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  • TP-Link Deco BE5000 review: whole-home mesh Wi-Fi 7 on a budget

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    nubus said:
    The review seems woefully incomplete without mentioning the lack of 6Ghz support.   Looks like a great product otherwise, but that’s something that surely should be pointed out for a review of a network product? 
    No 6 GHz support? But then the backbone is taking bandwidth from the clients. Also important to those living in an apartment as 2.4 and 5 GHz are often saturated and now the backbone has to run on that as well. Agree it should have been in the review.

    Also worth mentioning are the massive security problems with TP-Link. Hard to recommend products when DOJ and FBI are deeply concerned.
    DOJ and FBI are also deeply concerned over TikTok and 10 trans people competing in the NCAA[...]

    Not sure what one has to do with the other, but neither of those are the fringe issues you seem to think they are.  The TikTok ban was passed 352-65 in the house.  And bans on other such Chinese companies in the enterprise space, like DJI and Huawei, are also bipartisan and international.  (And according to several polls and even Gavin Newsom, there's pretty broad agreement against trans in sports as well, at least outside of congress.)

    And there's very good reason for being worried about China's infiltration of our infrastructure - they've already done it very aggressively, multiple times.  Most recently and severely with them hacking into the Treasury department and telecom companies, the latter giving them near-complete (and ongoing) access to every phone call and SMS text in the country by being deeply burrowed into the mechanisms the telecoms use for "wire tapping" lines these days.  (At least now we have a concrete example of why backdoors are bad.)
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  • Apple is planning to make enormous design changes to iOS 19 & macOS 16

    maltzmaltz
    I really hope this article is vastly overstating what is planned, because this sort of thing is usually a terrible idea.  Beyond some basic things like having similar settings in similar places (which they've already standardized) there's no reason for it - they're different things.  Everyone should have learned this lesson with Windows 8 - Microsoft did.

    I don't have any trouble using both a car and a lawnmower.  I can figure out how to use two things.

    (Trying to recapture pandemic sales is even more stupid.  That was a one-off even that made some industries boom temporarily, often to their short-term detriment down the road.  Someone pushing up their laptop upgrade because they suddenly work from home doesn't buy a new laptop 1-2 years later when they normally would have.  If that's really what's behind this, I worry for Apple's basic business sense.)
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  • iPhone 'batterygate' legal drama isn't quite done yet

    maltzmaltz
    DAalseth said:
    It’s my impression that well over 90% of those screaming about ‘throttling’ never encountered it.

    And if they did, it was in lieu of their phone crashing.  Idiots.  This was was absurd to begin with - I can't believe this actually went anywhere.
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  • Apple thinks the iPhone 16e target market doesn't care about MagSafe

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    Graeme000 said:
    Never having used MagSafe, I know “how convenient is to just pop your iPhone on a stand” with Qi chargers. I still don’t get the supposed need for MagSafe.  

    I just went from and iPhone 11 with unassisted wireless charging to an iPhone 16 with Magsafe, and the change was... barely noticeable.  I charge overnight, so the marginal efficiency improvement matters not-at-all, and it wasn't hard to line up my phone with the old charger anyway.  If anything, MagSafe makes it a little more difficult to remove the phone from the charger, so I kinda liked the old one better for that.  My experience has been an even swap - easier to put on the charger, harder to take off, and charge speed happens while I'm sleeping.

    And if I want fast charging when I'm awake, wired charging blows both of them out of the water.  I don't get why this author is so hung up on this over two articles, now.
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  • US Intelligence backs Apple over UK encryption backdoor demands

    maltzmaltz
    If the recent (and ongoing!) complete and utter compromise of the ENTIRE US PHONE SYSTEM, including SMS, wasn't enough of a wake-up call (heh) against backdoors, I don't know what is.
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