Mesh Wi-Fi networks for the win, but having in-wall Ethernet connections between critical areas will just make that even better.

If I ever find myself building a house, I’m straight up building a wiring closet in some central location. And I’m running Ethernet to critical rooms, non metalic piping so I can draw it though with magnets. I’ve seen some fun YouTube videos.

I was just going to say:

Nah, that’s full size IKEA. You just gotta make twenty turns to get through the rest of it.

Lol. All I got from the headline for a second was “Windows Phone” and I’m like, they’re trying it again?

Wow that’s… really bad.

Yeah. I think WingBot was always gonna react the same way. The personality is nothing more than choosing your voice for Siri.

I also think this would make a great ongoing series.

I mean, Joe is a little overzealous. But he gets results.

Nah. I saw that movie. Once the Ice Age starts, it only takes until The Day After Tomorrow. :)

So it’s possible and practical to take normally dangerous bacteria and “pull their fangs?” What are the chances of them mixing with naturally occurring specimens and regaining their toxicity?

Dinoflagellates are the cause of the Gulf of Mexico Red Tide, if I recall correctly?

I don’t know the exact mechanism. I just know that certain Cyanobacteria species produce neurotoxins. Either defensively or as a metabolic byproduct. Been a while since my last biology course.

I mean, Cyanobacteria are probably not going to mutate and become pathogenic organisms… but we should probably stay away from the ones that already produce neurotoxins.

But I’m somehow sure those are the exact ones that would be most effective at extracting minerals.

Is that a prop battery? Probably not safe mounting an actual Lithium ion battery like that

Definitely not funny at least. If he wants to turn his old iPhone into art, that is “Reuse”which comes before Recycle on the priority list.

It’s all good. Most people were having the same brain fart during the switch from 30-pin to lightning. Lol

Either the 14 if your current device is on its last legs or hold out for usbc on the 15 which is virtually guaranteed. Either is a good choice.

I’m still not quite understanding your concern.

Your hypothetical iPhone 15 USBC come with its own usbc cable for charging. The 14 comes with usbc to lightning so the outlet end is still usbc. As long as you have a usbc power adapter, you’re good.

Unless you are thinking you’ll be borrowing other people’s cables or lending your own fairly often?

The 14PM would be a signifcantly better camera than the 12. If you can comfortably afford the 14PM, then absolutely.

> most casual users don’t upgrade every generation, so lightning will still be more popular among apple users

Why would you be concerned with which cable other people are using?

Camera is improved on the 14, I think? But I do better see your point about skipping the 14. Plus Dynamic Island should be universal for the 15

12 Pro is a year newer and will therefore last at least a year longer. Also gains you access to the MagSafe accessory ecosystem if you find that interesting. Other than that it’s just a question of what size screen and phone you’re more comfortable with.

Type C will be universal when it debuts, to comply with the EU mandate. There is some rumor that the Pro models will support faster charging and transfer speeds but they’ll all be USBC.

So that is still most likely with the 15 series in Fall 2023. The mandate requires newly manufactured devices sold in 2024 to use USBC, so there’s a non-zero but highly unlikely chance they start with the SE4 in Spring 2024.

I’m not sure why you’re skipping the 14? Since your coming from an Android it makes sense to get the newest device. Unless you mean you’re holding out for the 15 or usbc specifically.

> The other 4 are 2 Apple TV’s and 2 HomePod Minis so they usually end up at the end of the list as I don’t usually control those much from my phone.

Yeah. My Apple TV and stereo paired HomePods show up all the time. I have literally never accessed them. I have the literal Remote shortcut tile in the Control Center anyway. We need an option to “exclude from control panel” option in accessory details. Although I’d prefer to be able to just list which accessories or scenes I want like picking Lock Screen widgets.

I’m guessing the MagEZ is MagSafe compatible? I had a Pitaka (I think) carbon fiber bumper for my last Apple Watch. I liked it

Before I had to recently redo some accessories, due to a temporarily botched router upgrade, mine had finally gotten to be pretty reliable at guessing what I wanted. But it took a while and I only have about ten accessories. For example I consistently got the “Let the Dogs out” scene around sunset and sunrise. (It controls several lights.) And it had figured out I tend to turn on the carport light when I take the trash out the night before pickup.

It would be nice if we could use is as a literal favorites list, and add more or fewer tiles as needed.

You don’t.

It seems some of the other replies are trying to tell you how to change the general control center tiles, but the ones you outlined are determined by iOS when you enable the “Home Controls” for the control center. You get what Siri thinks you might want or nothing (aside from the other shortcut Home tile if you enable that instead).

They’re chosen by the system and seem to correspond roughly to Home app “favorites” and whichever ones iOS thinks you’re likely to want based on time of day and location.

And yes, it doesn’t seem to do a consistently great job picking the right ones. Although it’s better or worse depending on how many accessories you have and gradually gets better over time as iOS/Siri learns your routines.

Unfortunately it doesn’t actually act as a user set and expandable favorites list, which would probably be a more useful implementation overall.

> feeding them extra DHA, over multiple generations?

If you have a few hundred thousands years to spare, sure. It’s possible. Anatomically modern humans, genus Homo, as in “could walk down the street in clothes and you probably would not notice” have been around between 100,000 - 250,000 years depending on who defines “anatomically modern.”

But upright walking ape hominids have been around much longer, like a million plus.

> Absolutely zero chance Samsung has that in their watch in the next five years.

I’d tend to agree.

> And even then, I’m sure it’ll have a disclosure that it shouldn’t be used for medical treatment purposes.

Apple has the same disclosures now. That’s just a liability boilerplate they’d put on there regardless of how accurate a given sensor is.