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I work part time at a service provider here in Canada. I had 4 iPhones of various versions oldest being xr, newest being the 16 Pro Max all with security issues. Their phones were all compromised where they were sending messages that were hidden from view, making calls in the background and apple Id names with different messages in them. I thought apple were supposed to be the safe and PRIVATE ones. Smoke and mirrors marketing form the rotten fruit.

Completely. Real Edge instead of apple forked edge is a huge difference. Apple having the say of using webkit to develop the browsing apps is the issue. They are really all following the rules apple sets. WIth real edge I have all the ad blockers that work 100 percent of the time. It makes a huge difference.

Can we just stop with the self driving cars already. It's a failure.

I just searched and found that I can play my old original xbox games on my oc using an emulator. Anyone know where I can get a good xbox emulator so i can pop my games in and play them? Or do I go the other way and get HDMI port installed in my OG Xbox and go that route?

I keep coming back to the same thing too. Linux, while great, and fun, is not ready for primetime. Until all component manufacturers take it seriously and provide up to date drivers for it, it will be like peeing against the wind.

Both my wife and I got locked out from our MS accounts because the email we used was no longer active. (never use a service provider email as your main email). We did gain access after 30 days of waiting. We are not the CEO of libre office however. Reasons are why he is not getting back in for sure. But I agree. I am moving our files to our file server as soon as possible.

Back on my Linux 11 inch dell 2 in 1. Well, the iPad experiment was short lived. I need to redo waydroid so it recognises wifi and Bluetooth, once I do that, the ipad is up for sale. This old system with 4gb of ram and intel m3 processor is just more enjoyable to use compared to the iPad. The typing experience and browser is soooo much better on linux and the dell. Mainly what I will be using it for. I won't be doing any photo/video work on this system. I may use it for writing articles for our travel blog and just take the images from our storage and put them up using this. Well i know the ipad is not for me. I almost bought a 13 inch iPad pro to replace my laptop. Phew, that was close ha ha.

That is Microsoft in a nutshell now. Don't trust them at all. I need to get all my stuff off OneDrive Pronto. The password debacle has opened my eyes to how shatty MS is when it comes to coding. Fire all their developers, testers etc for "insiders" and Ai slop. I was really happy until Copilot was cooked into everything and this dumb recall crap.

So, It only took Linux to restore my passwords. I fired up my little linux laptop, turned off wifi, saved my CSV file from edge on it, because it was not updated to the new edge yet. Got them back. PHEW. Oh, and eff MS! If my son never used steam to game on his pc, I would seriously switch everything to Linux. It just shows I need to get everything on onedrive, OFF IT. I have to figure that one out now. hmmmmm.

That won't work for my use case. I am beyond rotted with the crappy software from microsoft. I have an idea, how about you hire back all the dev's you fired for "insider testing" and ditch ai. have real people develop your products.

I have an ad blocker that works on safari now, and I am using safari on iPad now instead of edge. After edge borked all my passwords from my MS account, I am done.

I kept all my site passwords on edge to make it easy to log into the sites I use regularly. So, the other day, my passwords got deleted and now I can’t get them back. EFFING MS. I think this is the last straw and I am moving to Mac for my PC/tablet experience.

After using the iPadOS 26 for a day now I can say that an iPad Pro could probably use one as my main computer. It is so much improved. Ad blocking on YouTube works now in edge, I just have to refresh and the ad goes away. I am fine with that.

It does not work on edge however. And it’s so so on safari. I might just say screw it and go pay premium so I can view ad free on every device.

I just downloaded the iPadOS 26 beta on my 10th gen and it’s AWESOME. Now, I have to figure out ad blocking on safari since I hate ads on youtube. And move my passwords from edge to safari since edge is not working correctly. It was but I screwed with a cookies setting now it’s borked. But the multitasking, pointer, overall operation is much more like macOS now. It’s really good for a beta.

Basic initial use of the iPad is MUCH MUCH improved. I am typing on it right now and it’s actually really good. There are a few visual anomalies, but for the most part it’s good. I will be trying it later for photo and video editing. Who knows. Might switch to MacBook and Mini for my systems. If I keep enjoying it like I am so far.

I am downloading iPadOS 26 right now. I am going to see how it works. I am going to take it on our trip camping as my only editing device. I am going to be putting my photos and videos shot on my Pixel, canon and fuji cameras through it and edit in the evenings and post via our blog site and YouTube. Might work great with the improvements apple made. I do wish they would let ad blockers work correctly though.

Oh yes, capitalism at its finest here. My wife's job is not safe, mine is until I am replaced with a robot. We are moving into the tourism and handmade areas of the income streams to offset this garbage.

That being said, you can plug the fold into a hub and use keyboard, mouse and big display at the office, home, etc. I am hoping I get one for Samsung ambassador use.

MS had a decent tablet experience with windows 8 and 10 "tablet mode"...The workings were there to have a great setup. However, dumbarse Nadella canned the entire thing. Users are dumb and can't get that they could switch between modes which was awesome. Oh well just one of many many dumb moves that Nadella has made since his tenure as CEO of MS.

Agreed 100 percent. Ai is mainly used for making images of 3 boobed women. Not taking over the world. ha ha.

What sucks is that every linux distro I have tried, even mint, is a compromise of what I get with my windows 11 user experience. Hate to say it. For old machines, HELL YES, for newer ones that run 11 without issue, it's a bigger question. I am going to load mint on my system that has garuda on it and try again.

I am back on my Zorin OS equipped Dell insprion 3169 right now. I love this litte machine. I have a few setup issues I need to fix, like getting waydroid to work correctly. It does not access the wifi/Bluetooth etc on the laptop, the scrolling speed is WAY too fast, and I don't know how to slow it down. ha ha. Other than that I can live with this distro without issue. Next up is getting my server finally built and on linux. I was planning on doing that while I was recovering but damn, time flies.!

I went into bios as well after. I was having thoughts my fan wasn't working. So I set the bios to "high performance" mode. The fan does not get really loud like it used to. I am thinking it was so blocked up with husky fur that it was working way harder. I took the back off, repasted with NT-H2 and cleaned the fan and heatsink. I ran the benchmark in affinity and gained about 20% in performance. ha ha.