Is it OK to buy Applecare from eBay these days? Would love to save a few bucks there.
― Nhex, Friday, 10 June 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
If this is the wrong place to pose this question let me know, but I figure that some of you are tech-saavy and can answer this one.
On Apple devices, what is the difference between texts in green and texts in blue? Why does such a difference exist? (This is something I've always wondered and which has become more important this last week or two, as I'm experiencing weird data plan issues that are making it hard to communicate with people period, not just when I'm out of range of my home wi-fi.)
― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 1 January 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
Green is for ones sent/received as SMS. Blue is for ones sent by iMessage. So people on Apple devices can circumvent the whole mobile carrier and just use the internet to send messages, making them free of any carrier charges and also able to be sent when you have WiFi but not mobile signal.
― Alba, Friday, 1 January 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
They can turn the iMessage functionality off in Settings if they want.
― Alba, Friday, 1 January 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
And, conversely, if you're communicating with another Apple phone and they have iMessage switched off, or don't have any 3G/4G access, then your intended iMessages will be sent as SMS - which is not great if it happens to be a photo, for example. Most people would be charged out-of-plan for that. I've unwittingly racked up charges in the past for sending a bunch of images to my daughter, who had turned her data off. WhatsApp is the solution there, of course.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 1 January 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
Thanks, Michael and Alba!
― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 1 January 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
And, conversely, if you're communicating with another Apple phone and they have iMessage switched off, or don't have any 3G/4G access, then your intended iMessages will be sent as SMS - which is not great if it happens to be a photo, for example.
― Alba, Friday, 1 January 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
Ah, didn't know I could independently suppress MMS! I've done that now.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 1 January 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
If I add a new user to the macbook any folder that user creates is readable to any other user on the computer! Unless it is inside Downloads, Documents, Library, Desktop etc. As far as I can tell this is default behaviour? Should I change this or is it this way for a reason?
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 23 January 2023 02:58 (one year ago) link
unless it’s in documents..Where else would it be ? All of the folders in the user folder should be protected from snooping eyes
― calstars, Monday, 23 January 2023 03:29 (one year ago) link
I thought so too but
lamia@kawa:~ ➜ mkdir Crepeslamia@kawa:~ ➜ ls -ltotal 0drwxr-xr-x 2 lamia staff 64 23 Jan 03:55 Crepesdrwx------+ 25 lamia staff 800 22 Jan 17:41 Desktopdrwx------+ 16 lamia staff 512 22 Jan 08:31 Documents
flutter@kawa:~ ➜ ls /Users/lamia/Desktopls: /Users/lamia/Desktop: Permission deniedflutter@kawa:~ ➜ ls /Users/lamia/Crepesflutter@kawa:~ ➜
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 23 January 2023 04:14 (one year ago) link
anything in that users profile folder (~/lamia) is generally protected, i thought? isn't that why there's a public share folder?
― Nhex, Thursday, 26 January 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
I think the public share folder is for other computers on the same network, not for other users on the same computer!
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 26 January 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link