Does it have a 30-pin connector?

Lots of free time due to me taking at least 2 weeks vacation at the end of the year. Visiting family and giving each other presents. Baking cookies with friends. Going to the Christmas market. Decorating. Eating gingerbread. The whole end of the year let’s have a good time vibe.

Usually just greet or have short smalltalks and be on my way, but it’s nice to have a good relationship with 1-2 neighbors to help each other water plants, receive parcels and so on.

About five years ago a new neighbor moved in downstairs and put a note up with her number saying who she is and that she is happy to get to know her new neighbors. Unusually forward but cool, so I wrote her and we met. We became running buddies, she sometimes took care of my dog, I helped out with handiwork, or we just hung out together and talked. She moved out a year later but we are still very good friends to this day.

In my current apartment I unfortunately don’t know anyone. The only neighbor I had a good relationship with is gone and the others keep to themselves.

Sure, get the big ones out as an example…

I know this feature and use it when I’m watching on the phone. But so far it’s not available on the Apple TV app.

pays creators

Not enough. Otherwise creators would not need to include their own ads which Premium users can’t hide.

Tho I have a good (not great) IQ, I know I have trouble talking with people when I had some time of isolation. I then stumble often and easily forget very common words for some reason and then have to explain them, which is extremely embarrassing. I had a rough time during depression where I thought I might have Alzheimers or something. It has a lot to do with confidence for me I think. Once I feel confident and had a good flow, I can be a very good talker.

Probably not the weirdest but it’s one I never understood: there was this guy who parked on the side of a path in the field, had his window open (during winter), sat in the car and watched Instagram reels of women (maybe only one specific I don’t know) and he connected his phone to the car speakers so he could turn the volume up to 11 for everyone passing by to hear. Ok, whatever, I thought. But he kept turning up almost every day and did the same thing. Sometimes he stood outside his car and leaned on the roof with his phone. At some point he even got a large tripod for his phone so he didn’t need to hold it anymore and just stood there, watching it for hours. I used to walk past him many times with my dog so I had a good feeling of how often and how long he was there.

I still wonder what his obsession was with these Insta reels and why he needed to blast it into everyone’s ears in the cold instead of watching this stuff at home. The guy clearly had mental issues which is sad of course. I’m not the type to just ask a stranger what he’s doing so I never found out.

Adams cave is so beautiful and well ordered these days. He’s the best kind of hoarder.

Even if my life currently is not bad, there are and have been bad times. Not existing is never bad. So no.

Thank you Mr obvious. The point is that streaming platforms are changing the mentality and behavior to listen to random titles of different artists instead of full albums and that is also why albums don’t have a „story“ anymore. It’s too easy to click away to something different, skip a title (was already easy with CDs), be distracted. I personally own a vinyl player to combat this for myself.

Not that gasoline cars are gone (unfortunately) but I personally won’t ever go back to it. Electric cars are just so much better in any way except range and charge time. But those are honestly overblown topics that you won’t think much about in your daily life once you got used to it.

I’m conflicted. I enjoy being able to listen to anything anywhere but it makes me not listen to full albums anymore, possibly missing out on good music.

Turning off teams messages on my phone.

Making sure to opt out of all meetings during that time so no one expects me.

If my vacation spans multiple days, my only rule for how I should use my free time is to not just sit in front of the TV all day. Do some chores, go to some cool place, work on a personal project, go on a long hike, whatever. Usually I have plans anyways when I take a long vacation.

My parents don’t force their religion on anyone.

So I don’t want to advertise an expensive product but the only thing that helped me finally save money and stop worrying about unexpected costs was You Need A Budget (YNAB). The concept is you put every single cent into categories like groceries, subscriptions, rent, put some aside for car insurance, saving for a new TV, and so on. And you also add every current, future and recurring transaction and connect it to the categories. Once you have this running for a few months it becomes second nature and you will not only be saving lots of money but also be ready for everything.

It has a learning curve but it’s worth it. There is a free alternative called Actual Budget, but you have to host it yourself and the UI is not great.

Could be a task is still running in the background that prevents your Macbook from going to sleep. You can find it in the activity monitor and force-close it.

But also, as others have noted already, your battery needs service.

Yep, most smart home stuff I would not recommend buying for the regular prices.

Being a ghost is not supposed to be the final stage. Some have unfinished business right where they are but they’ve been waiting for ages and that makes them sad.

But why would they? They can’t put anything meaningful on a tiny device like this that is powered by HDMI. TV+ is available on Smart TVs. What kind of niche audience would this have?