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Almost all the cabinet level departments has their own Inspector General office since the 70s and 80s.

Homeland Security got one in 2003 with the combination of previous agencies.

The Homeland Security Act of 2002 also let those offices start having their own statutory powers and carry firearms without needing to be deputized by the US Marshals Service.


> Homeland Security finally got one in 2003.

This was heavily affected by them being founded in 2002.


The departments they were built from didn't have those either.

"finally"? The Department of Homeland Security was formed in 2003.

And the departments they were created from lacked IGs...

Don't they have pretty much the best track record of any manufacturer in the last decade?

No. They publish a list of products that are no longer supported but you have to dig it out, they are shady about it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/14/apple-three-more-obsole...

https://uptradeit.com/blog/what-macbooks-will-stop-working

https://www.macworld.com/article/673939/this-is-how-long-mac...

Microsoft is known for supporting ancient hardware. Not Apple.


I'm not sure I understand - it's been here for years: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102772

Support for security updates appears to be years longer than Microsoft.


Are we talking about different things? I meant os/security updates. I think you mean hardware?

You posted lists of hardware, saying Apple hid that list. I showed you they do not.

I added on that they ship security updates much longer than Microsoft (well, for consumer). I've worked on the tech side for both companies - I'm painfully aware of the work both do to keep old OSs running.


I haven't had good outcomes from letting the agent decide what to do, but if you spend time deciding what tasks to add to your backlog, then how to accomplish those tasks, when you're awake, you can end up with five or six or more projects to let your agent do overnight. planning when you're awake, execution when you're not.

That's for the base model M6. The Pro can take more, the Max even more, the Ultra the most.

They're not making those models for the M6 though; they rerouted their resources to making M7 faster at running local LLMs.

If you want more bandwidth, get an M5 Pro, Max, or Ultra. If you want a lower power base model, get the M6. If you want to have your cake and eat it too, wait for the M7, reportedly in the spring.


Isn't icloud backup on by default??

I'm not aware of any control over what gets backed up.

I'm assuming that all of my local work would be lost. But I'd still have the sixteen million duplicate photos.

iCloud's priorities are not a great fit for preserving my source code repos. Fortunately those aren't very big.

But when my son's Mac dies, his huge Logic Pro projects are toast. And he is a few thousand miles away now.


In Windows, by default, Microsoft tools put projects in ~/source/repos, which OneDrive, in turn, by default won't touch so they'll be lost if the SSD fail and they're not in git.

However, OneDrive doesn't seem to even know how to handle source files (it doesn't even attempt to honor the gitignore), so rebuilding a project in folders covered by OneDrive results in flurries of temporary files being uploaded/updated to the cloud, hogging the bandwidth, with a bonus of locking files, crashing builds, or even reverting changes silently.

One would think backup tools, even if primarily for normal users are still literally made by programmers, at least consider the use case of programmers instead of just ignoring them entirely.


OneDrive, Dropbox etc are not backup tools, they're file sync tools. This really should be common knowledge.

i'm so tired of seeing this discouraging crap - "that's not a backup, LOSER"

file sync is backup against the things most people have to deal with (hardware breaking, theft, house fire, residential lightning strike)


>file sync is backup against the things most people have to deal with

I would say accidentally deleting a file is more common than a house fire, so NO, file-sync is not a backup nor is RAID (block-sync) or clustering (data/state-sync).

A backup is/should be a non-modifiable snapshot of data/files maybe even a state.

I give you an example:

You have a password-safe (as a file). Your computer blows up, but you are safe, because your password-safe is synced on Dropbox....but oh my god what was the password to Dropbox??? Your restore is gone because you forgot to "backup" your password-safe.

However you are not a Loser, being a Admin is a ~lost art and a really good paid one (again).... ;)


> I would say accidentally deleting a file

It goes to your trash can/recycle bin for a while. That's literally what it's for: to guard against accidental deletes. Very few people accidentally delete files from their computer's drive anymore. The only time people do this in 2026 is accidentally formatting an SD card that had their camera's pictures on it or something.


Hey have fun, not me data, not me problem.

I guess I'm not tracking. I put all my source folders in my Documents folder on the Mac, and check the checkbox to have that sync to iCloud. It works quite well.

I also do a bunch of video work with Da Vinci Resolve, and those project files are in the same folder. I don't keep the clips there, those are on an external disc, but that's just because I haven't gone from the two terabyte iCloud plan to the six terabyte plan.


Kind of, but without a sub you only get a trivial amount of storage.

Sure, if there's anything worth subscribing to, it's that first $1 a month for your critical files.

There is no iCloud Backup for Macs, only iOS devices.

There is iCloud Drive sync, but that only syncs your Documents and Desktop folders, but any other files are not synced.


Surprising somehow, to me. One would imagine Apple could make a good amount of money by selling storage and thoughts-off safety for normies? And catch up to what Google offered like then years ago already with ChromeOS.

Yeah I've always thought it was weird, especially after they cancelled the Time Capsule, leaving no official Apple product to back up your Mac. I figured it was because the max iCloud plan was 2 TB and Apple sold Macs bigger than that, but then they increased the iCloud plans and still didn't do it...

iCloud will sync your contacts, Notes, Keychains, and other data on macOS.

It is labor. It's code. The amount of labor required to do an installation to code in the US is easily 50% more, if not more than that. Australia also has standardized streamlined racking that works on much higher percentage of roofs, the US has a lot more custom construction.

I've now seen farmers replacing diesel trucks with Rivian trucks. A lot of them are starting to get it, and the Republicans are losing them as a result.

I had a staunchly Republican environmental science professor in college say that environmentalism IS conservatism and Republicans shot themselves in the foot by making it political. He gave example after example and I'm not sure I've ever heard a more convincing argument before.

Are you sure he didn’t use the word conservation?

In red state language, conservation is being in tune with nature and environmentalism is regulatory capture.


In addition to the fact that it doesn't really work better for that either, it's just not as safe as lithium iron phosphate.

Honestly, it's not even doing that. Thing that would really push the US ahead would be the tax breaks we had until a couple years ago.

Right, that's because of the political system you guys created with local councils. There's a reason it's worse there than even in the United States.

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