Adguard DNS + Adguard Pro Safari extension. No need for other browsers. Works better than anything I tested. Honourable mention to Brave browser.

Rart ya arr guvvna

All of the digital assistants appear to be degrading to me. I suspect directing consumers to paid ‘AI’ versions which allegedly work, are the corporate plan.

You may have overlooked Snapseed. Free as in beer, surprisingly full featured.

Artificial marketing segmentation by selling obsolete tech taken to bloody extremes. USB 2.0 is an insult

Our children being slaughtered with assault rifles is not inevitable nor acceptable.

Thank you for this. Very interesting!

Adblocking still subpar.

As Trump campaign polling craters, Vance, The gift that keeps on giving 🤣🤣🤣

Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in 5 battleground states, tied in Georgia, poll finds

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/14/harris-trump-poll-swing-states-2024/74794636007/

Not PTSD, a malignant narcissist obsessed with himself.

Looking at browser usage stats, I find your comment, curious …

The old 80/20 rule. I’m steadfastly in the 20 camp

CrowdStrike support appear to be incompetent for such a mission critical software. Given the big $£€¥ companies pay for this, I would think some serious law suits must be in the pipeline for breach of contract?

$149.99 AUD per year? Pass ..

Thanks for your suggestion. It’s not listed in my App Store (Australia)

Yes, I tested the ‘Go’ version which allows 3 day trial before levying a subscription.

Based on that I purchased the ‘Pro’ version as it meets my needs well and I hate farking subscriptions lol

• Beware there are imitators with almost identical app names and identical app descriptions.

You want the app by Stratospherix

True

‘File Browser’ looks promising. Comes in 3 versions, less featured one off purchase, full featured subscription version (Go) or full featured one off purchase (Pro).

Has been in the App Store many years, still in active development. Affordable. Will probably plump for this if nothing better is suggested.

• This is the app by Stratospherix. There are imitators in the App Store

Thank you very much for your suggestion. This looks like a more reasonably priced solution. After re-reading the description I note the developers say that it EXTENDS the iOS Files app, in other words I can access files already present ‘on your phone’.

Thank you for your suggestion. $99.99 to do file management tasks is a bit rich for me …

One thing I’ve taken for granted on other platforms is simple batch operations. Want to rename MORE THAN one file? I’m SOL on the Apple Files app.

I make do with (buggy) homebrew shortcuts at the moment for such things.

Because it’s extremely basic. I want to do more sophisticated file management. At the moment I kludge Apple's Files app with home brewed Shortcuts but I find Shortcuts to be buggy. There are some small utilities available in the App Store to supplement but there are not very cost effective.

Because they can

Waze has a toggle called ‘avoid difficult intersections’.

Additionally, Waze has crowd sourced real time traffic hazard reporting (every Waze user can contribute).

Keep in mind that as his polling decreases, his chances of going to prison increase. You do the math … the deal will be - I don’t cause trouble via magaTards, you let me keep all my ill gotten wealth & give me a pardon. This was essentially the calculus with Nixon. The promise of avoiding political violence.

If it goes down, this will be the eighth time a shonk has been pardoned

https://www.history.com/news/7-famous-presidential-pardons

I’m old enough to have lived through Nixon.

The world was shocked and infuriated when that thing was pardoned and got to have libraries named after him as he lived the rest of his life in wealth and privilege.

You may be right, but prepare yourself for the possibility of the wealthy closing ranks around one of their own ‘for the good of the country’

That would indeed be most gratifying but since this thing is motivated by greed, attention and avoiding jail, it’s probably quite likely that as his polling craters he will finish strip mining GOP, the NRA & magaTards then throw them under the bus to drop out and run to Biden for a pardon.

Don’t laugh, doing a Nixon is very much within the remit of the elite, of which this man is part.

Wonder who will be the unlucky one to be the last minute GOP candidate with no election funds? 🤔

From the top of my head, I think you do that in Mail. I can’t recall a section of the domain setup for that.

Pretty sure It must be done separately on iOS Mail vs MacOS Mail vs Web Mail.

Tedious, but a once off.

Will be so glad to see the last of this blowhard in November

Well, apart from the fact that it’s NOT Google, (which I used for over a decade), the big selling point for a small business person is EMAIL. Apple do a good job of Email/Contacts/Calendar/File whereas Android struggles. Try accessing a third party Exchange email account on Android … yikes!

iCloud offers cheap reliable multi domain email hosting and the iOS Mail client sucks less than any other mobile email clients, at least in my experience.

I perceive Apple as, at least, a little more respectful of my privacy than Alphabet which is up there with Meta in profligate privacy abuse.

Another consideration is I can rely on Apple to keep incrementally improving devises/OS’s whereas Alphabet has become much less reliable in terms of introducing services then capriciously terminating those services. Every Android handset is a bespoke experience…

I use Linux (Debian Stable) on my desktop & BSD on my Servers.

I would love to use a mobile device running an open source OS such as Linux, it’s not viable yet.

Sure will be glad to see the last of this guy when he’s gone in November

Honestly can’t find anything but iOS that is workable for my use case. Sadly

K-9 FTW!

Caveat for anyone being influenced by the long political intro trying to convince folks to install Debian based Mint over Ubuntu based Mint:

"There’s a few final things to note about Linux LMDE 6 that may be of interest. Firstly, if you’re looking explicitly for a DE that supports Wayland instead of X11 then Linux Mint of any flavor isn’t going to meet your needs. Linux Mint LMDE 6 (and Mint main) with Cinnamon uses X11 exclusively, and Cinnamon support for Wayland isn’t there yet. If you’re looking for Wayland support, you’re pretty much limited to GNOME 3 and KDE at this time and distros other than Mint will serve you better in this regard.

Another thing of note is that the LMDE version of Mint specifically, including Faye, does not have the same third party driver helper tool that is present in the main version of Mint based on Ubuntu. While the 6.1 branch of the Linux kernel brings even more hardware support to LMDE 6, there are still times when you may require or prefer to use third party proprietary drivers for certain hardware. If that’s the case, you’re on your own to install those manually in LMDE."

https://lemmy.world/post/8963745

Up vote for Hetzner. Your data, on your own instance, fully compatible with Linux. In a privacy friendly jurisdiction.

You can SFTP or Rsync data across or just add a WebDAV mount to your file manager to use it seamlessly.

If you want a fancy pants gui with automation there is Duplicacy.

Many options. Begin with Hetzner hosting.

Disk caching only benefits spinning rust.

Operating from solid state storage such as SSD or NVME pointlessly wastes CPU/RAM resources juggling memory.

I turn all this archaic nonsense off (as far as I can) when running solid state media.

Don't do this. Stick with Ubuntu or Ubuntu based Mint. They're fan boi'ing you into disaster

tl:dr use Ubuntu/Mint

We have a 2009 iMac here, not identical to you but very similar vintage. After running through a battery of Linux distros on it (I'm a bit of an operating system nerd) I found that Ubuntu/Mint have the best hardware support for old Mac's.

Being told to try Debian on Mac's of this vintage is not helpful in my experience. No disrespect to Debian.

Your spinning rust will run Linux better than MacOS in terms of performance and resource use.

Installing an SSD running Linux will do wonders with old Mac hardware with the caveat that Apple's firmware will maliciously set the system fans to full blast for the sin of using a non Apple SSD.

The fan issue is easily fixed with a small bit of software which over rides Apple's firmware to set the fans back to normal speeds.

As a bonus, if you'd like to get rid of the loud Apple 'bong' at startup there is a way to do it in Linux.

Reply for links. Cheers 🎄