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Comment Re:Best map app? (Score 1) 79

by aitikin (#66109236) Attached to: Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His 'First Really Big Mistake' as CEO

I have an iPhone, and I have tried using Apple Maps on multiple occasions - although admittedly not for a couple of years now.

I want to like it, because I do think its prompts and descriptions are better than Waze's / Google's, but it has consistently shown itself to be quirky and unreliable. For example - I was using it during a (~ 1 hour) commute from the Tacoma area to Seattle, and 75% of the way there it suddenly changed the route and told me I had 22 hours to go and now I needed to take a ferry (apparently I had to leave Seattle and then double back?). Or, when I tried it out going from my mom's house to my own (~ 30 minutes), it told me it was going to take 6 hours to get there - despite no significant traffic or construction between the two locations.

My parents had similar experiences. They were traveling to Fort Wayne from Indianapolis and, no matter how they prompted Apple Maps, it wanted to take them here not here. Worked out because their routes would always take them through the latter.

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 47

by aitikin (#66085682) Attached to: John Deere To Pay $99 Million In Monumental Right-To-Repair Settlement

Now lets bring these requirements into law, permanently, across all industrial and consumer devices.

Any obstacle to repair and maintenance other than the inherent difficulty of the operation is anticonsumerist and in the long run, economically damaging (and many of the inherent difficulties are as well, but we gotta start somewhere).

Settlement != precedent. Court decisions create precedent, settlements avoid them. Ipso facto this is not something that can be relied upon to determine future cases.

Comment Re:How soon until sites start blocking the VPN IPs (Score 1) 42

Maybe they block them less, if they know that many users will use them. Block VPN users now and it blocks some nerds and "pirates", block these IPs and it blocks a lot of Firefox users.

I imagine there aren't very many Firefox users who aren't nerds and/or "pirates" these days. 10-15 years ago, maybe, but today, I don't see many people (myself excluded) using Firefox in my day-to-day.

Comment Re:Theaters Used to be special (Score 1) 162

by aitikin (#66036882) Attached to: Only Half of Americans Went To a Movie Theater In 2025, Study Finds

In my entire life, I've only been to, as best I recall, three movies where there was an intermission. One was a Star Wars/Empire double feature, one was the theatrical release of three episodes of The Chosen, and I just found out the third was in my imagination. When I saw Glory in 1989, it was the first time I had to get up and go pee during a movie. No intermission.

Oh! Wait a minute, didn't the Lord of The Rings movies have intermissions? Maybe my count was short by 3.

As I recall, TLotR movies did not. I've never been in a movie theater with an intermission.

I did see a movie in 2025 in theaters. I was content with the decision to go, but it takes something of substance for me to want to. That said, I haven't seen very many movies released post The Hobbit approach the 222 minute runtime of Lawrence of Arabia.

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