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Netflix made a lot of money off me in the early 2000s, the pre-streaming days (and MacOS X, and 10.1 days), when discs were sent out by mail. One could go queue up everything you w…

100% in agreement. Trying to get rid of my 32" 4K. Too much head panning and scanning. I want to comfortably see the entire screen without effort at less than 12 inches away. Creat…

And before the in-person interview, the applicant is required to produce a handwriting sample in front of the interviewer of random text, which is then compared against the mailed …

Steve Jobs rolling in his grave. The mortal enemy. Thermonuclear war.

They’re building servers now in Houston for their private cloud compute environments, but it’s just for them.

I think Cook left easy money on the table by not competing against NVIDIA. They could've tested the waters by loading up Apple Silicon on PCIe riser cards, maturing the toolkit for…

Love walking by the AS/400 terminal emulator screens after checkout. If it ain't broke, why fix it?

Why Amazon can't use its economies of scale to build a Kindle monitor that devs and writers would early adopt like wildfire is a strange curiosity.

I fear any upstart LinkedIn competitor sans social would just become another LinkedIn over time. Just don’t see the incentives for entering the professional networking space.

burpees

The new air’s right around the corner, so hopefully some of those concerns will be addressed. I’m excited that Apple can now release yearly refreshes without hesitation. No more ve…

surprised they don't have a system status page.

Messages not getting delivered and hanging on Mac and iPhone. Location: Pacific Northwest, US.

bill gates is/was a diet coke fan. if i ran into him, say at dick's drive-in, i'd ask if he still drinks the stuff. i'd likely follow whatever he says. but for now, i'll continue t…

Maybe Star Trek-style stardates should be the norm. Then we can have a bunch of Captain’s Logs posted on YouTube that’s starts with the stardate and whether or not the log is suppl…

~3.1GHz base clock on the M1. About time!

Wouldn't surprise me if Apple's first to market with iPhones and MacBooks with iSight cameras embedded in the display. But is it even possible? Wouldn't the camera lens have to be …

On the occasions I need to run `ssh -X` to my Ubuntu box, I get to the shell, start typing, then XQuartz immediately crashes. XQuartz hasn't been updated in nearly 3 years. Anyone …

I have a late-2013 as well, but was advised by a Genius that as of this month, the machines will be classified vintage (though not yet reflected on their vintage products list). Mo…

Likely a typo. Probably meant chunk as in batch processing.