Roswell

It was likely reset with a paid version of OS X, which as a new owner, you don’t have a license for and it’s erroring out when it can’t find it attached to your account. Back when that machine came out, OS X upgrades were paid software. Basically, imagine if you took a Vista machine, wiped the drive, installed Vista and shut it down without putting a license code in and handed it to someone else. That’s pretty much what you’re experiencing. You’ll need to create a bootable drive with a valid license of OS X/macOS. Later versions are free and can be downloaded from the App Store, though I’m not sure if your machine supports the later free versions, you’ll have to check. Otherwise, you’ll need to pay like $20 for a Mountain Lion license. Bad news is that you need to do this all from a different Mac while logged into your own Apple ID on the App Store.

/shrug The sentence I quoted says they are. Maybe they don't understand how to use that phrase correctly. To say they aren't a monopoly: "...Apple is not a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination" or something similar.

At this point, I’m convinced that like half of the English speaking population doesn’t know what the word “monopoly” actually means. In what market segment is Apple a monopoly?

I don't really think about passwords anymore... Keychain generates silly strong passwords for me, encrypts them locally and syncs with iCloud, then lets me authenticate with my fingerprint/Face ID on whatever device I'm using. The only thing I usually access that doesn't use Keychain is an ereader. I don't know why other password managers have security issues, it shouldn't be rocket science implementing a similar system to Apple's. The only possible way anyone is getting ahold of my password manifest is with my device password or biometrics.

You need to chill the hell out with the way you’re talking to CS reps, you’re attacking them as if they’re the ones developing the platform. Have some patience and respect for your fellow humans.

While there are some deals to be had there, it’s a dice roll on many fronts. Hell, even if you do manage to luck out with a good seller and product, you still have virtually no semblance of a warranty due to the shipping costs involved.

They told him to repurchase because the book he bought is no longer in “print”. The book is now published by someone else, yes. That’s not the idea. Amazon sends you an ebook when you buy it, what you choose to do or not do with it is up to you. Once publishers change, they can no longer distribute it. They (and the previous publisher) don’t have the license to do so. Except that’s not what happened. The reason why he’s trying to redownload the book is because it’s no longer in his library (cloud backup). The only way to have books missing from your library is to do the whole “delete from all devices/library” thing which explicitly warns you multiple times that it’s permanent and irreversible. Can you get lucky and have the publisher and revision remain the same 10 years later? Sure. You can’t count on that though. You also can’t expect Amazon to literally redistribute a book that they no longer have a license to distribute.

I’m not disputing that you drive whatever distance, I dispute your claim of driving “700 miles in a day on a regular basis”. I think in reality, if you actually make these trips, you’re not sitting behind the wheel for 14+ hours in a single day.

This is a really suspect statement to anyone that actually has experience… you know, driving.

This isn’t an Amazon problem, it’s just how the book (and any other media) industry works. Publishing rights for books change all the time. Whoever published that guy’s version of the ebook isn’t the current publisher anymore. Now there’s a slightly different version of the ebook on the storefront and the previous publisher’s version is no longer available to download because they no longer have the rights. Amazon lets you download backups for this exact reason. If they kept offering downloads of previous revisions under different publishers, Amazon would be breaking copyright law.

To be fair, I don’t think the almost nonexistent amount of power going through that cable in handshake mode would be enough to generate that kind of arc. Something else seems to be amiss. That said, one bad cable out of millions is hardly anything to worry about,

Internet recovery (and other boot tools) exist at the firmware level, they’re not stored on the SSD, just like a PC doesn’t store BIOS data on the SSD. You can wipe the entire volume and it still boots into recovery. They get corrected on countless videos here on the forum and rarely, if ever, correct it. You can almost assume at this point that every video they put out will have misinformation, it’s pretty bad.

It did happen before with the 8000 series. Nvidia didn’t venture back out into absurd pricing again until testing the waters with the 690. Then came the Titan and it’s been silly ever since.

These processes have been around for like 10 years and have been included in documentation since. They weren’t caught doing anything. A small handful of uneducated users, including yourself, saw something they didn’t understand and made an Olympics grade leap into tinfoil hat land.

Razor’s extremely poor reliability and support has been widely documented for over 2 decades now. Not blaming you for not knowing before buying, but their reputation is in meme territory. So, this isn’t exactly shocking to anybody and doesn’t really warrant a video to reiterate what everyone already knows.

If anyone was curious about what the end of die shrink feasibility looks like, this is it. It’s only going to get dumber from here and it doesn’t look like 3D stacking is the solution, at least for now.

Roku is dominant because it’s designed to be straightforward, intuitive, and not in your way. It’s a “click on this box to open the thing” interface that anyone can master. Most other smart TV platforms want to shove an operating system in your face with all manner of convoluted navigation. The only thing similar to Roku’s philosophy in the space is Apple TV, but most people don’t want to drop that kind of money.

There's no reason to do this and it's going to break a ton of functionality for iCloud users. Not to mention that disabling SIP is extremely reckless.

I feel like the disdain for bettering our environment is a distinctly American thing. Times are weird, and frustrating.

No you didn’t, professional plus isn’t sold at retail, or boxed. It’s not even offered to consumers. You bought a gray market key. Hopefully whoever sold you the sketchy key keeps the volume license in good standing, otherwise you lose access.

The gaping holes left in your network setting up direct push notifications/video requests/whatever would be extremely reckless.

Theories and laws don’t work that way. Laws either exist or they don’t. Laws are the objectively observable state of existence. Theories attempt to explain the why and how and provide a pathway for new, additive observation. Your argument boils down to the equivalent of “two plus two equals four, until it doesn’t”. I strongly suggest looking up the scientific definitions of hypotheses, theories, and laws.

Thank you for proving my point entirely. Appreciate it! General Relativity is a scientific theory, not a law. If you understood even the basics of what you chose to pointlessly argue about, you’d know that. General Relativity is an attempt to EXPLAIN (the “why”) Newton’s law (the “what”). Newton’s law is sound, that’s why it’s literally still used and consistent in modern science. They didn’t have the means to observe all of gravity’s effects back then, but that doesn’t mean the measured observations they made magically changed one day. You clearly don’t comprehend it, but what you’re actually suggesting through this misguided argument is that Newton experienced a different type of gravity than we do today. Spoiler: He didn’t

That chart isn’t saying what you think it’s saying. Regardless, observable phenomena tends to be harshly consistent throughout our entire documented history. The properties of our observable physical reality don’t change, our understanding of how/why/etc do. Do you have a SINGLE example of scientific laws magically changing overnight? If one did, say… gravity suddenly causing mass to accelerate at different values one day, it would be earth shattering news that humanity would obsess over every waking day, granted we somehow managed not to be eradicated as a species because of it. The entire fabric that binds our reality would be in question. It never happens. It sure as hell doesn’t happen “frequently” as the person I quoted suggested. Could things be different outside the grasp of our observable existence? Sure. Does that somehow lessen the credibility and reliability of things like the laws of thermodynamics? Absolutely not.

A defense of what? The laws of physics dictate everything we can do. You can’t skirt around them. Man, the lengths some of you people go to argue about dumb shit is incredible. You’re actually sitting there with a straight face “tHe LaWs oF pHsYsICs aREnT a DeFeNsE”. Lol.