On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:12:24 +0200 "jdd@dodin.org" <jdd@dodin.org> wrote:
Le 24/06/2019 à 16:09, Dave Howorth a écrit :
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:17:59 +0200 "jdd@dodin.org" <jdd@dodin.org> wrote:
>>>> storage, neither of which I need or want. Indeed stopping >>>> IoT devices from phoning home
what I understand in the sentence is preventing IOT phoning *to* home, not *from* home.
the expression is an English idiom, well-described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoning_home and illustrated more simply at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phone_home
what is the real question?
exactly. I get the impression that the discussion speaks the contrary
jdd
stopping device from phoning home != stopping device phoning from home -- Bob Williams System: Linux 4.12.14-lp151.28.7-default Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.55.0, Qt: 5.9.7 and Plasma: 5.12.8