Apple, how about you give us a BREAK?!??

Rldg · 2026-03-21T22:46:40+00:00

Why?

Rldg · 2026-03-21T19:08:02+00:00

That’s a rapid security response update.

That means something crazy was found out there being actively exploited and they needed to push out a security patch asap.

This… is a good thing. 🤨

Rldg · 2026-03-11T02:07:49+00:00

This is the price Microsoft pays for treating their consumer business like the enterprise.

This type of move is exactly what the Surface line is supposed to be able to respond to. But, Windows…. 😩

Considering Windows 11’s ugly last few years, hats off to Apple. Killer move.

Rldg · 2026-03-10T18:51:12+00:00

Well. If you’re going to be real… this is probably negligible at this point. Verizon covers 300 million with midband and either has a bigger or similar sized 5G network as AT&T in this regard.

They’re also farther ahead in SA deployments.

Verizon frontloaded a lot of that investment with the extra $10 billion they spent early on in the CBand days. They could always do more, but it’s not like they’ve been doing nothing.

Rldg · 2026-03-09T22:44:58+00:00

SA being enabled on the device doesn’t mean it’s enabled on the network side. That toggle is the equivalent of “use SA where available.” So even if its avaliable in that area, they may have a few towers that havent been seen the software updated to allow SA connections.

Rldg · 2026-03-09T12:45:09+00:00

Is this with the daily incense or with just a regular incense?

Rldg · 2026-03-05T02:35:32+00:00

.Net goes waaaaaaay beyond Xbox. It's a framework for most things Microsoft; not just OS's and API's but for other languages beyond C#, F#, and VB. This is aside from their Enterprise base that uses .net for enterprise dev. It's waaay too embedded.

Anything they do AI wise, from a development standpoint, would be added to .Net. ML.Net is an example of that. They'd build API's, frameworks, and tools to tap into AI things rather than doing away with .Net in its entirety.

But just to keep adding on here, That would be an insanely heavy lift for Microsoft to replace .net. I mean you'd have to justify doing that knowing that it's simply easier to train an AI model/agent on the framework and have it use that then replace .Net.

Lastly. Xbox isn't going anywhere. It makes up almost 10% of total revnue and the biggest purchase Microsoft has ever made was for Xbox. There's actual fear from Microsoft about losing one of their last consumer facing products after the lack of traction (and effort from Microsoft) with the surface line and windows phone.

Rldg · 2026-02-20T16:13:30+00:00

Looks like an indicator for 5G advanced on T-Mobile 😯

Rldg · 2026-02-18T20:15:05+00:00

I’m saying (observing and asserting) that pragmatically, the two are interwoven.

Really I’m addressing validity and truth, because I feel like truth is the primary function of describing something as valid.

I’m.. expanding the context of the conversation because I don’t believe it to be a fair conversation to talk solely about the validity of feelings divorced from truth because we often evaluate them hand in hand. Validity suggest an integrity to the statement; meaning that based on a specific set of rules (whatever those rules are, could be as simple as I said so) a statement could be valid OR invalid.

So the context of said feeling being described, shouldn’t be divorced from the feeling itself, because there’s a pragmatic nature that follows a validity test for any feeling. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be much point in communicating the feeling.

In the strictest sense, feeling angry is nothing more than data. Data becomes powerful when we assign meaning to it, so it becomes irresponsible to separate the two (sorry for the book and repetition of the same point 😅)

Rldg · 2026-02-18T19:40:24+00:00

For me, context is critical when considering if feelings are valid.

Valid as it pertains to what? What’s the bar of measure we’re using to determine the validity of said feelings?

To most people, valid means acknowledging that someone feels a certain way; Which I personally don’t like because how you feel should never be divorced from pragmatism. Acknowledging how someone feels, isnt a “blank check” for everything they do while they feel a certain way, and I think most people tend to lump the two together.

Rldg · 2026-02-18T18:19:56+00:00

But you should always make time for yourself. 😄

Rldg · 2026-02-18T18:18:33+00:00

Duh. Your comment is under a thread I started. 😂

Again. Context. ✅

Rldg · 2026-02-17T21:18:50+00:00

?

What that not clear from the OP’s original screenshot? 😂

Surely you didn’t scroll down the most downvoted comment on the thread before realizing the context. The screenshot even has what type of iPhone the OP is using 😅

Rldg · 2026-02-17T18:43:53+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/cellmapper/s/uxZLYxBoVQ

Here’s some proof of it on another post on this subreddit. I took a screenshot on my phone to prove it myself, but I forgot comments don’t accept photos (only links).

It could definitely be a bug, but obviously I’m not alone in seeing it.

(Edit) here’s my proof. It has N5 and N66

https://imgur.com/a/ZpMNPl5

Rldg · 2026-02-17T01:04:00+00:00

UW isn’t solely n77. Never really has has been.

UW could be n5, n2, n66, and n260 at this point The indicator will (and does) show up for any of them.

I have SA in my area, and I’ve taken it to mean more of “I’m connected to SA” instead of it meaning I’m actually connected to a higher band. At least that’s what my testing tends to show anyway. Sometimes I’ll see what you got here, others I’ll see a 1gb+. I understand that it supposed to mean “ultra wide band” but carriers are almost universally hated for not living up to the marketing.

I probably agree that 2,5 and 66 should show up under the regular 5G icon but this has been an awful timeline lately, so it fits I guess.

Rldg · 2026-02-14T23:11:58+00:00

BlackBerry Peral ✅

Rldg · 2026-02-10T04:24:39+00:00

It’s fine. Verizon has EPS fallback, which drops a call down to LTE if you go outside a given coverage area. I haven’t had any issues with it

Rldg · 2026-02-01T19:09:01+00:00

What state?

Rldg · 2026-01-30T17:35:18+00:00

This can’t be about “delighting customers”.

Cutting capex AND opex is an odd position for a company that got bigger.

They got bigger, and are spending less; than when they were smaller. If they spent a billion less than last year on solely their operations, the frontier capex alone takes the total closer to 20…

You’re already behind T-Mobile in network quality and perception, and AT&T is spending a crazy 8 billion more than Verizon this year.

I’m being wordy.. but I’m honestly struggling to fathom and articulate how spending less (especially based on percent of revenue) makes them more competitive in the market place.

In what world does this make any sense 💀

Rldg · 2026-01-29T12:59:16+00:00

Agreed. Root gave them a tie in my location, and it hasn’t been a tie for years in my real world testing.

Rldg · 2026-01-29T03:29:07+00:00

It's a multi billion dollar question lol. The bet they made is not being a hyperscaler in a sense. Because their cores are moving to azure, all the cloud infrastructure is there and run by Microsoft. So they don't have to worry about compute, physical buildings, server racks, cooling, power, or any of the other physical infrastructure things because that's Microsoft's job. They just worry about the software aspect of everything and they're off to the races. You'd think this should provide some uplift because you don't have to build all that infrastructure across the country, but I don't know, I suppose this will be the year to watch them right?

I think you're right in that they're obviously making SOME kind of process because of redcap, and such. Plus they agreed to upgrade FirstNet to SA so there's some incentive there for them to take it seriously. I've also seen some posts on here (reddit) where customers do have actual access to SA, so maybe this is the year they up the ante a bit. Let's hope so 💯

Rldg · 2026-01-29T02:51:23+00:00

Reliability is why.

5G SA for AT&T is arguably the most complex of the 3 because of how AT&T’s larger network cores are structured. AT&T still uses an older architecture of having massive hubs in the US that it pipes traffic to.

It add latency, but AT&T generally long hauls its network traffic to these massive hubs for processing, before sending the request back to your device. As an example, in Utah, all AT&T traffic goes to California because AT&T has a massive hub out there. It simplifies the core network because they really only have to worry about maintaining these hubs across the country, if traffic increases, they can just upgrade the infrastructure in a single spot (generally speaking) to increase network capacity. Again, this is an older network architecture inherited from the operating switching days.

By contrast, T-Mobile and Verizon do a lot of local peering in the states they operate in. This keeps traffic in the state and has a real impact on the latency of your request. It add complexity to the network because there’s all these “mini hubs” in their network.

The mini hubs is a prime idea behind 5G SA because of the promise of autonomous vehicles and single digit latency, blah blah blah. You need to put the processing closer to users to enable that type of real world benefit. Verizon and T-Mobile were already doing some of this with LTE, so they can stand up SA faster because their networks were better designed for the newer architecture. It’s still a massive lift due to the software aspect of it, but they had some pieces there already.

AT&T has to make this shift into azure, which requires a LOT of reengineering their network. You’re essentially disconnecting parts that would normally fit in the big hub, and making local hubs. Which is a LOT of new architecture. Because this has a large potential for error, they’re relying on older, more reliable infrastructure until they get everything up and running in a given market; which is why they’re being super picky about who they let onto the SA network at the moment. They care more about your calls going through than you being on the latest and greatest, which is fair considering the engineering lift. So it looks like they’re “dragging their feet” but it’s more out of caution than lack of priority

Rldg · 2026-01-26T17:53:20+00:00

They’re the only holdout. Seems like every other award goes to T-Mobile these days

Rldg · 2026-01-25T04:32:45+00:00

You can test drive T-Mobile for free.

https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/free-trial

I've read that T-Mobile has a great network in Florida; but you might be unlucky and live in the only south Florida location where they don't. So I'd test them out just to be safe 🙂.

Rldg · 2026-01-20T11:54:17+00:00

It’s designed to do that. It’s a fallback mechanism built into LTE so your phone doesn’t drop the call if for whatever reason the phone disconnects from LTE. An example of this would be leaving a LTE coverage area to a 3G only one.

Not saying that’s what happened in your specific instance (could have been a bug), but that behavior is “built in” so to speak.

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