Nova is outstanding and I love it, though I’ve recently started using Evie, which I like a lot as well. It’s very search-driven, so it fixes a junior version of the Spotlight craving mentioned in this article.

That’s hilarious, I used to be a reporter and love the First Amendment. I’m saying in this specific case, Germany wants to continue to ban symbols of Nazism and yeah, I don’t think that’s a big deal. As the article says, “social media sites have 24 hours to remove content that is illegal in Germany—like swastikas,…

You said it better than I did. I’m more shocked by the power of the Nazism than I am what happened to slaves and the natives because it came after much of the world had developed past dehumanizing to that extreme level. That is, the hate speech helped bring about something that wasn’t there already. But obviously…

Can you give an example of a difficult choice or hard truth? Maybe I’m missing something.

Dr. Drew

America’s awesome, but I mean, we’re the greatest because we can post hate speech to Facebook? What kind of bar is that? Come on.

You’re alone, but only because the Classic was the first time you noticed. They’ve pulled this crap for years. It’s amazing to me that the company is beloved by so many.

How would an opening single quote have helped him?

Great tip—just downloaded The Prince and it looks terrific. Thanks!

Making my phone less pretty does, in fact, make me use it less.

I’ve never gotten an ad or suggestion from them that wasn’t tied to my purchase or browsing history on Amazon.com, which they’d obviously have access to. I find Google far creepier.

Why lump Amazon in with Google? Amazon absolutely makes money from selling you physical things, just like Apple. I guess because their prices are more reasonable you can’t trust them?

Seriously. Longtime Gmail user, but I have accounts on multiple services and Mac Mail is by far my favorite client on desktop or mobile. Quick, search is fast, and it does everything I need to.

That’s so funny—I find vibrate way more annoying. Especially when people don’t seem to get that vibrate, too, makes noise, and think if they ignore it, it won’t bug anyone. Gggggggggh. Gggggggggh. Gggggggggggggh. Whereas (most) people bother to silence a ringtone if they’re not going to answer it.

Kinda goofy, but one thing I’ve found that helps is to just turn everything off. Maybe 20 minutes before I go to sleep, I switch off my computer and phone. It feels oddly liberating. And it’s even great the next morning before I turn them back on.

Why scary? It’s not chump change. National average wage index in 2015 was just over $48,000. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/AWI.html

I thought the whole point of the walled garden was that they protected you from crap like this.

I used a five-year old computer at work, and it was perfectly pleasant. (Helped that I was in university IT and it was a hand-me-down Xeon box from a CAD lab.)

In Alabama? Now I’ve heard everything.

Why it’s the tightest 43 minutes in podcasting