Notice the difference in color when you do that. As the other comment pointed out, it only disconnects devices. Apple makes it hard for their users to disable bluetooth (or gps) so features like airtag work well.

You are sacrificing your battery life (and I guess privacy and security) for the ecosystem to work.

Google won't let you use GPS for maps without also turning on wifi for similar reasons I guess. It does make it more accurate but shouldn't be required.

Wasn’t there this thing that Google collected a list of SSIDs using their Google Maps cars, and that gave them “good enough” geolocation using passive WiFi scanning, which was much less battery intensive and faster than GPS?

That's nonsense, Maps works perfectly fine with wifi off

They might have changed it again, but it was a thing, I saw the prompts mentioned here too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167865

That’s unfortunately only disconnecting until the next day (see text appearing above when pressing).

If the pc is beefy enough (win 11 pro runs smoothly) just go with the included hyper-v. Imho you don’t get any benefits installing proxmox on bare metal in this scenario. YMMV of course

In that case, simply running Linux + KVM or VirtualBox would better

It’s the same for me

What do you mean? iPhones support „magsafe 2“ since 2017 (?) and Qhi-Charging since forever. And no, there is no „general best“ - you at least have to deal with the energy that is lost through induction.

MacOS‘s Quartz (original 2D rendering) is based on pdf: https://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/osx-quartz

Sure they can.. but they can’t get around your outgoing firewall rule that reroutes alle traffic for certain ports to the proxy.

Hm, I have to see if Mikrotik has rule syntax for this. I can already force every app who thinks they will use their own DNS server to use mine but not sure how I could do the same with a proxy. Maybe just force ports 80 and 443? But what's stopping these apps to communicate on non-standard ports?

There's no reason to allow arbitrary traffic in either direction other than convenience. If you want a more secure network, you block everything by default and narrowly open as needed.

That means I'll stop 99% of all outgoing traffic. Still interested in how to force all traffic to a proxy though.

Thanks, I'll give this a thorough read.

If it's only for certain ports, they can just use non-standard ports.

Not uncommon to have a drop all rule as default on outgoing packets as well.

Regular http gets redirected to proxy, non-standard traffic needs to be explicitly allowed out.

I just love that there is a relevant xkcd for pretty much every nerdy topic. Didn’t know/ remember this one.. so thanks!

Can confirm. I once lost my three week Japan Rail Pass (green car) somewhere in Tokyo station which has > 3 million passengers per day and is just huge. This was my first day in Japan with rides planned through the whole country. These rides would have cost a fortune to replace as you cannot buy a JRP in Japan. It took less then an hour to get it back. I assume nowhere else in the world this would have played out the same way. I was very thankful that day to say the least.

I inadvertently left my water bottle at a ticket machine somewhere in the Tokyo rail apparatus and then traveled 4-6 stations away and reported it to an info booth there. An attendant brought it to me on the next train less than ten minutes later. Mind blown.

It was a heavily insulated water bottle and keeping ice in it made a world of difference as I was traveling at the hottest time of the year.

A small object can be insignificant when it is anonymous but significant to an individual. It's nice when other humans "have our back" at scale.

Btw, you can buy a rail pass after you get to Japan now. I mean… they won't let you into the country, but besides that.

The „boring things“ that compound over time like - a fitness routine - yearly check ups with your physician and dentist - invest 10% of what you earn (no matter how little it may be but make it a habit)

Learn how your mind works (eg. read „waking up“ by sam harris and know that people don’t think as much about you as you might think. Therefore don’t spend money you don’t have to impress them.

Keep learning in general and have fun in your profession - not in „fun every day“ but don’t become one of those people who drag themselves to work just to make ends meet.

Travel within your means. There is a lot of fun in learning about different cultures. The best way is not so sit in a pricy hotel room.

Keep strong relationships with friends and family if possible. A supportive network of people that care about you can be very hard to build when your older and might be worth more than money some times in your life.

You‘re going to do better than a lot of your peers with these simple things.