Westpac, one of the âoebig 4â banks in Australia only allows a password of 6 characters, alphanumeric - no special characters. And when I say only 6⦠I mean no more, *and* no lessâ¦

What BMW did you go with? Iâ(TM)ve been really happy with mine, other than the glacial 80-100% charge speed which wouldnâ(TM)t be so bad if it had another 100km or so range (iX3).

The current ones that map are so much better than the older roombas. Totally agree their suction is lower and âoespeedâ doesnâ(TM)t matter as much, but a map is really useful.

It allows you to tell it what rooms / areas to vacuum if you only want parts done. It updates based on wherever your dog is sleep or your kids drop their shoes are just works around that. It is super satisfying if you have OCD to literally see the perfect track marks in the carpet that shows itâ(TM)s done every inch. You can also set it (at least ecovacs) to go over each area twice in a single âoerunâ.

Picks up where it finishes if it ever needs to recharge etc. etc.

I canâ(TM)t think of a building Iâ(TM)ve worked in without - âoeend of trip facilitiesâ. Showers, lockers, bike cages etc. You donâ(TM)t clock on until youâ(TM)ve used them, but they are very common and very convenient.

Yup, BMW options lists have nearly always been very extensive. Often adding 50% or so to the cost for what is already a luxury car, even if youâ(TM)ve picked a higher trim levelâ¦

Just be glad you arenâ(TM)t buying a luxury yacht⦠If you donâ(TM)t pick them from an options list and pay *extra*, youâ(TM)ll literally have no sails⦠At least the BMWs come with wheels.

Sigh, this used to be a forum where people understood the tools they were usingâ¦

Being part of a family means you *can* elect to share you location with family members. You can turn this off, or off for particular members, easily.

If itâ(TM)s off, you have the normal ways the share location, including for specific periods, specific apps at the like.

As for the list of apps, again, if you *choose* to share purchases with family members, they can see a list of what youâ(TM)ve purchased so they know what theyâ(TM)ve already got access to. I suppose there could be a more granular option where you share purchased but not history, making it slightly harder to find out if youâ(TM)ve downloaded Tinder, but would complicate things to the point most ordinary people would struggle. Besides, theyâ(TM)d just have to attempt to download Tinder and be told âoealready purchasedâ⦠making them just as suspicious if you really have that unhealthy of a relationship.

It seems this simple to those of us that already understand this stuff, but in my experience, it does not play out this way in real life.

I remember printing out a giant sign that said

for a family member that I was providing Mac support to. All the other rules / guidance was just too much for them to follow, so we agreed to this one and only condition.

It never lasted. It takes one âoefreeâ version of something that is otherwise a paid app, one app claiming to offer to help keep the machine clean / safe / faster, one trouble shooting guide that suggests it as a potential fix - and it will get disabled and never thought about again. Then, they blame Apple (or whoever) for things turning out just like the warning dialogues told them it would if they decided to enable / disable that optio

For the vast, vast, vast majority of people, they will blindly click through the option then get pissed with the result and be oblivious / in denial that they were the one that chose that path.

The biggest issue for me is that Apple are adamant that @me.com and @icloud.com are interchangeable, and they aren't.

You can sign your AppleID in to an iPhone or MacOS with either suffix, but if you created the account during the @me.com period only using @me.com works correctly.

I've spent countless days with Apple Support, including direct "engineering assistance" and while they are absolute in their statements that you can use either, you can't.

My iCloud Music Library was fundamentally broken for weeks, no amount of deleting, reformatting, reinstalling would fix it. Eventually signing in with @me.com not @icloud.com fixed it. Apple never agreed.

Then when my kids got iPhones, Screen Time features through family sharing (me monitoring my kids Screen Time) would not work. Removing my kids from my family account (they were linked by @me.com) and adding them back as @icloud.com fixed it. In one of the AppleID pages online you can see which is your true AppleID domain.

I demoed the fix by removing and then adding my teenagers with the other suffix and Screen Time worked, but they refused to believe it would fix the younger child. I couldn't fix it myself as he was under 13 and so can't be removed from a family without being associated with a new one, and you can't then add them back until the end of a waiting period.

Eventually I had Apple Support "correct" his DOB to make him 12 years and 364 days old (they wouldn't make him a teenager). Then I waited 24 hours and could remove and rejoin the account from the family and magically it was fixed.

The closer they get to shutting down all references to the non-iCloud accounts, the less chance they'll ever fix these bugs!

The Wing drones are fairly loud for a drone, and very fast. I'm in Canberra (Australia) and we are one of the trial areas. They fly over my house frequently and you can hear them indoors.

I can get a burrito delivered by a Wing drone to my house in under 10min. Does that count?

I want the doctor to be nagged, absolutely. Automatic "nagging" of potential drug / drug interaction is one of the easy wins for any EHR style system. Tends to be one of the few examples clinicians nearly uniformly support, too.

Absolutely not an expert, but my first degree was in Medical Radiations (applied science).

Outside of the clinical space, some X-Ray and CT systems use dual energy emmission to have better materials discrimination than you might think, as it isn't just based on density but also Z eff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_nuclear_charge).

Also, there are units that don't spin the tube - an older system that spun a beam to hit a large, circular annode (only a single manafacturer), and at least one modern design that has hundreds of small emitters (https://www.rapiscansystems.com/en/rtt).

Cheers.

How much is a new version of Internet Explorer?

You're kidding, right?

The comparison is "I have x dollars to pay off a debt", so the answer is always the one with the highest effective interest rate should be payed off first.

i.e. it takes most people over a decade to pay off a house, and months to pay off a credit card based on the SAME AMOUNT of money being dedicated to one task or the other.

Who the hell says "is it better to pay $2000 and remove my credit card debt or $200000 and pay off my house", and do nothing with the left overs, so to speak?

Even if you had $200,000 floating around, you'd be best paying of the CC first, and $198,000 off the mortgage...

Surely you see that?

I have identical twin boys, nearing 3 1/2 years old.

It's like a double control group, both with the same genes and the same upbringing, right down to nap times, food eaten (or at least offered) etc.

One has always been half a pound or so heavier, and very healthy other than some normal colds / croup from the bio-warfare that is daycare. His twin has eczema, asthma and hayfever. Growing out of it slowly, thank goodness.

There are both typical Aussie boys. Wrestle like bear cubs, couldn't keep them inside if you wanted to, covered in dirt and grass within 5 minutes of putting their shoes on (if you can convince them to) in the morning.

So there you go. It may all have an influence, but there's no single cause.