Not that I personally would ever switch to iPhone because there is still a lack of sideloading open source software; but could you just not use the chat gpt integration?

It seems they are actually trying to not data harvest with all the AI stuff, there is quite a focus on privacy respecting server architecture and clearly defined conformations for the user for when something runs off device, or even off of Apple’s cloud (e.g. Chat GPT). I believe they even made their backend third party verifyable (although I’ve only seen their claims about this, I haven’t actually followed up).

Anyway, plenty of reasons to dislike apple, I’m sure they still collect data, but why not just ignore the Chat GPT functionality?

I have to agree with this comment. I’d probably just set up the router regardless (probably in WiFi AP mode) and not worry about it too much. No one reads the terms and conditions anyway. If someone comes to actually enforce the thing I’d obviously take it down. Hide the ssid if you want to.

As others mentioned, there are ways to also hide traffic behind a single device, maybe connecting to a VPN on the router level would help with this?

Back when I was in uni I had terrible wired Internet so I’d try anything. At one point I was using a jailbroken iPhone to share its 4g connection without having to pay extra to the wireless ISP (basically data plan was unlimited but tethering wasn’t). It worked fine, I could use my data on any of the devices over wifi but it was barely faster than the wired network and it was a lot of hassle so I gave it up.

Any specific one you would recommend?

It’s interesting that they are so repulsive to almost everyone (including me). I wonder what the specific traits are that makes people dislike the cast, I can’t quite put my finger on it.

(Except maybe for the roomba/hoover robot, that one seemed kinda interesting as a concept)

Is this gonna be another 14++++++++ ?

Bilbo is DDOSing Sauron? He won’t be able to “influence” the orcs through Instagram.

But somehow it turns out okay, like there was a huge invading army conquering it anyway and the elves have already evacuated.

But what about the poor orcs and their women and children who don’t want to fight for Sauron but are forced to do so?

/s

I have the option for 2 gbps but it costs more than the 1gbps connection I have at the moment. Do you get any use out of the higher speeds? Did you have to upgrade your local network gear to take advantage?

This is great news, thanks!

I do t know how OP does it but I use Boost on Android which has this functionality

Elon, Musk, and Twitter are my three banned words at the moment. I would add X but I’m weary of the false positives.

That sounds like a really cool use case! It’s a shame it’s mostly just basically abused for spam

I’m not disagreeing in general but I’ve literally never wanted to use push notifications from a Web app. All it does is create another thing to decline on shirty websites.

I agree with you that tablespoons are not the best metric but I would rather want to know if a recipe was telling me to use an imprecise measurement or a precise one. If it says to add 10g of something it was probably tested with that; if it says use 3 tablespoons, usually I can basically add as much or as little as I like (within reason). Anyway, you actually lose a bit of info on the amount of precision specified

Do you, uh, often like to imagine humans with furry tails?

Share button can export any photo. For photos only in the cloud there is a download button to sync to your device at the top when you open the picture.

I think YouTube music is different to actual YouTube but I’m not exactly sure. You can always just try it and see if it’s good enough.

It seems there is a way to get it to work

I don’t know if there exists a solution with all your requirements. You could host your own music library via Plex or something, and aquire stuff via lidarr but this doesn’t have the instant availability of Spotify.

I’d probably use ViMusic (android) if we didn’t have a family apple music sub going. It basically uses the YouTube music backend. Super easy to set up and use, has on-device playlist and download support. I don’t think it does synchronisation though.