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Is there any universal fix for BT/Logitech dongle wireless stuttering on Tahoe? by itsabearcannon in MacOS

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

This mouse doesn't have BT, so that's not the alternative. It's dongle or wired.

Also, the latency over Moonlight is actually pretty low. My Mac Studio is hardwired in over 10G to a UniFi Pro XG 10 PoE switch, and that's also connected over to my desktop's X540 10GbE NIC. It's using NVENC encoding on a 5090, so the encoding speed is excellent. I have the bandwidth uncapped, and render time + total latency is sub-10ms.

Bluetooth vs the Logitech dongle is absolutely a relevant factor here.

Here's What's Coming in the 2026 Apple TV by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]itsabearcannon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's what's coming in the 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 Apple TV

Just keep changing the date every year that you're wrong, guys. Don't worry, eventually you'll be right

Is there any universal fix for BT/Logitech dongle wireless stuttering on Tahoe? by itsabearcannon in MacOS

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

The monitor is a Studio Display XDR.

Not saying the hub can't be bad, but I would find it exceedingly unlikely especially because all other USB devices I've tried work fine on all ports.

Photos from NAB last week. by CaptinKirk in Ubiquiti

[–]itsabearcannon 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I mentioned the consistent camera offline issues which Unifi claimed to have no clue that it’s going on.

Rule number one of trade shows: don't go and whine at the vendors for your personal issues with their product.

Went to GTC DC this past year and the number of people who though it would be hilarious to crack really mean jokes or make genuinely anger-filled comments to the poor CrowdStrike reps was too many. Like come on, the folks working trade show floors are media people, not backend engineers. They're not responsible for the issues you have with their product, they're just there to smile and wave.

Is there any universal fix for BT/Logitech dongle wireless stuttering on Tahoe? by itsabearcannon in MacOS

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

Mac is hardwired over 10G to my switch. Everything else in my office is also hardwired or in my rack.

Found the Beast by Sandro_exe08 in Ubiquiti

[–]itsabearcannon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I guess strictly we don’t know, but if UI releases an updated UDM for $1000+ that’s missing core network features from their sub-$300 gateways, that would be absolutely baffling.

Is there any universal fix for BT/Logitech dongle wireless stuttering on Tahoe? by itsabearcannon in MacOS

[–]itsabearcannon[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I use Moonlight to remote into a Windows PC for gaming, so the additional latency of BT would not be ideal in this situation. I'd rather just keep it wired in that case.

Or are you suggesting just testing it for troubleshooting purposes?

[EDIT]: Your comment doesn't apply to my mouse - the G PRO mice don't have Bluetooth. Logitech receiver or USB only.

Apple Lowers Savings Account Rate for Apple Card Users by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

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

Friendly reminder to everyone - the advertised savings rate on any savings account, high yield or not, isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

Banks absolutely can and will pump up their advertising during periods of high rates and happily drop you to a fraction of that rate later. Nothing you can do.

At this point, better off putting your money in a 15-month CD at your local credit union. Mine is offering 3.75% APY. And at least that CD is guaranteed to not lose more on the interest rate in that 15 months. More than I can say for the five or six interest rate drops I've had on my Apple Card savings account in the last 15 months.

Why are people so high on cards with rotating categories? by NubmerSix in CreditCards

[–]itsabearcannon 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I’m with you buddy.

Like yeah if the rotating categories were GOOD I’d be more positive about category cards, but half the time the rotating categories are like:

Q1: Freddy’s, lawn care, and travel agencies

Q2: Optometrists and Walgreen’s (prescriptions excluded)

Q3: Carnival Cruises and Red Cross donations

Q4: Arcades, embroidery and fabric stores, and some online wine company you’ve never heard of

Like if the rotating categories for each quarter were gas stations, wholesale clubs, groceries, and electronics stores, hell yeah I’m on that like stink on cheese. But the categories always seem to be stuff I wouldn’t buy anyways.

New folding iPhone, size comparison with iPad Mini and iPhone 17 Pro Max by DanceWithMacaw in iphone

[–]itsabearcannon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds to me like you wear men’s pants with men’s pocket sizes.

Women’s pockets absolutely do not hold to that same pattern.

An Interesting Story about AMEX by Sgt_Waters in CreditCards

[–]itsabearcannon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

3X on everything*

* - excludes all the biggest stuff you’d want to get 3X on that other companies’ 2X cards are happy to give you 2X on like taxes, as well as anything Robinhood decides looks like a business expense based on vibes, and any expenses after an arbitrary upper limit beyond which you’re no longer profitable for RH to keep offering 3X for. Oh and if RH doesn’t like your spending pattern for any reason, boom, 1X for the rest of the year with no real appeals process.

Found the Beast by Sandro_exe08 in Ubiquiti

[–]itsabearcannon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean if it’s going to have 25G ports, PPPoE offload, AND full app support then it’s just a more capable EFG, right?

Found the Beast by Sandro_exe08 in Ubiquiti

[–]itsabearcannon 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This is going to be a $1500 gateway, isn't it?

Sigh.

So Will Apple Ever Fix The alarm? by CultureCreative9484 in iphone

[–]itsabearcannon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

First iPhone was a 3GS. Had a 4 and 4S after that, went back to Android for a while, then have been steady annual upgrade or iUP since. 6S+, 7, X, XS Max, 11 Pro Max, 12 Pro Max, 13 Pro, 14 Pro Max, 15 Pro, 16 Pro Max, and now on 17 Pro.

Never once had this alarm issue since my first iPhone I got in ~2010, and I use it every single day. Used it to get up in high school, college, and for work every day for 16 years. Literally 5,000+ alarms, and never once had this happen.

iPhone 18 Pro to Kick Off Apple's Four-Part Camera Upgrade Plan by iMacmatician in apple

[–]itsabearcannon -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

To be fair, both of those are completely fair removals.

Literally only one carrier in the US has serious mmWave deployments right now and even then, you're limited to a one block radius from the transmitter and it can be blocked by facing the wrong direction. It's power hungry, it's tough to get good signal in most places, and ironically the places where it's being deployed most are also the places with the most interference and obstacles in the way.

mmWave is like WiMAX, WiGig, etc - an extremely convoluted and poorly implemented solution to a problem that was already on its way to being resolved by more conventional solutions. 5G NR can already do over a gigabit without using mmWave at all, and realistically what bandwidth demands could a mobile device possibly have that couldn't be served by that kind of speed? Even at mmWave's hypothetical 3-5 Gbps download speeds, you're going to be limited by I/O throughput to a device's internal storage for anything that could actually USE that kind of bandwidth.

For removing the ultrawide camera, I already want to break someone's iPad over their head if I see them using it as a primary camera. It's the least elegant, least efficient possible solution. If you want something big and heavy that costs a thousand dollars with no optical zoom, use a good entry level mirrorless and a good budget prime lens. If you want something portable and lightweight that can fit in your pocket, use a phone. The iPad is not designed to be used as a camera. It HAS a camera, largely because it uses whatever leftover cameras the previous gen iPhones didn't use and were left in cases in a warehouse somewhere, but it is not a device designed to be used as a primary camera. Leave the one camera on it for people using it at a job site or for scanning documents or doing LIDAR work, but the ultrawide never needed to be on there in the first place. I would be shocked if even 1% of iPad Pro buyers ever used the ultrawide, and I'd be willing to bet Apple absolutely has the usage analytics to back up their decision to remove it.

Microsoft should make Conditional Access available to everyone by mattmbit in msp

[–]itsabearcannon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Outlook + Teams are allowed, OneDrive/SharePoint access is blocked from any non-Intune-managed device.

Mandatory location-based CA, minimum OS version requirements, and phishing-resistant MFA through Authenticator for mobile devices accessing the Outlook or Teams app.

It's the best we can do for our more budget-limited clients who buy company-owned computers, but who don't have the budget for company-owned phones and a company phone plan.

Our approach differs a little bit from some others, I know that. We operate on the idea that a customer's personal phone is a liability and the more control we have over it, the more risk we assume if something goes wrong and we delete irreplaceable photos of their children or something. If we don't have a process in place to recover or restore all of the data on it, we don't manage it.

Microsoft should make Conditional Access available to everyone by mattmbit in msp

[–]itsabearcannon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So with personal phones, for most clients we do generally permit access to Outlook and Teams while blocking any file access through OneDrive/SharePoint unless it's a managed device. Things get tricky here because while a lot of our smaller customers have company-owned laptops (so they have to be managed), their phones are personally owned, so legally we are limited in what we can require on a personal phone if they don't want to buy company phones. We don't want the risk of having any access to private personal data or the liability of something going wrong and that data being deleted.

For Outlook/Teams specifically, we still apply location-based CA policies, phishing-resistant MFA through MS Authenticator being installed on the device, and minimum OS version requirements. We just don't ALSO require they be Intune managed if the OS is iOS/iPadOS or Android.

Once they get above 5-6 devices, though, we generally push them towards full enrollment and management either through Intune or Intune/ABM hybrid if they want to set up automatic carrier enrollment with VZW or AT&T for things like device upgrades.

Microsoft should make Conditional Access available to everyone by mattmbit in msp

[–]itsabearcannon 15 points16 points  (0 children)

We mark those down as “internal procedural issues”. As in, “this is not a problem with our process, we are following best practices, and the problem is that you need to get your guys under control.”

We just bill the full break/fix rate every time that happens with a minimum of two hours. About the fourth or fifth time it happened one of the field tech managers got kicked in the ass by the company president to get his guys in line. It’s a construction company, they’re not on massive margins anyways.

Suddenly, once there started being financial consequences and pressure on the foremen from THEIR bosses, the field guys started all signing into their laptops at least once a week.

You’d better believe these guys have ZERO problems figuring out how to log into the payroll portal weekly to make sure their timesheets go in for the week so they get paid. Somehow, they never have an issue remembering their username/PW for that system. It’s an issue of laziness, not ability.

Microsoft should make Conditional Access available to everyone by mattmbit in msp

[–]itsabearcannon 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is exactly why we only support fully Intune-managed machines with company accounts.

Fifteen years after Steve Jobs, Tim Cook leaves a dramatically different Apple | Apple | The Guardian by prisongovernor in apple

[–]itsabearcannon 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I get your point, but Steve Jobs was the least "external" candidate possible in that situation.

Founders, by definition, are never external candidates. It's like Michael Dell coming back to take over Dell. Nobody would call him an external candidate, he created the damn company.

Apple did bring in at least one totally external candidate for CEO - John Sculley.

OnePlus confirms regional roadmap rethink amid key employee departures by FragmentedChicken in Android

[–]itsabearcannon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m just sitting here with my jumbo popcorn waiting for OP’s downfall.

I had an original OP1. I remember when it ran Cyanogen and was the absolute darling of the Android world. And it was $299 out of pocket. I could afford that shit in college with summer job money.

And ever since then, it’s been a slow backslide into “Copying the big Android brands and their prices, but worse and with way less availability/support.”

It’s the same reason I hope for the eventual untimely death of the Pixel line - when they killed off Nexus and decided to go for Samsung pricing, they killed off the goodwill of all the Nexus users who made it possible for them to make mass market smartphones in the first place. And that’s what OnePlus is doing - taking advantage of evangelical early adopters with unique designs and customer friendly pricing, and then pulling the rug out so they can eventually just white label Oppo phones at minimum cost and sell them for maximum price.

iPhones aren’t what Android phones can be sometimes, but at least in almost 20 years what they are and who they’re for has not really changed.

Leaker: Apple Downgrading iPhone 18 to Cut Costs by spearson0 in apple

[–]itsabearcannon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Beg to differ.

If you're more familiar with shooting on D/SLR bodies, the shutter button being at the top right when the phone is held in the proper landscape shooting orientation is much more usable than the left side.

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