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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hank Rogers Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad Subject: Re: Install iOS 17.4.1 now to patch 2 new zero-day vulnerabilities Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:29:31 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 82 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 01:29:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="01bfb32e5190f8ae4388e731f0f48e57"; logging-data="4169961"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18SKQsFDlIJB0QYe1XmKnrr2Rv6HSOadu0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qI/Jk2Se5dhLJ8cSbSsF602gPyI= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 5213 paul@paulglover.net.invalid wrote: > In comp.mobile.ipad Hank Rogers wrote: >> Alan Browne wrote: >>> On 2024-04-25 05:37, Enrico Papaloma wrote: >>>> On 4/24/2024 9:36 PM, Chris wrote: >>>>>> The advice is that these iOS zero-day holes that Apple didn't find are so >>>>>> severe, the recommendation is for iPhone owners to update even if they >>>>>> were >>>>>> intending to wait for iOS 17.5 before running yet another update cycle. >>>>> >>>>> There's no reason to wait that long to install updates. >>>> >>>> But a lot of people do wait, for a variety of reasons, not the least of >>>> which is the way iPhones are updated can cause a variety of slowdowns. >>>> >>>>>> These are the 2 0-day holes that Google found that Apple missed in >>>>>> testing. >>>>> >>>>> Which is why all updates should be installed. Doesn't matter which OS. >>>> >>>> One smartphone OS does "seamless updates" where the user isn't even aware >>>> that updates are happening due to A/B partitions. Sadly iOS isn't that OS. >>>> https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-check-android-device-supports-seamless-updates/ >>>> >>>> >>>> But iOS is getting better with the advent of real patches in iOS 16 so >>>> maybe Apple will add the seamless updates that the other has enjoyed for >>>> years (where the OS updates monthly without the user even knowing it). >>> >>> These "features" are actually not missed on iOS by the vast majority of users. >> >> Exactly. Many of us just use apple stuff as an appliance. We are not Super >> USERS. We are not Apple cult fans. > > +1 this. I've used Android and Apple phones/tablets. NEITHER was ever > intended as a power-user device. Phones and tablets fall very much in > the "appliance" category for me (AppleIance?). I did try to do photo > editing and organization and use the iPad as primary computing device > for a while. It was not very successful, mostly because the organization > aspect was very lacking. > > I ended up with Apple devices because I got tired of the various > annoyances with Android, because I at best tolerate Windows, and Linux > doesn't really cut it for the photo editing side of things. > iOS/iPadOS/MacOS solved some of those annoyances, but > the trade off is different annoyances. I can live with them. > > >> The apple walled garden works fairly well for us. We are not trying to >> destroy apple. We do not care about the minutia of apple's imarket, istock >> prices, isales statistics ... nor any other ibullshit. > > Exactly. Nothing I choose to do with a tablet or phone is limited by > being within a walled garden. For those, I just want them to work > reasonably well when they need to. > > The real work gets done on the Mac, or my work Windows laptop, or a > small BSD virtual machine which runs the "old school" stuff like 'tin' > newsreader in a terminal (and I can login to that from the iPad or > iPhone if I want to, even remotely over a VPN). > > If I want to tinker around with a system, I've got plenty of them to > choose from that are capable of such, and can emulate just about > anything I feel like on the Mac. > > >> This group seems dedicated to quarreling over apple's statistical minutia, >> and trading sophomoric insults. > > I just came back to Usenet after probably 25 years away. Such it was > then, such it remains (just with fewer people left to flame each other). > Oh well. :) > Yes. I think the majority of users get good service from their apple devices. I certainly do. Sometimes they might not work for a particular task, but I don't get upset, I just boot up a computer and do the job. But I do not, and will not, religiously worship the company, join any cults, nor vigorously defend their every action. I just don't give a shit. It's just tool, an appliance.