My 6S is going on five years, and it is supported with iOS 14.  I have also never encountered any so-called “software to limit functionality.”

I’ve had a 6S going on five years (was looking to get a new phone this year, but the pandemic has kind of gotten in the way), and it is still getting OS updates. It’s also compatible with iOS 14. Android really can’t seem to compete with that kind of device support—and, yes, while it may be true that Apple releases…

Find an accountant (ideally one located in your new country) that specializes in U.S. tax filing from abroad. There are lots of Americans who live overseas in your situation, and the paperwork involved is considerably more complicated than a standard domestic file.  It also doesn’t matter if you didn’t earn any income…

I’ve been a big fan of Gregg Araki ever since I caught a random broadcast of “Nowhere” on IFC a couple of decades ago (a happy occurrence because the film never had a Region 1 DVD release), and I was lucky to have attended a retrospective of his career at TIFF in Toronto several years back where he also did an…

My biggest fear is that ARM-based Macs will be locked down into installing everything only from their App Store. I’m already skeptical that these Macs would be acceptable for professional software use, but even if they could manage to be fast enough, an App Store-only Mac environment would make me go back to…

I understand the sentiment, but funky hardware is meaningless when the software itself was borderline unusable between underpowered specs and arbitrary carrier restrictions that routinely plagued these phones.

American consumers are perceived as conservative and risk averse. Even today, your average American house and car is plain, boring and ugly--don’t want to make too many waves!

As icing on the cake, he’s also the great-grandson of Francisco Franco.

I saw a commentator on another thread say Biden should just play this gibberish on loop to clinch the next election.

A ranked choice primary election on the same day nationwide is the only way to manage this fairly and democratically.  No single state can or should dictate the will of the others.

The media narrative—and thus, the polls leading into Super Tuesday—shifted substantially after South Carolina’s primary. Voters there are free to vote their conscience any way they like, and that obviously meant Biden, but we’re also talking about a state that overwhelmingly elects Republicans regardless. Why should a…

It shouldn’t even be about who is deserving or not deserving when it comes to monetary policy and taxation. Whether Elon Musk is a “good” billionaire or someone like Donald Trump is a “bad” billionaire is entirely irrelevant. I don’t particularly feel the need to confiscate all the wealth of the rich, but it is…

The DNC strongly favored Biden from the start, and it’s all the more clear now when you consider that the delegate count between Biden and Sanders is not all that far apart. Now that their favored candidate finally had a good day, we’re all supposed to give up and just “accept the inevitability,” even though over half…

I respect Bernie has his own vulnerabilities, which is why I left him out.

4 years of Biden maintaining the party status quo and saying some dumb shit sounds really nice right now.

To an extent, I think there’s something appealing to the idea of reincarnation versus immortality. The latter means being the same person in the same world burdened with memories you may or may not want to have, whereas the former means you essentially get to wipe the slate clean: a new life, new memories, and…

Frankly, it would help greatly if the DNC was on the side of a candidate like Sanders and Warren, and it is clear that they are not. An overwhelming percentage of Democratic voters are, unsurprisingly, going to trust the Democratic Party when they throw their weight behind a candidate, whether that candidate is John…

Democrats vote out of fear, which doesn’t go well for them. Meanwhile, can you think of the last time Republicans thought to themselves “let’s go safe this time”? These are the folks with grand plans to reshape America in their image (i.e., Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America” in 1994 and their grand aspiration for…

Bloomberg will not get the DNC nomination and he will likely be a pissy fuckface about it and run as an independent

“Summer” in Toronto last year was a month and a half long (chilly until late June, then chilly again starting in early August). I’ve lived in close proximity to the Great Lakes for virtually my entire life, and I still can’t see why people would want to live near these bad weather machines.  Hope to get away someday.