Something that plays nicer with non-Apple devices and allows easier manual input/sync of passwords.

Yeah, paying a la carte for streaming services would suck. I try to keep mine baked into other stuff I’d be paying for, anyway. I get my Netflix and AppleTV from my T-Mobile wireless plan, my Max from my AT&T fiber internet that I need to keep WFH and Prime Video is part of my Amazon Prime subscription. So, the only…

This! Phones have ballooned in size over the past decade, but my pocket size has remained largely unchanged. I don’t want to have to wear cargos or schlep a backpack everywhere just to have a great camera or decent battery life. But I also don’t want to be stuck with a phone that feels like a relic from 2014 just for…

Not surprising, I guess.

FB: “That’s a nice reputation you have there. It would be a real shame if someone came along and did some embarrassingly sketchy stuff in your name. For $12 a month, I can offer you “insurance” against such an unfortunate incident.”

I’m too exhausted between making dinner after a long day at my full-time job and getting ready to go to my side hustle to attempt to engage with you about the relative merits of coherent urban planning vs the risks of greater population density. But let me just ask:

The lack of focus does kind of feel weird. The main story is great and all, but it feels like it should come with a real sense of urgency. At the same time, you always have like 20 other side quests, contracts and treasure hunts going on at once. And there’s no downside to the main story if you get completely…

The fact that their core business finally has legit competition from companies that can bring economies of scale and better QC doesn’t help. Lord knows, a lot of people (myself included) would take a Mustang Mach-E over a similarly spec’ed Model 3 based on features & build quality and over a base Model S based on…

I mean, didn’t John LeGere (the guy who made a fortune at Global Crossing in the dot-com boom and who turned around T-Mobile) already publicly offer to take the job? Musk would be an idiot not to eat some crow and take him up on it at this point.

True, but most of them are private corporations just trying to sell us more stuff, and aren’t extensions of the Chinese government. That’s a potentially important distinction.

The fact that Marco Rubio is in the middle of this makes me a little hesitant to get behind it. But law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been warning us about potential security and privacy issues with TikTok for years now, so I guess this could fall under that whole “a broken clock is still right twice a…

I don’t necessarily object to the removal of news from FB and IG. It definitely sounds like an obnoxious “if we can’t have it for free, we don’t want it” kind of move on their parts, and honestly…separating news from social media comments would be a healthy thing. But knowing that EFF is siding with FB and Google makes…

The fact that this race was even remotely close, much less one that requires a run-off, is deeply unsettling on multiple levels. 

That’s…optimistic.

Yeah…even if parts of it end up being true, it still falls much more solidly under “not a great look” than “deeply scandalous.” Hell, even if it were *all* true and verifiable, it’d still be a drop in the bucket in comparison to the fraud, self-dealing and influence-peddling perpetrated by the Trump kids.

Have they considered hiring a motley band of low-level adventurers, to work their way up from lone rats to small bands of rats, and then on up the chain until they find the sorcerer behind the rat problem somewhere deep in the subway tunnels below the city, hopefully once they’ve reached about level 10 or 12?

But won’t the 20-25% haircut on the booking revenue the landlord is taking eat most of the profit potential for an AirBnB arbitrage operator?

Siri is useful as part of Apple CarPlay for getting directions, streaming music, reading texts, etc. But I can’t remember the last time I attempted to use it when not in the car - partly because talking to your phone still feels weird, and partly because Siri completely sucks in comparison to Google Assistant (which…

Using the vague statement “Alexa, buy soap” when you really just want a few bars of Irish Spring for your shower could easily devolve into a comedy of errors where you actually end up with a 10 gallon drum of generic dishsoap, a gift pack of gold-leaf accented seashell-shaped bars of hand soap or a boxed DVD set of…

True. But I’m not sure there much/any overlap on the Venn diagram of people willing to drop $80k+ on an EV and people who are mad enough that Apple and Google might deplatform Twitter that they’d dive headfirst into janky new Twitter-centric mobile ecosystem.