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This was exactly Mount Vernon, Washington. I was so disappointed.

Seems weird to question their statement, right? Surely they know their life.

This is not that unusual. I also have never had any of these, or any other, streaming services. It's been wonderful.

I went to a (hot!) concert last weekend, and the only "water" available at the venue was liquid death.....for $8. Absolute robbery.

It was the plainest water imaginable.

hate to be the bearer of bad news: it's too late.

There was a time around 2016-2019 where this was possible with Twilio. I went from nothing to sending real SMS messages to real numbers in under an hour.

Then it scaled, became popular, and got ruined.

Post-Covid, SMS abuse went through the roof, they locked it down with legislation and bureaucrazy, and now it's nothing but pain and suffering trying to send SMS. Twilio/Sendgrid used to be fantastic. And now it's a massive sinkhole of your time, money, and sanity. I've not used SNS before, and obviously anything AWS-related has its own unnecessary complexity. But I promise Twilio can't be much better. Feels like they re-write the entire user interface every year just for kicks and giggles. Good luck finding anything, or remember where anything is.

My first thought too! I couldn't put up with it. Left quickly.

It sounds like you're interpreting that in a way I didn't say or intend. In fact, the exact opposite. It was the culmination of my list of things I think my parents did really well.

It wasn't oppressive. It was disciplined. I learned more in 3 hours at home than I did my senior year going to public high school for 8 hours a day.

I was homeschooled and will be homeschooling our kids (first one coming early January 2027!).

Game-changers for me growing up, that I think my parents did really well: - change the curriculum to match the kid (i.e. learning styles, difficulty, pace) - use the public schools for electives, sports, drama, etc (my siblings took music classes for 1 period each day, we all did school sports still, etc) - have strict (or at least structured) time constraints on homeschooling (i.e. don't let it drag into the whole day; we had to be up, dressed, breakfasted, and ready to start at 9am, and we needed to be done by noon and didn't get lunch until our school work was done).

My guess would be via one of those white-labeled apps required to set up your home router. For example, a Comcast, Spectrum, Astound, T-Mobile, etc.

I had this problem too for all my clients e-commerce websites, then solved it 3 years ago with very little code changes.

Happy to share it with you. Using small businesses for credit card testing is one of the most evil things on the Internet, so anything to stop it is worth it.

... All of it? Does a bubble need to be confined to one vertical? It seems like The Bubble is just the sum of a bunch of other individual bubbles.

Also available natively to the OS (Windows) with PowerToys, if you want an alternative to a browser extension. One of the unsung heroes of that library.

Jury is still out on which is more trustworthy handling any personal data, Microsoft or Google. Neither.

Edit: I should have clarified that I was on a 17" desktop monitor. I just loaded it on mobile, and it's fine and dandy on mobile.

But reading small white text on black background that's 100% width is nearly impossible to read.

Wow, my browser's Reader Mode saved my bacon on this one.

Otherwise, I would have left immediately.

I'm all for speedy, simple, plaintext websites, but it is a negligible amount of work in 2026 to throw some barebones CSS in and make it approachable.

Solid. Well-stated. I'm arriving at a similar point as well.