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The At-Fault Edition Monday, November 25, 2024

How To Use Apple Diagnostics To Test Your Mac, by Tim Hardwick, MacRumors

If you think your Mac has a hardware problem, you can use Apple Diagnostics to help you determine which hardware component might be at fault. Apple Diagnostics can also suggest solutions and get you in touch with Apple Support for additional help.

These Alternatives To Popular Apps Can Help Reclaim Your Online Life From Billionaires And Surveillance, by Zack Whittaker, Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch

Take a minute to think about what you’d want to leave behind. Big Tech giants that hoard your data? Subscription services? Invasive ad tracking? Government surveillance? Your needs and risks are unique to you, but hopefully a few of these recommendations help to hit the spot.

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Apple Tends To Do Right By Apps It Acquires, by John Gruber, Daring Fireball

It’s commonplace in the industry for a large company to acquire a small company that makes a very cool app, and then somehow ruin that app. Sometimes by transmogrifying it beyond recognition, but oftentimes through disinterest or neglect. And Apple is a very large company, and Pixelmator is a small company with two very cool apps. But an examination of Apple’s acquisition history really doesn’t give me any reason for alarm. Apple really does tend to do right by cool app acquisitions.

Apple Chief Returns To China As Beijing Prepares To Fete CEOs, by Bloomberg

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook is visiting China for at least the third time this year, showing up at a suppliers’ conference on the same day a top Beijing official convened an important meeting with a group of foreign CEOs.

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The CEO made it a point to emphasize the importance of the Chinese supply chain during brief remarks carried by a social media account linked to state broadcaster China Central Television. “I value them very highly. We could not do what we do without them,” Cook said in response to a question about Apple’s Chinese partners.

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Today I learnt that Doritos Coffee exists.

One of my favorite beverage in one of my favorite chips: how bad can it be?

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