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I’m a big fan of Apple’s trade-in pricing and Upgrade Program on iPhone. Why don’t they offer these programs for other products? I’d gladly participate for Apple Watch and iPad Pro as well.
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Are you on iUP? I’m joining this year but lost the option to do iUP when I selected a trade-in. Selling my XS Max to @gazelle as usual this time. Not sure why other products don’t support this. They all hold their resale really well. Maybe harder to turn around?
, Sep 12 2019 on twitter.com
Yes I’ve been on the program since its first year. I love it, but do wish that they’d bundle even more in with it. I want a single monthly fee, subscriptions to iCloud, Apple Music, TV+, Arcade, iPhone, iPad Pro, Watch, and more :)
, Sep 12 2019 on twitter.com
I’m happy to finally be on it. I think @TMobile just started supporting it with iPhone X? Crazy that it required carrier support. Never signed up because I had lost one of my credit bureau unfreeze PINs. Saaaaaaaaame on it including more. One big monthly payment for everything.
, Sep 12 2019 on twitter.com
I am T-Mobile and have been on it for ~three years now. I remember the first year I had to jump through some hoops because they didn’t fully have things integrated, but its much smoother now. I still think they should let Upgrade Program members pre-order before everyone else.
, Sep 12 2019 on twitter.com
That timeframe makes sense. Looking forward to joining. Pricing is almost a wash compared to buying full price, selling, and upgrading (which I’ve been doing since first gen.). I’m happy enough with the pre-approval. Assume it’s just a couple quick taps to complete it on Friday.
, Sep 12 2019 on twitter.com
P.S. Sorry about the pre-order time change, but I’m so happy to not have to do it at 3AM anymore.
, Sep 12 2019 on twitter.com
Don’t forget you only pay for ½ of AppleCare+ if you trade-in each year! That’s a win for me. I’m fine with a 5 AM pre-order time, honestly. Not that big a deal :)
, Sep 12 2019 on twitter.com
Yeah, that’s nice. I was just throwing away a year of it before!
, Sep 12 2019 on twitter.com
Hey check out apple.com/giveback - although there isn't an iUp for watches and iPads, you can trade them in towards a new device.
, Sep 12 2019 on twitter.com
@cleverdevil Listening to the @internetfriends podcast, Jon said there was a trade in offer for his Series 3 Watch but it was only $60.
, Sep 12 2019 on micro.blog
@cleverdevil I see trade-in offers from Apple for my Apple Watch as well as iPad. Look here.
, Sep 12 2019 on micro.blog
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Do I think The Matrix is dangerous? No, absolutely not. It is very much a product of its time. A groundbreaking and entertaining film. But, the technique it used to appeal to its audience can absolutely be exploited.
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It's a technique that the entertainment industry has been exploiting for decades. Its every Disney princess or superhero origin story. Hell, it goes back as far as the King Arthur legends. Everybody wants to be the special one.
, Sep 03 2019 on twitter.com
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I remember being so drawn in by The Matrix. I felt seen. Yes, Morpheus, I do feel different. I feel misunderstood. Am I special? Am I the ONE?
Looking back, I’m somewhat ashamed of being drawn in. I think of the young boys being tempted by the message of the alt right.
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I rewatched The Matrix for the first time in years this weekend thanks to its 20th anniversary re-release in Dolby theaters. I was struck by how badly I wish I could see it again for the first time, but also was shaken by the dangerous message it sends to white, tech-savvy men.
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What is that message? That they are the One?
, Sep 03 2019 on twitter.com
Yes, but it goes a bit beyond that. Here is a choice excerpt that can be particularly concerning.
, Sep 03 2019 on twitter.com
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Smoking a pork shoulder today. Got started a bit later in the morning than expected, so running it at a higher cook temp. Left the top vent open a bit too much, which also caused a spike in cook temp while I was at church. Follow along at https://
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Watching bad college football games in my pajamas on a Saturday morning. We’re back baby!
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I use “type to Siri” all the time on my iPad Pro. Its fantastically powerful and a great feature, but annoyingly, even if you have “silent” mode enabled and your volume all the way down, Siri still audibly responds to your commands. Why?! #shhhh
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@cleverdevil ha.. and totally notice the same. Has way too high a priority over the system sound settings...maybe Siri is more god of device sound than the volume settings🤣
, Aug 30 2019 on micro.blog
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Sigh... the Google Product Black Hole™ strikes again. They really need to change this behavior if they want to build *any* new line of business other than ads.
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They're not interested in building other avenues of revenue. All of their products are designed to collect as much data as possible so that they can feed ever more targeted ads. If they're not getting enough usable data then it goes away and they come out with something else.
, Aug 28 2019 on twitter.com
That's oversimplifying things, IMO. Any successful business (Google qualifies), is constantly evaluating growth strategy and contingencies. They have made large investments in GCP, for example. That said, they've proven that they're not "good" at anything but ads thus far.
, Aug 28 2019 on twitter.com
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Finally finished catching up on the Saga comic series last night. Incredible world building, great characters, and gorgeous art. The cliffhanger at the end of book 54 though? Wow!
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🗣🗣️🗣️ Don't use Chrome. Firefox, Safari, and Brave are fantastic alternatives that actually respect your privacy.
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@cleverdevil 👍🏼
, Aug 23 2019 on micro.blog
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Update on USB-C hubs. I've found this one - https://
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Looking for a simple hub for my new home office. I want USB-C to my computer and then 4x USB-C and USB-A ports on the hub. Nothing else (HDMI, Ethernet, microSD, etc.). I can’t find anything!
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I've looked for that kind of thing too! I think USB-C is still too new and nobody is making hubs that provide additional USB-C outputs!
Design one yourself? :) Jonathan LaCour Jonathan LaCour
, Aug 23 2019 on twitter.com
@cleverdevil I am a somewhat prolific Amazon.com product reviewer, and have seen dozens and dozens of USB-C hubs come across my queue in the past year. I haven’t seen any without video out. 🙁
, Aug 23 2019 on micro.blog
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Went to see Blinded by the Light with @cleverangel tonight. In spite of so many things, I really enjoyed it. Its nice to see a genuine, feel-good movie once in a while. Especially one that dunks on fascists.
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I'm hiring for an amazing role, reporting directly into me. Hands-on technology leadership with an opportunity to participate in the fastest growing market in history. Check it out! – https://
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Thrilled to see the return of NetNewsWire as an open source app. Thanks for your vision and commitment, @brentsimmons! For those of you returning to feeds again and looking for things to subscribe to, I have a real-time listing of my subscriptions here – https://
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It was finally time to upgrade my Synology NAS, a four bay DS415+. I just ordered a five bay DS1019+, which is faster, more expandable, and has hardware acceleration for h.264 and HEVC. Anyone want to buy my old unit? It’s great, I have just outgrown it!
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@cleverdevil interested. What are you thinking?
, Aug 08 2019 on micro.blog
@Mattfinlayson I hadn’t really thought about it much yet. I also have a few 2TB drives that I could potentially throw in as well. Once my new one arrives and I finish the swap, I’ll clean it out and get back to you on price :)
, Aug 08 2019 on micro.blog
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, Aug 08 2019 on micro.blog
@cleverdevil I’m still using a DS413j and just upgraded the 3TB drives to 6TB drives in December.
, Aug 08 2019 on micro.blog
@Vittorino nice! My DS415+ has four 4TB drives in it now, and is nearly full. This upgrade will only add a single bay, but I plan to add a 10TB drive in the fifth bay and replace one 4TB drive with a 10TB drive. With SHR, that adds a ton of space and gives me a lot more headroom as the 4TB drives fail.
, Aug 08 2019 on micro.blog
@cleverdevil SHR worked well for me migrating to my new drives. Took less than a day to rebuild after each drive swap. Other than the web interface being slow, I don’t have a reason to replace mine yet. That might change as mine is no longer getting feature updates.
, Aug 08 2019 on micro.blog
@Vittorino SHR is great. My biggest motivator was moving my Plex Media Server off of the old family iMac, which is dying a painful death at the moment. The existing NAS isn't powerful enough, while the new one has hardware acceleration for h.264/hevc with tons of headroom (something like 4+ concurrent streams). The extra bay also lets me expand immediately using a spare drive I have, and then I can swap out a few drives with larger ones to continue to expand.
, Aug 08 2019 on micro.blog
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Samsung beating Apple to market with an overpriced, easily breakable, questionably designed foldable phone isn’t worth celebrating. Beating Apple to market on an inexpensive, LTE-enabled, 23-hour battery life, ARM-powered laptop? That’s a different story.
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Got my new @Dyme_Lyfe jacket in the mail today and I am hype for 🙌🏈 to start!
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Our new puppy Eliza moved in today, and we also finished moving Colette and William into their own rooms. Still plenty of work to be done organizing their stuff, but we are off to a good start. Daddy has had quite enough of assembling furniture.
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@cleverdevil Random Known questions, I'm having a whole bunch of trouble getting it up and running with Hostgator! I'm receiving mod_security errors which I've never seen before, and I've seen PHP break in a lot of ways lol. This happens when I go to change my site configuration settings. Also does Known have a built-in editor for adding forms like newsletter subscriptions? OK one last question then I won't bother you anymore. Does it offer import from RSS feeds? I have blogs on write.as that I could potentially migrate to a Known instance, but that would probably require straight RSS import. Not only that, but I'd like to use it for a lifestream kind of thing, as in bring posts in from other feeds. Lol I'm scattered everywhere on the web. OK wow that was long, sorry!
, Aug 07 2019 on micro.blog
@ladyhope lots of great questions! Here are some answers for you: I’ve never seen the mod_security issue, but I also don’t use Hostgator. You’re likely best opening a ticket with their support on that one. Known doesn’t have a built-in editor for creating forms for things like newsletters, but it does have a plugin that you can enable which lets you create static “pages,” and you can paste in HTML there to do custom things if you like. Yes, you can import from an RSS file or a WordPress export.
Hope this helps!
, Aug 07 2019 on micro.blog
@cleverdevilThey fixed it for me on my first instance, but my plan is to install others so not sure how it's going to go.
, Aug 07 2019 on micro.blog
@cleverdevil Well they said they whitelisted it, but it's still giving me the same error.
, Aug 07 2019 on micro.blog
@ladyhope can you copy/paste the error somewhere? Perhaps you could open a ticket on the Known GitHub project with the error to get some more eyes on it.
, Aug 07 2019 on micro.blog
@cleverdevil I did this already. Well sort of. It was before this, when we were having problems with mod rewrite. github.com/idno/know... there's a server issue that was causing that.
, Aug 07 2019 on micro.blog
@cleverdevil Not Acceptable! An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server. This error was generated by Mod_Security.
, Aug 07 2019 on micro.blog
@cleverdevil Just for kicks I signed up for a month-long Dreamhost plan with a different domain. I want to see if it works any different. Problem is i've never used SSH or any of that before. I've also never done an install from Github, I downloaded one of the zip packages that was dated 7/21/2019.
, Aug 07 2019 on micro.blog
@ladyhope I’m running an instance of Known on Dreamhost and aside from having to update the php version all has worked well.
, Aug 08 2019 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas One of the uploads just failed for some reason.
, Aug 09 2019 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I was using the web FTP thing to install it, which is weird because it doesn't explain where it's going to end up on the server.
, Aug 09 2019 on micro.blog
@ladyhope I haven't used the webftp thing. What I normally do is create the subdomain in which it will live, and then SFTP into that. So, I have stream.jeremycherfas.net and that is where Known lives for me.
, Aug 09 2019 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I wanted it to be in the root directory.
, Aug 09 2019 on micro.blog
@ladyhope Shouldn’t make any difference.
, Aug 10 2019 on micro.blog
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This has been quite an intense and busy week and its only Wednesday. I’ve been running harder than ever before, and am really feeling it. Whew!
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, Aug 01 2019 on twitter.com
Don’t forget, it is ok to make time for yourself, even when in the throes of the startup warfront. :)
, Aug 02 2019 on twitter.com
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