retrogusto

I got an Express VPN subscription a few years ago to use my movie streaming services for a few weeks in a foreign country. After I signed up, they demanded a scan of my driver’s license, but I protested like crazy and they eventually said they didn’t really need it, it had just been a mistake on their part. That was creepy enough that I have been leery of VPNs ever since. 

I would love to see a small iPhone charger with tapered sides (narrowest near the prongs) so it would be easier to pull out of outlets. The combination of the smooth flat parallel sides and small size on the current ones makes it very difficult to pull out of tight outlets. It’s always been a cool-looking design, but I’d sacrifice a little beauty for ease of use at this point, and they could probably still make it look nice.

hucom2000 said:

Ok, I get the bragging rights… but all these phones are blazingly fast. I have a 12 Pro and I never found myself wishing for a faster processor.

I generally agree, but I bet there are scenarios where processor power may be more helpful than it would appear. The computational photography and video stuff is really impressive and probably wouldn’t be as good with lesser processors, same is true for on-device Siri transcription. They’re still too slow to run some older apps smoothly—I have one app that I use daily that ran faster on my 2011 iPad 2 than it does on my current hardware, although I know this isn’t purely a hardware issue. And the autocorrect suggestions can’t really keep up with my not-so-fast typing, so the words switch around just as I’m about to tap them, resulting in frequent errors and frustration. 

Is anyone else here having issues with 15.2.1? I’ve been experiencing overheating and rapid battery drain on both my iPad and my iPhone since I updated. 

MplsP said:

If a company requires an employee to spend their time on something as a condition of employment then the employee should be compensated for that time. That’s not that radical of an idea.

It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a condition of employment at all, since they encourage you to avoid it entirely by not bringing stuff. From Apple’s perspective, if you choose to bring things to the workplace that you won’t/shouldn’t be using at the workplace on Apple’s dime, they’re not going to pay you for the extra time that you and they have to spend to make sure nobody is stealing anything. It’s not productive work time, it’s not a huge percentage of your work day, and it’s not like Apple is charging for the additional labor involved in monitoring this stuff on their end. It’s still better than just saying you can’t bring stuff, which would be lousy but certainly within their rights. To me a better analogy would be a company that requires you to wear a uniform, and gives you the option of changing into your uniform when you arrive since that would be more convenient for many people, but they aren’t going to pay you for the time it takes for you to get changed in and out of your uniform, if you do it at work, and not compensate those who put on their uniforms at home.

if you’re getting paid for it, you could presumably make a little extra cash or work a little less if you always brought a whole bunch of stuff that was onerous to search.