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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Yeah HP had a big push about 10 years ago to get into the enterprise game that Dell was dominating basically. Circa 2012ish? They refreshed their warranty repair system, started pushing next day delivery of parts to match dell/Apple and putting out desktops/laptops aimed at lasting for enterprise. It may have fallen off because I left that line of work shortly after, but Dell/Apple were a powerhouse at that time for warranty repairs. I could order parts at like 3:30pm and the replacement drive/ram/lcd/ribbon cables, w.e would arrive the next day. Apples would arrive by 10am, Dells around 12:30, so next day repairs were most common for me. For personal use dell also had complete care at the time, so you could run it over with your car and say hey this isn’t working, and if I had enough of the pieces there… They’d cover it. That’s what HP was trying to stack up against to get in the door I guess. Don’t know if they did




  • This is actually do to government policies being put in place in the U.K., Australia and such. In those countries if a user has a child account (under 13 years old) certain safety features are turned on by default now in those countries, and the parent can choose to turn them off. If your account is over 18 years old, has a credit card attached to it, or I think there is a couple other ways it will automatically assume you are over 18 and you don’t have to prove it (otherwise you would have to scan your ID to get your Apple account to have you listed as an adult). In the U.S. you don’t have to prove it, and it is opt in by the users.

    So it’s a catch 22, I think it should be opt in every where, but no one is winning a political campaign on saying 12 year olds should be able to send or receive nudes without their parents knowinh about it.



  • The other interesting part to me is that most iPhone users have gotten used to using faceid. I know not everyone likes using it but it is the standard use for iPhone users. The Duo doesn’t have face ID, and switches you back to having to use touch ID on a side button like on an iPad. (I assume because they couldn’t figure out a standardized position that would work well when you are rotating/folding/unfolding whatever to that could consistently work well.















  • A. If you want 2fa to unlock a phone fuck off B. One has to opt in to iCloud. (It’s way to fucking motivated and absolutely a forced thing in my opinion though)

    If you can’t download an app without being signed into an account… You paved the way for Microsoft. Literally were the worst of the worst and made it so. Even the Microsoft store allowed $0 purchase without sign in for years after if not possibly still today. (I don’t use them).

    That said… Security testing anything should tell you the Apple/Google/Microsoft system is all wayyyy more secure using 2FA and activation locks we all hate because theft is a thing. We shouldn’t need an original proof of purchase to unlock a device, yet we do because social engineering makes it that way.