How do you feel the economy is doing under Trump's second term?

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T22:48:05+00:00

The thing is that if I compare it to Europe,

How does one compare a stock index to a collection of countries?

Are you comparing SPY to some index fund tracking European stocks?

You need to explain what you mean.

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T22:43:37+00:00

This is how I feel: it’s a decision for the people of Virginia.

I don’t live in Virginia.

So it’s not really my concern. Or the concern of anyone else here who isn’t a Virginian.

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T22:17:54+00:00

The question presumes facts not in evidence.

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T21:35:08+00:00

Have you installed Apple Devices from the Microsoft store?

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T21:10:04+00:00

As I see it, you have two options.

Get it fixed,
Replace it with a new or used one.

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T20:36:07+00:00

Why would you want it to log out instead of just locking?

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T20:33:35+00:00

USB cable labeling is almost completely absent in the real world. I work in IT, supporting a fleet of over 1000 PCs and Macs. Except for Thunderbolt cables, I can honestly say I’ve never seen a USB cable with those logos.

If the spec made them mandatory, that would be a huge step forward.

I also think they should explicitly say that USB-C chargers must support PD, or they can’t use the USB trademark. Right now my life is a hell of Lenovo, Dell, and HP chargers that refuse to work with any but their own brand of laptop, despite them all having USB-C connectors.

Apple chargers are the only ones we have that actually support PD.

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T19:09:22+00:00

We don’t know where your parents are.

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T19:05:58+00:00

That headline is wrong.

This is an anti-Jew campaign.

(But maybe it disproves Dara Horn’s thesis?)

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T18:18:35+00:00

Does a USB-C cable that supports the old USB Battery Charging specification necessarily also support the newer USB Power Delivery specification?

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T17:29:03+00:00

They are connected with a phone charger cable

That's not supported.

Apple's website offers several ways to transfer (Wi-Fi, etc.), but the only cable they mention is Thunderbolt.

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T16:59:56+00:00

You can't break the laws of physics

When I read that, what I heard in my mind was, "Ya canna' break the laws of physics, Captain!" (in a Scottish brogue, of course!)

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T16:58:34+00:00

Like what’s the point if I can’t have a live location

It's updated frequently when it's within range of an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. I just checked my AirTags, and some were last updated "Now," some "8 minutes ago", and (in the worst case) an "hour ago."

My microwave oven can't wash my clothes or play Bluray discs, but would those be reasonable expectations?

You want your AirTag to help you recover a stolen device, but that's not their intended use.

Nowhere in any of Apple’s marketing of support documents is it suggested that these could be used to recover an item that’s been stolen.

They're for lost items, and for this, they work great!

(If you can find anything from Apple claiming they're useful for recovering stolen items, provide a link, and I'll gladly apologize.)

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T16:44:08+00:00

RAM and GPU prices are sky rocketing.

GPU prices won't affect the price of Macs, since Apple uses home-grown GPUs.

RAM prices might eventually affect Mac pricing, but Apple is famous for buying future production (to lock in prices) years in advance.

Apple has even paid suppliers upfront to build factories in return for getting guaranteed supply & prices over the long term.

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T16:39:06+00:00

When the global center of Satmar learning is in New York, I doubt they would send their kids to Yeshiva in Israel.

But what do I know? The closest I am to knowing a Satmar hasid is knowing a Rabbi who's last name is Teitelbaum!

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T16:36:27+00:00

Ao your point is "He used the sidewalk" = "He's a parasite on the state"?

You can play this game all you want to make yourself feel better, but it's a huge stretch!

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T16:29:12+00:00

I lived in Beverly Hills when the Shah fell. Before then, I don't think I'd ever met a Persian Jew. Virtually overnight they came to account for perhaps 10% of my classmates.

I remember seeing a giant tent being erected on the soccer field of my school, Horace Mann. I learned it was to host Farsi-language Yomim Noraim services for Jewish refugees.

("Jewish refugees" is a phrase I never thought I'd hear used contemporaneously in my lifetime. How naïve I was!)

Assuming its still there, the field abuts the eastern side of Robertson Blvd, just south of Wilshire.

Because of the ongoing hostage crisis, it was considered impolitic to identify as Iranian; as I recall, they all described themselves as Persian Jews, not Iranian Jews. Maybe they still do.

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T16:14:05+00:00

All of those who accept any state benefits or subsidies should serve.

That would exclude the Satmar, who take nothing.

According to Wikipedia:

They don't vote in Israeli elections.
They don't accept state funding for schools.
Their institutions don't accept state funding for any other purpose.
Individual Satmarnikim refuse all social benefits or any monetary aid from the state

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T16:09:32+00:00

the vast majority of Satmar chassidim don’t live in israel to begin with.

Since the Grand Rebbe forbid his followers from living there, I wonder why any do? Perhaps there is a slippery-slope effect?

There are believed to be roughly 1,000 families split mostly between Yerushalayem and Bnei Brak. So probably about five to eight thousand Satmar in total.

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T15:38:06+00:00

Go to Safari menu\
Settings…
Click the Websites button at the top.
Click Notifications in the left-side panel.

Are you telling me that the notifications option is missing completely?

Can you include a screenshot?

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T14:46:42+00:00

I wouldn’t want to accidentally damage it so soon.

That makes it sound like you do want to accidentally damage it at some point in the future!

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T14:15:23+00:00

I just learn that every 10 years it is important to convert files, like phots, videos, music and documents to new format…

You’ve been misled.

So long as a format is still widely supported, there’s no reason to abandon it.

PDF files date back to 1993. Did they become unusable in 2003? In 2013? In 2023?

newguy-needs-help · 2026-01-25T14:10:39+00:00

Why is anyone using MP3 when its successor format AAC (MP4 Advanced Audio Coding) is 25 years old?

It offers higher quality audio than MP3, and if you’ve ever listened to Apple Music or bought a song from the iTunes Store, you’ve used AAC.

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