"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"
Category: Technology
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There was an interesting video uploaded by Louis Rossman regarding who consumers trust with their data (link): It appears that Louis was confused (along with I) regarding how the average person has more trust in Google than they do with Apple regarding keeping their personal data safe. I wonder when the question was asked to…
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Starting into the first week of the holidays and Ubiquiti has release an firmware update for their UDM 1.11.0 which introduces bug fixes, optimisations such as improved PPPoE throughput, making WPA3 available for mainstream adoption and lots more (link). A nice little early Christmas present which, as of the time of this writing having used…
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Almost at the end of the week and looking forward to next week when I have time off from work – using three days of my annual leave but getting 9 days off in total due to my normal week being Wednesday to Sunday (Monday and Tuesday being my weekend) so I end up with…
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Writing this on Sunday 12 December I’m looking back at the week that was. I took my scooter in on Monday and have found that the cost of fixing the big moved from, “oh, maybe a couple of hundred dollars” to “you can pretty much buy a whole new bike for that amount” which I…
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Back to using Safari – Chrome has its benefits but I think I’ve got things nailed down with Safari and Ad Guard. I think the problems I’ve had in the past is that I haven’t gotten it setup properly before I started ‘surfing the net’. What I’ve done this time is when I installed Ad…
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I’ve been a big fan of Google’s hardware line, specifically, their Pixel phones due to their ‘crapware free’ implementation of Android when compared to other big OEMs that bloat up the standard Android install with crapware because the said OEM has been paid by software vendors aka ‘partners’. Samsung is doing a lot better than…
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I’ve been watching videos reviewing the new MacBook Pro 14″ and 16″, even after all this time I am astonished at how well the Apple GPU is scaling given the tendency of GPUs designed for lower power tend to have an upper limit in terms of scalability (architectural decisions made to reduce power usage can…
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It is interesting to see the new service that Apple roll out (link) and finding myself recall a year ago (or so) how Apple should add custom domain hosting, that there is an opportunity to focus on small to medium business etc. etc. only for it to all end up happening. Not that I’m saying…
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Well, it is the big day – Apple releases macOS 12, iOS 15.1 and tvOS 15.1 and after a good night sleep I got to work upgrading all my devices. This won’t be an exhaustive review but rather pointing out some changes that I have noticed after using it for a few hours. Just to…
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Today was the day Google announced the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro – since there was already all the information out there the presentation was pretty much confirming everything and once again it isn’t available in New Zealand although Amazon is going to be a reseller so there is always the option of using…
