The headline is misleading. It only applies if you want to watch videos tagged 18+.

No. I’m not aware of a good way to sync music to the built-in iOS player; you have to go through iTunes.

You don’t need Plex for that. A simple local music player will do just fine if you always want your whole library stored locally.

But she added: “We know a lot of that information is out there anyway, but people will be worried”

The fact that others have insecure systems is not an excuse for keeping one yourself.

I recommend Borgmatic, a declarative way to set up borg backups. I find it much nicer than a having a backup.sh script and the configuration is really straight-forward.

That’s very informative! Thanks a lot for your input.

What is it about Samsung software that you find more robust? Have you ever felt like the OnePlus was unreliable when you needed it?

Thanks for your comments!

Have you experienced any bugs or reliability issues with the OnePlus phone? This is my biggest concern with it compared to Samsung.

I’ve seen anecdotes from people saying they prefer 13R over Pixel 9. What worries me the most is the quality of the software: I keep seeing screenshots of UI glitches, and I don’t know if that suggests reliability is mediocre.

Samsung’s software has been rock solid for me. This is the biggest plus for Samsung in my book.

Have you also used a recent OnePlus? Do you know how the two would compare?

I’ve liked the look and feel of Motorola Edge phones for a few generations now and I’d give one a try for a few years—the price point is often good enough that you can justify it for a a few years only, whilst software updates are supported—if it wasn’t for the MediaTek chips. I know people generally praise their performance, but I’m really not confident that they aren’t backdoored.

I’ll start with two new addtions for me:

• Capy Reader (code, F-Droid). While curating my Feedly subscriptions, I decided to try switching to some RSS feeds instead, which I had previously put off because I hadn’t found a client I liked. Capy Reader is excellent both in performance and user interaction, and I find I much prefer reading my sources this way than through Feedly now.
• Readeck (code). Not technically an app, but the website works perfectly well through a mobile browser. A read-it-later service that snapshots web pages and displays them in a friendly, customizable reader mode. The only downside is that it doesn’t cache the full content of the saved pages offline, so you can’t use it without Internet access.

If the data is “irreplaceable”, you shouldn’t keep only a single copy of it.

This is the normal level of quality you can expect from Newsweek, unfortunately.

Thanks! What is it about usability that has got worse after the update?

What are some UI aspects that got worse to use after the update?

Did you encounter any bugs or missing features?

Did you use the latest commit or the release from 2023?

The Edge 20 series isn’t on the list and it’s only about 2 years old…

KeepassXC is for desktop, while DX is for Android.

Here is a script to easily install WireGuard and generate client config files for any server: https://github.com/Nyr/wireguard-install

Sure, I get that. The issue is that as soon as you introduce the ability to install apps from outside the App Store, it becomes possible to trick unsuspecting users into clicking buttons they don’t understand. By designing a web page to look like an actual Apple page, a malicious party could convince users to “opt in” to outside sources, in a similar way in which phishing websites harvest users’ online banking credentials. Currently, this kind of attack is entirely impossible on iPhone.