Daily Tech News 22 March 2022

• My internet is back.
  
  Which is good because both my wireless backup connections crapped out this morning.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which Australia's NBN is spending $750 million to upgrade fixed wireless connections. (ZDNet)

  As part of the upgrade, all users will be able to get up to 100Mbps speeds with 85% of the network capable of 250Mbps, have busy hours at minimum speeds of 50Mbps, 120,000 homes will shift from satellite to fixed wireless coverage, and those left on satellite will see off-peak quota-free window expanded from midnight to 4pm each day by mid-year.

  I've rejected some very nice houses over the past couple of weeks because they were on fixed wireless rather than fiber, but if this upgrade is going to be completed in the next couple of years then that's not going to change one bit because I don't believe anything they say.
  
  I've seen ping times as high as 120 seconds.

• Innovative experiments looking for dark matter have discovered absolutely nothing. (Quanta)
  
  We know that there's something going on, because galaxies (including our own) don't move the way they should based on what we can see. But the stuff we can't see is really good at hiding.
  
  
  
• Apple's new monitor has an A13 CPU and 64GB of flash storage. (9to5Mac)
  
  It's basically an oversized iPhone 11.
  
  
  
• Why you should buy an iPad Air 5 and not an iPad Pro. (WCCFTech(
  
  
  
• Why you should buy an iPad Pro and not an iPad Air 5. (9to5Mac)
  
  Many years ago I bought the original Nexus 7. It wasn't really a great tablet, but I didn't have a tablet, and there's a big difference between no tablet and tablet.
  
  I loved it.
  
  Convinced that tablets were great, I spent a lot more money on the brand new Retina iPad.
  
  Hated it. It turned out to be a very expensive paperweight. It worked fine, it just didn't work the way I wanted it to. I tried again with an iMac which at least I still use because it just keeps working, but I'm really not interested in Apple products anymore.

posted by Pixy Misa at 05:23 AM

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