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32" ACD or nought. Go big or go home.

My phone has been on the charger most of the day because it's handy,  and it was on v.174. I plugged the MagSafe into my MBA and in the time it took me to open the phone and get to Settings/About/MagSafe it was at v.274.

WTF.

I wish this was an option with updating AirPods. It took a really long time for my AirPods 2 to update. I have no idea what my G3s should be.

I bought a 4-pack about a month or so ago, and immediately put one into service.

Checking it at the previous announcement of v.1.0.291 (1A291c), it showed 1.0.276. Yesterday I put another one is service and today, it shows v.1.0.225. I expect the remaining two will also show .225.

Since the day of the announcement of the .291 (c) update, I've kept the phone and my AirTag and phone practically as conjoined twins, but no joy. Maybe this second update (e) coming down the pike caused the first one to be pulled back.

I'm guessing neither of these updates hold any real benefit for me, so I've stopped obsessing about them getting updated.

I hope the 13 mini gets a better battery to load ratio. The battery in my 12 mini is already getting close to replacement level and I use and charge it the same way as my 5S which got terrific battery life and lacked Charging Optimization.

Yes the screen is bigger and OLED, but the battery is bigger as well. I use Dark mode a lot, and keep brightness down. But the battery being this close to replacement this soon is troubling. Apple doesn't make it easy anymore to find the Cycle count. Coincidence? I think not.

To me a stammer was never a condition but a nervous reaction to shock or fear manifested as staccato-like speech or utterances, and not at all the same meaning as stutter. I know that a lot of people use the two words interchangeably.

Not being a speech pathologist or lexicographer I have no idea if there is or isn't a difference in their medical definition. I still see and use them as different words with different meanings.

Growing up I had a friend who had a bad stutter and was bullied mercilessly K-6. I got in a lot of fights over it and parents of the losers (multiple levels) their little angels were boys being boys and that my friend just needed to toughen up. We both did and a lot of people regretted it. Eventually things smoothed out. At some point he learned that if he sang, the stutter would abate. So he picked up a six-string... Oh wait that wasn't him. But he did join a small local band and had some improvement when not singing. He was a great guy.

I don't know how entrenched is the concept of a stammer being a chronic speech impediment. If it is deeply so, maybe Apple should at least cull the words that bring up woozy face. But remove it, no.

A lot of people want anything that offends them removed, sanctioned, whatever. I once worked with someone named Karen who was ahead of the curve, being the stereotypical 'Karen' before there was such a thing.

Otherwise, anything that promotes kindness and decency is OK in my book. It seems to be in very short and diminishing supply on this side of the pond.