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Jim Scardelis

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Author, Trainer, Auditor. Senior Associate @Schellman . All opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's! Links & Likes do not imply endorsement!

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@IanColdwater And the smart kid with no friends that everyone hated ...
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@thehoffather It is extremely reckless to allow protestors — to allow anyone — to take control of critical infrastructure, such as a drawbridge. This sets a dangerous precedent.
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@ViralNewsNYC Since when is a city mayor empowered to restrict interstate traffic?
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@UzorOkasi @rawsalerts Because the laws exist as a deterrent against vandals etc., and everyone who gets caught breaking them has to be charged. Whether it gets prosecuted or resolved some other way is a separate matter. Plus, being arrested and charged provides the authority to help.
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@storiesbyjemay We Americans are quite aware of Queen Elizabeth's nickname from watching various dramatizations on TV. And most of us were absolutely shocked to hear the Sussexes' choice of name for their child. Seemed intentionally disrespectful to their family matriarch.
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@FBScienceSub Photo on the wall wasn’t taken “from the moon” - it was taken by the crew of Apollo 8 as they circumnavigated the moon. The picture is known as “Earthrise” —
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@FrankMcG Studies show that the amount of time people actually take off with "unlimited PTO" is a fraction of what they used to take. Unlimited PTO is a scam that solely benefits the employer so they don't have to carry the liability of unpaid PTO on the books.
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@historyinmemes “It’s unDemocratic” - I’m sure the late Ted Kennedy agreed. I got my driver license in 1978. Drinking & driving has always been illegal wherever I’ve lived. What’s most notable to me, though, is the baby in the front seat - pre-airbag as Mom complains about seat belts.
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@FredrikValham @mhdksafa And the taxes take a far greater portion of middle class people’s income than their insurance premiums and deductible/out of pocket limit would be. And in Sweden, care is rationed - I had a colleague in Sweden who had to use company insurance to go to a private doctor for a
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@choeshow That flag was on a metal pole? Isn't that assault with a weapon?
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@RadioFreeSkaro How ableist of him. There are all sorts of people with disabilities - some are good, some are evil, the same as people without any.
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@Lizzie22441 @storiesbyjemay As a published author, I will just note that literary contracts always have clauses reducing royalties for books sold at high discounts, and for claw back of advances when the royalty account credits, after allowance for returns, don't meet the advance amount
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@PattyMurray Completely disagree. We should make Standard Time permanent. Daylight Saving Time is harmful to your health, just ask the UW Sleep Doctors.
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@nixcraft UNIX was created in the days when programmers didn’t want to type a lot. Because efficiency. Then came power shell
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@iownfivewiis Jayson - like the name.
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@PCC Sad to see that PCC feels that free speech does not align with their mission etc. As a member, this makes me question PCC leadership’s motivations.
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@BunniKaitlyn Hopefully, an early “April fools”
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@FOXSoccer They all look terrible.
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@ChrisMartzWX Wasn’t paint. Was cornstarch that they colored orange with petroleum-based dyes. Most people don’t realize that the Stonehenge stones are home to 77 species of protected lichens, and that cornstarch is deadly to them. Just another case of “environmental” activists not actually
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@rfesteadman @storiesbyjemay I suspect that Netflix will use the same accounting write down Discovery used when it bought HBO to devalue and jettison that "documentary" and cancel the contract with the Sussexes.
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@andrewjclare So many options to better organize your notifications. Odd that you chose the worst combination
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@JeremyHarrisTV @KCPubHealth If second hand tobacco smoke is harmful enough to be banned everywhere, second hand exposure to the smoke from any inhaled drug - whether weed or fentanyl is equally as bad (at minimum)
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@weather_forkast @nellstra That’s because most people don’t know its name, or intended viewpoint. It also serves a purpose as an unmistakable landmark that lots of people in Chicago use as a meet-up spot, e.g., “meet you at the bean in an hour.”
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@PattyMurray Except they literally *don’t* “transform…into machine guns.” The Supreme Court made that clear.
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@PattyMurray @GovInslee You mean fewer people have done more to destroy the economy of the state that you supposedly represent, Sen. Murray.
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@KimLiveDK @fopminui @PicturesFoIder You missed the point entirely.
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@theapplehub Absolutely not. There is no consumer benefit to side loading, and a lot of downside for consumers.
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@FBScienceSub And landline phone was used to dial in to Houston, where it was patched to the radio connection to Apollo 11 on the lunar surface. Ham radio operators used to do “phone patches” like this all the time.
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@RealWalsingham @storiesbyjemay The Crown was a very entertaining work of *fiction*, and was presented as such. It's no different than "John Adams" or any other show that dramatizes historic events - even #Outlander . And there are lots of good Netflix fictional shows  Their current problem is that the
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@ChrisMartzWX Not to mention that the main factor in play is the Islamic lunar calendar that makes the Hajj later each year — in 1996, it was in April, a much cooler month. Twenty years from now, it’ll be in October.
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@BetaProfiles Sounds about right. Most sites, when you're leaving them to go to some other site, place an interstitial notification page. Otherwise, they could be found liable. The surprising thing is that they're enabling this in the US.
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@seattletimes She should resign.
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@komonews Really bad idea that again favors city dwellers at the expense of everyone else. Plus, there’s the invasion of privacy that seems to be missed as well.
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@zollotech On the right. It should be where it is more easily reachable for accessibility reasons.
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@anabelle_dawn except Doctor Who ended years ago. This is “The New Amazing Adventures of the Doctor” (loosely based on Doctor Who).
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@wsdot Should be like a zipper, alternate merge at the point where it becomes necessary to do so. Merging earlier, while it sounds like a good idea, causes a longer backup.
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@LeakerApple Not just Apple thinks that. FaceID IS far more secure than any fingerprint based technology.
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@JeremyHarrisTV @SeattlePD @komonews People delude themselves into thinking that kids can’t/won’t do things like this. But when there’s no consequences, kids learn that they can do anything they want - and they don’t have the self control to not do it.
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@andrewjclare There are already so many ways to handle notifications in iOS. For example, scheduled summaries. Maybe you should try using what’s already there?
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@BadWolfArchives 2/10. And that’s being generous.
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@billmckibben What’s changed is that the Hajj is occuring during summer. Because of the differences between the Islamic lunar calendar, and the solar year, the Hajj is later each year than the prior year. For example, in 1996, it was in April, a much cooler month. Climate change has nothing to
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@JudyO49124538 Except they’ll never get IPP status, since they don’t qualify. That’s one thing Harry doesn’t understand — the status is attached to the job -not the person who used to do the job. If you work at Starbucks, and you leave, you don’t get the employee discount and free pound of
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@ClownWorld_ This generation? While it’s true that taxes and inflation are making us all poorer, this generation is the only one that seems to expect to be able to live alone. Prior generations stayed at home with their parents, moving out only if they had roommates, or a lover/spouse to
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@PattyMurray No!!! Please withdraw it. Daylight Savings Time keeps our bodies out of sync with our cicadian rhythms that need the sun to be highest at noon. Listen to the sleep docs at UW & abolish DST:
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@briscoe_carol @WhiteHouse @POTUS Act of Congress required. PPP had that. President didn’t.
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@MrNixn @InternetH0F Not completely accurate. @elonmusk got rid of a biased, elites-only “verification” system and replaced it with one where every user can get verified if they want. Got rid of a biased, automated moderation system and replaced it with one that’s reasonable & promotes free speech.
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@ksprashu @lauriewired @rickasaurus USB C is just the connector shape. Everything else - cable, speeds etc. all vary based on the standard that they were made to.
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@PunishedHoots Cornflour is deady to the sensitive protected lichen species that inhabit and protect the Stonhenge stones. They’ve actually destroyed environmentally sensitive living things, irreperably harmed historically and culturally significant artifacts - demonstrating that they don’t
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@richybutnotrich @LeakerApple Battery only lasting for 3 hours is much more likely to be related to the age of the battery than anything else.
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@BobFergusonAG We demand that you immediately withdraw from this nonsensical suit. There are clearly at least 3 major smartphone manufacturers. The only thing Apple has a monopoly on is …iPhones.
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@KING5Seattle Instead of wasting money on this, which is not needed - the people who would have used it now use Zoom instead - we should be investing in bringing back our rail infrastructure for moving cargo.
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@Baltcate58 @jomilleweb Payments to shady characters do not illegal actions make.
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@AlanMCole No. What’s unprofessional is creating the Outlook(new) that has no customer value. And then forcing people to the less functional (new) versions like they’re doing with teams.
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@TheGalox_ Sharing things? It's 2024. It's just as easy to share a link to stuff on Onedrive, Google Photos, Apple Photos on Android as it is on iOS. And the reverse. There's no difference. In the age of multiple clouds, no one needs to do device-device sharing anymore.
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@cpj1 Personal service. You know, the helpful hardware folks.
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@MattB_M2M the one question that your list is missing that I think is crucial (and I don’t know the answer to) is “Did he have an actual choice?”
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@choeshow Solution seems pretty clear to me. Require prof of residency to participate. And while we’re at it, how about enforcing traffic laws when bicyclists break them?
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@Samsung New features don't matter when phones are unacceptable due to hole punch in display and lack of headphone/mic jack. Sticking with our Note 9's.
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@SenMarkoLiias Wow, a whopping $4.5 *Billion* dollars put back in the pockets of working families. Nice try, but maybe look to non-critical non-road maintenance pork first.
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@TheBobPony to expand the attack surface.
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@Dennis_Kucinich What are you talking about? "First time since 1972"? Draft registration has been required for years - I had to do it when I turned 18 in the 70s. The only change is that they don't have to fill out a form. Should've been done as part of paperwork reduction years ago.
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@Juicysteak117 As though getting rid of the thirdparty tools used by all of the mods & content creators would somehow magically make Reddit more profitable. I’m sorry, but a platform whose business model is dependent on showing content (and ads) to casual users *needs* the content developers,
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@acidframerate @paularambles That’s not entirely true. Amex built a huge charge card business based on the consumer paying off their bill every month. Merchant fees are what the credit card business is funded by.
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@lewisjdoyle @LeakerApple That’s so not true. It’s like advising someone to buy a 4k TV that has a 60Hz refresh rate rather than a 4k tv that supports a 120Hz refresh rate. And most will disable use of the 120Hz (motion smoothing) because except for sports, it makes tv content look bad.
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@tomfgoodwin @Mike34639 Some of us are on business and need to be able to see our laptop screens as we work.
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@WilliamWhoDW hopefully, the erasure of every abomination that Chibnall brought in.
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1 year
@WhiteHouse Completely irrelevant. PPP were grants that had a repayment provision in the event the terms weren’t complied with. It’s also inaccurate to say that individual business owners benefited from PPP grants, since the money was used to maintain payroll and rehire laid off employees.
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@TheGalox_ What different "contact method"? Because Google's proprietary E2EE encryption layer on top of RCS isn't available unless you use Google Messages (which Samsung doesn't), you have to use something like Signal, which is available for all devices.
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@WAGOP Our property tax already went up 40% last year. Can’t afford any more. Can’t really afford it now.
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@TheGalox_ that’ s an issue with the power bank, not the phone. The power banks I use all have a setting you have to make sure is enabled so that they charge the devices, not the other way around. Learned about that years ago with my Samsung Note 9. Try again.
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@theapplehub They have the story backwards. Nobody buys an iPhone for their watch. You get the iPhone first, then realize your Samsung Watch doesn't work well with it, and switch watches too. I know. My Samsung watches are upstairs next to my old Samsung Galaxy Note 9.
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@PattyMurray We know that weapons bans have -zero- effect as criminals still get them.
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@oncewassven @JOesterblad @Rams_R_Champs @James_R1986 @techbropicasso @edzitron @proales Lots of people in the US, if they have AC at all it’s portable or window mount. Often only in the bedroom as well.
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@AR72014 Notifications don't belong in the dynamic island. Live Activities do - and those are up to the app developer. Also quite unnecessary. Notifications pop up just fine as it is. Incidentally, just had several applications ask for permission to use Live Activities this week.
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@RSGAT It’s not a matter of the fee paid. It’s what happens on the back side — members of trusted travelers programs are pre-vetted, with more extensive checks into their background and history being done. The fee merely covers the cost of the additional investigations, and makes the
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@seattletimes Democrats still seem to be stuck on the concept that some robber baron owns the oil companies, and so taxes only affect him. But that’s not the case - and thus, all new costs get passed to consumers.
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@infovoy_v2 @EH_Stonehenge Cornflour is deadly to the 77 species of protected lichens that live on the stones. Permanent damage has been done. This shows that their cause, like their understanding of their acts, is deeply flawed, and their acts, an abject failure.
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@BirrelleBee @Morbidful The original treatment used insulin extracted from animals, which was better than nothing, but not a great treatment for humans. Modern insulin is synthetic *human* insulin, which took a lot of research to develop. That’s why it’s more expensive. You don’t want pig or cow
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@FullyFolded @LuftkoppTim Um. They *are* grouped by app. That's what the "Stack" option is. My favorite thing in iOS is the Scheduled Summaries - I have most of my less important ones go to the summaries where I look at them a few times a day.
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@LeakerApple It's always been about Epic Games' desire to rake in even more money - to the point where they had the EU legislate laws that can never apply to them - only to Apple and other non-EU companies.
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@ACTBrigitte I recall my father saying when I was a kid that "Lebanon was the only Christian country in the Middle East." He was 1st Gen Greek American, as was his brother, whose wife, my Aunt, was Lebanese.
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@nixcraft That would be 5 1/4 inch floppy disk. No such thing as a 5 inch. They came in 8, 5.25 and 3.5 inch sizes.
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@beeeeeeaan Gotta agree. But in biased, having been on it.
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@andrewjclare @ianzelbo Nope. Just upgraded to the iPhone 14 pro max, and so far, I’ve not heard of a feature worth upgrading for.
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I was in the theater in Paramus, NJ on May 25, 1977 - #StarWars in 70mm - no poster, but I did get a cool program! @HamillHimself
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@storiesbyjemay They don't need security. They need anonymity.
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@SafeSpaceDrWho When Donna missed everything going on in the background.
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@LeakerApple Trying to understand what you think is so impressive? My iPhone 14 Pro Max’s Geekbench score was 2633 and 6796. That single core 2295 pales in comparison to the 2633 A16 and I’d expect an 8 core chip to be 33% faster just because of the core count, but it’s only 11%?
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@thehoffather @choeshow And bleach water is the most common sanitizing solution used in commercial kitchens.
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@JoelMorenoKOMO How could someone dressed like that even get in the courthouse? Seems a huge security risk.
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@choeshow It's hate speech and needs to go.
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@AnxiousHolly @sondesix This has nothing to do with what Apple does or doesn’t do. This has everything to do with holding American companies to different rules in order to artificially boost European companies.
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@PattyMurray You don't want "gun safety", which would involve teaching citizens how to properly use and care for them, and de-stigmatizing them. You want the same approach to guns as the one that failed for drugs.
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@SaraBWarf It’s a fun card game that you can play with like 20+ people.
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@BrandonButch There’s an update to Final Cut Pro for iPad today that enables the Record with Live Multicam feature as well.
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@durreadan01 Gotta disagree. iPhone’s Live Activities and their presentation via Dynamic Island *are* absolutely revolutionary and innovative - and impact my life daily. Battery improvement, no matter how big is incremental. Give me a nuclear powered phone. That would be innovative.
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@komonews I find this verdict ridiculous. The child's parent is to blame for just passing it back to the child without verifying that it was cool enough for a young child to eat.
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@drvolts I only use DuckDuckGo.
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@theapplehub Define “overheating issues”. Without specifics on what you are observing, this is just clickbait.
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