I don't think rpi has been PoP since the B; pi4 and 5 are definitely not PoP, but your other points are all valid.

I'm not sure what it could be -- every testing/checking tool I can find online passes it (and I learned a lot from that, including removing old cyphers), the banners/HELO etc are largely anonymized, yet by and large Google says "yeah nah" to the first few new emails to a new gmail address.

It'd be fantastic if they had a test page where you could send them an email or click a "start test" button and it'd go through and check everything that *THEY* look for, but it feels like they don't have a vested interest in that -- they want you to just use their service, and I refuse.

Google is like this - their anti spam tools are only available if you *are* sending UCE. The small private domains sending a few hundred to a few thousand emails to gmail addresses annually cannot get access to them.

I have all the things set right: DKIM, DMARC, SPF, IP is in a "good neighbourhood", all the blackhole lists show my IP as clear, yet sending "hey, nice meeting you today, here's my email, looking forward to speaking with you again" type emails to a new gmail address almost always end up in their junk. And there's nobody to contact at Google about it -- it's a completely automated system.

Microsoft has their junk mail reporting whatever and registering with them (not an easy thing to find until you know what it is) solved all my outlook.com issues.

where is this on ipad? they added a phone app but there are no recents there.

ios26 is such a massive step backwards.

I'd love to know how many of the 320M users are forced to use it because the bean counters saw "Teams messaging" as a free line item with their Office360 subscriptions and decided to make everyone use it instead of practically any other team messaging/interactive platform on the planet.

I use Notes with my Dovecot IMAP server. It works, but sync is oftentimes VERY slow. You can speed it up by going to the calendar app and refreshing the calendars (which is odd, because my calendars are on a totally separate CALDAV server).

It's been like this for many years. I realize I'm in the minority of notes users but reporting the bug doesn't seem to help much either.

Messages "delete" always says it will delete from all devices but never does. It can take HOURS for a device that was dead/off/disconnected to "catch up" with the global state of an iMessage count. Search is *horribly* broken (Chatology used to be a great third party tool for that but was discontinued). If you're scrolling back looking for a message and you receive a new one from the same person the UI jumps to the new message. They removed the two-finger slide left to reveal message time, instead opting for a two finger tap "show times" that disappears after you send another message.

There are so many dumb little bugs in the OS and they persist for years. Sadly, they're still (IMO) the best compared to the alternatives.

Phone mirroring is nice but there's no brains behind it. Discord on my laptop pops up a notification, then Discord on my phone pops up the same notification over top of the one the desktop just displayed. Hoping this kind of obvious feature would be fixed soon but considering that the "feature" where if you have two or more calendar reminders pop up they get grouped together and the dismiss button changes to "dismiss all" is still present several updates later doesn't exactly fill me with hope.

It certainly feels like Apple has foregone all user testing and are shitting out new features that are arguably great but poorly implemented.

That's exactly what I'm referring to, yes. Mind you I'm an EE so for someone like myself it is trivial to populate the connector, four 0402 or 0201 caps and rig up something to supply power. I find myself occasionally thinking "oh that's easy" without considering why it's easy for someone like myself.

it has an unpopulated M2 connector and power supply; someone has already got it working. I assume they'll populate it in a minor spin.

a raw disk is a plain old block device. They made special provision to pass through USB devices, but I cannot attach an arbitrary PCIe or TB device. (This is also on intel OSX) -- Hyve can't do it, Parallels can't do it, VirtualBox can't do it, VMWare Fusion can't do it. The ability to pass through these kinds of devices appears to be disabled in the kernel.

I'd be happy to be wrong, but I am pretty sure I'm not.

it'd be nice if they stopped cripping the hypervisor -- I can't export a PCIe or TB device to a VM because the host kernel disallows it.