when companies were trying to “kill” each other’s devices is no longer a thing. They all get the reality it’s a
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by alwillis 8mo ago
The Neo’s display is 219 pixels per inch, which is virtually the same as the Air’s 224 ppi.
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Google Chrome is switching to a two-week release cycle(9to5google.com)
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