AppleInsider said:

To check whether your carrier automatically supports RCS, you should open Settings, then General, and then About. If you scroll down to the SIM/Network section, you will see an option called Carrier.

On my iPhone (in Europe with iOS 18.1) the option is called Network Provider not Carrier.

Will this offer anything outside the USA?

There are also a lot of other third-party booksellers online such as Goodreads.

Maybe it's different in the US but where I live Goodreads seems to be a book review site, not a bookseller.

eightzero said:

Japhey said:

eightzero said:

If I could, I'd ditch wifi in my home completely in favor of CAT5 ethernet cables. That wiring is something of a chore though. And all the little odds and ends at require wifi certainly don't need these uber speeds.

Why Cat 5 instead of 6 or 8? I only ask because I’m wiring my house this fall and the more knowledge I have, the better. 

Well...mostly because CAT5 was the last thing I knew about. In other news, there are apparently CAT6 and Cat8 wires. I doubt they are easier to snake through walls though...

When our house was built back in 2010 we installed Cat 5e ethernet cabling. It works very well and I don't find I need the higher speeds.  Our internet comes from a 600mbps fibre optic cable. The biggest problem is that there are not enough sockets in some of the rooms, which is entirely my fault. We put in two point sockets at each outlet - next time I'd put four point sockets in the living room and office. Cat 6 was relatively new when we were building the house and it was easy to get structured cable with Cat 5e, co-ax and loudspeaker cable combined.

I think with Cat 6 it is necessary to avoid sharp bends in the cable which will make it more difficult to install (but please don't quote me on that as I am not an engineer).

Has the situation described in this article been fixed?

All iOS VPNs are worthless and Apple knows it, claims researcher

Maybe it never existed at all but if it is still present then it is not clear that NordVPN can do what is described in the second sentence of this article:

When you connect to public Wi-Fi, malicious hackers can lurk in wait to steal your private data. NordVPN can protect you from much of this, while maintaining your privacy at the same time.