Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!news.unit0.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: felix Newsgroups: aus.cars,aus.computers,aus.comms Subject: Re: Subaru XV indicators Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 18:24:13 +1000 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <5778bfa9$0$1588$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <577b34dd$0$9156$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com> <577bdefb$0$43705$c3e8da3$5e5e430d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net OPN8yJ+wH4K7bHKeGRUeGwNvEfxtSYzxyGEyYP0kpLD6gL1YcG Cancel-Lock: sha1:f499sHx+G4+PVF/+XL4f27FZ10Y= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com aus.cars:228613 aus.computers:53644 aus.comms:20224 On 07-July-2016 7:40 PM, Xeno wrote: > On 7/07/2016 4:16 PM, felix wrote: >> On 06-July-2016 2:23 AM, F Murtz wrote: >>> Frank Slootweg wrote: >>>> F Murtz wrote: >>>>> felix wrote: >>>> [...] >>>>>> you can barely use an Android phone without a Google account. >>>>> >>>>> Or win 10 without a something account. >>>> >>>> Well, that was sort-of the case in 8.1 as well, if you weren't >>>> smart >>>> enough to read the fineprint. >>>> >>>> I have 8.1 without a Microsoft Account, 'upgraded' to 10 without >>>> one >>>> and rolled back to 8.1 without one. >>>> >>>> Using an Android Device without a Google Account is much harder, >>>> unless you don't need any paid apps and are prepared to re-install >>>> apps >>>> instead of updating them. >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>> I have a laptop with 8.1 and a tablet with win 10 and android 5.1 >> >> doesn't your phone auto update the OS? > > It shouldn't. My iPhones, past and present, have never done that by > default and there's a reason the default is set that way. sorry, I didn't mean automatically update the OS. they normally tell you there's an update available that you can do. however, with some phones you can't update the OS beyond the one in the phone -- "As long as there is this book [Koran] there will be no peace in the world" -William Gladstone, four times PM of Great Britain http://www.siotw.org/ http://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/