Episode 111 : Show us your Crank

Follow Up

No new iPads :(

Apple and the EU / Epic

[Apple clarifies how long users can travel outside of the EU before side loaded apps stop updating](https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/07/apple-clarifies-how-long-users-can-travel-outside-of-the-eu-before-sideloaded-apps-stop-updating/)

Apple Terminates Epic Account

[Epic says Apple terminated its newly reinstated developer account over tweet](https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/06/epic-games-dev-account-dead/)

[Apple’s treatment of Epic Games draws the eye of EU regulators](https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008679)

[Apple's Epic ban is questioned by EU regulators; more details](https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/07/apple-epic-ban-regulators/)

[Ian Betteridge - On Apple terminating Epic’s E.U. Developer Account](https://technovia.co.uk/2024/03/07/on-apple-terminating.html)

Apple Backtracks

Apple backtracks, reinstates Epic Games’ iOS developer account in Europe (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/03/apple-backtracks-reinstates-epic-games-ios-developer-account-in-europe/)

[Steve Troughton-Smith Reversal all well and good:](https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112061457122836860)

[Grubers Take ] (https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/apple_epic_reinstatement)

Hot off the press…more changes web deployment

https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/12/iphone-app-store-changes-web-distribution-more/

Geofencing

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/6/24092044/alternative-ios-app-stores-wont-work-for-long-outside-of-the-eu

News

[British monarchy rocked by bad Photoshop job](https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/10/24096762/kate-middleton-edited-photo-royal-family-possible-fake)

[Euro-cloud consortium issues ultimatum to Microsoft](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/08/cispe_microsoft_licensing_complaint/)

[Large language model SauLM-7B aims for legal applications](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/09/better_call_saul_llm/)

[Apple makes last-minute plea to DOJ not to file US antitrust suit] (https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/28/apple-us-antitrust-suit/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon )

[LastPass suffers worldwide outage causing site 404 error](https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/07/lastpass-suffers-worldwide-outage-causing-site-404-error/)

[RIP to the Windows Subsystem for Android, which goes away in 2025](https://arstechnica.com/?p=2007968)

[Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED](https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093109/nikon-acquiring-red-cameras-film-motion-picture-tv)

[Michael Tsai - Blog - HP All-In Plan](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/03/06/hp-all-in-plan/)

[M3 MacBook Air Review: More of a good thing](https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/03/m3-macbook-air-review-more-of-a-good-thing/)

Irony? EU Breaches GDPR, reports self

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/11/european_commission_infringed_data_protection/

Main Show

[Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines ](https://arstechnica.com/?p=2007911)

Car Stuff

[European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls ](https://arstechnica.com/?p=2007776)

[Rivian R2 revealed: a $45,000 electric off-roader for the masses](https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093215/rivian-r2-revealed-ev-suv-price-specs-price)

Dacia Spring, finally a reasonably priced city ev?

https://www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/the-new-dacia-spring-is-the-affordable-ev-ive-been-waiting-for/

Rods Homelab madness

New ‘Server’

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beelink-SER5-5560U-Processor-500G/dp/B09ZTW22MM

https://xcp-ng.org/

New Synology Discovery

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0CD1FDKT1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Wants:

https://uk.store.ui.com/uk/en/pro/category/switching-professional-max/products/usw-pro-max-24

[bb-qq/r8152: Synology DSM driver for Realtek RTL8152/RTL8153/RTL8156 based adapters](https://github.com/bb-qq/r8152)

App of the Week

Disk Drill

https://www.cleverfiles.com/?utm_nooverride=1

Thing of the Week

New Logitech camera

https://www.logitech.com/en-gb/products/webcams/mx-brio.html