The Tech Thread

[FrostyWinnipeg]

On 2025-07-17 at 2:26 PM, iHeart said:

It turns out RogersOpen and ShawOpen really are going away I was at Rogers trying to get a case for my mothers phone and wanted to surprise her by getting a code into one of the opens but the guy told me that it would be pointless and it will be going away all because they said that "There's not enough demand for it" tell it to the people that do use it and don't have unlimited wifi. I thought it was only going to be for freedom mobile users.

It's really too bad Rogers does not make money 

/sarcasm

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://appleinsider.com/inside/iphone/tips/do-not-click-on-unexpected-emails-from-docusign

 

[iHeart]

Truly the end of an era (and it cost me seven years of my life) but my one regret is that I never played YDKJ the Net show with this technology 

https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

 

 

Edited August 11, 2025 by iHeart

[FrostyWinnipeg]

Perplexity offers to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion

[FrostyWinnipeg]

Google warned its 2.5 billion Gmail users worldwide to be on the lookout for a rise in phishing scams.  : https://fox17.com/news/nation-world/massive-data-breach-google-warns-billion-gmail-users-passwords-shinyhunters-microsoft-ticketmaster-businesses-scammers-account

[FrostyWinnipeg]

Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe

I feel a registry hack for us over here coming soon.

Edited September 25, 2025 by FrostyWinnipeg

[iHeart]

Didn't know they were still making them

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/tivo-stopped-selling-dvrs-exits-hardware-business-1236552025/

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/21/zoox-launches-service-san-francisco-riders-challenging-waymo/

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/i-tried-the-robot-thats-coming-to-live-with-you-its-still-part-human-68515d44

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/2025/10/24/starlink-canada-deal-get-free-hardware-rental-for-a-limited-time/

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/x-59-quiet-supersonic-aircraft-first-test-flight

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://9to5google.com/2025/11/12/amazon-fire-tv-piracy-apps-block-sideloading/

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/01/india-orders-apple-to-pre-instal-an-undeletable-state-security-app-on-iphones/

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://www.theverge.com/news/864263/sony-tcl-tv-business-partnership-takeover-announcement

[Noeller]

38 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.theverge.com/news/864263/sony-tcl-tv-business-partnership-takeover-announcement

My cousin was in the market for a new TV about 5 years ago and did a bunch of research and found a pile of good reviews on TCL Roku so we each got a 65" for (I think) $549 or something... And have absolutely no complaints. Next house I think I'll upgrade to the 75, but otherwise I'm a fan of the TCL Roku TVs, in general...

[FrostyWinnipeg]

Just now, Noeller said:

My cousin was in the market for a new TV about 5 years ago and did a bunch of research and found a pile of good reviews on TCL Roku so we each got a 65" for (I think) $549 or something... And have absolutely no complaints. Next house I think I'll upgrade to the 75, but otherwise I'm a fan of the TCL Roku TVs, in general...

Yeah, next one here is 65" QM7K w Google TV but darn it missed the $1k special from Costco 🤬