No real need to spend money building out infrastructure. The coax exists in most places. That was the real final bugaboo about it with Fios, the actual cost of building fiber all the way to the home.

I think this refers strictly to something that came to you directly. If something that was meant for your neighbor comes to you by mistake and you keep it, I believe you are on the wrong side of the law at this point.

Not necessarily a free alternative, but BlueBeam is a really great PDF editor. It’s ridiculously easy to mark up PDF’s, and it’s about half the cost of Acrobat, plus it gets cheaper the more copies you buy.

Uninspiring, at best. Touchbar is a gimmick that will probably not be heavily used by most. Lenovo tried this a few years ago on the X1 Carbon and people abhorred it so much that they went back to standard function keys in the next iteration. Not sure about the keyboard. I did not like the keyboard on the 12" MacBook.…

First thing I thought of. I remember trying out that stupid bar on the second gen X1C a few years ago. It was terrible.

The Muir Glen tomatoes are actually not San Marzanos. San Marzano tomatoes are DOP protected (even if that’s not enforced in the states). The real ones cost so much because they’re imported from Italy. I happen to like the Wegmans store brand (most anything they have in store brand is good), but I’d try the RedPack…

No extension for Firefox? Then I’m not interested.

This definitely looks super nice and I appreciate that the camera isn’t crippled on the smaller one, plus there is finally a pure Android phone with 128GB memory (very important to me). Still, I’m kind of sad that they’re moving away from the Nexus ethos of a pure Android phone that was moderately priced. This is…

And the wait begins to see how long these useful innovations take to land on the iOS version.

Back in the day (late 90s), I used to fill up my ‘88 Sentra with 93 octane, because I would get some knock from lower octane fuel, even at a good station. Since then, I haven’t even thought about that premium button.

I still have my late 2008 MacBook (when they tried the thing without he Pro for a small bit), and it can still chug along. Would be nice if I could put more than 4GB memory in it. Also I had to take the battery out because it swelled and made the trackpad not work well (and it seems that all you can get to replace it…

I remember how much Nintendo (and some game makers) would hype up that certain game carts were 64 megabit carts so they could pack in so much more stuff. It was pretty cool how easily they could expand functionality of the system by putting the chips on the cart.

I know this puts me in the “get off my lawn” set, but Samsung phones will continue to be a complete no-go for me while Samsung insists on putting its bloaty crapware on top of Android. It’s just a craptacular skin in the same stupid vein it’s been since 2009 with them. I want good hardware, but I also want a stock…

This. I love when my phone hooks into a weak xfinitywifi spot when I’m in my living room approximately 8 feet from my router. iOS devces can be stubborn trying to hold onto a wifi connection as well. If I can do this with my Mac, why not my iPhone??

The Google app has been doing this for a long time now (I use Google Calendar and it syncs with my local iOS calendar) and Waze will as well if your local calendar events have locations in them. It can be fun to have 3 different predictions about when to leave show up on your phone.

I don’t think their wifi calling setup is all that great. My friend had TMO for a while in a relative dead zone and the wifi calling did so little for him he ended up ditching them for ATT.

But Google just gives you the 50,000 locker for free. And it has apps for Android and iOS, and works right in the browser on PC. Apple can’t match that.

I have no problem with Taylor Swift’s position about getting paid for her music on this service, and good on her, I suppose, for getting Apple to commit to paying out during the trial period, but the obvious dishonesty of her letter bothers me. If you want to make the stand that you deserve to get paid for your music…

Isn’t it set by agreements and contracts between labels, rights holders, and the like? I mean, isn’t there a standard set rate?

You should mention that quite a few apps and sites support Google Authenticator codes, which helps streamline. I have Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, Facebook, Github, and both of my hosting providers all in one place.