8Geee wrote:Belham2:
This can be set up as LAN?!?!
How is that done... no reference to a jack... lightning connector?
Curious
8Geee
----via Lightning to USB Adapter, made by Apple and others. I stick to Apple's stuff, as some 3rd party stuff people have had problems with (read Amazon's reviews). With the USB Adapter (
which has both a USB 3.0 port and an USB-C port, to bring in a charger cable from your iphone/ipad charger), and any USB-3 to ethernet dongle attached to it, ethernet is fast as my desktop OSes.
I've been connecting my iphone this way since about Fall of 2016, for anything sensitive I want to do while on the road, avoiding wifi altogether. Apple introduced ethernet ability to all Apple Iphone & Ipad devices back in 2016, ios 10 iirc.
But truthfully, I no longer worry about ethernet with the ipadOS. I used Cloudfare 1.1.1.1 + Warp. It's free. 1.1.1.1+Warp works a treat, providing VPN-encryption & DNS services from your device up to Cloudfare's server closest to you on it's backbone. This is NOT full VPN, hiding your identity; it is just protecting you (DNS & encryption) in the all important local network.
Still, if wifi goes down, or for some reason I want ethernet, it takes all of two seconds to plug the lightning to usb adapter in, then plug in a USB Sabrent, no powered, 4 port USB-3 hub into it along with the USB-C power cable coming from my ipad or iphone charger (which provides power for all, lightning to USB-3 port cable included). Then I grab a USB 3.0 ethernet adapter, plug into it the Sabrent, plus plugin any USB thumbdrives/USB hard drives I might want plugged also inot the Sabrent. In all,, I am good to go.
Regarding IpadOS, Apple overall (both iphones and Ipads) have really has a tight walled garden...there's no way to screw with the code on all the apps you install which can only come from the Apple Store. As all these apps exist inside their own cocooned container within the cocooned IpadOS itself, it is nigh impossible (at the moment) to modify any unless you are the app developer.
I only use the big apps of the companies that I implicitly trust & do business with. I never touch anything else. Actually feel more secure on this than i do using a Linux/Pup OSes & hardened browser to access all the secure financial, health and investment stuff. Especially the financial/investment stuff.
For IpadOS, all the biggies provide their own apps. which not only use the normal login & password login all OS browsers use, but also uses your thumbprint and/or your face (your choice with most apps) to harden the apps and thus your accounts. it prevents any future login on any other device, period) without that thumbprint and/or face coming thru the encrypted app & the IpadOS. And since Apple just rolled U2F-Fido into the IpadOS, the level of security just racheted up another notch, a huge notch (
see paragraph**). Overall, it makes using hardened Firefox, Palemoon browsers on OSes, Pup, Linux and/or otherwise, look positively behind the times security-wise, imho.
Even further, a thumbprint and/or face can become a more lock-downed 2fa on your investment/financial/helath account apps within the ipadOS itself. This is the jewel everyone is seeing and is starting to realize.
**Add into the above fact that Apple, with the latest 13.3 IpadOS release a few weeks back, just integrated full-on U2F-FIDO (i.e. Yubikey) into the whole Apple IpadOS ecosystem. Thus it is just a matter of time till U2F-FIDO becomes way more widely adopted than it is currently.
(Disclosure: I use Fido-U2F on my email accounts, for about 3-4 years now).
Apple's size will make U2F-FIDO become the widely adopted de facto security standard. And it's about time, no less. Companies are currently re-jiggering their apps like crazy to take advantage of this U2F ability throughout the IpadOS ecosystem. Example: I'm beta testing an IpadOS app right now from my financial institution that has U2F-FIDO as the 2fa, but get this----my fingerprint is the 1st line of getting into the app (and thus logging in). My U2F-Fido key is the 2nd line of defense, hence the 2f. The old way of logging in, with names & passwords, I no longer will be using. They are son to be a thing of the past. It is clear this will, within a year or two, become the norm for many large players in the world who participate in the Apple ecosystem with apps (which is virtually everyone in the USA except the big gorilla Google).
Compared to the what occurred on a hardened laptop I used to use for all my (and my family's) this sensitive online stuff, with logins and passwords, this all is exciting not to mention comforting, providing a peace of mind that doesn't exist no matter what one does with a Linux/Pup OS & subsequent browser installed on it.
This (everything above) is what I meant when I said Apple has "
landed on the beaches on Normandy", so to speak. Going forward, the Ipad with IpadOS (along with ubiquitous iphone) is going to be even tougher to ignore. No wonder Buffett bought several billions worth of Apple stock when it was $170-$190 a share. At the time I thought he was crazy, given the markets overall levels and such. But now, it looks like he was crazy like the fox, as Apple is near $300 with another (2 or 3) for 1 split soon to be hitting shareholders (the board already gave permission for the split, it's just a question of if and when now).
I know people who are and have been "short" Apple, which, at 10-11 months ago, I thought was a viable trade/investment. But after seeing what Apple is doing with IpadOS and also the medical/health combo stuff to be hitting the iphone, it all makes me realize that possibly the next 10-20 years (or possibly more) are Apple's to lose.
[Disclaimer: I am no Apple fanboy, especially not a Microsoft and/or Google/Android one, and I hope to be the Puppy & Derivatives FanBoy until I pass from this Earth. But, that said, it is hard to ignore how Apple has slightly but significantly pivoted & shifted these past 2-3 years. Hyperbole aside, today is truly the beginning of the end for the desktop, and never before I have ever felt that. My first laptop I bought and used in HongKong in 1989, and I never (like others) saw a path to obsoleting/replacing the desktop. But, now, with IpadOS (and the understanding now of why MSFT is laser-focused on its Surface & Surface-Pro push and optimizing Win10 for it, and not the desktop), the future picture is becoming clearer. All opinions are my own in this post]