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It's finally happened. For over a decade, seeing a #Windows update (either OS or application) has triggered an "oh, no, what's it going to break?" response. Now, #Android and #iOS do the same thing.
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So removing #Manyverse from my #iPad released enough storage to allow me to upgrade to #iOS 14.0.1. I've since reinstalled Manyverse, and I'm currently upgrading to iOS 14.1.
My impressions of iOS 14: irritating as f*ck. Every few hours (almost every time I unlock the screen), it asks me to enter my AppleID password. You know, that long and complex machine-generated string that is difficult to enter correctly on a mobile device? Yes, that one.
Oh, and I keep getting random permission screens popping up. No, I do not want to set your browser as the default. I'll set Firefox Focus as default, if I can. Otherwise, I'll leave it as Safari.
This is a Gen5 device, so it will likely go unsupported within a year from now. I may just wipe it and ship it to #sonTwo, so they have something that #GS3 can play with. I have an old Samsung Galaxy tablet that I was already planning to send.
(Funny story: he got ahold of his mother's newer iPad and pushed so many random buttons that she couldn't even log in to back it up. She had to completely wipe it, losing some data in the process.)
We agree that children spend too much time with electronics, but the problem is that even if you don't intend for him to spend time with electronics, he's automatically drawn to them. He discovered grandpa's watch the first day I was there, and if it lit up or made the slightest sound, he came running.
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Another issue, which I've observed before. #Manyverse #iOS doesn't respond quickly to user input, so it often seems frozen. I tend to click 3-4 times before I remember to wait for it to respond.
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Found out that one app on my #iPad, “Dash”, has gigs of data. I could update the tablet if I deleted the app, but I will not. I doubt that #iOS 14 has anything that I would call “better”.
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Since #iOS 14, #Outlook notifications on the lock screen don't preview message contents. I get up tens or even hundreds of e-mail messages in a day. Notifications are useless if they don't allow me to quickly and easily decide whether it is worth unlocking the phone and reading now.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/275183 [arstechnica com]
#Apple releases #iOS 14 / #iPadOS 14 ... $EMPLOYER sent out an alert: Don't update until we finish testing applications for compatibility.
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#iOS 13.7:
This update lets you opt-in to the COVID-19 Exposure Notifications system without the need to download an app.
Uh, no thanks?
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#Apple giving users better control over inter-app tracking on #iOS 14.x, #Facebook among companies that are worried. https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/11/apple-ios-14-privacy-tracking-facebook/ [9to5mac com]
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The #iOS / #iPadOS version autoupdated to #Element. It started pushing notifications at me (something I dislike!) so I had to turn them completely off. Previously, I had been able to limit them to displaying a number on the program icon.
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#TikTok https://nu.federati.net/url/271530 [www forbes com]
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TikTok caught spying on #Apple #iOS users, banned in #India, under investigation in #USA and #Australia, now even #Anonymous seems to be warning against it.
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@geniusmusing Yeah, it looks like #Android “LovelyDocs” was started, made it to the Google Play Store, then vanished.
https://blog.kapeli.com/goodbye-dash-for-ios in January, development of Dash for #iOS was discontinued. Wow. I know that iOS apps are a dumpster fire with all the platform changes, but that caught me off-guard.
I do agree with https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-for-ios-android-windows-or-linux in that the project would be a lot of work, and the person or people behind it would likely need to derive some or all of their income through the project somehow. (Patreon account?)
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Is there something on #F-Droid that is similar to #iOS "Dash"? It is convenient to view the help / API docs for various scripting languages.
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I've been using #Manyverse ( #SSB software client ) on #iOS and #Android a little over the past couple of months. The only way to 'meet' people and make contacts is to join a pub.
Copying a 'pub' invite and pasting it into the client is not easy. It took several tries on the Apple iPad, and was only possible by learning to trick the text selection function. On Android, there are some characters in the pub invite that can only be selected if you select all (grabs way more than what you want, leaving you to edit after pasting). I eventually resorted to copying the portion that selected easily, and manually entering the rest.
Each device / installation gets its own individual identity hash. In your profile, you can attach a friendly name, which is displayed to others instead of the full identity hash. Don't try restoring a hash from one device onto another, because the #Secure_Scuttlebutt network seems to deliver everything to the first device and leave the second one alone.
There seems to be a smallish set of users, many of whom are building SSB software, hosting pubs, and building similar #peer-to-peer ( #p2p ) networks.
I am nowhere near an expert with it, and I generally only open the client about once per week. It usually takes a while to update, so at first, the old posts from a week before are all you see.
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And if you're considering #Shoyu ( #iOS app ) as your #GNU_Social client, it is garbage. It apparently was an old Twitter client that supports Twitter's functionality from several years ago, and very little else. It is slooo-o-o-o-o-o-owwwww to post, even when other clients are not.
I haven't seen anything else for iOS that supports GS, but it might be worth going to the big blue discount store (aka #Walmart ) and buying their $80 #Android device, so you can use #AndStatus instead. AndStatus is not known for being fast, but it can run circles around Shoyu, even running backwards, with its eyes closed and its ankles bound.
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Okay, boot loop slowed, so I was able to call for provisioning ... phone rebooted after 1-2 minutes of use, but was able to complete it on the 3rd call. The #iPhone was okay until #iOS 10.3.0, and then immediately started having severe battery life issues.
Taking a little break and then comes the actual set up of the new phone and attempting to wipe the old one before shipping it back.
I realize that much of this is the agency's "enterprise" set up, but I've never heard of an #Android user going through so many steps and stages to get a phone working.
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@amic I think most #iOS note-taking apps can store their data on iCloud. Editing text on iDevices is awful and painful, though. Without an external (e.g., Bluetooth) keyboard, it is faster and more reliable to erase and retype.
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So very preliminary experience with #Session says this is not something that very many people will be willing to use.
Even before I contact the kids to ask one of them to join me as a guinea pig, I installed the Session software on on #iOS tablet and one #Android tablet. I launched the iOS app, created an ID, flipped over to the "link a device" QR code, clicked "Link to an existing account" on Android. Result: in 0 out of 4 attempts did the Android version perceive that authorization was granted on the iOS side, even after sitting for a few minutes. Nope. People are not going to fiddle with it to try to get one ID active on two devices. (Incidentally, two devices connected to the same ID is the maximum allowed. If you have two phones and two tablets, you won't be able to use the same ID on all of them.)
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Is there an #Android language learning app on #F-droid that people would recommend?
Likewise for #iOS ... I tried DuoLingo, but the gamification and resulting frequent notifications felt like harassment (not to mention my not being interested in creating the membership that it often pushed for). I deleted it.
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The #Shoyu client ( #iOS ) continues to worsen as more Apple updates come through and it does not receive updates. It was already bad before (but has no competition in the Apple App Store).
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It is mostly okay using the #Android tablet on my hotspot (no #VPN) when I’m out of high speed data. Everything works, just slowly. The #iOS tablet is on the supposedly faster #hotel_Wi-Fi (with VPN) and some things work intermittently, if at all. Before you ask, yes, I did try putting the iPad on the hotspot without the VPN. No improvement.