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Well, I spent the weekend messing around with different streaming platforms, and here is what I found. 1. Roku would be an acceptable alternative to Apple TV, but there is no Channels DVR app. This is really too bad as I already have Roku hardware on hand and have always found the UI to be...

LOL. I am married to a CPA who did a tax concentration when she got her masters, but she does corporate finance now. She used to work in stock compensation, and she did the taxes for a couple of years so she could answer questions for other employees. I've done our taxes every other year...

I just googled, and I think it is paper checks that were being phased out that I was remembering. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-to-phase-out-paper-tax-refund-checks-starting-with-individual-taxpayers

Yeah, I use TurboTax online which is only slightly less painful than doing everything by hand (most years). Of course, I am not even sure if you can do it by hand anymore. I thought I saw something about them doing away with paper submission.

The Dell was what was available from the spares pool. I will say Dell and Lenovo have both upped their support for Linux significantly in the past 5 years or so. Anything not ARM-based works out of the box. I'm probably a couple years away from a laptop refresh unless I want to buy something...

I can see that (kind of) when I am searching for music or looking for suggestions based on my listening habits, but this is in my music library -- stuff I "own." If I click on an artist, I only want to see that artist's work. I've started on path to reduce the amount of Apple in my life. I...

OK, Apple Music. Why does it make sense to group Mike + The Mechanics with Genesis? Yes, there was a member of Genesis in the band, but that doesn't mean Genesis == Mike + The Mechanics.

Probably just the fact that no team at Apple is responsible for older versions of OSes that include vulnerable versions of WebKit. That said, Safari does tend to be one of the few things they will patch beyond 2-3 years...occasionally.

You can make Liquid Glass slightly more readable through a couple of methods, but there is no way to completely avoid a lot of the transparency look and feel that break actual functionality. For instance, in Apple Music on MacOS 26, I recently discovered I cannot select artists that are near...

Another annoyance I discovered with MacOS 26. https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

Apple typically releases security patches for the current and 1 previous version of their OSes, so 26 and 18 in the case of the iPhone. As of right now, Apple has patched all critical vulnerabilities in iOS 18 based on the security dashboard I can see at work. Sometimes they will patch...

No word on how much monthly sub fees will go up. https://deadline.com/2026/01/streamer-spend-landmark-figure-2026-ampere-analysis-1236680312/

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/08/ios-26-shows-unusually-slow-adoption/ If it wasn't clear, I regret upgrading. I recommend everyone who can wait until they fix the problems or come out with something better.

Ugh https://deadline.com/2026/01/disney-plus-vertical-videos-ces-1236665836/

Yeah, I played around with it, restarted the app, etc. It is showing me a mix of data from the current and previous days. I've had an Apple watch for 10 years, and it never worked like this before the latest iOS update.

Today's annoyance: Apple Fitness simultaneously thinks I have 857 active calories and 81 exercise minutes while showing Saturday (up top) as being a very light day.

To be clear, I would not be switching anything to Windows. My wife has to use Windows for work, but that is it. If I decided to replace my Mac laptop, it would be with a Linux laptop.

That used to happen with BT audio and Maps, but with CarPlay, I have been able to control whether I wanted the audio, no audio, or only alerts. It happens on my wife's phone as well, which isn't even connected to the rental car. This is broken functionality that used to work for both of us...

Also, I am really struggling with the new UI on my Apple Watch 10. To activate the UI buttons for the exercise functions, I have to click above the icon compared to the previous versions. I usually takes me at least a couple of tries to actually accomplish it. I am probably not going to...

In order to make text visible most of time in UI elements, I had to turn off dark mode and reduce transparency. Prior to doing those things, it was much more common to not be able to read what a text label was in the UI. If you've been in the Photos, Mail, and Message apps, function buttons...

I'm at the Grand Canyon for Christmas. The apps I've been using are primarily Photos, Maps, Mail, and iMessage, and I've been having issues with all of them. Weird transparency bugs in Mail keep happening. The updates to the Photos app they promised after the previous version screwed up so...

I've been using Apple Products since the ][+. I have lost track of how many Apple computers, iPods, iPads, iPhones, AppleTVs, etc. I have owned over the years. This is mostly because I give them to family members when I want to upgrade. I never "loved" Apple like many seem to, but their...

Well, it is certainly down from the 55 million viewers it used to get, but it is still hovering around 20 million which isn't too shabby for a non-sports broadcast. Gemini (AI) says there are several hundred million viewers worldwide, if you are inclined to believe the hallucinations of a machine.

Personal opinions about the value of the show aside (disclaimer: not really a fan myself), I think it is significant that a once a year event with a worldwide following is moving to YT. How long before the Superbowl does the same?

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/oscars-youtube-2029-1236610989/