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Because the first step is the determination that you are a monopoly. If you’re not, anti-trust laws do not a

I cannot imagine how deleting Next and Previous can be considered an improvement.

I found a good deal on a used complete set of Monty Python tv shows. Grabbed it in a heartbeat; many of their

When my work computer was a Windows 3.11 machine, I tried to remember to reboot it when I left for lunch. It c

Thanks for the update. Hope the new launch will solve the problem of the site regularly forgetting my login cr

Paul, I don’t know how long it will be before your hit age 55, but T-Mobile has attractive plans for 2 peopl

I’m rooting for Brave search to succeed.

Paul, I'm glad you worked to not pass on the difficulties you had with your father and stepfather to your chil

The shabby cancellation of Eich by Mozilla is why I stopped using Firefox.

I do not share your confidence that they will not screw up my phone.

I used to teach college Access courses. Once you understand the basics of the relational model, you can create

I had an eeePC, and it was a handy device at the time; all my laptops were large and heavy back then. So I’d

I have often thought that Microsoft needed to split Windows into Home and Professional versions. Keep the Wind

I would, if it would allow me to keep my large collection of lightning accessories.

 (I really do miss Steve Ballmer.)A sentence I never thought I would read.

That, plus all the other stuff in the EU regulatory pipeline.

With the EU’s penchant for regulating everything in life, in detail, maybe Apple should make an EU-only phon

After using my iPhone and MacBook Air for about a day, I stopped noticing the notch.

Business Insider is a garbage site.

In the Navy (before it got all woke) the commander of a ship didn’t engage in personnel conflict much if at

I taught many undergraduate and graduate courses in relational database design using Access. I would say that

But not as good as Brave, I think.

Still a bad experience today.

Episode 1239 was the last one that showed up in my podcast feed.Is this permanent?

The cloud flare stuff is getting crazy for me. Today I had to complete 4 captchas to get in.Then I had to log

One word: "charms".

Apple is the only one of these that is not harvesting all your viewing data.

It’s perfect for listening to podcasts or music on my daily exercise walk. When I switch to the phone it fee

Ives did not always help Apple products, and his ego is massive. I think this book gives Ives too much credit,

Based on Computer 101 from the 1960s: if it has input, output, a CPU and memory and does multiple functions un

Because it’s not just a few hoops. It is a set of changes that makes all their other customers face higher r

People in the EU are going to be spending so much on power and food that they won’t be able to afford their

Me, too. I can read much more efficiently than watching a video, unless you are showing me how to do something

This week I've had to hand-delete a couple of dozen junk (scam) emails from my outlook.com inbox. This has hap

Apple does offer refurbs, but you have to look frequently because the stock keeps changing. Nothing there toda

As one little data point: about a year ago we noticed that we hadn’t watched anything on Netflix for many mo

Not even Inga?

I’ve had that problem lately, too.

Paul, when you’re over 55, you might be able to do better with a T-Mobile plan. They have some options, and

I was not doing any Windows development, so when I read about this stuff at the time I thought the material wa

And Micro-USB is the absolute worst.

At the time of one of the Netflix price increases, I realized we hadn’t watched anything on Netflix for prob

At the time Win 8 was about to be released I was teaching InfoSys courses in MS and MBA classes. I got a beta/

I forgot one: when I got a new Mini, all the store apps are automatically registered. With non-store apps, I h

I’m always happy to see a Mac app in the App Store. If I’m looking for a particular kind of app, and there

I have monitors that are much wider than they are tall. So one of the first things I do when I fire up a new M

The privacy guide could be just one line: “Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here.”

I have saved the video from the iPhone introduction, and watch it again from time to time. It is the GOAT of p

Point taken on your trip; you were in some of the most heavily trafficked corridors in that area, so I am sure

I find it hilarious that a person from the Boston area has the temerity to criticize drivers from anywhere els

Brad: great trip report. You could do more vacations out there without duplication; there is that much to see.

Putting ads in the OS is a particularly nasty thing to do. I was going to leave Windows in 2025 when Win 10 ex

I hated Vista (which came to me on a new laptop) for two things: UAC, and it was bog slow. Put it on a fast ma

When I set up a new Windows machine, one of the first things I put on it is Free Commander. When I set up a ne

I imagine you've done your homework on the current congested conditions at Arches; the web page sez "Parking l

My wife loves her old iPhone 8 and how it integrates with her MacBook Air. She hates the face-recognition inte

The only place I wear a mask now is the doctor’s office, so I won’t be needing it.

One of the key principles of the Cold War (literally set out in a document defining it) was that we were in op

I’m with you on that. Now that I’m retired the primary use I have for windows is running a couple of scann

I just added outlook to the iOS native mail app with the other mail addresses; works for checking and answerin

On my Mac, Spotlight Search is a global-type search, and I rarely use it because that's not what I usually wan

Today, after trying to use it for several months, I removed the iOS Outlook app from my iPad and iPhone. It lo

The best part of these is reading the App Privacy section in the App Store.

I hope Brave succeeds; they’re doing everything right.

Makes my wife happy. She does not like Face ID at all.

One to go means the Pro is the last of the Intel Macs.

Like screen notches, one adapts. It’s not important to me now because I spend very little time using Office

Yeah, it was a joke. I hated the ribbon.

What I always wanted was a switch that would let me go back to the pre-ribbon interface.Hey, maybe it's there

T-Mobile does, too.

I had a giant XP Tablet laptop that just tired me out toting it around. So when I could turn it in and get a r

You probably are way ahead of me here, but if I were contemplating a change like that, I'd try to find a lawye

I do not block numbers any more; they just generate a new one for each call. I hit the ‘volume down’ butto

I think more yes than no. My wife ran into that with a place she buys from; for the first time, she needed to

I lost one desktop and two laptops, all still perfectly functional, when Windows 7 expired and I could not get

I don’t like to throw away a perfectly functional computer.

If you favor censorship, it tells me you do not know anything about history.Any tool like that could, in time,

I’m okay with that. I’ll pay for content I like. If you make it compelling enough you don’t have to tric

I was teaching MBA MIS courses when Windows 8 came out. Most of my students were “knowledge workers” (that

Off topic maybe but I’d like to get an update on the Tesla ownership experience now that you’ve had some m

I guess that Mexico City is fairly free of drug cartel crime (no longer true of the gulf resorts). If you thin

I had a Toshiba tablet for a couple of years; I don't recall the number but it had the largest screen I could

Maybe if I drop Prime, I'll make fewer impulse purchases late at night. Probably better overall.

Smartphone: Apple 12 mini (after a battle with the 8 Plus size and weight).Laptop: Apple Air M1Desktop: (1) Ap

I have come to the point where I don't want any tracking for advertising or anything else. I use all the block

Maybe more like a dead cat bounce.

I used to work with Federal employees. The two takeaways I had from that experience were "unqualified for the

I will be very interested to hear your opinions about safety in Mexico. Much of the news is negative (the bord

I, too, lived in Columbus for several years. It was a growing city (unlike most cities in Ohio) so the economy