FelipeFelop

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Phones encrypt the data by default, your password or pin is also needed to authorise the connection with a computer.

However, many people do insecure things like storing passwords etc in Notes applications, or having simple PINs that are easy to guess, don’t update their devices, or even turning off security features (if they can) because they won’t take a small amount of time to understand them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The point is that calling the computer storage less is what’s wrong.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I can see two issues here:

It’s not really a storageless computer. It’s using EFI as storage to build the ramdisk.

What happens if you need to change things because of a change of cloud account, change of cloud API etc etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, that’s exactly the point. Combining data is something that must be considered. (And in some jurisdictions like the EU you even need to consider if it could be combined in future with other data)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not sure I agree entirely. The actions I take are definitely data about me.

Also, in many jurisdictions data that could be combined (even in the future) with other data to identify you or something about you, is considered personal data.

For example, Device ID is AstridWipenaugh’s device and they use the app in the morning.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I think you’ve missed the point. It’s not the data they are collecting but the fact they say they don’t collect data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They weren’t actually tiny, they were about a metre long. But they do seem out of proportion.

They were very muscular and ended in very sharp talons, so pretty deadly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But that’s pretty much the standard answer to any suggestion for improvement.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

I was trying to explain to an elderly friend that people don’t just phone other people now and certainly not at times they will be doing something.

She found it hard to accept that many people find it rude to be called unannounced.

As an example, at one time if someone was organising a social event (eg party) they would phone around to invite people.

But that’s incredibly rude you are imposing on someone and also asking them to decide or excuse themselves on the spot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I just tried it and it’s doing the same thing for me. I’m sure it worked previously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

this is just awful, there’s something weird in his arm, his head is on backwards (or his knees and feet bend the wrong way) and there’s a strange blue thing sticking out etc etc

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This story has been popping up every few months for about the last decade. Usually prompted by someone with something to promote (a dumb phone, a book about downtime, some course )

 

I had an email yesterday telling me that the Apple One subscription was going up for the second time in twelve months.

It no longer represents good value for me and I can save nearly £100 a year by cancelling and subscribing to the important parts that I use most.

Apple are not alone in increasing prices (in a cost of living crisis) to the point they no longer represent fair value. What is it with companies that they lack basic business smarts?

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