JustARegularNerd @ JustARegularNerd @aussie.zone

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I totally agree, but where I have a problem (and I imagine a lot of other users here) is that you can't fully opt out. You can only set "minimal" tracking but not none.

Its okay, once Microsoft introduces EdgeOS, they can claim that Edge is an integral part of the OS, and therefore cannot be removed.

..oh wait, that's just Windows 10 onwards

Yes, it's probably pretty demanding of the hardware but my Pi4 4GB runs:

• Heimdall
• Portainer
• Vaultwarden
• Flatnotes
• ownCloud
• FreshRSS
• Paperless

To add to that, even once you have a different browser fully set as default, links within Windows itself (Search, Weather, etc.) still open with Edge

This no longer happens in the latest Insider Dev/Canary builds to an extent, but I make the point anyway to show how anti consumer Microsoft truly is.

It just seems to me that Martin is arguing on technicalities. Ultimately for the end user, regardless of the why behind parts not working when swapped, the parts are not replaceable, and Apple does not make the required tools available (such as calibration software) so that third party repair can be done properly. It's still anti repair for the end user.

It's done both on the server and client side, using signatures and block chain, something like that. There's videos you'll find online that explain it much better than my 2c would, and I'd imagine wiki.vg would have it documented in detail if it's still maintained.

The cutoff for migrating was only a few days ago actually.. I think they've somewhat extended it so if you want to keep what you've paid for, I'd strongly suggest looking into migrating.

If you don't have access to the email linked though, good luck..

Right, because swapping cameras, displays, or batteries on a Pixel or Samsung permanently remove functionality with no calibration software made available.

Yeah, it would be a fantastic thing if it showed a permanent history of parts and their serials in the settings, as well as a date on which the change was noticed, so you have an idea of the history of the phone and what's been replaced. And, of course, not locking you out of features.

I don't know how old your Mac was, but I think system info does record battery details. If not a serial, it definitely reads the cycle count, so it may have been possible to cross reference that if you knew the cycle count previously, but of course, I don't blame you for not making backups of all that information and cross referencing it, you should never need to do that in the first place.

With logging, one thing I deal with at an MSP is BSODs. Maybe I'm just not experienced enough, but it feels like the event logs in Windows only help if it's something obvious like a poorly written or buggy application. If it's a driver issue they just are near useless. I usually end up downloading WinDbg (which has such an archaic UI on Windows 11) and read the minidumps, and it's like a 75% chance it's helpful.

In the meantime on *nix, yeah there's literally logs for just about everything if you look in the right places.

I was so lucky to get an iPad on the very last (at the time) somewhat jailbreakable version, 15.4.1, I never had to refresh apps at all. Never updated it.

Unfortunately after I got an older MacBook Pro for cheap, I didn't have a use for the iPad and it didn't fit into my life anymore, so I sold it to my sister, who immediately updated it to iOS 16.x. I nearly died inside when I saw it updating.

Unrelated to this post at all, I'm a bit out of the loop on this, is there something wrong with PDFs? Just wondering what the PDF warning is about, this just being the first I've ever seen that.

Edge has some genuinely nice features, like vertical tabs and split window browsing.

But I wouldn't suggest either personally, especially in the context of all the crap going on with Chrome. I imagine anything Chrome implements will be immediately back ported to Edge, such as WEI etc. I can't see why MS wouldn't.

Wow, that's so safe. Nothing more safer than the world's biggest advertising company having full access to my internet history.

It's just so dystopian almost, that these things that are objectively bad are named things that sound good, like Enhanced Safe Browsing, Topics API, Web Environment Integrity, etc

Legetimately that was so frustrating for them to kill off, I thought it so novel to browse compact Reddit on an iOS 6 device.

If it helps give a bit of reassurance, I grew up after the Digg era, and I didn't even know it was a thing until the whole Reddit thing.

Maybe in ten years time, the next generation will be the same about Reddit, or at least, one can only hope.

I always saw it as her just saying in her mind, "This. Statement. Is. False." thus just being some four individual one word sentences.

Was that Msushi? I think I heard that same fact from him.