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I connected my AirPods 4 to my MBA via cable and they were updated in less than two minutes, probably less. I've done this since it was first mentioned at AI many years ago. It's worked very quickly every time, but this is by far the quickest I've seen any of my AirPods get updated.

As always I have no idea if the updated firmware is a welcome update.

I'm not particularly concerned about AMAZON or anybody mining my voice commands for fun or profit. Eavesdropping on me for any reason is a concern for me. Given that proviso what really bothers me is echo devices is 99% useless when they lose an internet connection. Whatever local commands they're allegedly capable of performing go out the window with mothership processing.

I've got two Echo shows and during a major portion of the day they're useless to me. My main use is to see the time at a distance. But for some time now they've been feeding me ad after ad throughout the day, relegating the time to a small footprint in the corner. Sometime in the evening the ads lessen and the time is once again the main feature of the display until sometime the next morning. Rise repeat hurl.

Even if there's some advantage to doing this, do we know that a subsequent macOS update would then sync your contacts to Apple, give that Siri would be enabled before the update?

Apple routinely turns on some setting when doing various updates. This is possibly because they ship OSs with some things enabled that some users don't want, so they turn them off. A subsequent update ships setting same as when Apple had them in the initial update, so they're "reenabled", to the ire of the user.

There are files I've deselected to be synced with iCloud, but syncing was enabled via an update. I disabled that, scrubbed iCould of the files (and maybe they're still there somehow) and very recently discovered iC had a bunch more of the docs. I had to disable syncing again, and scrub the files.

So Apple is not bound to trust your choices. They reset to boiler plate updates and it's up to you to fix what they 'fix'.

No small amount of misogyny here. But like the freedom of a couple to make a specific request on a wedding invitation, people in forums have the freedom to make judgement calls with little or no basis but their own projections.

All the declarations of how they will or won't behave at someone's wedding because it's all about them, and not the happy couple. What asshats. I don't mean asshats.

Presumably it's friends and family that are invited to weddings but anybody who's been to a wedding or three knows that doesn't mean members of either will behave with basic common courtesy, same as demonstrated here.

We don't know why that specific request was made. If fact we don't know that tweet is genuine. The author could have made it up. If genuine does the couple seem smartwatches the same way people see 'kleenexx' 'Xerox' (mainly a few boomers on that one) or any other brand name pressed into generic service? Do they think Apple Watches garish and will accept Rolex, certain Pateks, or even a lowly Cartier? Or could then not want any smartwatch beeping during the ceremony, thinking that people will silence their phones? Just like in movie theaters. Right. We don't know.

I've been to weddings and heard phones on 'silent' and phones not on silent including those with loud songs as 'ring tones'. WTF.

A wedding couple gets to decide what goes and what doesn't at their wedding. That is their right. If they want every guest to wear clown shoes that's their right. Obviously they can't enforce it short of having security at the door. It's up to the guests to honor the requests. Like others have said they don't like it they don't have to go. Whether a couple are friends or not, if I'm not comfortable with any requests I just wouldn't attend. Nobody especially me needs to tell them 'I'll wear whatever I want to your wedding'. That's an asshat move. Just don't go.

Is it a shallow request? Maybe. Maybe not. Attendees defying the request are definitely shallower than their perception of the request.

It would be helpful to know more about the situation but it's an opportunity to assume the worst about two people (especially the bride) and demonstrate equally bad behavior. Grown ups. Yay us.

libertyandfree said:

foregoneconclusion said:

libertyandfree said:

DAalseth said:

Don’t bother trying to put lipstick on a pig. The next few years will be bad for everyone. Cook’s relationship with the man known for stabbing his friends in the back will not make any difference.

Well history of the first four years of the Trump Administration proved you wrong and most Americans, via the recent election, disagree with you.  

You should revisit Trump's use of tariffs from his first term. The soybean tariffs were such a disaster for American farmers that Republicans had to do a taxpayer funded bailout of those same farmers. So instead of boosting trade, it depressed trade and created debt levels so high that it could have destabilized American soybean production.

 So soybeans, really that’s the issue of concern. Oh boy. 🧒 

That's your takeaway? WTF. It's not the issue of concern. It's a bellwether of an issue of concern as in those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Then again if they don't understand it in the first place memory will have taught them nothing. Trump has already threatened Mexico with a promised 25% tariff and Mexico says bring it. He thinks everyone will bow to his will. By the way he never made them pay for the wall. 

Even when he's in agreement with someone, he's the scorpion/snake on their alligator back. Cook may be able to negotiate a no-tariff deal, but to Trump Tim Apple is a mere vassal same as any other US manufacturer that conducts some aspect of their business outside the US and its territories. 

The one thing we can trust about Trump is that he can't be trust. And that he will grift as often as possible. That his ego knows no bounds and that he's no guitar hero. Ok that's four things. I hate to think about it but there's more.