Small essays, yes. Big ones that teachers give you a month or multiple months to work on, doubtful. Worst I can think of, any computer used for school work, will have moderating tools used, which I highly doubt will be common place, let alone strictly enforced.

And incentivize the many to move to smaller towns to live closer to (new) work, instead of the wastefulness that is living in your car for a couple hours a day, when you have things you could be doing to better your health (mental and physical).

I'm so happy to be a 3min walk from work. Cost of living is less, but, so is the pay. IT positions around NW Oklahoma has terrible pay. With Walmart's recent change in pay, debating to go back, just depends on how reliable their scheduling system is (bet ya, it's still squarely and annoying).

Some already do. Some do one week on, one week off 12hour shifts. It's a strange country setup.

Last time I seen someone upscale a very low youtube video, was Linus and his fire truck review. Did not turn out so well. lol

There's only so many pixels to work off of at low res. The only way around it, is the AI substituting other graphical images to improve the quality on scene.

Considering I don't have any trackers, and I'm going off what Apple advertises, lists in their online information, and common issues people discuss on Reddit (which in itself is questionable to include, lol)...

The only different in this case is the owner, in this case my wifi, is within the same vicinity. My concern is when she's out, say at work when I'm not, and some of her tagged items are sitting at home when I am.

Let's say "Home" is flagged and the alerts don't come up. As mentioned, traveling. Let's say she left a tagged container/item in the car, and I take the car, it'd alert me. That's fine. Let me flag it as to be ignored (different ways as discussed by others and myself here). Or as one other mentioned, let's say I take my wife's keys to take the car, it'd be nagging me too.

Still brainstorming, another idea I'm thinking through is telling the app said tracker is permitted. How is a good question. Either...

A. I would hold the tracker in question, hit the button on the tracker when the screen prompts, and permits it to be near you. That way the user can't ignore all of them, and not be aware of the tracking, and the user knows exactly where the tracker is physically.

B. I could permit the tracker, but I have the enter the tracker owner's ID (email address or something). Again, allows the user to permit the tracker, and there's still no question that the user knows of the tracker, and who it belongs to.

I haven't had an Apple phone since the 3G way back in 2009, so my understanding is well out of date.

Can you not "link" two accounts together to show both are related/together/married/etc. for stuff like this?

I'd hate to be walking around my own house, and be notified I'm stalked by my wife's purse.

I say "poor reputation/service of the company" because places like Walmart will blame poor work ethics, dedication to work, and increased theft because no one cares to keep the products in good sellable condition.

But yet if the store does great, everyone get $20-100(?) bonus in their next pay check.

Or my favorite that I went through, the store went through a small remodel. They say big, but if all you're doing is repainting some walls and a couple new sign sup, that's not significant. Usually when a remodel happens, the quarterly bonus is slashed, or eliminated. In my experience, we got hardly to no bonus that quarter.

It's not just Walmart. Amazon likes to hint that their poor service is on their employees. Too many breaks, using the bathroom too much, going on strike or mere gossip of it.

So, punish the workers for the poor reputation/service of the company.

Yeap, close ended questions, just to shove more unrelated ads down our throats. "But you said you like cats! Why do you hate the city's Zoo Lion Exhibit ads?" I like house pet cats, not wild animal cats (still cool, but not shoved Zoo visit ads, I'm 2 hours from the nearest zoo!).

I don't need to see a vacation or traveling ad for the third time this hour. How much more do I have to say, I don't have money to buy anything the ads push, even if I wanted anything that's been shown. lol

That's fine and all, until you find out your IT shop isn't big/active enough to qualify to do any kind of Apple repairs, lol.

My office is <20 people, very rural NW Oklahoma. We do a lot of in office or onsite support, repair, and management. Last time my boss and team lead tried (handful of years ago), we didn't have enough foot traffic to qualify. We'd have more foot traffic if we could even start. Instead, we're sending people down to OKC instead, which is 2.5-3 hour drive one way. We're a few counties East of the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Hell, when we looked into teaming up with TMobile, the best we could qualify for is an Authorized Retail (AR) store, nothing more. Not even a repair shop with TMobile.

Not so much weekly, but at least once a month someone comes in asking if we do screen repair. My boss gave up on mobile device hardware repair; smaller than say a laptop. We might be able to repair something here or there, but the newer devices are less accepted due to obtaining parts, and hands on experience of said model that walked in.

Apple has a somewhat similar standard between devices, but the best we can get approval for, is no different than someone wanting to do the repairs at home, with ordering the tools and parts, and waiting for the stuff to arrive. At least we can buy the tools and not rent, but waiting a week for the replacement parts has been a turn off for everyone who's come in.

Edit: Clarified where we draw the line of Mobile Devices. Laptops we can, beyond that it's not likely. Even netbooks are next to unlikely the issue can be resolved, let alone a data recovery.

I would rather see Facebook banned, but Tiktok is a good start.

Don't get me wrong, I understand a lot of people rely on Facebook, and it'll be harder to disband it. I'd be happy with Facebook just split up, and not stay under Meta. Facebook/Meta has too many fingers in different pies, like many other companies.

If a person cannot walk into a legitimate computer repair shop, who can repair Android phones, can't get their iPhone repaired within a reasonable time, then the methods Apple is using for their version of "right to repair" is not a globally approved standard.

If I had someone bring in a phone to be repaired, I'd like to have at least the commonly requested parts in stock. In Apple's case, I don't care if I have to keep an inventory list and report back weekly, and inform them I used X part with X SN on iPhone Y with Y SN. But if we can't even order in parts for walk ins, and have to wait a week for the part, what's the point? Let alone the extreme costs to buy or rent the tools to do the repairs.

Somewhat related... Like VCRs and those before it (Capacitance Electronic Disc), I suspect DVD/BlueRay may phase out in years time, and not likely anything physical will replace it.

If anything does replace Disc media, I'm thinking something like Flashdrives will replace them. More durable, can be setup as Read Only (no need for a battery inside), and varying sizes of storage for the needs. No physical limited size standards to worry about (CDs, DVDs, HD-DVD, BlueRay).

So they up the rate for non-ad tiers, while the lower has ads. Now they are making the ads more aggressive essentially, just to make more money off the people who can't afford the more expensive tier(s), and in turn making the low income people possibly poorer due to all the tempting and manipulating ads.

For a time when my 2yo and I would watch youtube together, she'd occasionally get upset when a random add intruded mid way through a video. Paramount has this down for the most part, a few shows or select episodes the ads would cut a second or two too early, before the scene goes dark, then when the ad would finish, the show would return then fade to black, then to another scene. lol

The ad feeding method that annoys me the most, barely more than a half to a dozen ads in a 20-30 min episode, is fast forwarding to a point and feed another chunk of ads. In more detail... you load up an episode you wanted 2/3 of the way through yesterday. You watch the first ad or three, then skip ahead to where you left off (not all streaming services remember where you left off...), then boom, another slap of ads to watch, and you hadn't been 30seconds since the last set of ads.

Apparently advertisers are pushing towards the requirement you need to stare at the screen for the ad to play, then pause when you look away. With word going around the same will happen if the volume is muted are set too low.

Do you want piracy? This is how you get piracy. Do better with how you display and promote ads, not just Disney, but all services.

Basically has, though not fully VR.

Before VRChat's recent anti cheat event last Aug, modders we're able to link toys and devices, such as lovense, for other people to control. Within certain limits and permissions based on the wearer. Now that's ChilloutVR and maybe Neos.

Simply put, the mod brought up a menu of a lot of controls and customizations. You can control intensity, pulses, etc.

Bonus points if into bondage, there's leashes, avatar altering controls (depends on the avatar itself), and well punishment uses too.

Even though you can't touch someone's "area" to result in a sensation, yet, it's getting there.

My 2.5 yo does, but it's off and on if she's paying attention. Depending on the day, I'd say half the time she's watching. Otherwise it's white noise to her or something else is on the TV that doesn't interest her. At least no TV in her room, lol.

I think we made it a year and a half without using the TV to entertain her while we're taking care of other things or need a break.

In a perfect world, wouldn't be relying on the TV. We'd also be able to afford a regular babysitter instead of splitting the day in half, wife working evenings and I work during the day.

I was reading through their site. Other than the app on the phone, and needing to setup an account to use the app and box, the box only needs wifi when you update/change things on it.

Other than the app and account, doesn't appear to be any concerning telemetry sent back.

I'll look into that. Basic concept sounds promising. If it has some kind of input that identifies the user in any way, say a microphone, then I'd draw the line. But if all it does is play sounds/clips/etc., and updates with new audio from time to time, almost to harm. Best I can think it tracks is which audio clips are played the most.

If it's trustworthy, I think you helped me find a birthday gift, lol.

School use, I don't mind. It's when they are done with school, and need pulled away to reduce screen time. That's hard for me to say, as a guy who's almost in front of a computer, either that's work (I do IT support and management) or at home at least half the time.

I'd rather wait till she's a preteen, but with it being a small town, it's not hard to bump into questionable people.

As an IT support and hobbyist guy, I'd like to start her on the basics of do's and don'ts of electronics and online. Basically said, starting early on online street smarts.

Trying to avoid the whole helicopter parenting aspect, but, at least with smart home stuff, I can tell when she's home, and if loyalty becomes an issue, I can tell where she's at and been in the event questions come up. On the other hand, if we are playing the same games together, say Pokemon Go, having their own phone would make things so much easier.

If it connects to the network or wifi, and the kid can freely play with it, at least the younger children don't need it. Where the parent draws the line is up to them.

I'm hoping we can wait till our little one is at least 8yo before they even get a locked down, simple, smart phone. Maybe 6 for a locked down tablet.

Illegal, no, but against TOS. At the start of WoW, I don't know, but I do know it became a big deal years later when the activity became more noticed.

I've heard similarly, people would power level their MMORPG accounts, and sell them on ebay. Blizzard cracked down on that. I think Everquest was the start on that.

It's one thing if they have your number that is linked to info to identify you.

It's another when a phone number is basically an incremental number, even scammers will work up the chain to call and see who answer.

Then there's companies that sell your data to others, and Meta/Facebook eventually obtains it.