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  • The slow death of Beeper continues, and more senators want to get involved

    dominikhoffmanndominikhoffmann
    Android users were unable to securely communicate with iMessage users and were relegated to using decades-old, unencrypted SMS technology.

    So not true. Those senators and members of Congress and their staffers would surely know that Android and iOS users can safely communicate with one another using Signal or even WhatsApp. 
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  • Apple & other tech giants appeal Maryland's digital advertising tax

    dominikhoffmanndominikhoffmann
    Of course, it’s for education! Never mind that the average Montgomery County (some of the towns in the county are Rockville, Gaithersburg, Bethesda, Potomac) student already costs taxpayers $15k–$20k/year. If you can’t produce quality education with that much money, an extra 10%, 20%, 25% isn’t going to do it.

    All taxes end up being a burden to the individual. For businesses and corporations they are part of the cost of doing business. That cost is always going to get passed along to the consumer. We need to get in the habit of opposing every and all tax increases, because we are already spending about half of our income on federal, state and municipal government.
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  • How to make sure you get an iPhone, instead of a swapped Android fake

    dominikhoffmanndominikhoffmann
    I am sure, Apple will investigate. Unfortunately, I have a feeling that they will now let the public know, how this happened. Too bad! It would be so fascinating to find out.
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  • Apple pauses iOS 18, macOS 15 work to stomp bugs now

    dominikhoffmanndominikhoffmann
    There are several bugs I have been dealing with, which I hope get fixed every time there is a new release. But then they aren’t. I can’t imagine that a week of concentrating on bug fixes can really be enough.

    Contacts: Adding contacts from the right pane to one of the lists in the left pane ceases to work after the app has been open for a day or so.
    Contacts: Clicking and dragging across the name of a contact in the right pane only works, if I start clicking in the lower half (maybe lower third) of the name.
    Contacts: Adding contact details in the Messages app will lead to that new contact showing up in the Contacts app only after 30 s or so. I do have a lot of contacts (> 5,000), but still…

    Calendar: Can’t add coordinates to an appointment’s location, anymore. It’s been years…

    Mail: Clicking on the down-caret to the immediate right of an address in the To: field of a message being edited requires the selection of “Edit Selection” twice, before I can actually edit the address. This has been a problem for years, now, too.
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  • A lament for the Touch Bar

    dominikhoffmanndominikhoffmann
    I am one of those touch typists. It was usually quite a slowdown to look down on my keyboard and to try to figure out what UI elements were presented. I thought it was very beautiful but useless. Haven’t missed it at all since upgrading my 2017 MacBook Pro with a 2021 MacBook Pro.
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