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Comment Re:Make iCloud optional or enable Airdrop b/w devi (Score 1) 63

Precisely! While on that subject, my M1 MacBook Air only intermittently recognizes my 1TB Sandisk SSD. Otoh, it has no issues recognizing a USB thumb drive inserted in the same thunderbolt port. As a result, I have to copy the photo folders from my iPhone into my Windows laptop, and from there move it to the SSD

Try a different USB-C cable. Either that or you have one of the dodgy models of Sandisk SSD that's about to die. Maybe a good time to buy a new one.

Comment Re:Probably a good choice. (Score 1) 63

Dude, he shamelessly supports trump, giving him gifts and over a million dollars of his own money for the inauguration, not to mention Apple donating for the White House ballroom. He is not a decent human being

I wouldn't call that "supporting". He plays the game by donating to both sides, so that whoever wins, they see him as an ally. And in particular, Trump responds to obsequiousness. There is a perception that by giving money, businesses can curry favor. Not saying that doing so is a good thing, but it definitely should not be interpreted as evidence that the business leaders are necessarily in favor of Trump's policies.

Comment Re:Make iCloud optional or enable Airdrop b/w devi (Score 1) 63

Apple does make great computers, phones, iPads, watches, etc. But one simple thing they could do, which wouldn't cost them anything but make their devices more useful, would be to give customers the option of picking any alternative cloud storage service (or even their own homelabs' storage solutions), instead of locking them to iCloud

Not to mention a Time Machine clone for local NAS storage. I don't want my phone backed up in anybody's cloud. I use iCloud because Apple makes it d**n near impossible to back up locally except over a wire.

Comment Probably a good choice. (Score 5, Interesting) 63

Putting a hardware guy in charge of Apple might help the company return to its roots as a hardware-first company. They've been so distracted by silliness like trying to squeeze more money out of the App Store, iBooks Store, etc., resulting in fines and antitrust decisions going against them in the EU and the U.S. on so many occasions, mostly because the company has strayed too far away from its core mission — to make great hardware and build operating systems to support that hardware and produce a great user experience.

Build a great product, and everything else will follow naturally.

To be fair, that's nothing against Tim Cook. He always struck me as having a good head on his shoulders and being generally a decent human being. And he held the company together through a tough transition, losing one of its founders. That's not an easy task.

But Mr. Ternus has, in some ways, an even tougher job, showing the markets that Apple is more than just a company that sells phones. I don't envy him. But I do look forward to seeing the direction that he takes the company.

Comment Re:Same as it ever was (Score 2) 266

BYD didn't so much chose to not build a factory here as they are blocked from doing so.

Last I heard, the trade policy was set to deter importing cars made in China into the United States. BYD having been blocked from setting up a factory on United States soil and hiring United States residents to produce cars for the United States market is news to me. The interview that Wikipedia cites states only that BYD isn't planning to build in the US or Mexico for the US market, not why that's the case. Searching DuckDuckGo for "is byd blocked from setting up factory in usa" didn't turn up relevant results either.

Comment Re:Same as it ever was (Score 1) 266

Get someone to install a decent charger at home: View it as part of the purchase price of the car, if one even needs it.

So to buy a car, you have to first buy a house, or at least buy out the rest of your lease in favor of somewhere to live whose parking could support a charger.

Find out the office doesn't have a single charger: One would think one would know this before they bought the car.

Consider the case of buying a car and then changing jobs. How practical is it to choose where to work based on whether the office has a charger?

Not to mention that a lot of ICE car drivers aren't rich enough to afford a new car, only a used car. And a lot of ICE car drivers live in the United States, where BYD has chosen not to build a factory, and have an ethical disagreement with the leadership of Tesla.

Comment Re:This is like (Score 2) 51

Yep. OnlyOffice wants their hosting money. They want control. They're the assholes.

Maybe that's true, but I'm not getting that from the summary. What I'm getting is:

  • OnlyOffice spent a decade developing their office code, distributing code that they authored under a modified AGPL license that requires attribution to be preserved.
  • EuroOffice removed the attribution.

If EuroOffice removed attribution requirements only on code that was created by someone else other than OnlyOffice, and did not use the code authored by OnlyOffice, then they're fine. But I think courts have already ruled that the AGPL term about being able to remove conflicting terms applies only to someone other than the author adding those terms, so if they used code authored by OnlyOffice, they may have a problem.

Comment Re:Likely doomed as a species (Score 2, Insightful) 73

Why did with gave the scientific illiterate access to computers? There should be basic physics questionnaire or something before being allowed to use any modern technology, so that we do not have to read politically motivated anti-science comments from uneducated people such as "These guys in 1958 are vastly more convincing than modern climatologists". I mean, even completely ignoring future issues, this nonsense hurts my brain.

Comment The article is about removable media (Score 1) 83

You are correct with respect to their internal storage.

However, say you want to interchange files among several computers using removable media, such as an SD card, USB flash drive, or USB hard drive. One is a Windows PC that prefers NTFS, another a Mac that prefers Apple's FS, and another a Linux PC that prefers ext4. What file system would you use on the drive?

Comment Fictional address (Score 1) 73

The octets of invalid information mark the address as fictional, as opposed to being the live address of a real machine. Telephone subscribers in several area codes started receiving prank phone calls after the 1982 release of "867-5309/Jenny", a song by the band Tommy Tutone containing a live numeric address on the US phone network. This led US TV show producers to start using the 555 (or KLondike 5) exchange, which was largely set aside for fictional use.

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