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What killed Steve Jobs?

  • Pancreatic Cancer

    Votes: 65 12.2%
  • AIDS from having gay sex with Tim Cook

    Votes: 468 87.8%

  • Total voters
    533
A lot of this doesn't work with Brave, VLC, etc. Just Apple's own apps, which are all tied into their own subscription services. Apple TV+ has a terrible selection. I don't use any subscription services or pay for iCloud.
Well, yeah, like I said, Apple stuff is seamless, but you can't expect them to go out of their way to cover third-party stuff like Brave or VLC. No company does that.
Also, I can't back up my photos to my desktop without an arduous process of syncing my phone through iTunes, which is temperamental, and then pulling those photos out of the backup using iTunes Backup Explorer. I can't just drag and drop them from Explorer into a folder anymore without it giving up early, for whatever reason.
I'm sure there's a less arduous way to sync an iPhone with a Windows computer. A quick search suggests that this app might be what you're looking for.
 
A lot of this doesn't work with Brave, VLC, etc. Just Apple's own apps, which are all tied into their own subscription services. Apple TV+ has a terrible selection. I don't use any subscription services or pay for iCloud.

Also, I can't back up my photos to my desktop without an arduous process of syncing my phone through iTunes, which is temperamental, and then pulling those photos out of the backup using iTunes Backup Explorer. I can't just drag and drop them from Explorer into a folder anymore without it giving up early, for whatever reason.
Gee, it’s almost as if using things in ways that they weren’t intended to be used can be more complicated.

Who knew?
 
I'm sure there's a less arduous way to sync an iPhone with a Windows computer. A quick search suggests that this app might be what you're looking for.
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"Pay money to copy your own photos from your own telephone to your own computer"

no

"But it's only this many dollars"

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"Pay money to copy your own photos from your own telephone to your own computer"

no

"But it's only this many dollars"

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Pay in money or pay in time, but quit pissing and moaning like a faggot about how choosing to make things more difficult made things more difficult, that’s nigger behaviour.
 
Also to my surprise, ublock origin works in safari. And it’s actually quiet good
I've been testing wblock which is practically an uBO fork and I've been very impressed with the results. I also like that it syncs with my iPhone as well. I've ditched Brave on macOS and iOS and so far so good. My only big complaint is Safari doesn't seem to play nice with Kiwiflare unless I temporarily reduce Safari's inbuilt privacy protection modules. Aside from that, it just werks™

Have you tried getting a job?
I have iCloud, it's only 599 roubles a month for 2TB.
Maybe its just me but I would much prefer if Apple had yearly subscriptions than monthly
 
Probably of no real surprise, but...

A few days ago, Tim Cook announced on X that the Mac had its best launch week ever for first-time customers.

Likely because of the Neo. I'd believe it, tbh, seen quite a bit of talk about it.
 
No surprise there, by all accounts it utterly destroys the Windows competition in all metrics, including (first time for Apple since the actual 70s) price.
Nah, even in the 70s you were paying the Apple Tax. A 4K Apple II was like $1200 while a 4K TRS-80 was $600 and a 4K Commodore PET was $500. The advantage of the Apple II was color graphics (sorta, it was NTSC artifact colors), better build quality, and access to a ton of expandability via the bus slots, but it was still an insane premium.

(Also keep in mind that the TRS-80 and Commodore PET both came with a monitor and cassette reader whereas you had to buy that shit with Apple)
 
Nah, even in the 70s you were paying the Apple Tax. A 4K Apple II was like $1200 while a 4K TRS-80 was $600 and a 4K Commodore PET was $500. The advantage of the Apple II was color graphics (sorta, it was NTSC artifact colors), better build quality, and access to a ton of expandability via the bus slots, but it was still an insane premium.

(Also keep in mind that the TRS-80 and Commodore PET both came with a monitor and cassette reader whereas you had to buy that shit with Apple)
Fair, I should have specified whether I was referring to PC specifically by "Windows competition", or just micros in general. Apple was a pricey micro, but it was still considerably cheaper than the IBM. And the PC also was released in 1981, so I have no idea why I wrote the 70s.

(The Apple II was still a significantly better machine than the TRS-80 and the PET. It had bitmap colour graphics and a high-resolution mode.)
 
(The Apple II was still a significantly better machine than the TRS-80 and the PET. It had bitmap colour graphics and a high-resolution mode.)
I think it was better than pretty much every other 8-bit micro (other than maybe the BBC Micro) at actually being a computer. Color graphics, hires, 80-column text, excellent support for high-level languages, tons of expandability... Obviously not an amazing gaming machine (especially after 1982 or so), but if you used your computer for computer stuff it was hard to beat.
 
Apple's first security roll-up of the year, 2026-001, updates certificates to allow FaceTime to continue functioning. This goes back to macOS Catalina (10.15) and iOS 16, OSes being run on devices that Apple now considers "vintage" and offers limited or no support for.

Apple tacitly acknowledging people aren't interested in buying a new device year over year?
It’s called supporting legacy devices, i.e. what every company should be doing as a standard practice. Holy shit, people will twist anything to make Apple the bad guy somehow.
 
It’s called supporting legacy devices, i.e. what every company should be doing as a standard practice. Holy shit, people will twist anything to make Apple the bad guy somehow.
Simmer down buddy, I installed it on a decade-old machine running Catalina that every Apple retailer has tried to talk me into trading in for fear of being terribly uncool. I'm not protesting Apple sending a security rollup my way, much the opposite.
 
The Mac Pro is dead after 19 1/2 years.

It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on Apple’s website for the Mac Pro now redirects to the Mac’s homepage, where all references have been removed.

Apple has also confirmed to 9to5Mac that it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware.

 
A bit sad but entirely expected. The only reason the M2 Mac Pro existed was to cater to the small demo of professionals with legacy PCIE sound hardware or IT folks who wanted to be able to expand storage with something even faster than Thunderbolt.

From what I gather though, a lot of the former just opted to replace their audio equipment with TB equivalents when they upgraded anyway, and the latter consisted almost entirely of Dave Plummer.
 
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