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MrBunside said:

Is T-mobile's customer service worse than others? Or are they all terrible?

T-mobile offered to send SIM cards and a hotspot to test reception at my house with no obligation. I had little to no reception, never activated everything, and initiated a return - they charged me $400+ for something (never saw an actual bill), sent me to collections, and I'm now 10+ phone calls into the process of getting a refund, or at least documentation of what I was charged for. 

Par for the course?

All are the same and believe it or not, T-Mobile for us has been the most helpful compared to ATT or Verizon!  We went through EXACTLY what you went through but with ATT, when it finally came time to go to court, we met with their lawyer and showed all of our support documents and he was misidentified on how it got to court and requested for their case to be dismissed and agreed to pay for our fees but that didn’t recoup our loss of time nor our frustration!  Do you get American Executive Support person on the phone? If not, you need to go and demand it! 

Can’t compare Disney+ against Apple TV+ because Disney started with a MASSIVE following with Marvel and Pixar fans, not to mention the TONS (read as thousands of hours) of content over the last 59 years. Apple started with ZERO content but is making an honest go at it, look at Ted Lasso and the recognition it has received. Netflix and Amazon are each spending more than $15+ Billion dollars per year on content, so it’s a competitive market place but where Apple has dropped the ball is on Apple TV device, it needs to be focusing on gaming, along with content. 

chadbag said:

indieshack said:

Apple reportedly patched the file:// but failed to block other iterations of the prefix like File:// or fIle://, meaning would-be attackers can easily bypass the built-in safeguards. The tech giant also failed to assign the bug a CVE designation, according to Minchan.

As a developer I find it difficult to comprehend that other variations weren't tested...

100% agree.  More so that the person assigned to fix this vulnerability didn’t think to do a caseless comparison.  

Without Steve Jobs around and with Mr. Emoji “Cook” in the helm, Apple has become crap. Very little innovation, considering the amount of people they employ and the sad part is, it’s more about stroking Media than innovation, I can nearly everything the iPhone does in an android for half the price.  So no, I’m not at all surprised that this happened and it will continue to happen under Cook. 

Truly uneventful!  Most of the “features” are software driven and could have been implemented on the iPhone 12, heck maybe even the iPhone 11.  Yeah, Macro is nice but you can get the Macro effect through software and using zoom. Seriously a sad day for Apple! They need to move to a two year cycle!

vesalius said:

Like hue, seems they will leave the Aqara devices to Aqara hub network unchanged with Zigbee and just add Matter as a communication protocol from the Aqara hub out to your smart home hub.

Then Matter will use standard TCP/IP to communicate with your home hub of choice “The first specification release of the Matter protocol will run on existing networking technologies such as Ethernet (802.3), Wi-Fi (802.11), and Thread (802.15.4) and for ease of commissioning, Bluetooth Low Energy.”

So in the end this means little to nothing practically as Aqara neither gains any function/integration ability it does not already have with alexa/google home/HomeKit (Aqara hubs currently supports them all today) nor will it lose the separate hub requirement. Losing the Aqara hub would require them to switch to thread from Zigbee for each device. 

So what your saying is to use z-wave+/LR and avoid protocols that could expose your entire “smart” home to hackers? ;-)