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Imagine an alternate reality where the Mac Pro became a system optimized for large amounts of internal storage. You could pop it open and there were six 3.5-inch SATA drive slots and a few M.2 NVMe slots as well.

Or if it was designed as an upgradable Mac and Apple released mainboards with each new M-series chip that you could swap out to upgrade your system with ease.

There’s a lot of ways that Apple could have made the Mac Pro a unique and interesting computer in their lineup that truly had a reason to exist. But instead, they chose to make it a Mac Studio in an overpriced chassis that no longer served a purpose.

It’s a shame. In the late 2000s, the Mac Pro was cool — cooler than any other machine they made. I wish they could have done that again, but I don’t think they ever felt motivated to do so — they were too busy chasing soldered components and computers with ever shrinking footprints.

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Chance Miller, reporting for 9 to 5 Mac:

With macOS Sequoia this fall, using apps that need access to screen recording permissions will become a little bit more tedious. Apple is rolling out a change that will require you to give explicit permission on a weekly basis to these types of apps, and every time you reboot your Mac.

If you’ve been using the macOS Sequoia beta this summer in conjunction with a third-party screenshot or screen recording app, you’ve likely been prompted multiple times to continue allowing that app access to your screen. While many speculated this could be a bug, that’s not the case.

I use CleanShot X on my work machine regularly and I’m not looking forward to seeing this prompt every week.

I’ve been toying with Linux again on my 11-inch MacBook Air and I absolutely love how much control you have over the system. Maybe DHH is onto something with his switch away from macOS.

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Benjamin Mayo, writing for 9 to 5 Mac:

As first reported in October, Apple will discontinue the standalone iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Shows apps on the Apple TV box, starting with tvOS 17.2 The warning message seen above has started appearing in the release candidate version of tvOS 17.2 beta, released yesterday.

Apple directs users to the TV app instead to manage their purchases, and buy and rent from the store. At least as far as Apple’s video content is concerned, the iTunes brand is on the way out.

I strip the DRM from every movie and TV show I purchase through iTunes. This lets me watch it in my preferred player — Plex. And I never have to worry about losing access because of some irritating rights issues.

But because of this, it’s not often that I use the TV Shows, Movies, or Apple TV apps. On the rare occasion when I want to watch purchased content before I have a chance to process it, though, I always use the TV Shows and Movies apps. It’s just a much nicer experience without having to trudge through all of the Apple TV+ promotion.

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Filipe Espósito, writing for 9 to 5 Mac:

But what some people don’t know is that there are two other ways to take screenshots on the iPad without pressing any buttons. For instance, you can swipe from the bottom left corner of the screen with Apple Pencil to capture a screenshot on the iPad. But even if you don’t have an Apple Pencil, you can use this gesture.

Not only can you configure a swipe gesture for taking a screenshot, you can also disable bottom-right corner Quick Note gesture. This is fantastic.

(Via Roger Stringer.)

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A great piece by Bradley Chambers on Podcasting 2.0, Podcast Index, and Value4Value.

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Ben Lovejoy, writing for 9 to 5 Mac:

A popular Quran app has been removed from Apple’s Chinese App Store at the request of the government, according to a new report today.

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could install apps from outside of the App Store so it wasn’t the single point of failure for censorship?

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I’m likely to end up with an Apple Silicon powered machine next month. It would be really nice if I could dual boot macOS and Linux on it. Things are looking promising, I’ll just have to try avoiding hardware features that are unlikely to be supported — I’m looking at you, Touch Bar.

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It seems pretty obvious that they’re just kicking the can down the road until the heat subsides.

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