Hi guys,
Recently I have had need to adjust sliders in iOS more gradually than at 10%
increments. Specifically, VoiceOver’s rate adjustment. Every time I have
needed to change those, I have had to use the double-tap-and-hold gesture, with
infuriatingly imprecise results. It takes me several
Thanks for the confirmation guys. Shame.
Yes, I will make a note to bug Apple about it. And yes “Speech Rate” is
already in my rotor.
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Well, if it’s anything like over here, it still suffers from the basic problem
that you don’t pay any less for using Wi-Fi. So, unless your carrier has
committed to doing VoLTE, Wi-Fi calling is basically a subsidy for ineptitude.
I don’t use it, accordingly. I completely understand if some f
The partition is otherwise usable, but don’t move anything already put there by
the installer. Only add files. Although it would theoretically be possible to
slice up the disk and use only one slice for the installer, I don’t think
that’s what the CreateInstallMedia tool (and, by extension, Di
Hi Traci,
In general, I recommend against using AirPort. Although inconvenient, using a
network printer has two advantages in practice: you get native driver and/or
AirPrint support for the printer, which depending on the printer is
indistinguishable from a wired connection, and you can use an
Interesting; I learned that was all down to AT&T not having provisioned
services for teletype users. Apparently they are now moving to Real-Time Text
services but all their competitors were never impeded from deployment of Wi-Fi
calling while AT&T, who dobbed themselves in, were. Of course rat
This is a follow-up just in case anybody makes the same mistake I did of
assuming that just because iTunes shows you your books, removing iBooks worked.
Sadly, for whatever strange reason, removing iBooks in El Capitan also has the
side effect of preventing all iTunes Store operations. You can’
Are you using any activities? I am finding that activities are not switching
quite as they should. If your hotspots are activity-specific, it might just be
that activities are presently broken.
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Plug it in with Ethernet and let it power up. Now turn on Bonjour in Safari
prefs and see if, in the Bookmarks menu, you now have an entry in the Bonjour
submenu for that printer. You might. And it might just lead to a page that
lets you configure it, including its Wi-Fi adaptor. If nothing
Hi Traci,
What *are* you seeing instead? Does the “Internet” icon show up and when
pressed does it say “Connected”?
And are you sure you are connected directly to the Wi-Fi network that AirPort
is providing, without any intervening relays, repeaters, bridges etc? Note
that if another Wi-Fi n
Full story at Ars here:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/apple/2015/10/apple-goes-all-retina-for-its-27-inch-skylake-imac-refresh/
New keyboard, trackpad and mice, too, with force touch, natch.
No mention at the keynote, of course. If not for the rumours, a complete and
total surprise.
Am I envious?
My opinion is that once the new hotness (i.e., El Capitan) is out, you can
expect that Safari will be simultaneously broken and also not quite functional
once updated in previous releases, with any change to accessibility
concentrating on the new hotness at the expense of the old, so that you wi
It’s report-a-bug Friday. Why not send Apple a note? :)
For myself, my El Cap install is back to its old Yosemite ways, with Mail being
back to a crawl with large folders. I have no idea why, but rolling back is no
option, either. So, yeah, accept the way things are, and suffer. Oh, and tell
Well, much as I love the Open Sorcery in the fundamentals of OS X, I think
blind software engineers aren’t likely, if for no other reason than that most
of Apple’s development methodology is sadly inherently visual. Xcode promises
to get better but unlike on Windows we realistically can’t draw
I sadly disagree that NVDA is competent enough to replace JAWS or Window-Eyes.
Getting there as more and more apps are supported, for sure, but not there yet;
that’s simply not how the Windows ecosystem works in practice, in my
experience. The Mac has a large body of natively Cocoa software ac
It’s lovely, isn’t it?
Now if they could add a reading mode whereby paragraphs indent two cells, like
Supernova’s Literary Mode or BrailleNote, that would be just wonderful.
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Remove all the entries from Language Rotor in Settings. Once you do, the
language rotor will disappear.
Be sure to delete downloaded voice data. Either press More Info for each voice
and use the swipe-up on the enhanced voice to delete gesture, or the Edit
button. Or, if you are using a sing
Assuming that your boot drive is the only other drive, and that you have not
used File Vault or BootCamp, then power up the machine, and when you hear the
chime (and *only* when you hear the chime) press and hold Option. Wait a good
twenty seconds, just to be absolutely damned sure. Then press
You were quite close really, Brian. All you failed to do was repartition the
internal disk. Once you’ve done that, you can gallop on with the install.
See my other message for tips, assuming Yosemite. In El Capitan the Disk
Utility is a somewhat different beast which we shall ignore for the t
Hey Anders,
No, you cannot restore El Capitan preferences to Yosemite. Sorry. You had
better either have a Yosemite backup, or start from scratch.
As for browsing on the web, it’s just possible that one of the reasons you
aren’t experiencing the issues others were is that you were using Windo
You can report bugs to accessibil...@apple.com. You can also, if you have
access to the Apple Bug Reporter, Radar, use that system to file bugs against
the “Accessibility” classification.
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For various reasons (probably it’s APM-formatted), the disk doesn’t show up in
System Preferences, but does when you hold down the Option key. I’m afraid
you’ll have to do the hold-Option-and-guess trick.
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The two big ones that I think constitute annoying but non-critical blockers are
the broken editing of text in edit fields on Safari and the continued
non-responsiveness while moving around Mail, either in tables in the classic
view or in mail message content. If efficiency is important to you,
Well, let’s just say that I’ve opened TextEdit more than once now to do it,
copying and pasting into Safari, just to avoid the pain of typing in Safari
directly. Whether the text is repeated over and over from start with every
character or simply not announced at all, the caret doesn’t follow t
Native text widgets for me; no web applications required. Affects the post
field on for example forum.audiogames.net, which is a standard multiline text
entry area.
I turn QuickNav off because leaving it on pretty much blocks cursor movement.
The VO keys are then to be avoided; only cursor na
If you’re talking about FileVault, yes it is possible to use it eyes-free.
Apple has a system of beeps on older Macs and recorded voice prompts on newer
Macs which allow you to use speech during the login process. Personally I
prefer to avoid it entirely unless typing the password and enter fa
If you go into System Preferences > Network, choose the action menu, and “Set
Service Order …”, and make sure that Ethernet is in the table above Wi-Fi, then
you don’t need to do anything to switch; connect and disconnect as you like,
and as long as there is no session in progress, the selection
Can you confirm that you are in fact booting the installer? Check that the
volume in Finder shows the Install OS X El Capitan application. If it does,
then you probably have a bootable disk, but it won’t hurt to recreate it as a
last resort. Better if you can avoid DiskMakerX and use the comm
At least my Safari issue is unresolved, however it looks like they might—and
this isn’t confirmed yet, but they might—have sorted out that annoying
self-muting trick whereby VO cuts itself off while navigating. Nothing else
yet, touch wood …
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Yes. The commands are:
Move to beginning of line: Command-Left
Move to end of line: Command-Right
Move to top: Command-Up
Move to bottom: Command-Down
Hope it helps.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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My opinion is that unless you have a specific reason to move to El Capitan,
staying put will give you the better experience. At this stage I’d say the El
Capitan experience is merely tolerable, but not great. Responsiveness is a
definite plus, and I have come to endure iBooks for sheer lack of
There really isn’t a change log as such, merely the release notes for the
update that is presented on upgrade. You can find a copy of those here:
http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/21/os-x-10-11-1-el-capitan-update-for-mac-available/
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Nope, still completely borked for me. Can do it with QuickNav off, but as soon
as VO navigation commands get involved it’s all FUBAR. VO-right, for example,
will skim me suddenly from the very start to the very end, and word-by-word
navigation simply doesn’t work. If it’s working for others i
Perhaps I should stop using the classic view too, then. I’d resent it, but the
only way of avoiding the horrible, terrible slowdowns in Mail presently seems
to be not to use that view.
Deliberate sabotage so Apple can obsolete that view and further solidify the
iOSification of the Mac? :)
Mus
Well visually it’s completely different, essentially like on iOS with each
entire message's detail displayed in a group format with a resizable view of
the content to the right, instead of displaying the message detail in a table
format at the top and the message text for the selected message be
OK. Use Disk Utility to erase the disk first, and try one more time. If
DiskMakerX will not do it, then it’s really no hardship to use the
“CreateInstallMedia” tool that comes with the app you downloaded from the Mac
App Store. Go to the MAS and make sure the button for download on the produc
It’s hopeless. The muting is still happening under pressure, and so is the
activity-fails-to-switch bug.
ARGH!
Bug report finger at the ready for the next incoming arrow of misfortune, but I
wonder what Apple think they have fixed in this release, then. It’s not right
that people see fixes t
Well, speak for yourselves. Everybody is, of course, different and has
different preferences. I know that, given the choice to use classic view over
the “Modern” view, I would ordinarily choose the classic view, for all the
flexibility it gives me. It isn’t for everyone and I can see how the
Yeah, they needed to update these to work with System Integrity Protection, but
the voices themselves are pretty useless. :(
I’m prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt since they’re clearly not an
Apple firm, but I still stand by my earlier recommendation. It’s just not
worth it. In f
I believe this is because Parallels uses QT for the UI, and we all know the
story there. Basically if Parallels were to become more accessible—which isn’t
much to ask, really, given that they’re a Mac-only product—then they’d have to
cross over to native widgets with Cocoa.
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Pity they didn’t get a proper smackdown in your courts for that day’s work.
I block Zeobit, Krontek and MacKeeper domains at the border. I consider that
lot indistinguishable from malware purveyors. This is truly unfortunate as
they clearly aren’t actually true malware but have simply chosen a
I don’t agree that executives shouldn’t know about accessibility. They may not
know the details, but they ought to understand the urgency and importance.
Steve Jobs was once the CEO of Apple and he demoed the latest products for his
admiring audience; he didn’t palm the job off to his engineer
That’s them. Or one of their many unreliable partners who get serious
commission for flogging that crap.
Here’s a rundown from The Safe Mac (who sadly have just been picked up by
MalwareBytes):
http://www.thesafemac.com/ongoing-mackeeper-fraud/
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Notice though that El Capitan is not pronounced correctly on iOS 9.1, just
released. :)
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Well, thanks for confirming that at least it’s not just me, anyway. I still
regard this as serious breakage; no other text field behaves like that. Indeed
even in correctly-behaving text fields—say the one in Mail—one still has the
focus tracking problem to deal with, but at least it’s possibl
But that *IS* the problem! Good grief, you’re surely not saying that this is
an acceptable way to edit text, are you?
Well, even if you are, just compare it to Yosemite. Do you see the difference?
In Yosemite the editing is fluid and problem free, with the VO cursor tracking
your edits acros
It’s true: Google don’t even make the effort on Android. They make a much more
concerted effort on ChromeOS, though, where (surprise!) the platform is used
much more heavily in the educational environments for which a mandate of
accessibility would incentivise progress.
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Good question. IIRC most of the accessibility was coming from tooltips rather
than the button labels, but I’ll give VLC another shot and see how it goes.
On the other hand, VirtualBox still doesn’t work. I’ve since moved to Fusion,
but VBox is definitely QT.
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It depends on what you want to do with your files. Playback generally requires
a widely-supported format, whilst editing will require larger, original files.
Since iTunes generally rips CDs for playback, that’s probably what you want to
do.
MP3 produces smaller files that are extremely compatib
Hi Andrew,
No problem; that’s why we’re here.
Unfortunately, no. The loss incurred by lossy encoding is permanent. You will
have to re-rip those CDs. This incidentally highlights another obvious benefit
of lossless formats: archival. When the next format-de-jour comes along, or if
you simp
Hi Andrew,
If you upload to iTunes Match from a lossless file in your library, the copy in
your library stays lossless but the copy that ends up in iTunes Match is 256 Kb
AAC. The transcoding happens temporarily on your computer prior to the upload
but does not remain in your library, much as
There was a mention of that silly repeat-until-death bug on AppleVis but I can
now find no further mention of it. And yes it drives me absolutely crazy. If
you switch task just as the content of a web page is being spoken, VoiceOver
will continuously repeat just that fragment until you go back
Indeed; no way to switch from packet-switched voice on Wi-Fi to non-VOLTE
circuit-switched delivery. Just another reason not to use Wi-Fi calling if
your carrier doesn’t have LTE yet. Even when it does, I’d be reluctant to use
it unless they subsidised the cost of my calls while I was using Wi
OK yes, fair point, if you have the base station analog at the site then you
get most of the benefit, but I think the reason why carriers love Wi-Fi calling
so much is precisely that customers can use it absolutely anywhere there’s
Internet. And let’s face it, asking customers to purchase and in
Hi Andrew,
Absolutely it will work. If you just quit iTunes, then move the entire
Music/iTunes directory onto your external storage device, and then restart
iTunes with the Option key held down, you can choose your library’s new
location. Just don’t forget to leave that drive connected whenev
In this case it’s actually legit and the name is merely unfortunately similar
to the dubious Windows program.
I still wouldn’t use it, though. Here’s as good an explanation as any of why
Macs really, really don’t and shouldn’t need “cleaning”:
http://www.thesafemac.com/the-myth-of-the-dirty-mac
Copy-paste the MP3 file (or any other iTunes-supported file) into the table of
songs in iTunes. Or move the file into the “Automatically Add to iTunes”
folder in your iTunes media folder. Or go to Preferences and make sure that
you have the option to copy media into your iTunes library selecte
Remember, nothing prevents you installing a copy of El Capitan on an external
drive or in a separate partition if you’d like to.
Having said this, my recommendation still stands: stay put. There are bugs that
are well-known, which have been reported to Apple (and I know because I’ve done
it) an
Yep, same thinking, although I would never use Win10 as my primary OS on
account of Microsoft’s clear intention to follow Google into the realm of
unwarranted data gathering. Hence, Win8.1 with Classic Shell. It’s painful,
but fight it long enough and hard enough, and you end up with an OS tha
Indeed, the cleanup done by the periodic scripts are not particularly
important, although one function they provide is to invoke makewhatis, which
allows use of the whatis command. That I appreciate. Since my iMac is in fact
a fortress that runs 24/7, as all proper well-adjusted Unix boxen sho
Assuming the remaining hardware is good, have you done resets on the SMC and
PRAM for your model? Certainly the former is likely to help with fan problems.
You should be able to disconnect all power to the machine, wait a few moments,
then reconnect it.
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Ditto; started with version 3. Things have only got better. Any comments I
might make about the product are pertinent to the product as a whole and not
its accessibility, although there were bugs in prior releases which meant, for
example, that one could not use snapshots requiring use of the
The battery doesn’t need calibrating; sensors in the battery never allow them
to overcharge. The reason you want to run the discharge/recharge routine is
simply that the battery gauge, which measures the output power of the battery
in order to determine its level and times the progressive disch
You have to use Google’s terrible web interface. Sign in to your Google
account and find your profile and the associated email addresses. When you
tell Google about your new address, you can then choose in the Google Groups
preferences for each group where you want your email to go. I’ve done
To be honest, I appreciate the new mode of working. And, since getting refunds
has been getting harder and harder, I’m restraining my impulse purchases
accordingly. Since you can only get apps from Apple, make Apple do the work of
maintaining your preferred list of apps; hide any purchase you
Oh yes, forgot to say: I do pity the bandwidth-conscious. This change sucks
for them. But if you are updating multiple devices on the same network, then
the Caching Service built into OS X Server can really help with that. Sadly
this service refuses to function over Wi-Fi, so the fairly commo
Use the Photos app on OS X. When you’re signed in to iCloud and have set the
preference to use iCloud Photo Library, it’ll show up in your Photos album
after you’ve initially set it up and synced. You can also use Photos itself to
turn on iCloud Photos. It should appear under at least “All Ph
Refind is Refit’s successor. Check that out. It has a configuration file that
looks fairly straightforward—but I’ve never used it, myself.
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I’ve not using it on my own account, so I can’t give you precise directions.
But I distinctly remember the export commands in the File menu, and I’m sure
you could also “Share” photos to get them out.
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Hi Sadam,
As I see it, the main reason to get a Mac is OS X. Yes, you can get a PC and
save money, but Apple does design a superb combo of hardware and software, and
if you get a Mac, you can use it regardless of whether or not you get Windows.
You also get a nice, accessible safety net envir
This is doable, yes, and I have done it myself while travelling.
The trick here is to employ FileVault. FileVault password prompts appear when
the machine has gone to standby or hibernation. Turn off all prompting inside
OS X, and set up FileVault. Then adjust your energy preferences using Sy
I doubt it; Windows will, unfortunately, not be as power-efficient as OS X.
Still, you can reset SMC by shutting down the machine, disconnecting everything
except power, then pressing Control+Option+Shift+Power. Then reconnect and
reboot and see if anything changed.
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OK, yeah, that’s about the size of it. Set display sleep to 1 (it won’t
sleep), sleep itself to never. Set a password to be required when sleep
begins, and rely on lid closure to start sleep and thus require a password.
You would then wake to an operational Mac that allows authentication with
https://blog.malwarebytes.org/news/2015/11/has-macupdate-fallen-to-the-adware-plague/
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Yes, FLAC is an open lossless format (like Apple Lossless, but open). Just
convert the files to WAV or straight through to ALAC if your utility supports
it, then open those in iTunes. Of course, those files will have no metadata,
so you’ll have to add it yourself from iTunes using Command-I.
Yep, ALAC generally has a .M4A extension. M4A is actually a container format,
so what’s inside isn’t immediately obvious from the name. Specifically, you
probably also have AAC files with a .M4A extension. You can always tell one
kind from the other by getting info on the file in Finder or iT
Well, Apple are certainly doing it, but they take a different tack: they merely
punish you if you say “No”. But at least you can actually say “No”.
I am worried about the MS direction. Even if I don’t move to Win10—and I so
far have absolutely no intention of doing that—there’s still all the c
.EML files are simply raw RFC 5322 message format files, and can be examined
with any text editor including TextEdit. And yes, Mail will, in fact, open and
display them.
Your unknown files probably have no extension. You are seeing them described
as “UNIX Executable Files” because that’s the
iBooks is very annoying by nature, but it’s not nonfunctional—at least, not by
Apple’s present-day standards. It sounds like you’re having a right time of
it, though, and there’s probably something wrong in your particular
installation.
At the very least, can you explore the main window and pr
No, and it turns out that the graphics cards can’t be used to their full
potential without a physical adaptor anyway; for example, no CUDA or Stream
computation.
Get a pack of FitHeadless units. They really are very elegant, it’s a one-time
purchase, and they’ll help you in the future if you e
I’m using El Capitan too. But I’m now investing heavily in a transition back
to Windows, and recommending that, for their own sakes, people stay on
Yosemite. The overall stability of Yosemite might be suspect, but at least the
VoiceOver bugs have not reached absurd proportions (my biggest bugb
Me neither. It seems to start out fine, then gradually get slower and slower.
Perhaps it is the size of folders? But it seems especially bad in the classic
view, forcing me into the modern layout which I really dislike. Perhaps it’s
time for a cleanup. Or perhaps I just use Thunderbird whic
Thunderbird in Windows. On OS X, like Firefox, it seems to be in a sufficiently
broken state as to be unusable.
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And, as a followup: I tried MailMate, but owing to the silly authenticate plain
bug in iCloud, I can’t use it on my list account. I will send a note to
MailMate’s author, asking him for a workaround. But if you wanted an
alternative mail client on OS X, you could give that one a try.
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Yes, this is a bit fiddly. You’ll have to employ the VO mouse commands to
route to the label that says “Add or remove” with VO-Command-F5 and then click
with VO-Shift-Space. Now you’re in a table listing current and available
disks; choose the one you want to drop and press Remove. Repeat unt
I recommend Pro because it does give you more control and more OS choices.
There again, if all you want is to get a Windows VM up, it hardly matters which
edition you choose. The completist in me is always happy for the extra
flexibility though—things like whether the network adaptor can be pr
Ditto! I have thus far resorted to using Settings to remove apps (General,
Storage). Clunky, but it works.
Since I don’t use 3D Touch at all, it’s also been very tempting for me to turn
the feature off entirely. And yes, I already have it set to maximum firmness;
I still keep hitting the bla
Indeed; it’s the upgrades and botched / half-finished installs that are the
real problem, and indeed, they seem to have been particularly dreadful with
Mavericks and subsequently. I don’t believe this is especially VoiceOver
specific, either—just look at the reviews on the Mac App Store.
Cycli
I understand that, and yes, I’ll try and avoid hitting it, although as I’ve
said I seem to be doing so regardless, even with maximum firmness and even
though I’ve tested and retested the levels of pressure required. Of course,
back when I didn’t have 3D Touch, all those many long years ago now,
There’s a checkbox at the end of the assistant for customising the VM. When
checked, and after you’ve saved the VM on disk, the Settings window should pop
open and you’ll be able to poke the hardware into form. Once done, set it
booting by starting the VM.
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The short answer here is that you will be requiring a copy of the app you want
to install on your computer. If it isn’t on your computer, you’re out of luck.
Once you have it, put it into your iTunes library, and sync it across using the
Apps tab in your device settings.
Recent versions of iOS
Not me, personally. I tried it, but quickly got tired of accidentally
activating it and then doing things I didn’t intend every time I happened to
use the right-hand side of the keyboard.
As for telling the time, Vo-M, M, right arrow once is a reflex I’ve got.
Moreover it announces the time i
The notes format changed with iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 El Capitan. It’s possible
you upgraded to the new notes format on only some devices.
Make sure all your software is updated. Then go to Settings, iCloud on iOS or
System Preferences, iCloud on the Mac and make sure Notes is turned on. Launch
Different spokes, I guess. I appreciate using the system-provided
functionality, and I’m never in such a great hurry to get the time that I can’t
press the keys fast enough.
On the other hand, how on earth are you having to VO-right nine times to get
the clock? What do you have running up the
If you’re talking about transfers away from an iOS device, then the answer is,
“With difficulty”.
What exactly are you trying to do?
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4 GB for Windows and a dual-core configuration should work acceptably well for
you. You may also like to install the 32-bit version of Windows for more
memory savings.
If you can get more RAM in there, you should endeavour to.
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On 14 Nov 2015, at 20:46, Eric Oyen wrote:
> I prefer the use of this axiom: It just works…. Until it doesn't.
Usually on such temper-inflamed occasions as that, I resort to “It just works,
for various infinitesimal values of ‘Just’ and ‘Work’”. :)
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I don’t know if you’ll find one, since Watch apps aren’t allowed to tell the
time.
There’s also the issue that waking up every hour to beep or vibrate will cut
into the battery.
One possible workaround might be to deploy an iOS app on your phone that sends
you a notification every hour. Then
Sure, a great update. But I refuse to use a version of Windows that takes such
a cavalier attitude to privacy and end-user control and will not consider using
it until both are substantially and verifiably altered in favour of the user.
As the unfortunate saying goes, “You get what you pay for.
A clean install is throwing away everything on the disk and starting afresh
just using the new operating system. Programs, settings, etc. will be deleted
from the original installation. It’s a good option because there is nothing
left behind, which guarantees a good experience, but it does mea
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