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    From Keithr0@nothing.to.see@here.com.au to aus.computers on Mon Sep 14 21:52:46 2026
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    People talk about Microsoft bloat, but Apple beats them hands down. I
    have a 5th generation iPad Air, 64GB storage. It was a good machine
    until it got an automatic upgrade from iPadOS 18 to 26. Now the OS takes
    up 26.38GB, and OS data takes another 11.2 GB, that's 58.7% of total
    storage just for the OS, and there doesn't seem to be a way to downgrade
    back to 18. Ridiculous.
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  • From Axel@none@not.here to aus.computers on Mon Sep 14 22:05:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: aus.computers

    Keithr0 wrote:
    People talk about Microsoft bloat, but Apple beats them hands down. I
    have a 5th generation iPad Air, 64GB storage. It was a good machine
    until it got an automatic upgrade from iPadOS 18 to 26. Now the OS
    takes up 26.38GB, and OS data takes another 11.2 GB, that's 58.7% of
    total storage just for the OS, and there doesn't seem to be a way to downgrade back to 18. Ridiculous.

    can you plug a thumb drive into it for storage? and I suppose they think
    most ppl these days use online storage
    --
    Linux Mint 22.3

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  • From Keithr0@nothing.to.see@here.com.au to aus.computers on Thu Sep 17 09:35:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: aus.computers

    On 14/09/2026 9:52 pm, Keithr0 wrote:
    People talk about Microsoft bloat, but Apple beats them hands down. I
    have a 5th generation iPad Air, 64GB storage. It was a good machine
    until it got an automatic upgrade from iPadOS 18 to 26. Now the OS takes
    up 26.38GB, and OS data takes another 11.2 GB, that's 58.7% of total
    storage just for the OS, and there doesn't seem to be a way to downgrade back to 18. Ridiculous.

    Another point, there have been several patches to correct minor
    problems. Each of these need 11GB of temporary space to run. So, to keep
    the system up to date, you need to keep another 11GB free.
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