And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Comparing my new MacBook Pro with my 15 year old MBP, a lot of easy connectivity has been lost along with a CD/DVD drive. So now I have to keep a bundle of dongles (is there a collective noun for dongles?) around to use older devices which still work just fine. Steve_in_Ottawa
Yeah, losing the CD / DVD drawer really rankles my jimmies. I know Youtube and many other on-line exist but what if you aren't wi-fi connected and just want some PRIVATE entertainment ?
Sometime in the future a big court case or a whistle blower will reveal that everything in the cloud is available to NSA. AND that everything you type or copy into your computer is uploaded to the cloud even if you opt out.
Comparing my new MacBook Pro with my 15 year old MBP, a lot of easy connectivity has been lost along with a CD/DVD drive. So now I have to keep a bundle of dongles (is there a collective noun for dongles?) around to use older devices which still work just fine. Steve_in_Ottawa
ReplyDeleteYeah, losing the CD / DVD drawer really rankles my jimmies. I know Youtube and many other on-line exist but what if you aren't wi-fi connected and just want some PRIVATE entertainment ?
ReplyDeleteExternal drive. Record to hard drive.
DeletePrivacy was pre-1984 world. Embrace the cloud.
ReplyDeleteThe cloud. Somebody else's computer.
DeleteI use an external CD/DVD player to deal with that media, it plugs into one of the two (and only two) USB slots. There is an HDMI slot also..
ReplyDeleteMy problem with only having USB-C is only having two ports...
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Computer History Museum in Mountain Viewwhat you see is a feature, not a bug.
ReplyDeleteusb c hub $25
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Well, it is Apple so they have a history of removing something and charging more for it.
ReplyDeleteWriting this on the 2 USB C port MacBook at the top of the pile.
ReplyDeleteRemoving all those ports is part of the price of a computer half the thickness & weight of what they replace.
There's plenty of inexpensive hubs out there for desktop use that will run every external gadget and a couple monotors to boot.
I'm trying to figure out how Mac's engineers made everything, including charging, run thru one USB C port.
Sometime in the future a big court case or a whistle blower will reveal that everything in the cloud is available to NSA. AND that everything you type or copy into your computer is uploaded to the cloud even if you opt out.
ReplyDeleteApple isn't the only one to do the above. HP does it too, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteSpecialization is for insects....
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