I also have the Premium subscription, so no ads. The AI generated content sucks, but you can tell that it is AI generated within a few seconds. No real rules, but it just seems "off".

And should management get a more realistic idea of what it is and what it isn't? Yep

Very few people care about having the source code to their operating systems. MacOS is linux-y enough to give me the command line environment wile at the same time giving me supported applications. Linux on the server, MacOS on the laptop and Windows if you want to do gaming.

...and there will never be a twice. It was terrible and I really didn't save much of anything over other carriers after all the add-ons were charged. I feel bad for the people that are employed there but will not miss them one iota.

I'm generally doing 10k steps per day, weather permitting and some days up to 20k. 2500 steps is days that I'm not doing any kind of walking. 1500 would be days that I'm sick and in bed most of the day. What's the key to being able to stick with? Probably the Apple Watch but more importantly - no little kids that I have to take care of. I tried to do 10k when the kids were little and that was a chore.

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My alerts never go through. I think it's Verizon blocking them Now if they could only block the stupid spam texts.I've given up on email to text gateways and do a WebEx bot so at least delivery is reliable. More formatting options and ultimately just a curl call.Too much spam in both email and texts and everyone is trying to block the spam that you're more likely to have an important notification disappear.

Programs like JamKazam were popular during the Covid shutdown, but the latency made it difficult to go beyond two people.

... mostly against electronic surveillance. But if it's for art, that's cool?

Sounds like my DirecTV NOW increase. Heh.

If you're talking about Apple Music Match (think that's what it is called), they don't really upload your MP3's and replay them like they used to. I "ripped" all my CDs years ago for that and for most of the CDs, they would essentially fingerprint the songs that you uploaded and match it to the track in their system. If it wasn't in their system, the track went off to storage and you could get it there. Over time, iCloud and streaming have taken over. If Apple doesn't have the streaming rights for a particular song, it disappears from your music match. We noticed it mostly from my wife's favorite Christmas music CDs that we ripped and have long since been discarded. One CD in particular keeps losing tracks over time. So, if you pay for Apple Music and have Music Match, it's pretty much a waste of money. Similarly, U2's Rattle and Hum was one of my favorite movies from the 80's. But you can't find it on streaming anywhere supposedly because getting the streaming rights for all the songs would never happen or be too expensive when you need licensing from that many sources.

Insta has better photos, Threads has better commenting and you don't have to post "See link in Bio", you can just add a link. I wanted to like Threads, but they can't get critical mass to make it interesting enough.

I have a Samsung TV that gets occasional firmware updates. The latest killed HDMI CEC (turns on the TV when a device turns on). So now I have to juggle more remotes. Not the end of the world, but it would be nice if it worked.

...I always wonder who their parents are. Is it a variation of the kids with techy parents with CNCs and 3D printers at home just coincidentally build the fastest pinewood derby cars?

You can sign up with a click, but to cancel you need to call in and wait, and wait. Hulu and Netflix make it pretty easy. But things like your cellphone, I think I want that to be difficult to cancel.