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All of them? Hmmm.

I'm not from the U.S. but as my country's elections work the same way, I feel compelled to weigh in on this. Here in the UK, you go to your local polling station, you give your nam…

I have set up Time Machine backups for literally hundreds, if not thousands of people in a support role over many years and have hardly ever witnessed this happening. It's one thin…

This is incorrect. Mac minis (starting with the M4 model) and Mac Studios simply need to be restored via DFU mode following physical installation of another SSD (be it a larger one…

I can never understand this tired line. Do you and all the people who bleat the same thing also post the same thing about Nintendo and PlayStation bloggers? He’s an Apple commentat…

They do, sort of; iCloud Private Relay. Details: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102602

I’m not validating the automatic anti-China sentiment you can sometimes get in these discussions, but there is a major difference between the two. If you live in any mainstream Eur…

If you still have one, I’d love to finally get in! Been on the waitlist for months with no luck. Edit: thank you SO much!

Yep, in macOS Sonoma (14.0) and iOS/iPadOS 17.0).

Fire up the built-in Screen Sharing app, type their Apple ID email address in and hit connect. It should bring up a prompt their end that they can accept and you can then observe/c…

Your comment about iPhone build quality is as anecdotal as they come. Here's my counterpoint anecdotal take: I've had pretty much every iPhone model since the iPhone 3G, and the ti…

The premium version is needed for codec support (basically anything above basic Dolby, so all the lossless codecs and possibly Dolby digital+). It’s well worth the annual cost, bee…

What kind of taxi? Do you mean black cabs?

That is very cool! Without utterly derailing this thread I'd love one too, I've been on the waitlist for a little while too but no luck yet. Eager to reserve my handle and kick the…

I think a big reason for Anandtech losing the deep dive expertise is that the founder of Anandtech, Anand Lal Shimpi, was hired by… Apple! That was a while ago (2014), but that sor…

There’s a GUI app version here: https://github.com/vrunkel/F3XSwift

It doesn’t sound like you read it very carefully, as it only mentions two makes by name, both of which are only available on the secondary market.

It’s mostly hysteria. I’m enjoying it a lot more than the clunky GoT prequel series, for instance. I can’t possibly see how it could move someone to join in a one star review-bombi…

I’m sorry but this is profoundly and aggressively incorrect. The civil war was not reframed after the fact to be about slavery, quite the opposite in fact. The ‘reframing’ is in fa…

A close friend of mine recently had their Instagram account hacked. Pretty vanilla stuff - they were tricked into clicking a link in a DM from a friend's account that turned out to…

Fascinating take. So I'm typing on a scarf right now? The future is truly wild.

If you disable automatic connection for that network, you can have Wi-Fi on without being connected (I have this setup on a work Mac connected via Ethernet so I can use AirDrop).

My memory of this is hazy, but when I was younger Apple had a feature where you could log in with your voice. Really! It would have been either OS 7 or OS 9, probably OS 9. I'm alm…

Oh please. Just because there’s someone shouting this in every such thread doesn’t make it automatically true. You can set up a Mac without ever connecting it to the internet and i…