I’M clearly the problem here.

Here specifically, very much so yes.

I’ve had my Sonos sound bar for 5 years and love it. It puts out pretty great sound honestly

8.1 was a gem

Reported as spam.

Meaning they have to install another app.

At which point they’d just as soon install signal and have something better.

None of their phones come with a RCS enabled messaging app by default.

My iPhone on iOS 18 does however. Which is my point entirely.

You can sideload on iPhones.

Otherwise a shockingly level handed suggestion and ask.

my dude.

I have literally sat next to these people, just this past Saturday, and we were talking about just this BECAUSE our group chat for our game wasn’t “working” for us.

I know for an absolute certain fact that the three of them don’t have RCS, we all thought it was funny and moved on with our lives and switched to signal.

Idk why you’re so certain of something you’re otherwise totally ignorant to

I am absolutely positive none of them do, they show as sms and we keep using signal instead.

None of my android friends have RCS on their phone yet, but my iPhone does.

ALL my android buds (all 3 of them) would talk about RCS as the future, better than iMessage, proof that Apple is terrible for not having it and adding it.

So anyways my iPhone has RCS now and none of their androids do. Shocker.

Professional developer.

Literally have tux tattooed on my chest.

I write software that runs on enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL and its babies).

I will only purchase a MBP to develop on right now, I do not load Linux on it.

I love linux and for anything other than my primary dev box I run it there, but MacOs being Unix AND having the creature comforts AND the best desktop experience keeps me here.

I miss i3 BUT not enough

You’re arguing about tech tribalists while being one yourself my dude

Commercial displays often times are more robust as well, designed to be installed and stay on / be switched on and off way more times than your consumer level product.

Also, yes 100% advertising revenue is baked into the consumer products. They’re being paid to sell you the tv by their 3rd parties too.

I’d like to pay my mortgage with some greater good this month

… something something Ramch dressing

… this name isn’t polish enough to be the real Noodle Jetski

Or am I wrong doc?

You can find older Apple Watches for fairly cheap, I paid 10 bucks a month on T-Mobile for just the watch plan.

You would need to have an iPhone in order to manage it but you can manage a watch for a kid that way. They have school mode for them so it just acts as a watch with emergency contact action at school.

Until I can recreate my fireball warrior no Diablo will match D1

YES

So the ports you’d get in a MBP

The Apple TV has Ethernet if you pay $20 more