I've used iTunes on Windows for over a decade. No other music player offers the same features (5 star rating system, dynamic/smart playlists, organizes files for you), and I happen to have some iPads that I used to sync with. iTunes is just really solid. It led me to actually subscribe to Apple Music over Spotify and the rest.

On first try, the new Apple Music app seems to retain all the features I want. Haven't tried whether it still supports automatically exporting the library to XML.

Nothing will ship before mid-July. That's not my definition of here.

I was actually kinda excited because I would like some of these, but they don't even ship before we've left for our vacation.

Such as everyone working via 5G or everyone behind ISP NAT. If we were on IPv6 then this would work, but with IPv4 the IP is sadly not guaranteed to remain stable. Tying credentials to the IP would be a massive inconvenience for a lot of people - many more than you think.

This has been true since the dialup days, and only IPv6 has a chance of fixing it.

They already did, but it's not expensive - it's free and open source: https://framasoft.org/

They are not electric mopeds. EU e-bikes top out at 25 km/h (16 mph), and you must turn the pedals to make the engine go. It is a bicycle with aid, not a moped.

As a blanket ban that sounds fine, if one defines minors as under 13. Between 13 and 18 there should be strict regulation, but not a ban.

The CDC's system assumed that if a date was provided, then the "no" or "unknown" answer was an error, and the system switched the answer to "yes."

As someone who processes unclean data, this seems an entirely reasonable data processing normalization step. If a date was provided, I would also assume the respondent simply forgot to toggle the other field, because it is natural for respondents to assume that inserting a date would also imply a "yes".

Bullshit. One of my major complaints about iOS (and macOS) is exactly that too many things change with every major update. Settings are routinely moved around or removed, for no good reason. Apple has the exact same problem as all the other big companies - change for change's sake.

21-W:5 Proprietary Software on State Websites specifically says proprietary javascript - not all JavaScript, just proprietary. Nobody is proposing banning HTML5 or Ajax outright, simply that all the used JS should be open source. That's a perfectly acceptable and noble goal.

No ffs, I do not want to talk to support. I just want to send an email with all the technical details. Phone support is worthless.

Why would anyone trust a 3rd party app for this? The functionality is built-in to both Android and iOS, and even if Google/Apple aren't wholly trustworthy, they're orders of magnitude better than some 3rd party tracker.

That's how it works in the rest of the world, and it works quite well. It's also how it works in 41 US states, so the idea is not that alien to Americans.

He has a PhD, so he is rightfully titled as Dr.

From the summary:

So even if the tests that the kids used were hobby-class, it was confirmed by better tests.

As per https://en.digst.dk/news/news-archive/2020/december/denmark-launches-new-digital-driving-licence/

We also have our health insurance card as an app. And vaccination information. And government 2FA that we use for all public services. And several payment methods. We are getting rid of as much paper and plastic as possible.

So, this is simply not news or novel - it's just business as usual.