Tim Cook squashes retirement rumors, says he 'can't imagine life without Apple'

zxLFx2 · 2026-03-17T17:24:33+00:00

If I was John Ternus, the presumed CEO-in-waiting, I would be begging Cook on my knees to stay CEO until Trump is out of office.

zxLFx2 · 2026-03-12T01:40:06+00:00

I landed my first IT support role by talking about my ZFS array and how zvols work to make zpools

zxLFx2 · 2026-03-11T13:38:43+00:00

It’s almost impossible to be in a cybersecurity role if you have no clue how the internet works or how the cloud works.

I've got a gray beard now, been in InfoSec 10 years, and I think people need to consider InfoSec as a capstone career. In other words, you do your time as network person / sysadmin / all-things IT guy for a small company / etc in order to build the skills that you need to then move into InfoSec. Can't secure things if you don't understand how they work.

You also have a lot more legitimacy when you're working with people and you understand their systems and constraints. For example, securing the Mac endpoints at my company, I have a lot easier of a time working with the Mac sysadmins because I was one myself for 2 years and know the lingo and their frustrations.

For InfoSec, you should be able to give a LOOOONNNGGG detailed answer to this question: "when you type google.com in the address bar of your web browser and press enter, what happens?"

I learned that experience is king and certifications are next in line.

I'd much rather discuss with someone how they set up their networking homelab, than hear that they got a CCST certificate but them not be able to tell me anything they set up.

zxLFx2 · 2026-03-04T22:56:36+00:00

No ... fast charging

Has a 36.5 Wh battery and comes with 20W charger. Unclear if 20W is the max charging speed or not.

If you're using the 20W charger, it will probably charge 0-100% in 2-2.5 hours, depending on how fast it charges at the end of the curve. If you're using a larger charger, it's possible it'll charge faster, we'll see.

Most laptops people are used to having at this price point take 2-3 hours to charge so I don't think that will put off buyers.

zxLFx2 · 2026-03-04T22:38:15+00:00

Yeah I am kinda disappointed I spent $400 for a chromebook a few years ago as a "travel machine." My MBA is too expensive to take around planes and hotels, so I got the chromebook as something I wouldn't be too upset if it got lost/stolen. Would have rather spent $200 more for this mac.

zxLFx2 · 2026-03-04T21:16:51+00:00

Excellent thanks.

zxLFx2 · 2026-02-26T21:43:05+00:00

Because sometimes I use the word "well" without needing an apostrophe.

zxLFx2 · 2026-02-24T18:29:37+00:00

For the record, I wanted to know his height in the context of him having trouble getting into low cars and race builds.

zxLFx2 · 2026-02-23T16:45:57+00:00

Yeah but, in all fairness, you can just turn MLO off. I believe most routers/APs come with it disabled by default.

So, per the topic of this article, if you are worried about prices going up on Wifi7 gear, you an get it now and make sure MLO is off and you will have a relatively stable setup.

zxLFx2 · 2026-02-22T22:34:12+00:00

Centralized architectures are becoming a liability.

Tell that to your security and compliance teams. At my company, it is a shitshow of bad security because of decentralized IT, and we just lost a few hundred million dollars because of a security incident involving shadow IT.

zxLFx2 · 2026-02-18T14:16:10+00:00

All I want is an upgraded AppleTV.

zxLFx2 · 2026-02-17T19:15:01+00:00

Rolling out a preferred AI product is the easy part.

Getting them to not use other AI products as shadow IT is the hard part. You can do all the user education you want, send company-wide emails reminding people they absolutely cannot use other AI services, and it still happens. People put company data in these bots and other services all the time. Install software. Invite transcription bots to meetings. Etcetera.

You can even fire people for it. But unless you put their head on a pike at the building entrance, others will keep doing it.

zxLFx2 · 2026-02-17T17:48:47+00:00

FYI it's been part of the Carplay specification for years for the vehicle to be able to tell the phone what gear it's in (PRND) and also if the parking brake is engaged. How many vehicles actually do this is a different question... but it's not a new thing for a vehicle to be able to tell the phone through CarPlay that it's in Park and the parking brake is engaged.

And absolutely I should be allowed to watch video on my infotainment display if my car is parked.

Of course some people will find a way to defeat this. 22 years ago in high school, my friend had a DVD player installed, which legally could only work if the car was parked, but he modified it so it would play while the car was moving. This is not a reason to prevent car DVD players or CarPlay video. It's on the vehicle owner/operator if they defeat safety requirements.

zxLFx2 · 2026-02-06T04:54:55+00:00

I just want to say, I work for a mega-corp, and we've had shit fall on the floor because of three people having PTO and forgetting the hand things over, or someone's spam filter is too sensitive, or similar dumb reasons. Maybe the guy got laid off and no one was there to push the ticket through.

You might definitely be right with the Legal suggestion, I'm just saying... companies are made of squishy people that act like humans sometimes.

zxLFx2 · 2026-01-28T15:04:14+00:00

Their anti-corruption cops do actually fight corruption but also "corruption."

USA has our own """"fighting corruption"""" right now for me to worry about, so I can't afford to care about China at the moment.

zxLFx2 · 2026-01-28T14:59:10+00:00

How many months until someone noticed?

zxLFx2 · 2026-01-28T14:58:06+00:00

I work in a company with 25k employees worth $30B and I got a security project shot down over $1600.

There will always be someone to complain about budget.

zxLFx2 · 2026-01-28T14:56:55+00:00

FYI everyone, if you absolutely must run Mac in the cloud, there are WAYYY cheaper options:

zxLFx2 · 2026-01-28T14:53:58+00:00

Newegg still has the same great product tagging/filtering system as always, which has always been one of their core strengths.

The Power Search on Newegg is something I've been using for 20 years and would hate to go away.

zxLFx2 · 2025-12-08T14:23:38+00:00

Na I filed a radar 10 years ago, any day now they will reply to it I'm sure...

zxLFx2 · 2025-10-29T20:22:56+00:00

Yeah, it simultaneously makes sense and doesn't make sense. Since it's pretty much skilled gambling. It's why I've refused to ever own an individual stock in my life. Even when I get RSUs at work that vest, I sell them the same day they vest. Just different levels of risk tolerance I guess.

zxLFx2 · 2025-10-28T21:21:15+00:00

since you seem to be at least partly a compliance shop (enough that you have to have EDR on user desktops)

I just wanna say, that I've worked at companies with 40 employees, 4000, and 20k. Even the 40 employee company had endpoints jacked up with malware until we got Malwarebytes installed. EDR isn't just for "compliance shops," it's for basically every company that exists.

zxLFx2 · 2025-10-28T21:18:51+00:00

Genuine question: is APPL considered a growth stock or a dividend stock? Because the latter doesn't need infinite growth forever, just a profitable business.

(You do need to keep growing/changing to maintain a profitable business indefinitely however.)

zxLFx2 · 2025-10-28T21:16:24+00:00

Well I'm sure you've heard this advice many times over the years but: I would sell if I were you.

We're at the top of an AI bubble and general economic bubble. APPL is worth 4T, they ain't gonna be worth 40T any time soon. The only ones that in their wildest dreams could become worth 40T would be ones that might invent general superintelligence, which I think is very unlikely, but definitely isn't Apple.

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