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Agreed that there are more rough edges on Mac, but even then, I've been using Tahoe for months now and it's been fine. I hear podcasters saying that they're just skipping the entir…

Harper was acquired by Automattic in January 2025 https://automattic.com/2024/11/21/automattic-welcomes-harper...

One possible use case would be for police officers to scan driver licenses when pulling people over. When I worked for a city IT department, they had to have separate barcode reade…

(This is just to help macOS Finder users, not to say, "Well, Finder can do it too!!) You can select multiple files in Finder > Right-click on one of them > Rename. That'll bring up…

I think it could be a combination of: 1. Marketing speak because it sounds better to compare it to the much slower Intel Macs than to the fast M1. Plus the gains between and M1 and…

What was your boss's reaction to having their phone get bricked?

Can they not already just sign into the website on their personal phones?

There's a great Safari extension on Mac called SmileAllDay that will automatically redirect you to the Smile version of Amazon. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smileallday/id11804428…

You can remove the icons from the home screen, but it doesn’t actually delete the app from the device storage. They’ve said that’s in case you need or want one of the apps again; i…

iOS 13 drops support for the 6. It'll be 6s/SE and above for iOS 13. It'll be interesting to see what they do for iOS 14. I was surprised that they cut off both the 6 and 5s this y…

I thought somewhat similarly about World War I not being as interesting as later 20th century history until I listened to Dan Carlin's excellent "Blueprint to Armageddon". It's a m…

That makes sense that DFU would still work, since that would let the data continue to be protected and wiped.

Maybe I missed this in the article, but does anyone know if this feature can be turned off? Or if it's enabled by default? What happens in the scenario of a consumer having an old …

1. Always on and ready to go. Don't have to pull out a phone or other device 2. In my experience, understands me and responds way better and quicker than Siri on my iPhone 3. My wi…

Apple added an Emergency mode in iOS 11 that’s accessible by clicking the sleep/wake button five times. It also disables Touch ID/Face ID and requires the passcode after that. So i…

There's also a great podcast interview between David Axelrod and Steve Kerr from several weeks ago: http://podcast.cnn.com/the-axe-files-david-axelrod/episode/a... Axelrod goes int…

My older brother taught himself programming during college and was hired on remotely by a company based in SF to do basic dev for them. It wasn't with a major tech firm, but there …

It's the same here in the U.S, bring your own or buy their plastic reusable ones. The locations I've been too sometimes had spare boxes you could use, but that was pretty rare.