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There’s only been incremental improvements to products launched by Steve Jobs under Tim Cook. The only vastly new product category that I can recall they’ve launched under Tim is the Apple Vision Pro. If that becomes a runway success like the iPhone then we can credit it as something launched during Tim’s reign but otherwise he seems to be a good operator not an innovator. The value created is Tim riding on Steve’s success.

Reasonable amount of time is an understatement I purchased an Apple Airport router probably over ten years ago for my parents and it still works flawlessly to this day and receives security updates despite it being discontinued for five years now. The older version has been discontinued longer and it too still receives iirc.

I’m glad I’m not alone in my thoughts on 1P 8. Unfortunately it’s become completely unusable for me and I’m actively looking into alternatives. Leaning toward Bitwarden although it’s UI is a considerable downgrade imo.

It always bothers me when people make definitive statements like this without citing any sources or providing context. Fraud is a pretty extreme accusation here. Are you saying attempting to return an item constitutes fraud because the buyer somehow acted in bad faith purchasing an item falsely advertised? Also, it’s most likely a third party seller which Amazon held the funds back from. Are you saying the scam artist deserves to get paid? The refund only happens because the fraudulent seller knows they have no recourse. The only person committing fraud here is the seller not the buyer.

Completely agree. I find it nearly impossible to use without a significantly degraded browsing experience. I also thought of using a VPS but being the only person who would be using that static IP makes it harder anonymize traffic. You can’t hide behind the masses on a VPS VPN. One leak that has some piece of identifying information along with the VPS IP exposes you entirely.

The only reason Amazon charges you to return is to cover shipping. A brick and mortar does not accept returns via mail so you have to stand in line at the customer service counter forever. If you’re comparing apples to apples, Amazon returns are accepted in person at several retailers which eliminates the return shipping fee.

Facebook Pay 4 years ago

Offerup is probably the only other alternative but the network effects of Craigslist and FB are hard to beat.

Agreed. PBA card holders are usually given a professional courtesy but it’s at the officers discretion to honor it or not. For the offenses committed in the Cannonball Run it won’t work very well. It’s also geographically limited to mostly the NY, and NJ area.

ENS Domains 5 years ago

Better than $5 domain and $600+ in ethereum gas fees like it was recently

Honestly, we had some frustrations at first switching from Sketch to Figma but those frustrations were short-lived as all the benefits far outweighed any potential limitations. We’ve been on Figma for years now and are extremely happy we switched. It’s better in too many ways to count imo.

The M1 Max is pretty awesome and I can’t recall anything from Intel as of late that amazed me all that much. Intel made plenty of incremental improvements but nothing necessarily leaps ahead of their previous generations imo. The M1 and M1 Max were a refreshing change to years of underwhelming releases at crappy price points. For what I paid for my Intel-based MacPro my MacBook Pro M1 Max runs circles around it at a much lower price point.

If they really beat the M1 Max my question is at what cost in dollars and battery life.

We’ve encountered various bugs mostly around benefits. We are subscribed to their top-tier support which has generally been pretty good and resolved issues in a reasonable amount of time.

I am a bit disappointed though with the product and think Gusto still leaves a lot of room for improvement. If we weren’t already tied into them I would have considered another option.

I think the first way to protect yourself is to switch from T-Mobile they have notoriously bad security. In fact with all the recent leaks I don’t understand what they can do to actually safeguard accounts against SIM swap attacks.

The most secure way to protect against SIM swap attacks is not to use a SIM based number for 2fa. I’d suggest using a Twilio, Telnyx, or similar service where you have more control over the number and even the porting process.