I like to phot everything that passes through my hands. ID cards, letters, people, etc. etc.
From time to time I need to find the “needle in a haystack”. Unfortunately, I can’t “tag” photos to indicate what they are and why they’d be important.
Argh!
I have to create “albums” and “folders” and what not that some developer thinks is “kool”.
Argh!
Why not tags like Twitter and Facebook? Why reinvent the wheel? Like labels in Gmail but not in photos.
Argh!
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The Women’s Funding Network created the sign as a lifeline for those trapped at home with abusers during the pandemic.
# – # – # – # – #
Like keystones on a computer or a pin sequence at an ATM.
For an ATM pin, I’d suggest 9111 being that duress alarm.
Tellers have such a button, but why not have it as keystrokes on their keyboard?
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I’m really tired of struggling with various address books — IOS, OSX, Android, Google. Does anyone have an evernote template that could be the universal address book. I remember an old Windoze app “Little Black Book” that just allowed one to print out specialize address books for different purposes. For example, I used to print various ones for older relatives that only had “their” items of interest. Now, it just seems to be a virtually impossible to print something that would look like an address book without a lot of manual effort. Any suggestions?
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Apple’s Attempt to Prevent iPhone 13 Repairs Hurts Customers and Professionals
ANDREW HEINZMAN NOV 5, 2021, 3:26 PM EDT
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When our friends at iFixit did their first iPhone 13 teardown, they called the device “a new low” for repairability. Apple took unprecedented steps to prevent “unauthorized” iPhone 13 repairs—particularly screen replacements, which (by design) break the phone’s Face ID functionality.
Screen replacements are by far the most common phone repair procedure. They’re also fairly cheap and easy to perform, so as you can imagine, they’re the bread and butter of small repair shops. But unless Apple gives you permission to perform an iPhone 13 screen or battery swap, you will end up with broken features or a non-working phone.
And I’m not exaggerating when I say that you need Apple’s “permission” to repair the iPhone 13. Its components are serialized—meaning that parts like the display and Face ID camera can identify each other using unique serial numbers. To make one of these serialized components work with a donor part, an authorized Apple technician needs to sync each part with Apple’s cloud network and request approval from the corporation.
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It seems apparent that Apple wants to control its “customers” like sheep to be shorn.
As much as I am a little L libertarian, we are stuck with the current system until “We, The Sheeple” stand up and say “NO!”.
‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: [screaming at the top of his lungs] “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” — the character Howard Beale played by Peter Finch in the movie Network (1976)
So, I hope the anti-monopoly folks take notice of this.
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Recently, on both CLASSDOJO and SHUTTERFLY, I was trying to upload a photo.
In CLASDOJO, the web site would only accept a live photo. (MY workaround was to take a photo of my phone. Argh!). In SHUTTERFLY, I was trying to upload a photo from my laptop and couldn’t get it it.
After calling in and wasting time, I found out that if I used the IOS or ANDROID client, I could easily do what I wanted. In my “after action” review, a habit I got in the military, I could NOT find anything in their “help” sections that would let me avoid the phone call.
In the future, I’ll try different versions of the same offering on the off-chance that some developer was too lazy to make all the versions functional equivalent. Argh!
I’m putting this YSK on my blog so I’ll remember to follow my own advice.
FWIW YMMV
WHY YSK: I wasted a lot of my time and that of two support organizations because their sites were not intuitive and, I never thought that their IOS / ANDROID apps would be that different. DOn’t make my mistake and ASS-U-ME that everything is identical. It MAY not be.
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Accidentally deleted my Google Pay account and now Google FI and Google One are all screwed up. My pixel 5a is a unable to be used as a phone.
Argh!
Been on the phone with support for two hours today and 90 minutes yesterday.
Wonder if I can return the phone and start over?
Argh!
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https://www.reviewgeek.com/98982/ifixit-calls-the-iphone-13-a-new-low-for-repairability/
iFixit Calls the iPhone 13 “a New Low” for Repairability
ANDREW HEINZMAN @andrew_andrew__
SEP 27, 2021, 5:48 PM EDT | 1 min read
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As Right to Repair legislation garners support from both sides of the political aisle, Apple is doubling down on its anti-consumer practices. A now-complete teardown from iFixit shows that the iPhone 13 reaches “a new low” for repairability, as it’s effectively impossible to repair at home without losing key features like Face ID.
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Way to lock in the consumer.
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https://nypost.com/2021/09/22/brazil-man-dies-in-freak-keg-explosion-on-his-43rd-birthday/
Cancer survivor killed after beer keg explodes at 43rd birthday party
By Ben Cost September 22, 2021 10:58am
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A Brazilian man died at his own birthday party last week after a beer keg exploded while he was trying to fix it.
The tragedy occurred the evening of Sept. 17 after Gilson do Nascimento, 43, rented the booze barrel for his b’day bash in Campo Bom in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Newsflash reported.
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What a freak accident.
I foresee a big lawsuit about who said what!
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My experience with getting my ROSE Mac book air repaired continues.
Yeah, I spilled coffee on it — thanks Dunkin Donuts — and I sent it in and paid for repair — spills not covered by Apple Care — back it came still broken.
Just went thru the process again because the box got lost. Argh!
I’m going to chrome books completely. When they break you just recycle them. Argh!
My fiancé’s chrome book broke down and I had her back in operation in less than a day. Most of the time was to drive to Best Buy and pick up a new one.
Chromebook = Appliance like “Toaster” where as the Mac Book Air is more like a cranky computer. Argh!
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Seems like PROXPN is “ghosting”?
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