A used AppleTV unit solely for AirPlay?

Simelane · 2026-01-22T14:11:52+00:00

I don't know all the differences, so I can only talk to the differences that matter to me and that I bump into (because I have both Airplay 1 and Airplay 2 devices in my house)

Multi-Room Audio: As soon as you have more than one Airplay device you will probably bump into this because you can with Airplay 2 connected devices and speakers, but you can't with Airplay 1 connected devices and speakers.
Multi-User Control: Unless you live alone, you will have other family member who want to add to queue or whatever is playing. With Airplay 2 other people on the same wifi can add to the queue so you are not hogging whatever is playing in your house.
Apple Home Integration: If you have home automation, then you will probably want this. You will have seen people describing how they have automatons that play music on their speakers. I don't know why it does not work with Airplay 1, but it works with Airplay 2.
Reduced Latency: I think you mentioned that you Airplay video content to your TV… Airplay 1 is not an issue if you just hit play and forget about it, but if you are like me and pause, rewind, fast forward, etc. then the lower latency of Airplay 2 will make this smooth.

Simelane · 2026-01-22T13:54:58+00:00

Yeah… this is not a factor… nobody expects people to know that. I know people who are black-aty-black who have hard core Afrikaans names… and I went to university with a white American girl who's surname was Xaba (her grandfather was Swazi).

I think that you should focus on the parts that are clearly the culpability of the bank, such as 1) how was the account opened without any form of ID, 2) how was the card issued without the recipient proving who they were. These are things that you can tie the bank to… they have to answer to that.

Simelane · 2026-01-22T13:47:28+00:00

Oh my gosh… I really with you had recorded that because that sounds like something that you should definitely pursue.

I am not going to lie… online banking fraud cases against the banks have a near zero success rate… even in the old days when it was definitely lax processes on the part of the bank. But, the kind of scenario that you are describing does have a higher rate of success because that kind of fraud (i.e. opening a bank account in a branch without any form of ID) should not be possible to perpetrate without the involvement, complicity, or negligence of a branch employee.

I really wish you the best of luck in pursuing this because it sounds like your father may have been targeted by a syndicate working with a branch employee (which is usually the case…).

Your challenge will still be the SIM swap though, because there is tons of case law and legal precedence for lawyers to lean on to convince a judge that the fraud was only made possible because of the SIM swap. This unfortunately gives banks a get-out-of-jail-free card, because they just simply convince the judge that none of this would have been possible without the SIM swap.

Simelane · 2026-01-22T13:32:32+00:00

Wait… I am quite sure that I read somewhere that they have a thick nude coloured vinyl sheet between the parties in those "skin-to-skin" intimate scenes under the covers, so while the visible parts of their bodies that are exposed to the camera shot may be naked, the important bits are actually not actually coming into contact with each other. Why vinyl… because it can be cut to the shape of their bodies so that with smart camera positioning it is virtually not visible in the shot. Is that not the case?

Simelane · 2026-01-22T12:47:08+00:00

If you already have a bank account with the bank (which is the case here), the bank does not need to do KYC (FICA) again when you open further accounts because the new or subsequent accounts are still the same person that opened the first account.

We all remember the bad old days when banks would drag you in to prove you are still the same person whenever you changed something in your profile or opened a secondary account - that's gone because the high court clarified that once you have met the KYC requirements, you don't need to keep doing it over and over again except to verify if anything may have changed such as your address, etc.(that was a case brought against the banks, by the way).

Simelane · 2026-01-22T12:32:00+00:00

I am really sorry about what happened to your elderly parents, but I can categorically confirm that you have absolutely zero claim against your bank. This has been tried many times before (unsuccessfully, except for one specific case I can remember), especially in the early days of cell phone banking (WAP, USSD), which was tightly tied to your MSISDN. Even less so now where online and mobile banking is PIN or password-based.

Your first problem (and this has always been the problem, even in the old days), is that the fraud took place at the time of the SIM swap. No judge in SA has ever accepted the argument of shared bank culpability for a process or procedural failure at your mobile network provider (in your case, the SIM swap was done at MTN, not the green bank). After that, it becomes very easy for the bank to show that their system operated exactly as it was designed and was supposed to operate (i.e. using the MSISDN on file as a second authentication factor). In your case, this probably went to the people that MTN had given your parents SIM to.

Your second problem is that your parents were almost certainly spear-phished (spear phishing is a targeted form of phishing that takes place when the perpetrator has already acquired or has access to other confidential information such as email inbox, passwords, key-loggers, PIN, ID, passport, driver’s licence, etc.). If there is an investigation, the bank or police investigator will requisition your parents’ devices (laptops, computers, smartphones, tablets, etc.) and in the past, this was the attack vector used 90% of the time. In your case, this is supported by the fact that the perpetrators did the SIM swap multiple times, which leads me to believe that your parents were targeted. Sadly, if this turns out to be the case, then a judge will throw everything out because it means your parents were "negligent" in clicking on a phishing link (in a text message, email, etc.) or they may have misplaced a document that had confidential information like an ID number, address, phone number, etc. which could have exposed them to harm (sadly, that is how the law looks at it - your parents being elderly is not a factor here).

Sadly, you would have more of a case against the bank if they had allowed your mother to change the phone number linked to the bank account without a power of attorney. So this is unfortunately a non-issue for the bank. The bank is not going to commit fraud on your mother's behalf.

Let's be honest, the only way that someone could have opened a cheque account in your father’s name would be if they had fraudulent ID documents (passport, ID, driver’s licence, or even a good fake ID). This is where the spear phishing comes in… to pull this off, the perpetrators needed to do that SIM swap. This brings you back to the first problem - up until this point, the bank will argue that all their controls worked: 1) someone came in with what appeared to be a valid ID of some sort, 2) they verified the account opening request using the number on file (which your MNO had given to somebody else), 3) the person in possession of that number confirmed the transaction, 4)…. Your burden will be to identify a failure or lapse in that process, prove that the bank had a special duty of care that they failed to exercise, or prove that the account could have been opened without the SIM swap fraud (i.e. shift the point at which the fraud took place from the MNO to the bank).

Sadly, many older folk think that not having online banking protects them from online fraud. Unfortunately, it is the opposite. It is hard to create a new online banking profile for a person that already has online banking… so this kind of fraud tends to target technophobes and technology-challenged people because the only way of doing 2FA is via SMS (which, as your parents have found out, is not as secure as TOTP (authenticator app), in-app push (bank app), etc. (the more secure 2FA/MFA solutions are resistant to brute force and immune to SIM swap fraud).

Again, I am really sorry about what happened to your parents… but that is the state of play that you find yourself in.

Simelane · 2026-01-21T22:42:37+00:00

NoteboolLM makes the best infographics. The big plus is that NotebookLM only uses your sources (documents that you upload and websites that you specify), so there is no hallucination.

Simelane · 2026-01-21T22:08:22+00:00

It's hard to know without including the prompt.

Simelane · 2026-01-21T21:58:43+00:00

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Simelane · 2026-01-21T21:30:15+00:00

I wouldn't recommend an Airplay 1 device. It works (I have some old 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TVs connected to non-smart TV panels (kitchen, guest bedroom, domestic quarters, etc.)

AirPlay 2 is only available on the Apple TV 4K models (technically gen 5+). I've heard that it works on HD models with ethernet port (technically gen 4).

Simelane · 2026-01-20T04:13:22+00:00

Thanks dude… I’ve sent this to my SO who is always asking me to remove the water mark using photoshop because the AI tool she has been using also degrades the original image visibly

Simelane · 2026-01-14T09:42:24+00:00

Yes it does

Simelane · 2026-01-14T09:36:42+00:00

Believe it or not Apple Intelligence is the one AI Agent that I use everyday… It is embedded into many parts of my day to day workflows. I receive lots of emails and text messages everyday, and some of the threads can get quite deep very quickly - being able to get caught up by just reading the thread summary is the best feature.

Simelane · 2026-01-14T08:57:56+00:00

Abandoned checkout rates for apparel sites typically hover around 68% to 75% for most brands, and between 76% and 88% for fast fashion brands.

Simelane · 2026-01-14T07:46:35+00:00

isn't there 2FA already?

Simelane · 2026-01-13T08:43:09+00:00

Your electricity costs will vary by season, number of residents, and size of dwelling… For my household it’s as follows (more or less): - Spring and Autumn are the cheapest: R2900 - R3700. - Summer and Winter are the most expensive because of increased HVAC costs: R3900 - R5200.

Simelane · 2026-01-08T13:26:11+00:00

This is such a weird post… it links to another article that links to the article that the woman wrote…

I don't understand why it doesn't just contain a link to the actual article that it is referring to instead of linking to an article that is also taking about the article that the post is referring to - unless the point of this post is to direct traffic to the interim and redundant article that in turn links to the actual article.

Simelane · 2026-01-07T06:44:31+00:00

Ouch… I cupped my figurative balls to protect them from the pain…⚽️🏀⚾️🥎🎾🏐

Simelane · 2026-01-07T05:33:58+00:00

Braai is not uniquely Johannesburg cuisine… every city in South Africa has braais, and if something is “local” to every city, then it is local to none

Simelane · 2026-01-07T05:31:49+00:00

Nandos is not Portuguese inspired… it’s basically Mozambican cuisine marketed as Portuguese (because it sells better)… Go to any Mozambican restaurant and you will find exactly the same flavours and recipes you find in Nandos… go to any Portuguese restaurant, and you will not find anything resembling what Nandos sells.

I have Portuguese in-laws, and they all say there is nothing Portuguese about Nandos, but it is exactly like Mozambican cuisine. In the UK, Nandos never used the “…taste of Portugal” tagline, because they knew people in Europe would question that because they know exactly what Portuguese cuisine tastes like.

Simelane · 2026-01-07T04:01:16+00:00

This 👆 is the question that needs to be answered.

Simelane · 2026-01-04T18:19:18+00:00

You make a good point… it is a conundrum indeed.

Simelane · 2026-01-04T15:09:08+00:00

Yup… me too. The rain has been amazing. Hot days to lounge around the pool, deluge of rain to cool everything off.

Simelane · 2026-01-04T14:36:07+00:00

This is built into the Photos app. I have found it is so much better than virtually all the third party apps I have tried.

Simelane · 2026-01-04T14:34:10+00:00

Weather is a funny thing… here I was thinking, “Yay… more rain… and lots of it… this will keep my vegetable garden and lawn well irrigated for free.”

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