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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16252553

Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/16867726

[MacRumors] Rivian's Latest Vehicles Support Apple Car Keys for Unlocking With Wallet App

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17772874

PSA: Bartender Mac App Under New Ownership, But Lack of Transparency Raises Concerns

I've been a paying user since 2015. This makes me sad, as it's one of my most beloved utilities and this isn't a good look. I'll keep running it without updating until it stops working or I find a replacement that I like. Also:

https://sixcolors.com/link/2024/06/bartender-has-a-new-owner/

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/13155149

other people’s iPhones more intrusive than other people’s droids

According to the linked research, all iPhones are spying on everyone within Wi-Fi range. If your phone of any kind is squawking wi-fi, all in-range iPhones are grabbing various bits of data like your MAC address and the SSIDs your phone normally looks for (e.g. your home SSID) and reports that back to Apple along with time and location data. The same study could not say the same for Google. So other people’s iPhones are more of a privacy intrusion to you than other people’s droids.

your own iPhone is less intrusive than your own droid when navigating

However, another study shows an inversion between Apple and Google when it comes to what you own and use for navigation. If you use an iPhone for navigation, the iPhone will only send one or two BSSIDs near you to Appl

I usually update right away to the latest versions of stuff; however, I’m afraid that things will break. Apple has been making greater and greater changes each release that are breaking stuff I’ve used for years.

For example, the GPGTools won't work on Sonoma. See: https://gpgtools.org/sonoma

I'm on the developer beta, but was just wondering what folks who are on either the public or dev beta think of it.

I haven't noticed anything too twitchy right now. I did find that I had to reboot as Adobe Lightroom locked up on my i9 2019 MB Pro, but it was fine after a reboot...

Please welcome the new mod for this community, @[email protected].

I'll still participate in conversations; however, lazyguru will keep an active pulse on the community.

Please show him a warm welcome!

Which one of you is getting the vision pro?