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I posted ~7 months ago about my decision to use HFS+ for backups, and had a couple skeptical replies. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317123)
I guess I misjudged Apple's commitment to support HFS+ long-term.
It now seems like there's no real native way of doing encrypted backups to HDDs on macOS (APFS not really recommended for HDDs)... the options are either encrypted Time Machine to a network location, or a third-party tool.
Guess I'll figure out SuperDuper or Carbon Copy.
You can solve this by playing all the games on sand!
Our IT department ran a couple scripts last week and everything this week has been smooth sailing.
Things I have run into problems with have been my smart thermostat (ecobee, now fixed), my Philips Hue lights (most of my automations are via Home Assistant, but I have a handful that rely on colour temp in the Hue app), and my Ford car. (Auto time zone and auto time aren't separately configurable, and auto time zone puts me in the wrong time zone.)
I had this same experience with my Samsung tablet - but for a TV that isn't connected to the internet, I couldn't really be bothered to adb uninstall apps - it's not like they're going to be doing anything anyway.
If you look at the voltage curves, Alkaline batteries start at higher voltage than NiMH but drop below NiMH voltage pretty quickly, so unless you have a device that stops working when your alkaline batteries drop below 50% charge or so at 1.2V, there's no reason to avoid NiMH.
Tricky bit is getting a good charger if you're getting them for a device that doesn't charge its own batteries.
Honestly, having written that out... I'm not sure that's an outcome that's generally avoidable.
720p AV1 is about 700mb/hr, so about an order of magnitude less than your 7GB/hour.
It's not like a 720p limit for tax reasons is any worse than a 720p limit for lack-of-Widevine-support reasons.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/siri-ai-a-profoundly-...
> These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence experiences.
You can enjoy the Harry Potter franchise without paying for it.
I certainly would not feel comfortable sending any of my money to her, which I honestly feel is a far less controversial position than taking an opinion on the morality of other people based on their Tesla purchases.
(And at that, one my biggest complaints of Google Maps is that the reviewers are undiscerning and/or fake compared to what Urbanspoon had before it died.)
In theory, batching deliveries should delivery economies of scale on vehicle and labour costs.
I've got fond memories of visiting in the summers as a kid and watching TNG episodes he'd taped on VHS.
I dunno if that's a great example - I'm sure Zoom has more awareness in the zeitgeist, but from my standpoint it's an app most well-known for security problems and abusing OS conventions, while Google Meet just quietly and simply works whenever I want to call my mom.
Not if you're a linguistic descriptivist.
They'd be fine except every named model has multiple numbered versions, with no consistent relatioship between cost or capability corresponding to the version numbers going up or down.
Sure, and I can also complain about the pricing being unreasonable — which I also say an an Apple shareholder.
This unfortunately looks to be basically the same as the A9 - the A11 is just lightly refreshed with a newer stock OS and higher refresh screen — the SoC and memory are the same.
It's the SoC that's really killing these tablets, the Helio G99 is about on par with the A10 Fusion from 2016.
There were none available in Canada with cellular when I looked a few years ago so I ended up buying an African-region Galaxy Tab A9 for $170. It's functional, but by God is it slow, and that's after adb-removing about 50 pieces of Samsung bloat.
e.g. I've got three screens in my house (office TV, living room TV, basement projector) in Canada — upgrading to the latest Apple TV on each of them would cost me $1,287.
Wait, I'm curious about this bit - I did my math undergrad ~16 years ago and all my homework was handwritten.
Are now AIs capable of ingesting my mess of poor handwriting with arrows indicating the flow of a proof (e.g. from the bottom of the page to the top of a hand-drawn column half-way up the page to cram in the rest of the proof)?
> I cannot overstate how much expensive housing has strangled Hollywood.
I hardly know anything about the tv/movie industry, but this is a bit of funny juxtaposition when Toronto and Vancouver also have famously unaffordable housing.
Some time ago I started playing all the games that to me felt worthwhile to play in roughly chronological order.
I think the project is overall quite different than "reading all the classics" though - a lot of old games have aged pretty poorly so I can either skip them or abandon after giving them a fair shot.
I'm currently roughly in the 2000-2010 era of games. (It's not pure chronological, because I tend to sort play order by console, then by series, then by year.)
Depends heavily on the field. Most fields don't use the term "secretary", but e.g. my mid-sized company of several hundred employees has a single executive assistant, vs. my wife works at a law firm where it's pretty close to 1:1 professionals to assistants.