Alternate headlines:

“I put all my data in the cloud without creating a local backup, then complained when something went wrong.”

“I could have emailed Tim Cook to possibly get this fixed, but wrote a blog post instead.”

“I claim to be a programmer and Apple expert but for some reason don’t know how to create a local backup of my photos or important data.”

In a lawsuit, you should be able to unmask the identities of the people who arrested you. That used to work anyway. Who knows if it would work in the current climate, but I think it’s still important to at least try.

Sue them. And be sure to sue the specific agents that did this to you.

Probably until OS 27. I expect with the new leadership, it will be much improved.

Like trying to use a hammer as a drill. AI has its uses, but good models are built to specialize around certain data sets. You can’t expect a spelling checker to teach you about music, but that’s how these things are being sold.

Inflation is also at play.

I fast forward through a lot of it. For example: I really don’t need to hear the voicemail message yet again. Got the joke the first six times.

Keep re-electing these ancient nut jobs and grifters, folks. I’m sure everything will be juuuuust fine.

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/apple-nfc-chip-ios-18-1/

“Apple already opened up the NFC chip in the European Economic Area.”

This lawsuit seems like a waste of taxpayer money.

I thought Apple had already said they were opening up NFC payments to other apps?

Both are yummy!

“according to… information from Warner Bros. Discovery”

Network says “our shows are highly rated!” It’s like actual journalism doesn’t exist anymore.

Everything I’ve read about this “helper” says it doesn’t work. 🤷‍♂️

I was really excited about this game, but the controls were unnecessarily over complicated for me.

A lot of it is willfull ignorance.

Not sure why you think the US doesn’t refine oil. The southern coastline in particular refines a lot of crude oil.

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/petroleum-refineries-and-the-future/map-of-us-oil-refineries

Apple actually has a bunch of privacy-related info outlined on their website. A lot of the analysis and logging is anonymized and/or done on device, rather than sent to the cloud.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/

There’s also this, though I’m not sure if it’s up to date:

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your_Data.pdf

A lot of Apple services are done “on device”. Without signing into an iCloud account, there’s not much that will be sent to Apple.

Wah. Infrastructure costs money. Boo hoo.

If you’d bothered to eradicate the screwworm before it got to this point, you wouldn’t be having this problem.

I actually liked Wesley. I am a nerd tho.