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As a former hardware engineer, if it can be restored wirelessly or otherwise, it's not a brick yet. Keep trying, you'll get there! ;)
I thought I bricked my old phone but it turns out I just needed to open the phone, short a couple of pins 5-10 times and trying to quickly boot into flashboot, repeat if it didn't work.
It turns out I was a fool thinking that it was bricked after all.
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You can very easily brick an iPhone by logging in to an iCloud account and then forgetting the password (which of course TFA will not help with)
if you go into an apple store, they can fix that for you. might help if you look... i dunno, middle aged?
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https://tailscale.com/blog/apple-tv https://tailscale.com/kb/1280/appletv#advertise-apple-tv-as-...
Very interesting. Thank you.
An acquaintance bought a place in the mountains, and his wife was unhappy that they had to have separate Hulu, Netflix, whatever accounts for their primary residence and the vacation home because they don’t always go there together. Not so much for the cost, because they can easily afford that, but because all the where-did-I-stop-watching or have-I-seen-this data didn’t carry over.
I told them about Tailscale on AppleTV as an exit node. They already had them at both homes, it was just a free app install. Now it’s all coming from the same IP at their primary residence. Symmetrical 1 Gbps fiber, so it’s not a big load.
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if you go into an apple store, they can fix that for you. might help if you look... i dunno, middle aged?
Does it still work if you're not the original retail customer?
my point was that there was not "official" procedure to verify, I told him the story, he believed me, and went in the back and reset the password or something. They have the capability if they want to. He was a manager I think, and I didn't get to him through the reservations queue, I just walked up to the counter to find out if this was the place I should go, and after I asked my question he took an interest and solved the problem for me.
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> I wanted to flash the firmware so I could have capslock be left Ctrl in hardware You're a person after my own heart. If there is a God, you're doing his/her/their work. What was the hardware and firmware you were flashing?
Why have three Ctrl keys? Why not use an empty modifier and have your own shortcut keys that you can guarantee no other program uses?
You could just swap caps with one.
> Why not use an empty modifier and have your own shortcut keys that you can guarantee no other program uses?
Because that would require messy tinkering with multiple layers of software.
I still don't understand why Apple haven't changed their update model to A/B partitions, so if an update can't boot, it boots the previous partition. Android has been doing this for a while and Fedora Silverblue/IoT does the same thing, both of which I've found really useful in the past. If communicated well, it would elviate the update anxiety many people I know have with their iPhones.
Silverblue uses ostree, which AIUI uses hard links in a single filesystem. This is probably better most of the time, because it means minimal storage overhead, though it means you can't change filesystems over an update and you don't resist filesystem corruption.
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It isn’t for most people here. But the most valuable tool for fixing a broken computer is a working one, and a lot of people don’t have more than one anymore. Some don’t even have that. My wife texted me on Friday as she was visiting her mother six hours’ drive away. She needed her laptop. They do not own a desktop, and her dad was at our house on a business trip with his laptop in tow. Do not underestimate the utili…
You would be amazed how many normal people dont have a computer - they have an iPad and an iPhone (or android similars), and yeah - its like that now.
I suppose that if you don’t know how to use the computer as anything more than a tablet with a keyboard and mouse, it probably makes little difference.
Airport security used to go ape when they scanned my personal bag. Nowadays it seems they have largely accepted that yes, two people might need two laptops, two tablets, four phones (primary plus backup for each), two eInk readers, two cameras, at least two USB battery banks, and a giant bag of chargers and cables for everything, but at least I’m not caught flat-footed if things go south.
It’s heavy, it’s not fun to carry, but it does the job. And neither of us works in tech.
As a former hardware engineer, if it can be restored wirelessly or otherwise, it's not a brick yet. Keep trying, you'll get there! ;)
I still don't understand why Apple haven't changed their update model to A/B partitions, so if an update can't boot, it boots the previous partition. Android has been doing this for a while and Fedora Silverblue/IoT does the same thing, both of which I've found really useful in the past. If communicated well, it would elviate the update anxiety many people I know have with their iPhones.
I’ve had iPhones since the 3GS and never experienced it, neither have anyone I’ve known.
I’m sure it happens, but I suspect it’s really rare.
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It isn’t for most people here. But the most valuable tool for fixing a broken computer is a working one, and a lot of people don’t have more than one anymore. Some don’t even have that. My wife texted me on Friday as she was visiting her mother six hours’ drive away. She needed her laptop. They do not own a desktop, and her dad was at our house on a business trip with his laptop in tow. Do not underestimate the utili…
You would be amazed how many normal people dont have a computer - they have an iPad and an iPhone (or android similars), and yeah - its like that now.
This is for personal stuff. I use a work computer every day, but I don’t use it for personal stuff.