It has always been listed on the box if there is support.

Say what, now? I have yet to run into a Linux site that casually lists what all hardware is compatible before you start trying to install stuff. The same with Windows, for that matter, although knowing Microsoft there may be a database squirreled away somewhere.

In some ways it’s just a technical difference (syncing vs backup “snapshots”). It’s totally true that if you throw away a file out of iCloud or OneDrive, there is (I believe) a window of opportunity to get it back out of the cloud.

But I also don’t think either let you get back a version from 3 weeks ago, for example, which is where versioned backups like Time Machine and File History come in.

Honestly, it is good to have both enabled for various reasons, not the least of which is just having a copy of your files offsite.

Yeah, I just meant that I think that you can’t roll back to a version 3 weeks ago kind of thing, which is what Time Machine and File History do. Synchronization vs a true versioned backup.

Yeah, but the challenge is knowing what is compatible to some degree…

AFAIK, OneDrive is very different from Time Machine? More similar to iCloud? It’s not a backup, it’s just an online sync.

The MS equivalent of Time Machine is File History, I believe. (Ie, a versioned backup that fills the hard drive until it’s out of space and then starts deleting the oldest copies of files.)

Yeah they have an Eject symbol by it multiple places, plus the trash can turns into an eject icon, plus of course the menu item you can use under the File menu now, so it’s pretty well covered. Especially compared to the (to me) fairly inexplicable Windows “USB” blob that appears in the controls area to let your right-click and eject. But that was a definitely a thing back in OS 9 and prior, haha. I have no idea whose idea it was to make that the disk eject interface. I’ve heard the same rant multiple times for sure.

I mean, this is why I have been using Mac since 1984. It’s not hard and it pretty much just gets out of the way and lets you do stuff. (Caveat: Gaming. It really doesn’t let you do gaming without jumping through a number of hoops.)

The fact Time Machine immediately hassles you to set up a drive and back up your stuff is so great for the average user. I’m sure both Linux and (I know) Windows have something similar, but it’s not immediately active and trying to get you to save your stuff. TM has saved my bacon numerous times and I love that it’s one click and a fresh HD for users to get it set up.

Service as a subscription, for me. It used to be you bought a product and then you owned it. Now if you want practically anything from streaming media to freaking car washes, you have to “subscribe”.

Being able to launch it locally if you can’t save open or locally seems extremely pointless.

This reminds me of the old how to shoot yourself in the foot joke for unix, except in this case…

rm -rf * woke

I mean… while I defend the right of Israel to defend themselves from attacks, they’re basically committing genocide in the name of “defense” by not discerning between innocent Palestinians and Hamas. And thus, they have become the bad guys through their bad actions and are getting a lot of hate over it.