Any idea how long the tapes will last? I have a bunch sitting in a box that I should probably verify have all been imported already before they turn to dust.

My experience so far is that the tapes themselves are fine - but the required hardware/technology stack to extricate them is the real question mark.

Probably longer than whatever you capture them to!

Ellison owns something like 40% of Oracle which has a market cap of $400 billion. That measly 2% share bump earned him $3 billion today.

> Apple designed Shortcuts to look like a shiny toy demo

Apple bought Workflow from DeskConnect (they may have bough the entire company).

As long as there's a way to maintain the current display density, that would be just fine.

However, like on Windows, I suspect macOS would increase the tap target size on lots of the touchable elements. Even if I don't use the touchscreen, I would still have to pay the touch target real estate tax in my applications.

That's a fair ask. My dream would be a simple toggle in something like control center for macOS that can flip between "touch mode" and "desktop mode" with most of the under the hood stuff being the same and just UI changes for the task. No doubt this would create new hurdles for software devs but again I'm dreaming here. Windows 10 actually had this with "tablet mode" in the notification center but I think they already soured people on the touch Windows thing by this point. I think Apple could reasonable do it better if they had the will but they'd much rather you buy and iPad for touch and a mac for desktop and everyone who doesn't want an extra device for certain use cases is left out in the rain.

Note on Windows you can disable the touch device and it goes back to the old density. Don't know if Macs support it.

If it's very mechanical you probably aren't losing out on anything by using a machine to produce it.

It is doing its one job.

There's also a bunch of software that only runs or runs best on Windows.

My daughter works at a bank in Canada and she was issued a Macbook.

surprising! what i know of canadian banks is admittedly little, so they might be moving faster than the banks i am familiar with. may i ask what department? do you know if it is managed by intune?

I don't know much. She isn't allowed to talk about any operational details. She just started there a few weeks ago.

And Canadian banks aren't known for moving fast. They are pretty conservative (at least the big chartered banks are).

Which is exactly what they said:

> “We are not aware of any successful mercenary spyware attacks against a Lockdown Mode-enabled Apple device,” Apple spokesperson Sarah O’Rourke told TechCrunch on Friday.

PBS is great if you are looking for a workable harm reduction strategy. Eliminating that type of entertainment is probably an even better goal.