To a young enough audience, you will sound like you exclusively use ChatGPT instead.

Howard Oakley has made more effort to understand what macOS is doing (and blog about it) than practically anyone else ever.

I'm sure, this post just came off as confused.

How do you disable Shortcuts?

Many people are experiencing the opposite.

> mediaanalysisd

Incredibly, the current mitigation is a cronjob to SIGSTOP it once per minute. https://github.com/jac-jim/stop-mediaanalysisd

Yearslong history of this issue, with it getting harder and harder. https://gist.github.com/huksley/564be2c903312bcee7dffe415d12...

Further info: https://old.reddit.com/r/cellmapper/comments/1qcwj48/observa...

T-Mobile had this issue 5 years or so ago where the IMS core went down due to fiber issues at one of their major backbone providers (pretty sure it was zayo).

As I've said elsewhere, never underestimate Verizon's incompetence. A couple years ago they shut down vtext service which also happened to host their UAprof's for most Android phones. Without a working link to these descriptors, those devices would download any MMS (pre-RCS picture messages) in compatibility mode at the lowest resolution.

It's a population map lacking Dallas for sure ... which might mean something real ... but that doesn't match the per-city charts they offer. Who knows.

> 48khz exists because it syncs with video easily

I guess meaning 24fps video? Because 44100 is already a multiple of 25, 30, 50, and 60.

24fps is where the money is because 24fps is the standard for film.

48k also supports 24, 48, 120, and 240 which are all nice to haves.

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-- https://consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov/

Wow this is a huge negative. I wonder if this was necessary to make it workable, or if this was done to placate corporations.

Not only that, but they post a sign about this at every register. (That must be required.) So you can point to the sign. I think a typical store manager would comply. Maybe I'm not cynical enough.