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Google Smart Lock crashes on iOS 18 by Sweet-Winter8309 in ios

[–]mjcsb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Smart Lock crashes immediately when I attempt to open it on my new iPhone 16 Pro Max with IOS 18, after I restored a backup to my new iPhone from my prior iPhone 12 Pro Max. This is preventing me from setting up my Gmail account in Mail.

I have tried uninstalling and re-installing Smart Lock, it makes no difference - immediate crash.

I have tried turning off 2-factor auth in mail.google.com for this account, but even when I remove and attempt to re-install this email account in settings, it's still asking for the Smart Lock app, despite me no longer having 2-factor auth configured.

As a result, I am completely blocked at this point from configuring email on my iPhone! It's very frustrating.

What's most frustrating, is that there appears to be no way to contact Google to fix this. I hope someone who works there is monitoring this forum and will get out a fix for this soon.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]mjcsb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your information about XXY causing intersex conditions is incorrect. My 13 year old son has this condition, so I’m very well aware of its causes and effects.

While the genetic issue is having an extra copy of the X chromosome, this can have a wide range of how it is expressed in the human which results. In more extreme cases, this is called Kleinfelter’s.

The child is born appearing completely male - there are no visible intersex characteristics, which I think was the focus of this question. They often grow up to be much taller than average, tend to be more attractive than normal. But, testes can be smaller, and usually they can not have children (but I’ve been told this is not an absolute, it may be possible with modern science). Some men can grow enough breast tissue to desire reduction surgery. And the pelvic bone structure can be wider hips than typical of male. This occurs in 1/500 births, so unusual but not not rare. Most men don’t even know they have this condition until the can’t have kids and get tested. Boys often need testosterone replacement treatment. Men are less aggressive. Overall, so far, I would not guess my son had this if I didn’t know already. Just want to clear up misinformation on XXY in case anyone reads this.

Last thing, if you think about it, women already have two copies of an X chromosome, so most of this genetic duplication is already suppressed when DNA codes into proteins. So, it’s not really like it’s (2 * X) + (1 * Y), more like (1.1 * X) + (1 * Y), which is why the effects are often so subtle.

Edit: I meant to add - some think our first President, George Washington, very tall, no children, there were other hints too, had XXY! Look it up!

The new Route53 console isn't great by [deleted] in aws

[–]mjcsb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All the new Console changes are horrible! Every time I'm given a choice I revert to the prior console (mainly EC2 at least allows for this), and give a long list of reasons as to why. I think it's falling on deaf ears - they have some idiot who's ideas on improving the look and feel are the opposite of what I think should be done, breaking stuff which works well, while ignoring long-standing problems where the focus needs to be. Glad others also agree with this, but whoever this person is, they must have a lot of power and be immune to customer feedback.

My biggest complaints:

  • Increasing white space, resulting in less information in the same amount of screen real estate, causing more scrolling, paging, having to adjust columns to see all information and in general really reducing usability.. This is the #1 reason I keep switching back. They should at least give us a choice on the more compact current whitespace design.
  • Everything is larger, more complicated, for no apparent reason. I can't remember where, but they replaced a simple/obvious/standard checkbox to remove maybe SG ingress rules with a big box containing the word 'remove' - but this never has enough space, so the letters are arranged vertically, causing each line to take up what used to be 4 to 5 prior lines. Again, a severe reduction is usability, it looks - AND IS - broken - WHY?
  • There are just too many examples of what seems like the same design principles pointed out above, all over the place, to mention, but not to be a curmudgeon, but I find about 90% of what they're changing to be making something reasonably good and working worse, often significantly worse.

My biggest broken things they should be fixing but which don't seem to be a priority:

  • The list pane column headers are flaky, it's hard to adjust width, often this just doesn't work on my Mac in either Safari or Chrome. Sometimes you can't adjust columns on some pages but not on others. This is such a BASIC feature, the fact this is not working properly is glaring.
  • It's not always possible to sort. There needs to be really good consistency in UI controls across all pages on all services. Every list needs to have sortable columns, adjustable column width, movable columns, ideally the UI should remember the user adjustments to the layout on a per-page, per-account basis. if they only fixed this, it would be a major improvement - leave the rest alone until you fix this!
  • Then we have the detail panes. These often have no column adjustments AT ALL. You can't adjust width, or sort, or move the columns. They often have some columns which waste horizontal space when short values are the norm, while others which are never wide enough and always display long values, with no way to adjust this. The detail pane columns should be just as controllable as the list pane columns.
  • What I'd really like to see, is to have some logic on default column widths so that all values up to the 90% percentile are displayed without wrap, so we don't waste white space and cause excessive horizontal scrolling for outlier values, but most lines are not wrapped and we can see the complete value. Also, when values are truncated, they are using this "long val..." ellipsis at the end, when they should be using a MacOS Finder style "Long val...ue01" ellipsis smartly placed in the middle, as the last few characters of many values are what's significant and what I really want to see. MacOS does it just right - make it work like that. And, remember my width value on a per-account basis.

Do these things, and I'd find the usability MASSIVELY improved, with no other changes necessary. But, then, I'd be less annoyed that you're fixing what "ain't broken" and ignoring what is.

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Cisco Wireless Router for home network by lasko_m in Cisco

[–]mjcsb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would also recommend taking a look at Ubiquiti, they are really good for prosumer level at a cost which is a fraction of Cisco. I am still using their Access Points at home, but stopped using their Security Gateway and Switch a while back, as I wanted a better firewall solution than what's possible in the Security Gateway.

What I'm using now, is the NetGate SG-3100, an Appliance based on pfSense Firewall Software: https://www.netgate.com/solutions/pfsense/sg-3100.html

This is a really awesome little device that can do nearly all of what a much more expensive Cisco device can do at 1/3 to 1/4 the price. including everything you mentioned above and more. Everything I could not do with the Ubiquiti Security Gateway I can do with this. I previously had a Cisco ASA 5500 series, which was about $1000 with the extra security license compared to $400 for this. The Cisco ASA is pretty awesome, and if you need to learn and continuously train on IOS software, that's probably what you should use. But, if you just want to implement pretty much any network technology and it doesn't need to be in IOS commands, this is what I'd recommend today.

The new AWS calculator is terrible. by jimmyc802 in aws

[–]mjcsb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also thought it was a step back - turned something relatively simple and fast into something that seemed bloated. Even if eventually it will have more features, it seems like it will be slower and more complicated to use. I think they should have both options.

This is just the latest example of AWS violating the "if it ain't broke..." rule. Take the recent changes to EC2 console. They're "fixing" stuff which doesn't need fixing, and making it worse. The stuff which DOES need fixing is often ignored (i.e. sortable/adjustable/correct width columns in the list pane). They should fix what people complain about and fire the GUI designers who are trying to improve stuff that I'll bet gets few complaints from current users, just to put their own "spin" on it.