Posts by Telesphoreo

  • My experience with Windows 8.1

    Skimming through this thread, Windows 8.1 is still getting security updates until 2023. In all honesty, Windows 8.1 was one of the worst performing versions of Windows I've ever used. Windows 7 and now Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC are both extremely fast and bloat free. I'm probably the only person here who actually has it legally. LTSC 2022, which will be based off of Windows 10 21H1, is coming out later this year (as I've heard). I have not heard anything about a Windows 11 LTSC version.

  • Permission nodes in TFM

    ↩ @'Ryan' at one point we had a tptoggle and also a custom tpatoggle because tptoggle also blocks tpa. Not sure if that's still the case. Also we removed the commands from the plugins that should be blocked (like /backup and /antioch) and we also got rid of some conflicting commands with tfm such as /rtp. Also the jail system is also removed in TF-EssentialsX

  • Apple Rant

    ↩  enchy Interestingly Apple was only charging $70 and uBreakiFix was charging $100. I believe after Apple was caught slowing down older iPhones because of the battery capacity they reduced the price and now it's more expensive but not as expensive as it initially was. Some things like a back glass replacement are literally so expensive it really does feel like they want you to get a new phone. I don't even think they actually replace the back glass, they outright replace it with a refurbished phone

  • Apple Rant

    ↩  Ivan yeah I was considering buying the 12 Pro but decided against it. I got mine in March of 2019 and it was at 85%. Both places told me it didn't needed to be done (technically the message comes on at 80%) but I knew it needed to be done earlier. I have pretty similar usage to you but I'm also jailbroken which I assume has some effect on my battery life as well

  • Apple Rant

    ↩  UnderTails Yeah that's why I'm getting my battery replaced. It's only 2.5 years old and I know this phone still has a lot of life left in it. I do have the money to upgrade to the 12 but I have no reason to. None of the features are compelling enough and I'll wait at least another 2 years before upgrading (assuming nothing goes catastrophically wrong)

  • Apple Rant

    So basically my phone has been draining battery really fast. When I lived in California, the battery health was mostly ok. It was at 95% and seemed to be going down pretty slowly. Of course, after moving to Texas and it being much hotter there, my battery suffered. It has gone down 10% much faster now. So my battery health was at 85%. I knew it wasn't exactly at 80%, but it was gonna be at 80% soon enough and my battery life already sucked. I was losing 1-2% every few minutes even on standby. This was around the time I was going on a roadtrip. There are no Apple stores near my area. I was going to be passing through Denver so I decided to see if I could stop at their Apple store and get it done the same day. So I booked an appointment on Friday for Monday. The first annoyance is here. Despite my calling the phone number of the store, I was transferred to the default Apple support and it took me 20 minutes to get to a person. The person didn't actually even work for the store and could only make the appointment. They couldn't confirm if they had the parts or not. So I decided to take the gamble. I was at the Apple store right on time. I ended up waiting nearly 30 minutes for someone to help me. I kid you not, someone who walked in AFTER me got helped first by an Apple "Genius". The person was honestly not that nice and gave me an attitude. She said "the battery health is fine" and "you need to make a backup of your phone and the software is out of date". Ok buddy, but I wiped the phone entirely two weeks prior to see if that would help the battery drain. I would've not cared if it was actually wiped except I just was on a trip and took a bunch of pictures. So she said she does have the battery, but not a speaker?! That's right, they had to replace a speaker along with the battery?? Ok, I guess, but all the repair videos I saw on YouTube didn't show a replacement speaker. She said they could mail it in but all the data would be wiped. Like, why?? And keep in mind, she kept going to the staff room or something to get all of this information. So there was like a 5-10 minute each delay for every little thing. It felt like I was dealing with robots instead of just a normal conversation with a human. I left the store unsuccessful and it was frankly a waste of time. They also forced me to turn off Find My iPhone, why? Why do you need that turned off? You did everything else just fine. She wouldn't even give me a reason. I saw they had a repair shop literally down the street but it was too late to go. So what they said was a different Apple store would be in contact with me when they had a part available. This was the closest store to me, but it was still 4 hours away. I never got a call from them.
    So I decided to take it to uBreakiFix. They answered the phone and it was a human. Wow! They even CONFIRMED they had the part and could do same day as long as I brought it in before 4. Understandable. So the next day I was there at 10am and guess what? They had it done, no questions asked, in less than an hour. Of course, Apple is pissed and now saying it's not genuine. Boo fucking hoo, Apple. Since I'm jailbroken, I was able to see the actual health of the battery easily enough. And of course, it was brand new. The battery life has already been MUCH MUCH better now. So, fuck your customer service Apple. Of course, if there's a tweak that could get rid of the non genuine battery message, I'd install it but I haven't found one. This whole situation made me absolutely pissed at Apple and that a third party repair shop could do better.

  • Server Size

    Genuine question: how are you handling all this storage? Are you just going to expand the storage as more space is needed? And are you using SSDs? Do you anticipate actually having to spend money on new drives for storage as TF grows?

  • Airplane Server for TF

    ↩ @'Reperak' that's... not really an excuse though. Even I was dev I kept everything up to date (why doesn't anyone else do this????). The only active dev at the moment is video. Not really fair to say that.


    And I didn't say it's not actively maintained. What I said was that it's behind on the Paper patches. That's not misinformation, that's a literal objective fact and you can see that on the GitHub. The whole thing of toothpick making it easier to update paper does not gurantee the developer will

  • Airplane Server for TF

    I'd also like to add that even with the new Paper system, Airplane hasn't received an update in a while. The last update it received from upstream (Tuinity) was July 8th I think. Paper has released many new builds since July 8th, so I don't believe that Airplane is receiving updates consistently as you said because of the new Toothpick system