You could also create an MDM profile from Apple configurator and disable the lighting port to only be used for charging.
Pair Locking Your iPhone
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#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
The more I hear about the U.S. the less I want to go there, for any reason, ever. I'm sure the people are lovely but the government is scary.
American Exceptionalism taught us that it's so much different than other places. In reality, it's not really any different than any other place, and the way the government treats citizens and non-citizens isn't much different than the way any other generally functioning country would. The only difference is that we have especially well-known patriotic freedom-based songs and sayings. You shouldn't be scared to come.…
I can only speak about Germany. While some form of searching at the border is legal, the power of border police and customs agents are much more restricted than those of the US counterparts, especially when it comes to cases without adequate suspicion.
Apart from legal questions, what matters more is how it's handled in practice.
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#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was super easy when I had TWRP recovery. Is there an official Android way to pull a full system backup?
Since the release of Android 6 apps have the ability to back up data to a Google account. I don't know if all apps make use of this feature, but many of the important ones I use do. Just signing in to the right Google account will pose the question of if you want to restore data from a different device or not. There's also a backup mechanism built into ADB. This is a manual process that puts a copy of all apps and in…
> Since the release of Android 6 apps have the ability to back up data to a Google account.
That does have the unfortunate side-effect of giving Google your application data.
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find that people with lower incomes are free-er in other Western countries. They can go about their lives without worrying about healthcare, parents can bond and breastfeed for a year without stressing about work, families can go on vacations for multiple weeks, people aren’t as afraid of being abused or killed by police, etc.
Why do you call that freedom? You can be in a good prison and live without doing anything, having good healthcare and food. But it's not freedom. Freedom is being able to do whatever you want. Some freedom might not be OK, for example freedom to kick other people or freedom to own slaves. Some freedom is good to have like freedom to shot thieves in your house.
No society is going to be able to offer freedom defined as "being able to do whatever you want".
I call it freedom because I see people exercising it. What is the point of a "freedom" if you can't afford to exercise it?
Are you free to send your children to play in sports if you're afraid that your child getting injured will financially ruin you? Are you free to participate in activities yourself if you're teetering on the edge and one unexpected expense will result in having to move out of a good school district, and result in significantly altering your child's chances of future success?
Are you free to participate in your community after you spend 90 min per day commuting after working an 8 to 10 hour day, resulting in nothing else than eating, saying hello-good night to the family, and going to bed?
Are you free to take care of your loved ones in case something should happen to them if you can't afford to go without a paycheck because there is no safety net?
But yes, I guess it is nice to take advantage of the minuscule chance that I'd be in a situation to have to shoot a thief.
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#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you are a US citizen, you can't be turned away at the border or forced to unlock the device. There's an important divide between what customs is supposed to do, and what they might actually do in practice. Going through customs means putting yourself at the whims of people that you do not control. If you're a white male, there's perhaps less of a chance that a bad employee will feel they can take advantage of yo…
Are there stats on the "ethnic composition" of CBP? I must have developed some strange cognitive bias from crossing the border but purely from subjective guessing I would think that a very significant number of CBP agents are non-white. So a question arises in me: why are they allegedly preferring whites over others in terms of extended screening measures etc.?
Might be the influx of domestic terrorism.
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't be so presumptuous. First of all, I live in Europe. Second, I literally said that I think (at least) people with lower incomes have better lives in other Western countries. I really do mean freedom in the literal legal sense, and I don't think this is an important metric.
In that case take a look into Switzerland - most probably the most free country in the world (most direct participation in government by regular citizens by frequent polls, tons of true personal freedom, huge gun ownership yet little criminality etc.). I get where americans come from, and its still great place for many reasons, but for any western-european these statements are pretty weird. I guess if you are told si…
I can understand how you'd see that: let's go point by point.
> repressive police state outside anybody's control
Nah, mostly individual cops
> properly evil government which is openly xenophobic
No, we expect people to immigrate legally, and have less obligation to non-citizens. However, this can be countermanded with the sheer amount of military aid we provide for everyone.
>one serious illness away from utter bankrupcy
Yeah, that's the story, but it never seems to work out that way. In reality, people have safety nets, considerate bosses, savings, families, or any combination.
> huge class divides that are getting bigger
I guess? Nobody really pays attention to what the 1% are doing. Many of us are just enjoying the good job market and low taxes right now.
> biggest (private) prison state in the world
This is a serious problem, I agree
> being caught with some weed in many places can still effectively ruin your professional life forever etc
Yes, and? Being caught with a gun in Europe could also give you a criminal record. This is why we have different states. Someone wants to smoke before everyone makes it legal? Move!
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#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
Attempting to deceive CBP through hidden volumes and the like is not recommended. https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017
It's worse than that in some cases. I used to work for a big 4 consulting firm and they had some horror stories about border device searches. The company policy for travel outside the EU was simple... Your own laptop would go into a server room and become a remote desktop host, you'd be given a blank laptop. When you got to your destination safely you'd call up IT who'd tell you where to download the VPN software and…
The solution could be for the company to give the VPN password to the employee by phone some time after they arrive at the destination. Then the employee literally has no way to access the VPN when detained.
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not the freedom I mean. I would say that people with lower incomes have better lives in other Western countries, but that's not the freedom from the government (at least on paper but probably in practice as well) that I meant.
It's funny how when discussing freedom with an American they'll always insist the only measure that's really important is the one they excel in.
It could also be that America succeeds in providing the kind of freedom Americans insist is important.
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Can you give a few examples of ways in which a US citizen is more free than I, a UK citizen, am?
* In the USA, you are free to deny the holocaust. In Germany and the UK, you are not. * In the USA, if you're a health insurer, you are free to reject customers you don't like. In Europe, you're not. (Those rejected customers, in turn, are free to cover their own health expenses or die - their free choice). * In the USA, you're free to buy guns. In Europe, you're not. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=no+way+to+prevent+this+…
Very good :-)
In US you are free of people drinking a cold beer in sunny days in parks or in the beaches
Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone
#260Looks like Apple Configurator is only available on Macintosh devices. I only use Windows 10 and Linux computers. Is there any way to lock it using a different OS?