Notices by Simon Wolf (simon@social.sgawolf.com)

As expected, people who manage to generate noise finally get a response from Apple. I’d delighted that access to everything has been restored but I wonder how many cases there are where we never hear anything about it and the accounts just remain locked.

I have over 500 iTunes movie purchases but stopped buying from them a couple of years ago and generally don’t consider myself locked in and certainly don’t ever want to feel like I’m trapped by my previous decisions.

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

@mntmn I hope so but machines like the ones from @starlabssystems are also repairable so shouting about it loudly is a must.

I’m in a business where we’ve been selling our solutions for almost 20 years and yet people still always say, “If only this had been around a couple of years ago…” so it’s a common problem sadly.

@silverwizard My ex-wife’s family are like that with her, her mum and one of her two aunts all being a few days apart birthday-wise. And yes, they were September babies! 🙊

But happy birthday for tomorrow!

@silverwizard Happy birthday? Or is this based on really, really specific dated and day-based maths?

In a tiny step away from Microsoft and Office, today I managed to convince my sister to install and use @libreoffice since she couldn’t log in to her company Microsoft account and was unable to use Word. I don’t know how long this will last for but I have a feeling that her IT skills mean it might be a while before she is logged in again so fingers crossed! It would give me a great amount of pleasure if our company dropped Office entirely.

@neil We’re going through a big explaining phase with customers about how 2G and 3G are not being switched off together and that 2G will be around for several more years (maybe as much as a decade). The media (and some competitors) are very good at casually bundling both together.

@axelson Oh, that looks good, thanks. No problems with it? I have a terrible fear about bricking it.

@silverwizard Oh no! 😂🙈

@silverwizard That’s a mix of cool and crazy. I have a terrible feeling I’m going to end up down a rabbit hole of what people have done with them soon. 😂

I’d not used my #reMarkable tablet for a little while and wanted to put some new technical PDFs on it but it seemed unable to connect to their servers to check for software updates or to synchronise.

After trying all the usual things I learnt that you can SSH into them (https://philerb.com/2021/12/26/remarkable-tablet-ssh/) and then I was able to update the DHCP configuration on it via `dhcpcd -k`.

It now work beautifully again but a “Refresh” button on the WiFi settings screen would be easier.