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Re: Business Essentials

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Post by overspeed »

thih9 wrote: post #118

Slightly off topic, check out the HTML code next to the "Onsite repairs" box; the formatting uses strikethrough, but there is a hidden element with "Not" text before each crossed out line. I assume this is for accessibility or copy-paste compatibility; as a result the raw text still reads: > Onsite repairs: Not someday Not next week Not soon ASAP. I find this kind of attention to detail very cool. (Too bad "ASAP" is…

Slightly tangential but don't soon and ASAP mean the same with the difference of an urgency qualifier?

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by londons_explore »

dahfizz wrote: post #138
CityOfThrowaway wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is for the visually impaired! Screen readers will announce the hidden element

Can screen readers not figure out that a 1px x 1px element with a clip-path: inset(0px 0px 99.9% 99.9%) is invisible?

Screen readers are a lot dumber than you'd expect... And now web designers have come to rely on this dumb-ness, so making them smarter breaks stuff.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by dwaite »

derefr wrote: post #80
chrisseaton wrote: post #10

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I think that's unlikely to be a thing they're working on. You can get that from storing your files in iCloud already, and these days is there any good reason to back up the rest of your system? If I had to rebuild a system due to hardware failure the absolute last thing I'd want to do would be restore all the accumulated system cruft!

iOS devices do full backups to iCloud†, restorable onto a new device just like macOS full Time Machine backups are. So why not macOS backups in iCloud? If anything, you'd expect it to be the other way around—in iOS devices, you/apps can't litter your homedir with random garbage, while in macOS you can. So it's more useful to back up macOS. † You can also make an iOS backup onto a local macOS computer running iTunes,…

> So why not macOS backups in iCloud? If anything, you'd expect it to be the other way around—in iOS devices, you/apps can't litter your homedir with random garbage, while in macOS you can. So it's more useful to back up macOS.

This is somewhat the reason why no full macOS backup to the cloud. iOS naturally normalizes the content due to its use of iTunes Store content (apps, movies, television shows, books, music).

On macOS, you can't necessarily just ignore apps and say you'll download from the store - not only can you move applications around, you can delete parts of them and _many_ devices have apps which were not downloaded from the store.

So a 1TB Mac backup will take 1TB of iCloud Data and require 1TB of data to be uploaded/downloaded to their storage account.

This also affects the speed of restores on higher-speed connections - a lot of the iTunes content winds up being cached by CDNs.

Apple's solution so far has been to back up just the user's Documents and Desktop folders to iCloud, since these are the two most important "general purpose" locations on the Mac.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by short12 »

motohagiography wrote: post #132

Smart play to focus on businesses with fewer than 500 employees, as those are the most likely to grow in the next 3-7 years into larger accounts, and they don't have the 12-18mo sales cycle and shennanigans of an enterprise. It's a strategic departure from being a consumer luxury product company, and the shift to enterprise suggests they're out of ideas, but at the rate they're losing consumer growth I'd say they've…

Didnt they already try this and it was a huge failure

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by my123 »

dunham wrote: post #91
lostgame wrote: post #37

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You know what would piss me off, if I had kids; would be the lack of support the iPad, in particular - has for multi-user logins. It would be huge for families, and it would also make parental controls way more of a breeze. Does anyone know why this is the case? I was positive when they made iPadOS its own thing, we'd finally see this.

I think they have this for school iPads, with special management software, but not available on the consumer side. I suspect they're pushing for you to buy a device per user. But even for a household without kids, I could see some utility in being able to pick up the nearest iPad and having your personal state on it. (I think ChromeOS does this, but I haven't used it.)

Also available for business iPads.

Has some catches like... around 30 secs to switch between users, doesn't seem to be instant. Maybe it's faster now.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by vishnugupta »

jupp0r wrote: post #136
fatnoah wrote: post #131

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>I figured, when my kids were a certain age, that if I took that route, they'd ALWAYS get around whatever control I put in front of them My son is 14, and when my wife proposed blocks and access control, I made this very point. Even if we were able to perfectly lock down our home and his phone, we can't control every other place he can access the Internet. So, we also are in a talk about it, occasionally check on wha…

You should still do some blocking to make sure he learns how to circumvent them. Those are valuable skills to have later in life, I still profit from the lessons I learned circumventing high school internet restrictions.

Through Norton's suite I had filtered out YouTube app from being installed. It took ~10 minutes for my 5 yo to figure out use it via Safari :-| Since then it's been education over enforcement as OPs have mentioned.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by dolni »

ec109685 wrote: post #140
Damogran6 wrote: post #81

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I figured, when my kids were a certain age, that if I took that route, they'd ALWAYS get around whatever control I put in front of them. Either at home, or at school or at a friends house. Told them there was stuff on the internet that could harm them, that there was stuff they could NOT unsee. They're 18 now, the results of the science experiment are still out, but they seem to have turned out okay.

I don't understand why it's healthy to provide one click access to the hardest core pornography to a 12 year old. Putting some restrictions in place are better than nothing in my book.

Because when you are an adult, your choices have real consequences. Kids have to learn that lesson.

All told, a 12 year old kid seeing porn they sought out is small potatoes compared to the consequences of some other decisions.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by aspenmayer »

chrisseaton wrote: post #94
derefr wrote: post #80

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iOS devices do full backups to iCloud†, restorable onto a new device just like macOS full Time Machine backups are. So why not macOS backups in iCloud? If anything, you'd expect it to be the other way around—in iOS devices, you/apps can't litter your homedir with random garbage, while in macOS you can. So it's more useful to back up macOS. † You can also make an iOS backup onto a local macOS computer running iTunes,…

> iOS devices do full backups to iCloud Right but that functionality dates back quite a few years now, back from iTunes and before cloud computing. I'm not sure they'd build that functionality today. Exactly as you say - what is the point of a full phone backup when you don't normally store any files on your phone? They could back up the metadata of what apps you have installed and where you've put them on your home…

It’s worth it for the device migration functionality alone. If I switch/upgrade iOS devices, I can perform iCloud or device-to-device recovery, which is much more useful to me than simply restoring which apps I had installed and their data.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by jacurtis »

Damogran6 wrote: post #81
supernovae wrote: post #74

I wish they had a better MDM for kids... All I want to do is ensure that NextDNS is installed/forced and that they can't remove it. Somehow, if you block store, block adding apps and block removing apps and hide the icons, kids still figure out how to remove the damn thing and the only thing you can do to block it is set a 1 minute time limit (why can't you set 0 minutes? wtf apple?) and hope they don't stay up until…

I figured, when my kids were a certain age, that if I took that route, they'd ALWAYS get around whatever control I put in front of them. Either at home, or at school or at a friends house. Told them there was stuff on the internet that could harm them, that there was stuff they could NOT unsee. They're 18 now, the results of the science experiment are still out, but they seem to have turned out okay.

As someone who grew up in an extremely religious (arguably "cult-ish") home. I can tell you that your approach to parenting leads to healthier children (at least mentally).

Hiding children from facts of life (sex, death, drugs, abuse, alcohol, etc) does not in fact help them, it helps you (the parent). It makes parents feel good, but leaves children scarred and unprepared for when they will inevitably face those facts later in life.

There are stages of life when children will (or should be) exposed to those things. The brain naturally regulates these things. If a child is exposed at the proper time, their brain regulates the amount of information they are capable of understanding. As they re-experience the same thing later in life, they will understand more and their progress towards understanding that concept is more gradual and healthy. By contrast, if you shelter a kid, they will still inevitably face reality later in life, but the experience will be more difficult because they have to face everything at once.

Parents should not be afraid to discuss or even introduce difficult concepts to children. The children will inevitably face these. It is better for them to face them in a controlled manner early in life so they can build healthier relationships with these hard ideas. It also gives parents better control over the introduction of these ideas. If you turn sex, alcohol, and drugs into a taboo in your house, you might think you are helping your children, but the reality is that you are actually setting them at higher risk to abuse these things later in life.

Back to the original comment. If your kids are going through all this effort to subvert your DNS and controls in order to see something on the internet. It would be better to allow the child to confront their curiosity in a controlled way. Their curiosity is clearly very strong if they are willing to go to this extreme to satisfy it. Letting the curiosity pent up, will ultimately have the reverse effect than you desire. It could lead to overindulgence of that curiosity, or potentially abuse of that curiosity later in life.

Re: Business Essentials

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

dahfizz wrote: post #138
CityOfThrowaway wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is for the visually impaired! Screen readers will announce the hidden element

Can screen readers not figure out that a 1px x 1px element with a clip-path: inset(0px 0px 99.9% 99.9%) is invisible?

The trouble is, I think, that typefaces vary so much that some could appear to have a strike through when they don't.

Or take for example the number 0 which sometimes has a fairly horizontal slash through it. Do you program the screen reader to check if the struck letter is a 0, and if so, consider it not to be struck? But... What if it actually is, and that typeface doesn't have a slashed 0?

Do you only check perfectly horizontal strikes? How thick? At which height in the type? How much overhead is it to parse all of this? etc.

This also requires rendering the document and inspecting the image with object detection, I would think? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I'm only trying to imagine potential problems.

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