Google getting mugged. Google gift giving. Compare the two. Draw your own conclusions about which is voluntary and which is coercive.

If you don’t give me money and I tell the cops to break your door down and beat the crap out of you, is a “donation” if I give you money to avoid that?

Maybe spare us the anti Apple rhetoric.

It’s not a “donation”. It’s protection money for a fucking mobster goon. You honestly can’t see that?

My 16 Pro Max has pretty amazing battery life. I don’t feel constrained by it at all. It’s still got 48% left at the end of a busy day today.

You’re mistaking paying “protection fees” for bribery.

Trump is 100% gonna shake down and threaten those who don’t pay him off. Legalized extortion that dumbass Americans elected.

Aren’t you precious. lol.

Apple makes great products. I will continue to buy them. Shrug.

I’d love this too.

Having the port there is a not subtle hint about how often you need to charge it (next to never).

If it dies plug it in, hit the washroom and when you’re back it will have enough charge to last to the end of the day, then plug it in before you leave and it’s good for 3-4 months minimum.

Current design doesn’t bother me one bit. Tons of screen and a reasonable amount of protection around the edges.

Been fine on my Apple silicon machines. Both systems have fresh installs.

Yawn. Better get used to it because it’s not going anywhere unless you plan to go back to cave paintings and carving with rocks.

Sorry about your experience but one bad expert doesn’t mean they’re all bad. Mine has always been awesome.

Google authenticator is garbage. Authy is much better.

Ah, they probably got rid of that when they stopped making airports with HDs in them for network backups. I don’t think it ever was designed to work with 3rd party backup devices.

Not sure I never tried a local wifi backup. USB is generally faster and more reliable.

I still use iTunes to back up locally on my PC. On the Mac it looks like that functionality is embedded in finder now.

The best explanation I’ve heard is they have someone who intentionally makes a subtle yet inconsequential change for internet people to whine about.

The power button thing doesn’t matter. It’s not a PC, you never turn it off.

I love mine. Exactly the solution I was looking for. I was going to get a Mac Studio but it was too expensive and this meets all of my needs for a work desktop.

Mac Studio resale prices around here are just tanking right now.

The second one is the relevant one. You have to allow the computer to sleep when the display is off or it will still stay awake and drawing power when the display is off.

It’s meant for laptops you want to run in a closed position with an external display when plugged in.

A friend had this and it was because he had his display set to sleep never. So it was essentially on all the time.

Make sure that prevent computer from sleeping when display is off is also disabled.

Go by the cable seating fully or not.

If the cable doesn’t seat fully then there’s something in there you’re missing. If it’s seating fully it may actually be damaged. Take it Apple to service.