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Re: Business Essentials

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Post by skydhash »

supernovae wrote: post #264
vineyardmike wrote: post #227

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I still have a lot of resentment for the internet restrictions my parents put on my devices. They didn't usually work, but made whatever i was doing significantly more annoying. I still remember discovering a bug in the iphone parental controls where i could go to the amazon app, leave a comment for google.com, click it and open that in a webview, then open that into safari with restrictions disabled. How i discovere…

You do realize, that often times controls are put in place when the communications and trust has been violated right? Most people want to not give a shit, it's the kid forcing the response. Beyond that, The internet for a boy, is much different than the internet for a girl - your experience isn't the same as everyone elses and neither are the filters. We home school so some of the controls are just in place so they a…

The running joke in my country is that pastors’ children always round up to be delinquent in their teens. You won’t be able to completely control the environment of your child. The re will be a moment, when he/she will realize you do not know everything and your word, while important will be just a voice in many. It is very hard to resist temptation when you see people your age doing them without restrictions. I would say teach them values, not enforce them.

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Post by 1123581321 »

jacurtis wrote: post #149
Damogran6 wrote: post #81

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I figured, when my kids were a certain age, that if I took that route, they'd ALWAYS get around whatever control I put in front of them. Either at home, or at school or at a friends house. Told them there was stuff on the internet that could harm them, that there was stuff they could NOT unsee. They're 18 now, the results of the science experiment are still out, but they seem to have turned out okay.

As someone who grew up in an extremely religious (arguably "cult-ish") home. I can tell you that your approach to parenting leads to healthier children (at least mentally). Hiding children from facts of life (sex, death, drugs, abuse, alcohol, etc) does not in fact help them, it helps you (the parent). It makes parents feel good, but leaves children scarred and unprepared for when they will inevitably face those fact…

Mate, your second paragraph is essentially reframing trauma. It's true that trauma can prepare one to face a bigger challenge later in life, but not always, and it can make facing other kinds of challenges more difficult and incentivize withdrawing from a number of wonderful parts of life.

There have been successful societies built around early trauma (Spartans, etc.) but we remember many of them as brutal by necessity of their surrounding environment.

Agree with the rest entirely.

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Post by mlyle »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #237
mlyle wrote: post #211

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Yes, but the whole world won't be developers. And many in the know just don't care. You're talking about a population of 12 to 18 year olds. Even among the most responsible and least-easily influenced of them, social pressures absolutely dwarf any abstract concerns about corporations knowing a bit more about broke-ass you to try and sell you things. Most of this population will take a short term gain for an uncertain…

I can only affect my kingdom, what others do is mostly not my concern. Reminds me of the corporate garbage “food” products most people consume. I speak out but not going to steal their doritos.

You're the dude who spoke of the need to "reign" in teachers and advocated for restrictive whitelists.

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Post by _delirium »

asdff wrote: post #247
chrisseaton wrote: post #65

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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? 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…

If you have a more serious issue the default procedure is to just wipe the device and replace the logic board for the flat rate repair fee. I have a macbook that just shuts off randomly and turns on with CPU1 halt error messages. I bring it to the apple store and they told me flat out they don't know what is going on with the device, gotta replace. Also had macbooks with gpu issues, same deal send away wipe the devic…

That's been my experience also. In my case the replacement wasn't even done in the same region of the country, or by Apple employees, although the turnaround was pretty quick when you take that into account.

I dumped a glass of water on a MacBook Pro keyboard earlier this year, and took it to the local Apple Store (in DC) under AppleCare+. After verifying that it in fact wouldn't boot, they told me to leave it for repair and they'd update me. I picked it up about a week later repaired.

Based on the PDF documentation I got with the pickup, they shipped it to a third-party repair shop in Houston (CSAT Solutions), which removed every part that had tripped the liquid sensor, and replaced them with new parts (logic board, touch ID board, I/O board, and "top case with battery"). The repair shop then shipped the resulting mostly-new laptop back to the Apple Store in DC, where I picked it up.

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Post by NovaS1X »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #234
zeusk wrote: post #154

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Who remembers xserve?

I cried a tear or two when they deprecated it. Apple can do enterprise hardware... just because Linux and x86 hardware became commoditized doesn't mean there isn't room for further innovation. I think Apple should come out with an M1 Enterprise chip and a line of data center/server hardware to compete with Oxide. As for an OS, why not hire Hector Martin and adopt a particular flavor of Linux (maybe partner with Red H…

An LDAP offering that competes with AD and integrates with OSX would be gigantic. I work in VFX where 95% of our hardware runs Linux, our laptops all Apple, and the only Windows machines being the accounting department, yet we still use AD for directory services because there's simply nobody else that offers a product even half as good, and OSX doesn't even like working with AD anyway.

A product that could even compete with half of what AD offers and could manage OSX devices would be pretty incredible.

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Post by NovaS1X »

jonathantf2 wrote: post #248
numbsafari wrote: post #206

The challenge for Apple is going to be their unwillingness to integrate with others. Business Manager only integrates with MS Azure Active Directory for IAM. The vast majority of small business do not have Azure Active Directory. They either have nothing, or they have Google Workspace. Apple needs to not just launch a competitor for AD. They need to properly support integrated directory services with a broader range…

At the MSP I work at every single customer we have uses Azure AD. G Suite isn't a proper business e-mail solution for a business with any more than 3 users - Exchange and Azure AD are the gold standard for cloud based office for SMB.

Hard disagree. I work for a company of 5000+ users and we're full G-Suite now. We just went all in on Workspace.

Previous two companies (650 users, 250 users), were also gull G-Suite.

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Post by NovaS1X »

TakuYam wrote: post #89
hda111 wrote: post #79

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The newer MacBooks have easy repairable battery and connectors.

True but how often is the battery the issue in an enterprise environment? In my experience devices are seldom in circulation long enough that they require a battery swap. Port damage and clumsy or messy employees are far more likely to cause issues.

>True but how often is the battery the issue in an enterprise environment?

Biggest issue by far. We have a fleet of 100+ MacBooks in my office and expanded batteries are probably the only thing we have that goes wrong with them. They're rock solid otherwise. The new replaceable batteries is a huge deal.

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Post by tehalex »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #198
ag56 wrote: post #59

Does this mean I can finally have multiple user accounts on my iPhone?

Unlikely. Current MDM works with just one account on a device, I don't think this will be changing.

iPads can be put into a "shared iPad mode" that is managed from MDMs.

https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv...

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Post by _carbyau_ »

frankfrankfrank wrote: post #214
numbsafari wrote: post #196

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Agreed. They have been leaving a mountain of money on the table by not offering this, or a competitor for Google Workspace.

It could actually be a play for far bigger, the mountain of money that is now largely dominated by Microsoft in ALL establishment corporations and governments. Think of being able to run your whole network and equipment with a mere fraction of the IT and network personnel that it now takes to run a Windows based environment.

Well, yes and no. Some innovation in this space will be much welcomed and may well lead to the "mere fraction".

But right now in almost every IT office, if you could get rid of the right 50% of people, the remaining 50% would keep things running without missing a beat.

The trick is doing that.

Also, right now in the corporate space, virtual machines are popular for server and workstation environments. Apple hasn't dipped a toe in that space yet.

Maybe as more business software go towards web and BYODevice becomes a thing Apple could gain traction.

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Post by tehalex »

xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #267
throwaway894345 wrote: post #245

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We used JAMF at my last place of business, and it would occasionally kill apps with a 15 minute warning. Normally this was fine, but it really sucked to get JAMFed (as it came to be called) in the middle of a presentation. At my current company, we use something that destroys CPU and battery (unused 2019 high end MBP hangs sporadically for tens of seconds on any file system syscall, computer gets uncomfortably hot, b…

The issues you experienced are squarely on the shoulders of your Jamf admins. It doesn't have to suck, but it usually does because the people put in charge of it are incompetent, or at best, semi-competent. Most self-respecting engineers run fast from this sort of thing.

Having worked with JAMF's API... I don't like it, but yeah, this is not normal and something as to how your company is using JAMF.

The people in charge of this are usually more of the IT than 'self respecting engineers'

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