That’s so cool, the integrated quality levels

Impressive. Thank you for sharing

Softest paywall ever - they do such good work, they can have an anonymous email of mine no problem

Magic link’s so annoying though, just wanna password (they’re journalists not techies though is the long and short of it)

:) I even made a shortcut to set flashlight brightness to about 1% which is lower than it’s possible to set it via UI. It’s a little buggy hence employing a very advanced technique of covering the majority of the LED with a finger. Cheers to your next late night bathroom run or whatever.

Oh awesome even the iPhone 11 does too.

You have to go back to the iPhone 6 to find a phone that is guaranteed not to be patched against this:

“iOS 15.8.4 and iPadOS 15.8.4
Released March 31, 2025
[…]
WebKit
Impact: Maliciously crafted web content may be able to break out of Web Content sandbox.”

or this from Sept

So that’s why people must be generally OK. There can’t be massive numbers of people using the 6 or earlier anymore. Well not super massive. Wonder how often that web content is maliciously crafted to break out on them… I’ll have to make that thread because I’m really curious about this. How many people are vulnerable, how desirable and easy to deploy is the exploit…

Wow you’re definitely really deep into the 15% (I’m making that number up but there must be so few people outside of tech who even use a single external monitor?)

They buy the Mac, they open the Gmail and the Facebooks, they call it a day… I’m thinkin’

Wonder if I can get a realistic estimate on this kind of thing

But security :-/

Aren’t there a (~~~~)hundred million people using out of date iOS and macOS? Are they all part of botnets? Do I have to review every CVE patch since the final version of iOS 17 or any unpatched OS to understand the actual risks of not upgrading Apple hardware the day it goes out of date?

^been meaning to make a thread

Could my backup to Mac instead of iCloud this year have helped me 🤔

Oh iPhone 17 Pro could be helping (bloatglass optimized)

When gatekeeping/incentives go wonky

Your carpal tunnel is saying that

:(

Oooof

Curious! Didja use iOS 18 for the first six months?

Been super thankful: iOS 26 is more stable than about month five of iOS 18. Unreasonably angry about iOS 18 instability. Probably helps my impression of the new iOS when I do notice a bug to remind myself of how bad it was for so damn long on the last version.

Good news though Apple is planning to reopen their signing wind——NOPE trollin’ they’d never help ya out like that (for REASONS)

Edit: okay iOS 17 isn’t getting security updates so I wouldn’t advocate for reopening that signing window but for iOS 18, of course. Someone on MacRumors just bought a replacement iP15 Pro they made sure would have iOS 18 installed.

Re-edit b/c Apple would likely still patch bad exploits in 17

Maybe his account would be popular enough to be screenshotted on the Fediverse and re-shared on all the corporate medias.

People like that could even astroturf a bit and have their interns reshare screenshots within the first hour of posting. Eventually, presumably, some folks would move over to open media.

That only works perfectly for 85%+ of Air buyers! :p

Edit: NOT me I got all the ports (phew) yay big MBP

Has anyone found themselves adjusting beam width from time to time over the past year?

Y’all got any of them

on/off ramps

Thought it was something like that ya!

I like the idea of doing a full DFU restore from IPSW when getting a new phone to go full paranoia mode. Haven’t done but… anyway then local restore.

Cable backup to Mac’s the best way for some reason is that right?

Indeed, @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone, like so!:

Edit, oh is it buggy with parameters per downthread? Interesting

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