Tech Questions
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Update!
I have had an iPad for one week. The hardware (speaker placement aside) is very good for the price. The software is pretty average though, and riddled with inconsistencies and limitations (hardware buttons without software buttons are dumb; give me back and home buttons etc in the bottom centre of the screen no matter what the orientation; not having "search with google" in the context menu is very annoying). Built in adblocking is cool though.
If Google made a comparable Nexus 10, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
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@tim said in Tech Questions:
Update!
I have had an iPad for one week. The hardware (speaker placement aside) is very good for the price. The software is pretty average though, and riddled with inconsistencies and limitations (hardware buttons without software buttons are dumb; give me back and home buttons etc in the bottom centre of the screen no matter what the orientation; not having "search with google" in the context menu is very annoying). Built in adblocking is cool though.
If Google made a comparable Nexus 10, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Sounds like you are just having adjustment issues and need to get used to the settings (this is the bit that gets most frustration as whoever designs the default settings at apple seems to be at odds with the way many people want to use things).
If you want to search with google just highlight the term you want to search, hold your finger down and select 'Lookup'. You will probably get a whole pile of shit that purports to be helpful such as Siri suggestions and things on your ipad itself. At the very bottom you get 'Search Web' which will then do the googling you are after.
You can get rid of the gumpf though by going to Settings-General-Spotlight Search and switching off 'Suggestions in Lookup'. Then you will only get the 'Search the web' option. -
So Apple's computer OS has the worst security flaw since Windows 98.
Huge security flaw lets anyone log into a High Sierra Mac
https://i.imgur.com/7nhfu0O.gifv
Also works remotely.
https://giant.gfycat.com/SentimentalNaiveAntelopegroundsquirrel.webm
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@tim said in Tech Questions:
Huge security flaw lets anyone log into a High Sierra Mac
I just tried and it didn't work for me, then I realised I set up root on my Mac and gave it a password.
That's a bad error, very embarrassing. More evidence they just don't care about the Mac anymore.
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Fucking hell.
I’m so ready to change from my Mac, but I’m pretty locked in (photos etc) so it would take me a week to get everything sorted again.
All of these updates make my computer worse nowadays. It’s fucking terrible how much that company has gone to the dogs.
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@gt12 said in Tech Questions:
Fucking hell.
I’m so ready to change from my Mac, but I’m pretty locked in (photos etc) so it would take me a week to get everything sorted again.
All of these updates make my computer worse nowadays. It’s fucking terrible how much that company has gone to the dogs.
I've just started a new job that only has PCs - I want to throw the fucking thing out the window. Forever updating, and I mean forever updating, and despite being a new machine running Windows 10 it has hissy fits when I have too many PDFs and Word docs open. Plus, I'm used to Word on a Mac now so it just annoys me on PC.
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@nepia said in Tech Questions:
@gt12 said in Tech Questions:
Fucking hell.
I’m so ready to change from my Mac, but I’m pretty locked in (photos etc) so it would take me a week to get everything sorted again.
All of these updates make my computer worse nowadays. It’s fucking terrible how much that company has gone to the dogs.
I've just started a new job that only has PCs - I want to throw the fucking thing out the window. Forever updating, and I mean forever updating, and despite being a new machine running Windows 10 it has hissy fits when I have too many PDFs and Word docs open. Plus, I'm used to Word on a Mac now so it just annoys me on PC.
That’s not normal, just FYI.
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@kirwan said in Tech Questions:
@nepia said in Tech Questions:
@gt12 said in Tech Questions:
Fucking hell.
I’m so ready to change from my Mac, but I’m pretty locked in (photos etc) so it would take me a week to get everything sorted again.
All of these updates make my computer worse nowadays. It’s fucking terrible how much that company has gone to the dogs.
I've just started a new job that only has PCs - I want to throw the fucking thing out the window. Forever updating, and I mean forever updating, and despite being a new machine running Windows 10 it has hissy fits when I have too many PDFs and Word docs open. Plus, I'm used to Word on a Mac now so it just annoys me on PC.
That’s not normal, just FYI.
I thought it was, because one of my work mates from my previous job just started a new job where they have PCs and the same thing happened with her so I just assumed it was a thing.
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@nepia said in Tech Questions:
@kirwan said in Tech Questions:
@nepia said in Tech Questions:
@gt12 said in Tech Questions:
Fucking hell.
I’m so ready to change from my Mac, but I’m pretty locked in (photos etc) so it would take me a week to get everything sorted again.
All of these updates make my computer worse nowadays. It’s fucking terrible how much that company has gone to the dogs.
I've just started a new job that only has PCs - I want to throw the fucking thing out the window. Forever updating, and I mean forever updating, and despite being a new machine running Windows 10 it has hissy fits when I have too many PDFs and Word docs open. Plus, I'm used to Word on a Mac now so it just annoys me on PC.
That’s not normal, just FYI.
I thought it was, because one of my work mates from my previous job just started a new job where they have PCs and the same thing happened with her so I just assumed it was a thing.
The updates thing, maybe. But even then only if your IT takes everything as it comes.
Microsoft in the past few years has actually got its act together.
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no a question, but something awesome
RFC2322 is something real
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Not really a tech question but tech related.
Anyone know about selling an Instagram handle?
Years ago I set up one with my username on here which I forgot about. I have people emailing me wanting to buy it. Someone has been trying to get into it for a while and has even emailed me my password to show they have cracked it but can’t access because they can’t get the verification codes.
Obviously I have changed the password but would consider selling as I don’t even use it.
I had a look at who is following the empty account and the vast majority fall into either trying to follow a US sauce company or the memory component company. The possible buyer could be someone else entirely but I am interested in ideas on how to play this
Ferner advice welcome
RFC 2322: Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp
