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• Xbox 360 softmod?

  I’ve been hearing about an Xbox 360 softmod that runs off a flash drive. I have an Xbox 360, and I have an iPhone, and an Android phone, and I have Macs, so it should be enough to put the softmod on a flash drive and stick it in the 360, right? Well, the instructions I’m finding (on various YouTube videos about it) all say I have to run a .EXE file (in Windows). The only access I have to Windows is at work, and we can’t bring flash drives in, or run executable files there (that aren’t approved)....

• Post #3361774

  Same as the most recent Pixel and Galaxy… and it’s faster than both. Your point? Also, the most recent phones aren’t necessary. We hit a plateau years ago. Your phone is mostly limited by its ageing battery more than anything else.

• Post #3360817

  Google makes a lot of money off that sentiment. The compute power of their latest Pixel has been compared to that of the iPhone 11 (2019). And it makes Google on average $1700 a year. More off some people than others. But hey, vote with your wallet. Put your money into companies that will make the world you want to live in. I admit, I’m living in the past thinking of Apple as the Steve Jobs led company of 1983 with the six colours logo. But I still think computers should serve people first. Ma...

• Best way to download an Apple Music playlist?

  Long story short, I got a couple Apple Music playlists I want offline copies of. How hard is that to do? If I can get them on Spotify, I know of a couple Spotify scrapers that would let me download them… I think. I’ve done albums and I’ve done songs. I’ve never thrown a whole ass playlist at it (we’re talking 500 songs… each). I’m not gonna stop paying for Apple Music, but offline/archival is nice.

• Post #976853

  Interesting. The Internet’s been pretty divided, with a lot of people supporting Epic because they ultimately want to see Apple’s control over iOS reduced, and ultimately, so do I. But the fact is, if Apple allowed sideloading like Android did, Epic would still try to force Apple to allow them on the App Store despite breaking the rules because they want Apple to host their app and its updates. Those of us rooting for Epic aren’t rooting for Tim Sweeney per se, we’re rooting for the change he’s...

• Post #948232

  You do your best and say what you can. It helps if you prepare the speech in advance. If nothing else, you just read it. Better to try and fumble it — everyone will understand — than to not try and regret it for years after.

• Post #913407

  Apple doesn’t really promise device update time frames. They basically support a device as long as it’s feasible because they are still, at their core, a computer company, though they are more focused on the iPhone and related accessories than the Mac lately. They are transitioning to a services company. But still, updates are based on what they conservatively think the device can handle. Even phones that aren’t getting the latest iOS still get security updates. iOS 18 and older versions are sti...

• Post #869434

  Okay, so Bush was there because of 9/11. It’s not that the government knew about 9/11 in advance and got POTUS out of the area. It’s that the government gets hundreds/thousands of threats a day, and that one was credible enough they got Bush out of town just to be safe. Then, when it happened, Bush didn’t react because he was in a classroom full of kids and he did not want to upset them. I’m not saying Bush was a saint, he wasn’t, but a couple things he did weren’t as bad as people think. That...

• Post #716236

  So only the user process is locked out of the C drive, not the boot/system. Fortunately, the way Windows 10/11 works by default, if you sign into a Microslop account, it backs all that stuff up to OneDrive. At least your documents. And no one’s saying it’s not bad, it just seems like most affected individuals will be able to go about most of their day. I have a Mac, so I don’t need to worry about any of this have separate issues to worry about.

• Post #708623

  But it can boot into Windows, which is also on the C drive? So it’s not locking users out of the C drive, it’s locking users out of parts of the C drive.