I have *no* problem with user customization, but the customizations should never touch certain parts of the OS, like the control panels/settings. There should 100% always be a consistent settings/control panel icon, and the structure of those menus and control panels should stay consistent across OS revisions. If you…

Yeah, there’s no real point in upgrading to the X or XR or XS if you have a 7 or later. I can literally, at any moment, assign myself a new phone and choose not to because my company-issued 7 works fine. If there’s nothing about the new phone that motivates me to go take one out of a box and put my sim in it, there’s…

For now - they did it under duress since nobody was buying.

(You need to get that dude a logitech harmony :P works wonders for old people AV issues. You can even set up the harmony app on your phone and if they can’t do something you can send the commands remotely.)

My hands clicked that link before I finished reading the sentence lol - thanks!

A friend of mine has one that still works. I kept doodling and crossing stuff off. I think OSX had the smoke puff until.... 10.8? for removing stuff from the dock.

The biggest pains-in-the-butt are vendor customized low-end android devices. I would single out vendor customizations as the number one obstacle to our organization adopting more Android devices. *if* every Android device was required by license to be pure android, I think *everyone* would ultimately be a lot happier.…

Yeah, but it’s very difficult for a nontechnical person to find support for android. “Fix email on android” can return results that are *very* different depending on the version of android, whereas “fix email on iphone” is pretty consistent across versions. (setting up exchange accounts on android 4 was *vastly*…

scribbling to delete on the Newton was legit. That little smoke puff was so satisfying.

My iPod Hi-Fi still sounds great lol - that thing is awesome. SO LOUD. Plugged into an echo Dot :P

I think Apple kept pushing prices until the market would no longer bear it, and they hit that point. Everyone’s tired of being nickle-and-dimed. There’s no more cheap iphone, the “for mom and dad” model. I don’t want to spend 1k dollars on a phone for my mom to take pictures of her dog, but I don’t hate my parents…

I wish they’d do something like... 3/4 the size of the mustang, with the 2.3 ecoboost. Like, if Toyota and ford teamed up to do an ‘86 with the 2.3 ecoboost, I’d be completely happy. Call it... the Ford Maverick?

Anyone else find metal straws extremely uncomfortable?

Anyone else find metal straws extremely uncomfortable?

I loved my headphone jack. No pair of wireless headphones I’ve tried sounded as good as even something inexpensive, like koss porta-pros (admittedly, those are ridiculously good for the money) - let alone actual nice wired headphones. I’ll keep wearing my tinfoil hat insisting that Apple deleted the headphone port to…

It honestly wasn’t the first time catching venom for stopping to help someone. At this point I’ll only stop if it’s someone who looks like they *really* need help, or if they look like like an enthusiast with an older car that can probably be fixed roadside. I’ll still stop if there’s imminent danger (middle of the…

Orange County has permanently broken my perspective of what housing costs in most of the country :P

Not anymore. The last time I did it was a guy, roughly my age, who greeted me with “what the f took you so long” - I got back in my car and left. I used to stop and help people, and still might if they’re super old, but other than that I am tired of people treating me like a servant when I stop to do them a solid. 

I used to love when people would have a second partition on the same physical drive to “back up”. When I’d ask questions, invariably the name “Leo Laporte” would pop up somewhere. 

For anyone in a college dorm, chromecasts cause tons of complaints from students, the AppleTV’s “just work”. The chromecasts barf out enough spurious traffic that the content filter treats them as malicious. I’m platform agnostic, but that might be a consideration.