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The program now covers the M1 iMac, M1 Mac mini, Mac Studio and Studio Display.

With this comes a new batch of Repair Manuals, which I naturally downloaded and looked through. I love this exploded view of my beloved Mac Studio:

Here’s what all of those parts are:

1. Bottom cover screw pad
2. Bottom cover screw pad adhesive strips
3. Bottom cover
4. Power supply
5. Bus bar insulator cover
6. Internal frame
7. Internal frame plate
8. Antenna 2
9. Antenna 3
10. SDXC card slot board
11. SDXC card slot board flex cable
12. SDXC card slot board connector cowling
13. SDXC card slot board connector cowling
14. Front USB-C ports connector cowling
15. Front USB-C ports
16. Front USB-C ports bracket
17. Back Thunderbolt 4 ports connector cowling
18. Back Thunderbolt 4 ports (2)
19. Ethernet board
20. Ethernet board connector cowling 1
21. Ethernet board flex cable
22. Ethernet board connector cowling 2
23. Power cord port
24. Combination input/output board
25. Power button
26. Combination input/output board connector cowling
27. HDMI flex cable
28. USB-A flex cable
29. Combination input/output board connector cowling
30. Bus bar
31. SSD module cover included with a replacement SSD module
32. SSD modules (flash storage)
33. Power supply signal cable
34. Speaker
35. Logic board
36. Antenna 1
37. Fan
38. Housing

Compared to this thing, the inside of the Mac mini is downright simple.

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Apple Support:

This firmware update addresses possible intermittent flickering and compatibility issues. In some cases those issues may include no video on some external monitors when using the Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter with your Mini DisplayPort-enabled Mac.

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MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade to the preeminent Mac app for editing WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, and many other types of blogs.

The new Microposting feature makes it “as easy to post to your own blog as it is to post to Twitter.” When MarsEdit 5 is running on your Mac, just press a configurable global keyboard shortcut, write out your latest thoughts, and instantly publish to your blog.

MarsEdit supports editing posts in rich or plain text, and the latest update is especially great for Markdown fans. Now when you’re writing Markdown in plain text mode, MarsEdit applies live, beautiful syntax highlighting to make it easier to focus separately on the content and style of your posts.

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Twitter Support:

Twitter is where the public conversation is happening, and where people from all over the globe come to promote their businesses, art, ideas, and more. We know that many of our users may be active on other social media platforms; however, going forward, Twitter will no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms on Twitter.

At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL.

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On this feedback episode of MPU, David and I reflect on the first year of the MacSparky Labs, discuss the recent Eufy camera news and answer a bunch of listener questions.

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Emma Roth:

Ford’s raising the price of its F-150 Lightning pickup yet again — this time, by about $4,000 (via CNBC). The increase affects both the entry-level Pro model for business customers and the consumer-focused XLT trim with no added options, which now start at $55,974 and $63,474, respectively.

For comparison, the Pro work truck initially started at $39,974 when it launched back in April, but subsequent price hikes brought the price up to $46,974 in August and $51,974 in October. The base XLT, on the other hand, launched with a sticker price of $52,974 before that increased to $59,474 several months later.

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John Carmack is leaving Meta.

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I recently sat down with Martin Feld to talk about the history of Connected and Relay FM, as well as my story as an indie content person on the web. Go check it out.

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I’ve been saying this for a long time now, but this computer makes a ton of sense. Having two notebook familes — each with two sizes — would be nice and clean:

• 13-inch MacBook Air
• 15-inch MacBook Air
• 14-inch MacBook Pro
• 16-inch MacBook Pro

As a nice bonus, I think this arrangment would let Apple finally put the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar out to pasture.

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I recently asked ChatGPT a complicated question:

Which Performa was the best?

Here’s what it replied:

It is difficult to say which Performa model was the best, as it ultimately depends on individual preferences and needs.

The Performa line of computers was introduced by Apple in 1992 and included a range of models with varying specifications and features. Some of the most popular Performa models included the Performa 600, which featured a 66 MHz PowerPC processor and 8 MB of RAM, and the Performa 6116CD, which featured a 120 MHz PowerPC processor and 16 MB of RAM. These models were popular among home users and were known for their speed and reliability.

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On this week’s show, we have feelings about websites, then talk about the new features in iOS 16.2 and the possibility of Apple opening up the iPhone.

I’m particularly pleased with our conversation around Twitter and social media.

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Casey Newton, in an excellent edition of Platformer:

From the start, my strategy on Twitter has been to tell jokes about tech, use the engagement on those posts to grow a following, and then promote my work to that following. (Some people who read my tweets also became friends and sources; Twitter was great for that, too.)

Now, awaiting Musk’s latest tweets, I find myself anxious that one of his former employees could be physically assaulted or worse over what the CEO is posting. I don’t know how, in that environment, to make little jokes about Google’s latest failed messaging app, or bad PR pitches, or any of the other bits I have been doing on Twitter forever. I don’t know how to pretend that what is happening is not actually happening. I don’t want to provide, even in the smallest of ways, a respectable backdrop against which hate speech against my fellow LGBTQ people, or Black or Jewish or any other people, can flourish.

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