Not quite yet. He’s basically said he’s ready to back a legal challenge to it.

Louis is encouraging someone to keep doing what they’re doing despite Bambu sending someone a cease and desist and Louis will provide some funding for legal support if Bambu keeps pushing. But there isn’t anything going directly after them yet.

Try the “forgot your password” link on his iCloud account. When you go to iCloud.com, there’s a link there for it. There might be some way that you can reset the iCloud account and get in that way. Most of these methods have you verify you own the account like a link in an email or text to the phone or something. Worth a try to see especially since you physically have the phone.

If he left his iPhone with the messages showing on the screen even when locked, you may be lucky and get to send a text to the phone and get a code to reset the iCloud account that way.

Either that or going through Apple may be your best bet since the pics are likely backed up to his Apple’s iCloud. Apple gives everyone free 5GB so surely there’s something there even if he didn’t pay for it or it lapsed after his passing.

I got this idea from the San Bernardino shooters years ago. Apple refused to help the FBI hack into the phone but said they would help if the FBI let the phone back up to iCloud at night like this because it’d be on their servers and technically theirs to comply with.

So it seems this might be some type of legitimate way of getting stuff out of an iPhone like this by Apple’s own admission. I just checked and Apple does have an article on this exact situation and what they can and cannot do https://support.apple.com/en-us/102431

My condolences to you and your family. Good luck getting those pictures.

There’s a decent chance that the iPhone syncs to iCloud each night. It’s a feature Apple kind of snuck onto people and most people don’t change. Photos are one of those things that gets backed up during this time.

Thing is, you need to get it connected to WiFi that it has connected to before and just leave it on the charger, probably best to do this over 48 hours and then try getting in. The backups usually happen at night time.

If you know the WiFi where he lived but can’t access it, you could trick the iPhone into thinking it’s the same WiFi by creating that same WiFi signal name and password and the iPhone will connect to that new hotspot you create with the same instructions. If it’s valuable enough to you, you could buy a router and set it up on yours at home with that information or go cheap and set it up on your phone’s hotspot. If you don’t know that one, any other WiFi network it once connected to should do. It just only works over WiFi at night.

Once that happens, you can try resetting his password on iCloud.com and see if that lets you in. Or see if Apple can help you getting into the iCloud account with his death certificate. I’m not sure on that last part, might need to check into it before asking just to make sure they don’t lock you out of it or something.

You may not even have to do the WiFi trick, it might already have backed up everything already and you can try getting into this iCloud account now and see if the pictures are there. They’re accessible over any web browser on any operating system.

California is joining in too with AB-2047 and New York has AB-2228 requiring a criminal background check for buying a 3D printer.

As part of our commitment to SoulCrafted content, MyMiniFactory has adopted a zero-tolerance stance on AI generated content on our platform.

Thingiverse is now a SoulCrafted platform. In practice, that means we’ll be taking steps to reduce and eventually remove AI-generated designs from the site.

That is really interesting. I wonder how they are going to find those and remove.

Even before the boom of AI, I remember seeing a lot of random crap of unusual shapes just being added together and uploaded. I wonder if they’ll remove those too.

Unless I’m not aware of anything deeper, Apple makes all their privacy settings available under the Settings app > Privacy & Security. There are a lot of menus to go through in here, but for max privacy, you’ll want to disable nearly everything available in here ranging from location services to apps getting access to the local network and other apps as well as access to hardware.

macOS is similar to Windows in that a lot of apps will request permission on first launch or when you do something specific in them that will trigger a permission change and you’ll enter your password/TouchID/Apple Watch to confirm you want to grant access or not. But you can proactively block access here and also supposedly block Apple from some of these as well.

Beyond that will likely be up to you as to what you want in terms of privacy. Some people may go as far as airgapping it from the internet while others are okay with an app or two having access to the local network.

Looking forward to a swipe on the alarm instead of a button. I’ve gotten used to hitting that in my sleep, so hopefully this helps.

Even better would be to allow us to have a randomizer that randomly switches between those, if we choose to enable on a per alarm basis. And also adds new ones like a pattern toggle.

I’ve never tried it but just found this when doing a web search https://github.com/MassimilianoRozza/3dsettingsdb

My slicers have settings based on what printer I have. At least my SLA slicer does and I never have needed to touch it to dial in my prints. Your slicer doesn’t have settings based on a make and model of a printer too?

I use the Apple Credit card and finance through Apple. The benefit is that I can pay as I go (and it’s 0% interest on Apple products) and the phone is effectively unlocked for any carrier you want.

It could, but nobody reads blogs for it to be profitable.

I say as someone with a Blogger that is monetized but gets no revenue, even with an active viewerbase.

I have some buds that do this and you have the ability to download languages for offline use and those work just fine.

Apple could do the same. They may not, but this is one of those features that needs offline use more than others. Some remote village where no cell towers exist, underground where no cell towers or satellite can penetrate and no WiFi exists, indoors where cell towers are difficult to penetrate and WiFi is not always an option…

Hopefully they will.

You’re forgetting all the kombucha and juices that use glass bottles, and more so those than plastic. Though I think kombucha does that because the kombucha will eat through the plastic.

I wouldn’t trust any third party claims for something as sensitive as this. You’re giving them a lot of access and trust and that’s not great for something that will directly talk with the iCloud where your passwords are stored.

Your best bet is to export those passwords to another password wallet that you trust that works in Linux.

You can access the iCloud through iCloud.com and I believe you can access passwords there, but of course it doesn’t offer the same convenience that it does on Apple devices.

Yeah it would work. But I like to be on my phone while I watch on the big screen, like right now lol.

Was just thinking about this the other day too. I have started to use the Brave browser on my iPhone to watch YouTube videos since it blocks ads natively, but I can’t get the Brave browser on my Apple TV for the same reason. I would love to.

I am sick to death of these obnoxious, irrelevant ads. And no, paying YouTube for Premium is not a solution.

ABS has worked out pretty well for me even in direct sunlight.

I designed a fun little replacement for this thing on my parents’ gate and it’s still there over 7 years later in all the weather and even intense heat over 110°F on some days.

I meant like when there’s a random song playing from shuffle, I used to be able to tell Siri “play this album” or “what album is this song from” and she would play the full album or tell me what album the song came from. No longer knows how to do that and tells me something about not knowing how to do that.

Seriously. I used to actually use Siri.

I realized this yesterday when I went through the manual process of unlocking my phone and looking for another LLM app to ask a question.

I don’t even trust Siri anymore to open an app.

Don’t get me started on music. I used to be able to say “Hey Siri, play this whole album” or “play that song” and it would play the whole album.

She’s absolutely useless.

The benefit of these is that they actively dry your filament as it rolls into the printer. At least mine does that which has been great to reduce the time needed to prep for my prints. Mine lets you set the temperature and it will keep that as it rolls in.

I heard about the food dryers but this was my choice also because I have limited space in my smaller home. This little box is about the size of a spool and sits behind my printer and I have it automated to turn on when I turn on my printer too.

I use a filament dryer for filaments which has increased the quality of my prints a bit. This is sort of what mine looks like

https://hilariouschaos.com/pictrs/image/60765622-ba16-4bac-9bfa-c3e4a17103a8.webp