Translating for the drummers here.

Everyone knows us mods here only shill for Whataburger Spicy Ketchup.

My spouse struggled with a medical condition for years and was lucky to finally get a prescription for something that actually resolved the problem. The medication was expensive ($1000+ a month), but since we literally tried everything else, insurance would “let” it be covered.

Then I lost my job and had to move over to a new company’s insurance plan. And they won’t cover it.

The fact that your employment in the US determines what medical care you can get is absolutely bonkers.

GOP politicians: “I love cops, just not when they investigate my guy’s crimes”

Delicious, but I can imagine that a lot of people saw that picture and thought “Ima pass on the spunk filled dookie”

Good news everyone. They’re back.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happened-to-cheez-balls-2019-8?amp

That giant tub of big box store cheese balls never had shit on these things.

The relax products were the best

https://youtu.be/Ab47umgoLrk

I’d say Planter’s Cheez Balls and lime green skittles, but people wised up and brought those back recently.

My dog likes her own space. She’s a sighthound, and a lot of them are notorious for being a little introverted.

Yeah, I was mostly referring to the “install apps” part of your comment. You can just download installers from websites. Very few Mac developers rely on the AppStore as their only means to distribute apps.

As for the OS updates, the stuff around major point releases keeps changing. They were forcing people to download installers for major point releases in the AppStore for certain versions of MacOS. I don’t know if that’s still the case with Sonoma. The update experience got refactored about a year and a half ago.

iTunes still exists on Windows, but it’s only covering Podcasts, Audiobooks, and back ups on Windows. Only music and video have been broken out in to the Music and TV apps.

It’s pretty stupid and half ass. Windows needs parity with MacOS. MacOS has a Music, TV, Podcast, and Books app. Also there is a back up experience that integrates into the OS’s file management system. Bloated iTunes is totally dead.

I feel like Apple and Microsoft are slipping back into the late 90’s. Each company’s software is pretty janky on their competitor’s machines.

You need an Apple ID for the Mac’s App Store, but the Mac’s App Store is very much the second banana on MacOS. You can open up Chrome or Firefox and download an installer for any ‘ol app, or another app marketplace entirely.

That said, if a developer hasn’t registered as a “Trusted developer” with Apple, installing an app will ask the user if they’re sure that they want to install the program. All of the settings around trusting known developers are at the OS account level. They require a local admin login, not an Apple ID. Its somewhat similar to what Google does with Android.

My guess is that it took a while because they’ve been able to argue that they’re not a monopoly in the market. It’s a duopoly in the US because Android controls 40% of the market and Apple has 60%.

It’s a stupid argument and it’s still anticompetitive. That said, the last time the US government cracked down on an operating system manufacturer like this, it was Microsoft, and they had over 90% of the market.

Music finally replaced iTunes a few weeks ago on Windows.

Dumb question… what happens after the property gets seized?

What happens to the tenants, the Trump businesses operating in those buildings, the non-Trump businesses operating in those building, property management employees, etc?

How does this work?

Installing apps on iOS is good point. You need an account. MacOS doesn’t have that constraint.

Mark? That you?

Can’t you already do #5?

I have Macs and iOS devices that aren’t logged into an iCloud account.

“Fine, I’ll grade my own test”

The EU passed new laws to address new needs. The US is trying to see if they can provide consumer protection with existing consumer protection laws from the past.

Passing consumer protection laws is pretty hard when people don’t vote enough democrats into the senate and house. The GOP hates consumer protection regulation.