BlueLightning
About
- Username
- BlueLightning
- Joined
- Visits
- 166
- Last Active
- Roles
- member
- Points
- 303
- Badges
- 0
- Posts
- 163
Reactions
Comments
-
Noticed about same time B&H site's MBP page was acting up. Page would flip to a contact page with other links almost instantly after displaying a 14" model. Also, Apple Insider is acting a bit strange, with posts initially marked as conversa…
-
Agree with earlier posts that a USB-C/TB-4 on each side would be better than two on the same side as MagSafe-3. Looking at my (several years older) Chromebook, I see a USB-C port on either side, along with a USB-A on one side, and a headphone jack…
-
avon b7 said: With a little luck legislation will pass that will force companies to support products for longer and make support tems known to customers at purchase time. If a product needs some kind of vendor software to fulfil its advertis…
-
When I see a similar message (rarely), I do the following: 1. Immediately quit Safari and avoid the website for a few days - suspect the malware is present in ads within normally safe sites. 2. Disconnect internet cable (I rarely enable Wi-Fi). …
-
"if Apple had such a good SOC design team they also would have dumped Intel in favor of getting macOS and iPadOS on the same hardware platform years ago." Actually, Intel was given the opportunity to produce chips for the original iPhone years ago,…
-
Not familiar with the boot ROM chip or the boot process on an iPhone, but if something similar to an erasable programmable read-only memory chip (EPROM) is used, it could be rewritten with new code that would be resistant to the attack. My impressi…
-
ivanh said: Battery in iPhone 6s replaced in December last year also has a problem diving from 70% to 20% in 2 minutes. Related? Sounds like a defective replacement battery (or a severe drain on the battery). Had a similar problem with …
-
Names have been better than the original name for Edge browser (Spartan), unless you are from Michigan.
-
Remember the missing disk drives at a number of nuclear research labs? Government security is an oxymoron. Bet this will be in the wild in no time. Several countries (including some of our allies) have laws stating disk/memory encryption is ill…
-
Considering the 128 GB seventh generation iPod touch (2019) as a replacement for my 80 GB iPod classic (purchased in 2008, and repaired by a third party in 2014 - new battery and new micro-hard disk). Will likely keep my 160 GB iPod classic (purcha…
-
About 5-10 years ago, Intel bragged they could produce 10nm and maybe 7nm and 5nm chips without a large investment in new foundry equipment or even larger amounts in new foundries. Looks like TSMC is leaps and bounds ahead. Read that Intel was out…
-
Wonder if this could be a data extract/query (age .GE. 40) that is a subset of a larger data table with a larger range of ages? Maybe the larger data table is also unsecured, but the investigators just haven't found the larger table. Hope the larg…
-
Sounds like the EU/European Commission should go after Spotify, Kidslox and others for not respecting EU laws on data collection. Wonder if the vendors disclosed what they were doing in the software agreement? These apps. could pose a security exp…
-
"Airnerd": Mojang, Xbox Game Studios and Sony Computer Entertainment are listed as the publishers of Minecraft on wikipedia. I've never paid for anything on iTunes, but I've seen similar issues with corporate software distributions for application…
-
Haven't used them on mobile phones, but NoMoRobo and RoboKiller (and likely others) are available for $3.95/mo. Have used NoMoRobo on a Land Line (free); not perfect, but cuts out most RoboCallers (after a single ring). Believe I read that carri…
-
Hi "Vmarks": For "anywhere in the world use", you'd likely need lots of different tuners in different countries, since some (many?) different countries use different standards: "While NTSC and PAL have both gone away, the US and UK implemented inco…
-
Investigating options to convert about 500 DVD+RW recordings of over the air news and PBS programs to a more permanent and more compact solution. Has anyone else done something similar? Long term project, maybe next year or two... Would be ideal …
-
Historically, I don't expect much in the way of changes between minor updates. These are more like Windows service packs. Still, I'm not overly impressed by recent updates from Microsoft, Google or Apple. Not much improvement from any of the…
-
ksec said: derekcurrie said: Recent iOS devices take advantage of the GPU technology recent developed by ARM for their chip designs. That's not going to translate into GPUs for Macs, which are going to continue to use Intel CPU technol…
-
Interesting that the only other device maker in the top ten is Amazon (#3, with a score close to #2 Apple). The term "brand intimacy" is cringe-worthy. The top car makers in the list (Chevy and Ford) have significantly lower scores. Would have ex…