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Comment Have been tracking since getting an Apple Watch (Score 1) 80

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.

Comment Tried using this with Verizon (Score 1) 24

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.

Comment Re:Music Failure (Score 2) 68

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.

Comment Not even sure if I own a disc player anymore (Score 1) 82

I know, I don't "own" the digital copies of the movies, but I'm not really concerned. The stacks of CDs, DVDs and Blu Rays that I had were given away for free because nobody wants them. I'm using Apple for movies and movies that were purchased in HD and a UHD 4K upgrade was released were automatically upgrade. Movies that I had on DVD and I wanted on BluRay were another purchase. I'm fine with not "owning" movies on physical media. The 700+ movies I have on Apple are just a database entry, of course, but I effectively take them with me when I go on a vacation and with FamilyShare we all have access to the movies. These benefits outweigh not "owning" the discs. I did that before and like the additional shelf space and conveniences of digital. Looking at the shelves at Target, I'm not alone.

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