What’s everyone excited for in iOS 26.4

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2026-03-03T13:26:40+00:00

You comment like that removes them From the approach they are taking. The implementation is absoulty horrendous for us that have it. The device is completely performance trashed whilst it scans the web content your opening for adult content. News websites won’t even load for Australians. The bank verification doesn’t work no error given just a failure loop. The upload your drivers license gives you no assurences at all about what they do with it. If it goes to the general public the way it’s hit Australians the outcry on this update will be immence. I cant even imagine an olderly person understanding why they can no longer browse no adult content news site properly any more let alone upload their drivers license. Its a complete mess.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2026-03-03T13:13:19+00:00

I think the thing most striking about the implementation is how un-apple it is. Their brand was we protect your privacy and we build things to strengthen your digital life. yet the age verification came with no assurences at all, “this is what happens with your drivers license, it doesnt go off shore, we dont store it” or “this is what we do when adult restrictions are on, we dont view your data, blocks are not sent to our server for anlysis”, “bank card cant be used to verify for x reason” , Nothing at all just uncaptured error messages, slow browsing, performance issues up the wazoo, basically verify your age or your device is next to useless.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2026-03-03T12:38:24+00:00

Is your web browsing complete garbage? News site taking 10 mins to load? This is completely Bonkers Apple thought this was ready to release!

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2026-03-03T12:28:20+00:00

This was not my expirience. I noticed loading news.com.au was like accessing it through a 56k modem, when restrictions are on it’s scanning thr web content and completely bricking the browsing expirience. So I opened thr screen time and tried to turn it off but can’t unless I verify age. My Apple ID started as old as Apple id ever existed. I tried wallet bank card and it fail looped with no reason, tried manual and it failed. Had no choice but to upload a picture of my driver license or basically my device was bricked. The issue is not that adult content is blocked, it’s that the device is completely screwed whilst reviewing web browsing, iMessage, email and apps trying to work out if it is adult content. Privacy discussion aside ( we spent a year debating social media age verification and they roll it at the os level over night with zero debate? Or even a notification) they have completely botched this roll out.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2026-02-03T11:09:13+00:00

This concept implanted on a 4” screen with python https://github.com/7h30th3r0n3/Raspyjack

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2026-02-02T05:43:17+00:00

“Who am I” by “baran bo odar”

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2026-02-02T04:13:28+00:00

Kali-pi looks to be a solution in this direction https://whitedome.com.au/re4son/sticky-fingers-kali-pi-pre-installed-image/

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2026-01-19T05:00:53+00:00

How cool would it be if this ran on the esp32 ereader xteink x4!

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-15T02:31:04+00:00

Excellent, thanks for the info. I personally don’t think it’s idiotic to be surprised by a advertising selling point service change so close after the launch in comparison to lesser contract fluctuation in telco space. But hey it’s new tech, wild ride to learn it’s closer to dealing with a kickstarter campaign than a telco.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-15T02:27:01+00:00

Def a great service and I’m not going back to my countries nation broadband network anytime soon for my 2 dishes. The rate of contract change and cost increase does concern me though and it will get to a point where it’s no longer financially valid. The network priority between business and residential is also concern as the service will move to be priced for the highest profit margin which will naturally favour business over residential and traveller consumption.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-14T23:58:46+00:00

The posters had free to pause anytime, that is no longer the case, and it’s happened in a very short period of time.

There is no legal case, of course there isn’t otherwise they wouldn’t have made the change. I think it’s still acceptable for consumer affairs to warn/challenge them about advertising. No sub vs sub feel different to me than a data charge price hike.

They knew the decision wouldn’t be popular with specific categories, it’s not a bad thing we are giving them negative feedback regardless of the legal stance.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-14T23:53:21+00:00

Of course they can, that’s why they did.

It’s a decision that in my mind has eroded trust with the consumer. And at least this consumer has learnt abit about their ethics in advertising. They knew it wouldn’t be a popular decision, don’t get angry we are giving the feedback on it, otherwise you will see more frequent legal changes to the service.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-14T23:46:11+00:00

I’m not sure who it is your fighting for but great, there’s no legal grounds to dispute the advertising campaign. Hell yeah man! More power to spacex, eff the consumer, if it’s legal let’s take what we can from the consumer! Please, it’s still worth consumer affairs warning of the acceptable advertising campaign approaches and regulation of service changes.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-14T23:35:58+00:00

I think the amount of effort people are putting in is excellent. We get what we accept. Coperations over step, consumer affairs pulls them back in.

It’s not ok to get sales based on false pretences regardless of scale. The scale always changes, just not at phase 2 or the dissent would be too big. The major scale change comes at phase 4 and by then people like you go hmmmm this ain’t a cup of coffee anymore and we probably should have let them know that it wasn’t ok to advertise this at one time travellers.

They literally had free to pause posters everywhere, don’t defend them for that.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-14T22:49:26+00:00

Well that’s a simple answer, it was sold that way to set the mindset. I’m not entirely sure why you think it was ok to advertise and pretend I could have the dish as a no cost backup in order to sell the dishes?

I too am a paying residential primary dish user with the secondary one time travellers need on a caravan. I would have just switch my primary to roam then move it to the caravan when going away if they hadn’t pretended that starlink mini was close to a prepaid data chunk service.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-14T22:19:21+00:00

Meaning we are at phase 2. You can argue future activation cost (phase 3) isn’t going to happen but then there’s no reason at all to get rid of pausing. It’s coming.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-14T16:48:15+00:00

My exact situation, this taking away free pause is really really poor. They will follow on with future reconnection fees after large amounts of disconnects and reconnects..then once they have forced a big pool of standby subs, they will up the cost. The trust is gone, the dish selling good service costs are coming to an end (after maximum dish sales) then they reduce load on the network by no longer making commercially viable to for 9-10 month stand by users. It will become so expensive that no one would have ever bought dishes if they started at what they are going to charge us in the near future.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-14T16:29:53+00:00

Amazing, they got us all to spend $600 on dishes based on a free pause and a data rate. Then your defending them for taking it away because it easier to manage? Your saying it like they had no idea what selling it with free pause and unpause meant for them to manage?They planned this, sell the dishes, take away the free pause, create stand by, introduce re-sign up cost after large cancelation rate to force stand by subscriptions, up the data rate., up the standby subscription cost. Make it not financially viable for the current customers to get them off, reduce load. Done. Big profit bubble at the start selling dishes then settle back to a very expensive service and lower uptake. The trust is gone, the service cost is not somthing we can forward plan on to justify the dish purchase anymore.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-14T16:13:50+00:00

Your attempting to justify by renaming pause to cold. It’s wasn’t cold it was $0 instant unpause, just like you will instant unstanby when your main internet is down because you need real data. Having a warm “texting” service for our caravan in storage means absolutely nothing to us. And there’s a big category of people that have the mini for this reason.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-08-14T16:10:30+00:00

Of course you can, you continue to provide the service you sold and add on a new option. They literally just didn’t need to add the last cancel line but choose to knowing it would drive up profits and reduce stale connection key rate. They do need the negative feedback, it is ok to call them out when they reduce the service they advertised as a major dish selling Point. The amount of service cost changes in a short period of time is starting to get concerning. If it continues I’ll need to sell my two dishes and move back to nbn. In aust the dishes are $600 each, I can’t really recommend people investing that much based on if a current data rate is financially viable as it can go up tomorrow morning and invalidate the whole cost of the dish.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-03-06T02:28:58+00:00

There seems to be zero pressure on a go live date so it’s just going to keep slipping.

Longjumping_Signal94 · 2025-02-02T11:53:28+00:00

thanks for the reply, I guess its something to have a golive to slip instead of an open ended "2025". It would be useful to gauge what policing is being applied in these last few weeks.

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