"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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With Apple starting to ship their own SoC based on the ARM ISA there is a growing Microsoft developing their own ARM SoCs and rumours that other big players such as AMD and Intel maybe looking at getting into developing their own range of ARM based SoCs which will licence the ARM ISA but will…
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Watching a video about Chrome once again causing pain to end users but this time it is in the form of the updater that resides in the background but resulting in high CPU utilisation by WindowServer. Rather than this being an example of a bug, I feel it is an example of a much larger…
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Before heading into the weekend Apple released the release candidate (of what will eventually be released to the public, assuming there are no show stopper bugs) of iOS 14.3 and macOS 11.1 (along with all the other Apple platforms). If they are going to release it next week then it’ll most likely be on Wednesday…
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Well, my muffler on my scooter has been getting noisier and noisier, and I could quite work out what had caused it. I had a closer look at the muffler and it appears that there is a crack at the joint between the end part and the pipe that feeds to it. I bought some…
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Rumours of the M1X are doing their rounds regarding the refreshed Apple Silicon based Mac’s. Rumour has it that they’re scheduled to be released in the second half of next year. It’ll be interesting to see how everything turns out but I could imagine Apple moving to DDR5 which would give a huge amount of…
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Ubiquiti pushed out another update – things are getting better with my UDM with each release – it appears that they’ve listened to the ‘feedback’ they’ve received over the last year and taking in onboard. I’m looking forward to seeing them release their next generation Wi-Fi 6 access points, something I’m looking forward to upgrading…
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Well, that was an interesting day – went to work, checked up on some news and out of the blue Apple releases 14.2.1 for iPhone 12 devices – it updated the modem firmware from 1.14.04 to 1.14.06. I haven’t noticed any differences in terms of reliability but then again I guess I was lucky in that…
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Apple released an updated 14.2 of iOS for iPhone 12 devices however it isn’t available as an OTA update – you’ll need to plugin your phone to your computer to update it. I decided to update to see what it offered – I haven’t noticed a difference but maybe later on I’ll trip over something…
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Before upgrading to the iPhone 12 Pro Max I decided to revisit the past in my second foray into the world of the Google Pixel 4 XL with the first one being abruptly ended because I had convinced myself that maybe Apple had addressed the short comings of the bundled software included with iOS, mainly,…
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My Pixel 4 XL arrived yesterday – I’ll write up a review on my day off but what I thought was funny was how the Vodafone SIM I had laying around didn’t automatically configure my phone so that I could send or receive messages but when I put in my Skinny SIM (Spark’s ‘price concious’…
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