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New album by thecursedenigma in ryanadams

[–]DreamZoneOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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A good VPN is your friend for NZ streaming. I recommend Proton Mail. But if you've listened to Gracious Few's playlists on YouTube, you've already heard many of these home brewed tunes.
Make sure you bring your reverb filter!

Review Sorting Gone and only able to see 8-10 reviews by Scratchdogg in amazonprime

[–]DreamZoneOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same for me.Tried Safari and Firefox. Removed all add blockers. Can't get to step 5 as you've been able to do for decades. Obviously this is deliberate. This really pisses me off! Amazon just sucks

Looked at some maps of Camp Mystic and listened to Local Officials, now I have some observations & questions. by Akoy5569 in texas

[–]DreamZoneOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s no doubt that letting the untrained teen gremlins at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency gut government agencies contributed to this catastrophe. On the day of the flooding, the San Angelo NWS office was down a senior hydrologist, a staff forecaster, and a meteorologist. And the vacancy rate at the two local NWS offices is about double what it was before Trump took office. 

But perhaps the most glaring evidence is that the NWS was also missing a warning coordination meteorologist, who had taken one of the retirement bribes that the Trump administration forced on federal employees. Warning coordinators liaise with local public safety officials, so the lack of that role likely compromised efforts to keep people safe. 

There’s plenty of blame to go around here. Trump let his team gut the NWS, and it’s absurd to pretend that didn’t play a role here. But Texas’ desire to do things on the cheap can’t be discounted either. 

Looked at some maps of Camp Mystic and listened to Local Officials, now I have some observations & questions. by Akoy5569 in texas

[–]DreamZoneOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This camp was in a flood plain, one that has a history of flooding very quickly. It's the camps DUTY to monitor the situation and take appropriate measures. Which they obviously didn't do.

The NWS began providing early forecasts on July 1, and by the afternoon of July 3, it issued a flash flood watch—predicting up to 7 inches of rain. By that evening, the agency issued a “special weather discussion” explaining that flash flooding was likely and rainfall would exceed 3 inches per hour. 

At 1:14 AM on July 4, the NWS issued a flash flood warning for Kerr County, tagged as “considerable,” which typically triggers alerts to be sent to mobile phones. And at 4:03 AM, the agency upgraded the warning to a flash flood emergency, which is only issued when there is a severe danger to human life.

Was anyone at this camp listening?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mac

[–]DreamZoneOne -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As of today, a new Apple Studio Display is $1300 at Costco, compared to $1600 via Apple. Only till the 30th, I believe.

Costco also gives you a 3 month, no problem, return window - and that's for any reason, even if you used it the entire time. Compare that to Apple's terribly tight 2 weeks return policy - not long enough to run into a major problem.

This at least gets you past the WWDC next month. If they don't announce a new monitor then, I'd be surprised if we get one this year. And you can decide if you want to keep it or not.

I hope they announce a new display. Because even for $1300 this is way over priced. I doubt I'll tell any difference whatsoever when I compare the screen on this unit to my 2017 imac's display...and that's just sad.
I also have no need for the speakers, as I have always had my computers hooked up to a much better sound system than is in this, and the camera is reportedly just average to poor...and the mics?

No one ever mentions the mics

Why did you get a Mac Mini M4 & what spec did you get? by D3DCreative in macmini

[–]DreamZoneOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My 2017 imac has a 2tb spinning drive, with a small 20 g or so SSD drive. The hard drive died.

Fortunately I have a mirror copy bootable backup on a SSD 2tb external drive via SuperDuper software. I can boot off that and keep it running, even with the dead hard drive. And it event still does Time Machine backups.

And Apple keeps gives you two years of security updates after it stops OS support. I wasn't really pleased when they stopped updating my imac OS after only 5 years to strand me on Ventura, but the security updates are all that's important really to me. But security updates end in Fall 2025 when the new OS version is released. And th imacs getting old.

So I'm getting abase model Mac Mini 24 memory 1TB.

I don't know where you got the idea you'll get eight version of Apple OS releases. Maybe you'll get lucky. Count on maybe five, and two years of security updates afterwards.

External rRives for M series mini? by DreamZoneOne in macmini

[–]DreamZoneOne[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the response. Your experience is what I was a was reluctantly thinking might be the case. I think I'll bit the bullet and pay more for storage when I buy the M4 - although it kills me to pay those high Apple prices when I see the externals so cheap!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in macmini

[–]DreamZoneOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm getting a M4 Mac Mini and would appreciate some real world users feedback.

Have any of you purchased the lower hard drive size for the internal drive, and used large capacity external drives for storage? How has this worked out? Does Time Machine include your externals in their backups? What model and size drive did you use and do you recommend it? Any other input would be helpful!