US public education system doesn’t teach anything related to real-world finances, including how tax brackets work.

I thought it was a coating, like what they use to filter UV light. I have Theraspecs that do it, but those are sunglasses.

She was just upselling, not actually knowledgeable. They filter some blue spectrum, not the whole color blue.

Nope, but I also feel like Apple would have it off by default, unlike Microsoft.

Looks neat. I wonder if the mail proofread and rewrite will work anywhere other than in Mail or Safari, though. If so, it’'d give Outlook users a way better option than forking over $30/month for Microsoft’s extremely sluggish O365 Copilot. I don’t know if that’s any better on Windows, but the O365 Copilot experience on Mac slowed everything down, workflow-wise, when I tested it out a couple months ago. Click button, wait 30 seconds, repeat. Doing this stuff on-device will be great.

At some point they are going to have ad channels with content breaks.

Gardener here, I think it’s too late.

It’s actually fake, though. IP phones “play” that. Also, when on a call, they insert "comfort noise, that very low hiss you may hear, to augment the odd feeling most get with crystal clear VOIP audio.

Internet traffic gets mirrored to NSA data centers, that’s old news from the Snowden leak.

So the weird part is it does reliably trigger a failure if you ask directly, but not if you ask as a follow-up.

I first asked

Tell me about Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics

And then I followed up with

Are you bound by them

It didn’t trigger-fail on that.

Single-payer healthcare not tied to employment?

I get Copilot to bail on conversations so often like your example that I’m only using it for help with programming/code snippets at this point. The moment you question accuracy, bam, chat’s over.

I asked if there was a Copilot extension for VS Code, and it said yup, talked about how to install it, and even configure it. That was completely fabricated, and as soon as I asked for more detail to prove it was real, chat’s over.

Coil whine ? Yup. They told me it would go away as I got older and lost range of hearing. Still waiting for that.

Edit: typo

DNS ad blocking on iOS has been fine a few years at least. I’ve been using NextDNS on mine since 2020. I actually shocked some family members at how easy it was to setup on theirs, to the point where they felt weird not seeing the ads plastered everywhere. One actually wanted them back. Stockholm Syndrome, I guess.

You can use either their app, which toggles a network profile for the DNS, or install a MDM profile from their site, which is a more persistent option. I prefer the app as you can toggle it off if something isn’t working and you want to confirm whther the DNS is the culprit.

Oh I’m well aware. My former company just sold my department to an outsource company at the same time they laid off. We are all just numbers.

I feel like the CEO should be required to resign if they let a company get to the point where multiple rounds of layoffs are required. They need to own the failure of their decisions.

Any “job” that requires you to pay anything up front is a scam. Period.

ATV is the only box I recommend. I’m anti-Google, don’t trust Amazon (and now their service is going to do ads on a paid Prime membership), and Roku has major privacy issues at least in the past. Curious why you’re seeking an alternative to Apple.

I put a relative’s mobile phone on NextDNS to block ads for them, and the came back a couple days later noting how weird the ad-free experience was. Thankfully they didn’t want to revert, but yeah, most people are way into advertiser Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

I think I’ve been blocking/combating internet ads for 20+ years at this point.

“Cloud” + “lifetime” are not a real thing. Caveat emptor.