Based on what data?

Nothing online comes even close to showing the number you're suggesting. The reality is more like ~60% of mobile phones in canada are iPhones. (and to answer your original question ~50% of UK users). Curious to see your data that counter these.

https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/1...
https://heytony.ca/usage-of-sm...
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-...
https://gs.statcounter.com/ven...

No we didn't. According to the Royal Canadian Mint the compositions over the years were as follows:

1908 – 1920
Composition: 95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc

1920 – 1941
Composition: 95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc

1942 – 1977
Composition: 98% copper, 0.5% tin, 1.5% zinc

1978 – 1979
Composition: 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc

1980 – 1981
Composition: 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc

1982 – 1996
Composition: 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc

1997 – 1999
Composition: 98.4% zinc, 1.6% copper plating

2000 – present*
Composition: 94% steel, 1.5% nickel, 4.5% copper plating OR 98.4% zinc, 1.6% copper plating

https://www.mint.ca/en/discove...

Production ceased in 2012.

A google search does show this AI-generated nonsense, however:

And then as a supporting link it gives a wikipedia page about an American aluminum penny. God AI is useless.

I'm not following you here. Are you saying that something in iOS makes it so that you can't update your banking, authenticator, etc apps? Just because you turn of *auto* updating of anything doesn't preclude you from updating things. I feel like maybe I wasn't clear in the post you're responding to, but I was specifically focusing on the *automatic* nature of these updates.

As I replied to someone else earlier. I prefer to worry about actual problems rather than future problems that I've made up in my head. But you do you.

I try to concern myself with *actual* problems rather than ones I make up in my head. But that's just me.

If the past is anything to go by, however, Apple has been *adding* options to disable auto download/install over the years. So the trend line seems to support that, even if the models are auto-installed originally (ie. the phone already comes with them or OS updates bring them along), this option will stay.

You can like/not like, and use/not use, whatever the heck you want. I couldn't care less. But none of this works this way. Apple Intelligence isn't downloaded/installed automatically and you can opt in or out of either downloading, or installing OS updates, or both. Same goes for the actual apps installed through the App Store. Nothing need happen automatically.

That's not how it works. If you don't want to download the 7GB of models then you don't have to. The only people getting this data and having it take up space on their phones are those who explicitly requested it.

Currently it's the other way around: you have to explicitly enable it.

Apple Intelligence is (currently) opt-in. If you don't want it (and the extra storage space needed that goes along with it) then just don't turn it on.

I'm assuming but definitely not certain if turning it off after the models have already been downloaded will free up the space. I don't have a phone that supports it so I can't test. But I do know that until you turn it on the first time, the space isn't used.

https://support.apple.com/en-c...

No idea if/how this will change in the future.

Speak for yourself.

We have almost 2 petabytes of storage available to our various mac minis in my office. None of them have anything other than the OS and a few applications installed on them. 256GB is just fine (I think many of our machines actually only have 128GB of internal storage). We do professional work (though maybe we're too casual about it?). Also I'm a software developer and I don't use any substantial local storage on my mac at work either.

It's really not that hard to change the battery in an iPhone -- especially when you factor in that it's something you should only need to do once every 3-5 years. I'm on year 4 for my SE-2 and will probably change the battery next year. Anyone who say they have to buy a whole new phone because changing a battery is too hard or too expensive is.. well.. wrong.

I'm gonna ride the SE train as long as I can. I suspect that the next SE will be a FaceID phone which sucks but it is what it is. Hopefully I'll be able to stick with a touchid phone for at least 2 or 3 more years. My main concern is the size of the phones. The SE is already at the max that I can comfortably deal with with one hand (which is how I deal with my phone most of the time).

Ah well. Time marches on.

I'm the other way around on the loonies and twonies. I *love* having them in my pocket. Much easier than dealing with bills for quick purchases for me.

It also had a nice side effect for me. I would habitually empty my coins into a change bucket every time I got home. I would rarely grab money from it at the start of the day though (ie. I'd start the day with only bills). At the end of a couple weeks I would have a *ton* of coins saved up and would blow it on pizza or whatever. Didn't really help me save or spend less but I found a small pleasure in spending all of my coins on something on a regular basis. I'm weird like that, haha

We round *up or down* to the nearest 5 cents:

Amounts ending in 1 cent and 2 cents are rounded down to the nearest 10 cents;
Amounts ending in 3 cents and 4 cents are rounded up to the nearest 5 cents;
Amounts ending in 6 cents and 7 cents are rounded down to the nearest 5 cents;
Amounts ending in 8 cents and 9 cents are rounded up to the nearest 10 cents;
Amounts ending in 0 cent and 5 cents remain unchanged.

From here: https://www.canada.ca/en/reven...

There are certainly some weirdos who wish we'd never gotten rid of the penny but I can't imagine any logical reason for keeping them. In fact, we should be getting rid of the nickel next. I say we have 10, 20, and 50 cent coins and call it a day.

I've never had to. I regularly build local tools and plugins (for things like Maya and Houdini) and I've never signed anything. I just run make and compile and run. The only time I've ever had to interact with Gatekeeper was for binaries I've downloaded. Currently I either use the ctrl-click or just clear the quarantine bit from the terminal. I've not tried the sequoia beta to see if the latter still works but I'm assuming it does.