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That’s all incoming, but iCloud plus restricts the amount of addresses for outgoing mails

I don’t even bother adding the note. People booked over it, they know it clashes with another meeting. No need to tell them the obvious.

Unlimited addresses is not something iCloud+ offers directly.

Search in general, not only Google, has gotten too eager to come up with some results, and with assuming that the user is an idiot. For example, if I search on German Amazon for a box for index cards (German word: Karteikasten), Amazon assumes that I made a typo and changes my input to index cards (sans the box - German word: Karteikarten) . If I search my work chat program for a specific phrase (because I am looking for a specific chat with that phrase in it), it also searches for things which are synonymous to that phrase. If I look for results of the most recent marathon in my city it shows me results from last year, so I have to invest work in finding out if this year's results are simply not yet published, or if they are buried somewhere in the results.

The worst part is that there is no way to identify which results are for my original query, and which are because someone somewhere rewrote my query in the background. You know, the good old "did you mean...?" - that's what's missing.

Folks who work on any kind of search engines: "No results" should be a valid outcome to any search query!

Grim Fandango was one of the first games I bought out of my own pocket. And as was the norm back then, this used up all my games budget for months, so I had to stick to this game, for better or worse, for a long time. I remember it took me a very long time to even find the Tube Room, it's easy to miss unless you do the 3D equivalent of pixelhunting to find the place where you need to take a turn. And boy, was I stuck in Rubacava!

I also remember that it was slightly difficult to buy the game - I was at least 13 at the time, the game had an age rating of 12, but (gasp!) there were skeletons on the cover, and the tag line mentioned corruption and crime. So the lady in the shop actually called her boss before eventually selling the game to me.

I didn’t write the previous comment, but I think the point here is that there is a long-running trend aiming to protect users both from malicious intent and to a certain extent from themselves. In the past, viruses had it easy to infect and spread computers because of both inattentive users clicking on mails claiming someone loved them, and the default access mode for any user granting them admin access.

Even though review processeses generally do not exist for computers, they are part of that same trend.

The explanation for the German words (widow = Schusterjunge, which means cobbler‘s boy, orphan = hurenkind, as mentioned in another comment) is also applicable for the English ones: An orphan doesn’t know where it comes from, a widow doesn’t know where she will go.

It feels to me as if the author got it backwards - in turning the AC back on, they didn’t „say no“ - the person who put up the note has „said no“ in the first place (to the practice of turning the ACs off) and the author was ignoring this clearly visible outlined boundary that other person has drawn.

Don’t get me wrong, the note itself wasn’t great either, but ignoring it wasn’t some great sign of „saying no“ - it was needlessly escalating a conflict instead of trying to resolve it.

That’s not it in this case, because the book is mostly a recounting of what happened. I narrowed it down to two things: One is that every aspect of the story is treated equally - unimportant facets get an equally profound sounding prose like the really important bits.

And the other one is the repetition of phrases. Everything is worth slowing down on.everything is load bearing. That’s so annoying.

It’s great to have the entire topic brought together into a cohesive book - but wow, I find it very annoying to read.

I find it very hard to find books worth reading. It’s so difficult to separate Signal from noise - there are just too many books and too few reliable curators. Amazon ratings, goodreads, some book awards, best seller lists - they all are sometimes hit, mostly miss for me.

This doesn't work for everyone, for example, if I get motion sick, closing my eyes makes it far worse, almost immediately.

Yeah me too. It felt like it was designed exclusively for me, it ticks all the boxes in what a dumb phone should and shouldn't have in terms of functionality.

> If it had an option to install a messenger of choice (Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp etc)

It has that capability. From TFA: > A flip phone with the apps you need: WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram. Music, podcasts, maps, rideshare, a great camera for the moments worth keeping.