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Comment · 6 years ago
For most people, rooting makes them less secure not more. It all depends on who you're securing against.
Comment · 6 years ago
To be honest I remember Windows Media player 9 or 10 having really good library management. Used it until I switched to GPM.
Comment · 6 years ago
As someone who doesn't use iOS often I have to agree. Changing the brightness on an iPad took me a minute because I had to work out which corner to swipe from. Such poor design.
Comment · 6 years ago
Is there any evidence for that? I know that for example women are more likely to be injured in car crashes because most car seats/interiors are designed around the average man so if be surprised if a human half didn't need to be raised or put in a safer position.
Comment · 6 years ago
Not that I use it but Outlook in Office 365 is radically different. Has full integration with M365 groups etc.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's a part of Google one, no idea how good it is though.
Comment · 6 years ago
That functionality also allows someone to turn your oven on while you're on holiday, but worth the risk in my opinion.
Comment · 6 years ago
Most kids only experience computers through a smart phone and a collection of social media apps.
Comment · 6 years ago
Boost is a brilliant app, never use the desktop site because it's junk in comparison.
Comment · 6 years ago
Windows 10 on a core 2 duo and an SSD is still pretty quick, it just doesn't run well on HDDs.
Comment · 6 years ago
There are some good electron apps and some bad ones.
Comment · 6 years ago
You can easily enforce installations of extensions via Chrome's admin templates.
Comment · 6 years ago
I mean it's pretty easy to prove that's not true. Just stick it on a network and check the network traffic.

The bandwidth required to do that would be immense anyway for basically no benefit.

Comment · 6 years ago
Because they're cheap, low powered devices.
Comment · 6 years ago
I've seen hundreds of enterprise networks and you'd be surprised how many of them have passwords in public shares, no configured firewalls or software policies and only file level backups. We obviously can't know right now what Garmin's setup was but I'd wager they were guilty of something.

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