Sometimes there’s a stick on the road too.

That all depends on how much work they want to put into troubleshooting it for her. I got my mom a Mac Mini when her PC needed to be replaced. It’s way less responsibility on my part. I mostly just answer the occasional how-to.

That’s true. Data transmission is usually measured in bits, not bytes. Gigabit Ethernet can only transmit a maximum of ~128 MB/s.

I think you mean gigabytes, not gigabits.

8 Gb = 1 GB

It could be simple download requests, rather than MAC or IP address downloads.

No problem! I’m a big fan.

It has a terrible privacy policy.

https://tosdr.org/en/service/536

This is Lemmy’s for comparison.

https://tosdr.org/en/service/9267

It works great on iPad, but it doesn’t store and organize.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/affinity-photo-2-for-ipad/id1616823773

I’m a big fan of Affinity Photo and Illustrator. I switched when Adobe went to the subscription model. It’s very similar, and they have full tutorials on Vimeo for anything that works differently. It’s definitely worth the $20.

Totally. I went to Affinity when Adobe went subscription.

Just wanted to share TOS;DR. It’s a really handy free site for translating TOS and EULA.

You don’t need to scrutinize it. Here it is in plain English.

https://tosdr.org/en/service/417

It was probably an article about a store that had an internal theft problem. It’s not entirely uncommon, but it’s very far from the standard. I used to work for Apple. Employees get a substantial annual discount on iPhone. There’s really no incentive to steal, let alone older generation iPhones.

Apple sends the newer, resalable iPhones that are traded-in to a third-party company for resale. The ones that aren’t worth repairing are recycled.

The year they began the trade-in and recycling process, they recovered over one ton of gold, 23 million pounds of steel, 13 million pounds of plastic, 12 million pounds of glass, 4.5 million pounds of aluminum, 3 million pounds of copper, and 6,600 pounds of silver.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/04/15/technology/apple-gold-recycling/index.html

The grade is the most important quality in recycling metals. They’d much rather reclaim their own grades of metal than have to mine and manufacture. It’s better for the planet, ease of manufacture, as well as profits.

It’s also the reason why Siri was first to market and fell behind Alexa and Google Assistant so quickly. It took Apple a decade (2011-2021) to create the hashed then encrypted relay system to collect private and anonymous recorded feedback from customers who opt-in to improving Siri.

Competition just kept everything as user feedback data. I’ve read horror stories about the people who worked at Alexa recording review sites.

That’s fair. Apple’s been shifting away from exclusively using proprietary protocols and connectors over the last decade. Most of their remaining proprietary use is in addition to industry standard protocols and connectors now. Adding RCS support in the fall is a long-awaited adoption. They were holding out in effort to leverage GSM to adopt an encrypted RCS standard, but it didn’t happen.

CaptainEffort and I were referring to the standard copy and paste feature on all OSs, but copying on one device and wirelessly pasting it on another. It’s a very convenient piece of continuity.

Although, what you’re talking about has worked since the release of the Files app in iOS 11, seven years ago. When you connect an iPhone to Windows, it appears as a drive now. You can drag and drop any files once you authenticate.

Can you copy and paste from Android to Windows? How about Android to ChromeOS?

I love my iPhone 13 Mini. Only thing I’d change is swap the wide-angle for a telephoto. Otherwise, it’s perfect.

It even feels more like magic if you use the three-finger pinch to copy and paste.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/select-and-edit-text-iph1a9cae52c/ios#:~:text=Cut%3A Tap Cut or pinch,pinch open with three fingers.

Sorry about that. I thought of it right after. I was hoping to get it in there before you read it.

That’s a good move for the planet. Apple is very good about recycling materials for reuse, but there’s still energy consumption and some material loss in the process. The longer you can use tech the better it is for everyone.

Siri is only “listening” for a key phrase. Siri processes locally, unlike Google Assistant.

Siri learns what you need. Not who you are. What you ask Siri isn’t associated with your Apple ID. The power of the Apple Neural Engine ensures that the audio of your requests never leaves your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Apple Vision Pro unless you choose to share it. On-device intelligence makes your experience with Siri personal — learning your preferences and what you might want — while maintaining your privacy. And, of course, what you share with Siri is never shared with advertisers.

https://www.apple.com/siri/#:~:text=The most private digital assistant.&text=The power of the Apple,you choose to share it.