Any recommendations on brands or models?

Want to fix the Start menu? A start would be to get rid of folders.

I have Geforce Experience installed, but it's not listed under 'G'. It's under 'N' because it's the only thing in a folder named 'NVIDIA Corporation'.

Lots of other apps are in the Start menu inside folders which also contain their help applications, links to their corporate web sites, and their uninstallers. Because yeah, whenever I install an app I'm glad the developers gave me quick access to a way to get rid of it ...

All this stuff may have been appropriate for the Start menu up through Windows 7, but Windows 10 has been around for five years now. I'd hope that apps would get with the program instead of continuing to clutter up the Start menu.

I want to see rats driving tiny cars! I am disappointed the article has no video of it! All it has is a commercial for Excedrin.

Sounds like fun, but is it really true that it can only be tried via Telegram - a Russian service with questionable security policies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)

Well, of course BMW has to charge $80/year to enable CarPlay, because of all the extra bandwidth it ... uh ... the additional load on ...

This reminds me of Caller ID. At home, I have phone service over fiber. One of the features of fiber phone service is that it provides caller ID. But my phone company sets a bit on its customer accounts to block caller ID. If I want them to go unset that bit so that my phones can display caller ID, I need to pay them $8/month for the privilege of them making this one-time change. It's infuriating.

Oh, not very much time at all. My fake identity is saved to my phone's notepad so I can use it any time I want, and each spammer call is usually over within five minutes. And I actually use this to help my work - when I'm stuck in a rut or facing an intractable problem and a scammer call comes in, if I don't choose to ignore it, then I have some fun with it and it gets my mind off work just long enough so that I can return to the problem fresh.

Whenever I get a scam phonecall and feel like having some fun, I engage with them. I created a fake profile: fake name, fake address, fake credit card (with the BIN code and the customer service number matching the service I tell them it's from), fake social security number, &c. All of it is completely valid-looking data; the only thing wrong is that when they call the credit card company pretending to be me (with the information I gave them), they won't get through. "I just used this card this morning to get cappuccino at Starbucks!" I tell them. "I've been having trouble with this card recently and I've been meaning to call card member services about it. Can you help me with it?"

The thing that always amuses me, though, is how quick they are to hang up and abandon the call the moment something doesn't look right. If the first words out of my mouth are anything other than an answer to "which credit card do you have the highest balance on?" Click. If I ask for their company name? Click. If I tell them I had my identity stolen recently and I want to make sure it's safe to give them my credit card number over the phone? Click. Or, they immediately set upon me with cuss words and bad language. Never a "there seems to be a problem, would you please double-check your information?" You'd think a reputable business would at least have that level of friendliness...

I don't know about these new cards but "A1" and "A2" cards have higher IOPS than others. SanDisk Extreme microSD Cards with A2 IOPS are at least 4000 read and 2000 write.

When Florida State Representative Kimberly Daniels (https://www.facebook.com/State-Representative-Kimberly-Daniels-189630017733619/) asked the congregation the church that she leads (where she's an "apostle") to vote for HB303, which gives students and teachers the freedom to hold religious gatherings during school hours, I politely reminded her that it would give as much freedom to Muslims and Pagans and Satanists as it would to Christians - something that I'm completely okay with, but that I figured she might not be. In response, she blocked me from her official state representative FB page and deleted my comments.

Looks like, with this ruling, I should be able to ask her to unblock me?

Thank you!

OP here. To clarify: I have expensive (well, $150, which is more than an impulse buy) headphones because I don't want to hear my cubicle neighbor talking to herself all day. I'm trying to get work done, I'm not worrying all that much about audio fidelity.

I don't want to get rid of perfectly good headphones just to buy the Bluetooth version, and I don't like that the other option is to get a third-party adapter that will let me plug in the headphones and charge at the same time. (I've had bad experiences with third-party Lightning adapters.)

AirPods have batteries in them and need to be charged every five hours. They won't even make it through a full day without a recharge. Plus, batteries deteriorate over time and eventually won't even last for five hours. And with AirPods, you actually have to be concerned with three batteries - one in each earpiece and one in the travel case.

I don't need remote control over my music because I have my iPhone on the desk next to me. And I don't want tiny separate expensive earpieces; I want big headphones so that people can instantly see that I am listening to music and not to them.

AirPods are a great solution for certain situations that aren't the one I have.

I bought a Redmi Note 4 for $179 to learn Android on because it was compatible with LineageOS. I've thought about making it my everyday phone, because I'd much rather subject a $179 phone to daily wear-and-tear than something three (or more) times as expensive.

The only thing that's stopped me is that I don't see an easy solution for syncing my contacts, music, and other data from macOS to an Android phone (especially as I don't use Google services). If there's an app that'll sync the data for me, please point me to it?