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Re: Business Essentials

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Post by Leherenn »

skoskie wrote: post #50
chrisseaton wrote: post #10

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I think that's unlikely to be a thing they're working on. You can get that from storing your files in iCloud already, and these days is there any good reason to back up the rest of your system? If I had to rebuild a system due to hardware failure the absolute last thing I'd want to do would be restore all the accumulated system cruft!

That really depends on the user. As a developer, I’ve modified quite a few system files and would like those things backed up. It’s one reason I don’t use Backblaze – they refuse to backup system files. As an employer, I can imagine a situation in which those “cruft” files contain information about the actions of an employee that might be valuable in legal proceedings, or just providing they were terminated for cause…

I used to have a repo with scripts that "encodes" those change. Stuff like "setup-zsh.sh" and so on. On a new computer, I could just install git, clone the repo then run the scripts.

I stopped doing that because I don't use new systems often enough to be worth it, and as someone else said it's also a good time to examine and improve your workflow.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by FireBeyond »

chrisseaton wrote: post #65
stefan_ wrote: post #52

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Make an appointment 2 weeks from now, go there to hand it in, return in another 2 weeks to be handed a refurbished machine with your data gone? Sorry to say, that's not competitive with what other vendors offer as business support.

> Make an appointment 2 weeks from now, go there to hand it in, return in another 2 weeks to be handed a refurbished machine with your data gone? Every time I've visited an Apple store with a problem I've left within 30 mins with either it fixed or a replacement. What you're describing sounds more like the traditional Dell or HP approach! One of the best things about Apple is being able to visit a store in almost any…

Good luck getting an appointment within 4 hours at Apple stores near here. The three nearest me have no appointments until November 19.

Dell laptops I can get serviced with an onsite tech within 4 hours if I want that level of service.

Experience 1: MBA wouldn't charge battery. Machine functioned just fine on AC power. Expected maybe $300 in parts and labor, out of warranty. No, "this will be $870. Maybe we can look at getting you into a new Mac today?".

Experience 2: reproducible kernel panics on demand from GPU (later acknowledged as an issue by Apple, over a year later). Despite the tech being able to cause the panic too, "our diagnostic tool says there's no problem, nothing we can do".

Experience 3: screen adhesive delamination. "Within normal limits, expected/not abnormal behavior". That one was belatedly acknowledged by Apple, too.

Re: Business Essentials

#163

Post by cma »

CityOfThrowaway wrote: post #121
thih9 wrote: post #118

Slightly off topic, check out the HTML code next to the "Onsite repairs" box; the formatting uses strikethrough, but there is a hidden element with "Not" text before each crossed out line. I assume this is for accessibility or copy-paste compatibility; as a result the raw text still reads: > Onsite repairs: Not someday Not next week Not soon ASAP. I find this kind of attention to detail very cool. (Too bad "ASAP" is…

This is for the visually impaired! Screen readers will announce the hidden element

Do they not indicate strike through already in another way?

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by newsclues »

short12 wrote: post #144
motohagiography wrote: post #132

Smart play to focus on businesses with fewer than 500 employees, as those are the most likely to grow in the next 3-7 years into larger accounts, and they don't have the 12-18mo sales cycle and shennanigans of an enterprise. It's a strategic departure from being a consumer luxury product company, and the shift to enterprise suggests they're out of ideas, but at the rate they're losing consumer growth I'd say they've…

Didnt they already try this and it was a huge failure

Apple has had success in certain sectors of industry: the creative space being a large focus where they had success often in spite of being Apple

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by loginatnine »

chrisseaton wrote: post #65
stefan_ wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Make an appointment 2 weeks from now, go there to hand it in, return in another 2 weeks to be handed a refurbished machine with your data gone? Sorry to say, that's not competitive with what other vendors offer as business support.

> Make an appointment 2 weeks from now, go there to hand it in, return in another 2 weeks to be handed a refurbished machine with your data gone? Every time I've visited an Apple store with a problem I've left within 30 mins with either it fixed or a replacement. What you're describing sounds more like the traditional Dell or HP approach! One of the best things about Apple is being able to visit a store in almost any…

Dell business support is pretty awesome in my experience, had to fix something 3 times in the past 4 years with my work precision laptop and it took less than 24h to got a technician to my house to do the swap.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by dahfizz »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #150
dahfizz wrote: post #138

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Can screen readers not figure out that a 1px x 1px element with a clip-path: inset(0px 0px 99.9% 99.9%) is invisible?

The trouble is, I think, that typefaces vary so much that some could appear to have a strike through when they don't. Or take for example the number 0 which sometimes has a fairly horizontal slash through it. Do you program the screen reader to check if the struck letter is a 0, and if so, consider it not to be struck? But... What if it actually is, and that typeface doesn't have a slashed 0? Do you only check perfec…

The issue is not with detecting the strike through. The issue is that the CSS of the hidden "not" element obviously makes the element invisible, but a screen reader still reads it.

Obviously, Apple is abusing that fact here in order to insert elements that only screen readers would see. Definitely feels like a hack.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by derefr »

dwaite wrote: post #143
derefr wrote: post #80

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iOS devices do full backups to iCloud†, restorable onto a new device just like macOS full Time Machine backups are. So why not macOS backups in iCloud? If anything, you'd expect it to be the other way around—in iOS devices, you/apps can't litter your homedir with random garbage, while in macOS you can. So it's more useful to back up macOS. † You can also make an iOS backup onto a local macOS computer running iTunes,…

> So why not macOS backups in iCloud? If anything, you'd expect it to be the other way around—in iOS devices, you/apps can't litter your homedir with random garbage, while in macOS you can. So it's more useful to back up macOS. This is somewhat the reason why no full macOS backup to the cloud. iOS naturally normalizes the content due to its use of iTunes Store content (apps, movies, television shows, books, music). O…

> On macOS, you can't necessarily just ignore apps and say you'll download from the store - not only can you move applications around, you can delete parts of them and _many_ devices have apps which were not downloaded from the store.

Sure, but they're by-and-large the same apps. You can delete parts, but the parts that are there will inevitably be parts someone else also uploaded before. Apps are a highly backend de-dup-able kind of data.

As such, couldn't Apple just treat .app bundles (and a few other bundle types, e.g. .framework, .kext, .plugin, etc.) specially for purposes of iCloud backup, by e.g. content-hashing all the files in each bundle, shoving those files into an object store keyed by content hash (i.e. a Content-Addressable Store), CDN-mirroring that CAS, and then saving the .app bundle in your backup as a BOM for reconstructing the bundle from the CAS CDN?

Keep in mind, Apple have never promised E2E encryption for iCloud backups, only "encryption in flight" and "encryption at rest." (See https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202303). And even then, that's never included an implied encryption of your applications, only of "your data" (since, as you say, the apps are being turned into symbolic references to ITMS CDN objects.)

So they could have an explicit policy that certain filetypes that aren't "user-generated" would be "backed up in the open, to the commons"; while all other filetypes would get individual treatment. And presumably you could also set some Finder xattr to override that policy one way or the other, if e.g. you had some proprietary binaries you were under NDA to not release.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by zitterbewegung »

drcongo wrote: post #114
zitterbewegung wrote: post #93

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All you are doing is teaching your kids to hack into their own device (speaking from experence) . Try a different strategy than attempting to lock down a device . When your are dealing with an individual who has a large payout if they succeed in getting around security and a long amount of time to circumvent it’s an extremely lost cause. Instead you should limit the amount of time for device access or even just take…

The ScreenTime feature for family members on iOS is an absolute car-crash. Not only is it almost impossible to find (it's not in Settings -> ScreenTime), but I'm endlessly impressed with the ways around it my daughter is able to find. I've recently noticed that she can use WhatsApp without limits just by launching it from the share sheet in Photos.

I wasn’t clear I mean physically take the device from them.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by zitterbewegung »

foobarian wrote: post #119
zitterbewegung wrote: post #93

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All you are doing is teaching your kids to hack into their own device (speaking from experence) . Try a different strategy than attempting to lock down a device . When your are dealing with an individual who has a large payout if they succeed in getting around security and a long amount of time to circumvent it’s an extremely lost cause. Instead you should limit the amount of time for device access or even just take…

> All you are doing is teaching your kids to hack into their own device Ha! Lock down everything and casually leave a printout on the kitchen table titled "How to bypass home network security" with a bunch of Python exercises that lead up to disabling the filters. Presto, now they know Python :-)

I would not leave books on the table so they can figure out how to google.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by zitterbewegung »

curt15 wrote: post #117
zitterbewegung wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All you are doing is teaching your kids to hack into their own device (speaking from experence) . Try a different strategy than attempting to lock down a device . When your are dealing with an individual who has a large payout if they succeed in getting around security and a long amount of time to circumvent it’s an extremely lost cause. Instead you should limit the amount of time for device access or even just take…

>All you are doing is teaching your kids to hack into their own device (speaking from experence) That doesn't seem like a bad skill to foster.

Never said it was bad just pointing out the original posters false conclusion.
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