u/Type_Grey

Lack of diverse hardware, especially from top tier device makers. I miss the landscape keyboard form factor of yesteryear.

Sure there's Clicks Communicator, or Minimal Phone, but since these aren't the premier brands, there's a lot of compromise on things like camera, processesor, modem, etc.

Automatic upload of the photos/videos I take to both Google Photos, and seperatly to Microsoft OneDrive. I have both set to upload as soon as I take a picture over cellular, so pics are in the cloud within a few minutes of taking them.

Long term, I'd pick work. Don't get me wrong, I love my kids and spending time with them, but coming up with constant ways to educate, enrich, and occupy them for each day is a full time job I'm just not equipped for.

Also, if the kids are home with me, they're not amongst other kids and missing out on playing with friends.

Certain bank processes, and why "business days" or "bank holidays" still affect something fully computerized.

For Lenovo, completely agree, ThinkPads all the way, but even those I've had weird quirks with in my personal experience. HP though also has good premium tier consumer laptops. I've been very happy with the Envy line (it was rebranded recently to Omnibook (7?)).

In fairness, USB-C cables are all over the place in terms of capabilities, specs, and quality. Aside from the connector, there's little standardization. Some cables do power only, others do power and data, but then the bandwidth isn't consistent and the labeling isn't very customer friendly.

I consider myself reasonably tech literate and I still stick with first-party cables most of the time, or at least the better brands like Anker.

Unpopular opinion but HP laptops have never disappointed me and I'd rank #1 on this list for myself personally, followed by Asus as a good budget pick which I liked when I was younger and didn't have higher end HP money.

I want to like Lenovo, I really do, but in the 3 or 4 I've used I've always had some issue or other, usually with the ports and docking station connectivity.

Dell, I've always found their keyboards to be too mushy.

Never owned an Apple directly, but my wife buys them and swears by em.

Oh that's interesting.

Here MinuteClinic's are just a shop/area within some CVS store locations.

Thank you. Yes, it has to be at MinuteClinic locations for younger kids, but they should be allowing them as young as 18 months

https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/services/covid-19-vaccine

My kid has been getting their annual Covid shot at CVS since age 2. Just this year the online schedule doesn't allow me to book an appointment for them for some reason.

That's not true. They're approved for toddlers as young as 18 months.

CVS' MinuteClinic website also has that age range.. In previous years my kid was getting their COVID shots at CVS since age 2. I'm just wondering why the online scheduler isn't allowing it this year for some reason. 🤷

Thank you. I keep seeing this "they're for 5-11 year olds" comment but CVS' own website clearly states that MinuteClinic can give them to kids as young as 18 months old.

LG.

Their PC monitors have been caught installing McAfee ad pop-ups.

LG TVs were caught scanning/mapping home networks and storing offline microphone audio.

Done! Yes, I recycle always via the free recycling bags and prepaid label, dropping them off at a UPS store. I think your responses on some topics will be biased/skewed. Most people on a Nespresso subreddit I'd bet have a high brand engagement and awareness of their programs compared to a wider population.

The "CA Universal Svc PPP Srchg" is a state mandated fee that goes towards phone/Internet assistance programs. Everyone in CA gets this on their bill per line. California voted to raise it to $1.05 per line:

Source

The "Administrative & Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee" is something AT&T chooses to charge and they set it to whatever they want. They did notify you/customers on your last few bills that this fee would be going up by $1/line starting August.

Buy a Thunderbolt 4 certified cable.

I first tried using a basic USB-C cable (one that came with my phone). My laptops would charge through the dock, but it didn’t support any additional monitors.

I then bought a Thunderbolt 4 certified cable, and the dock works great again. The laptops charge normally, and both of my monitors connected through the dock work.

-Here’s a video showing how to swap the cable. It was very easy to do.

-This is the new Thunderbolt cable I bought. It’s a similar length and build quality to the original and was only $20.

Wireless charging.

Thank you for the tip.

It was indeed a cable failure. I unscrewed the bottom and swapped the Thunderbolt cable that connects the dock to the laptop. That did the trick.

At first, the dock was not connecting to anything, (clearly due to the cable), so no firmware update/reset would have been possible.

My guess is that the test devices are new and don't have anything installed on them, or are synced to any real accounts.

Your phone is likely connected to email, a few messaging apps, and has a bunch of other apps installed with some background services and notifications running.

Not really, just someone who didn't read what they signed up for.

Ink cartridges run about $20-$25 each if you buy them outright.

A customer can buy them outright, or HP also offers subscriptions, whereby they send you cartridges and you pay per month depending on usage, with some subscriptions as low as $1.99/month for someone who might want to only print 10 pages in a month.

The thing is, HP isn't going to let you "subscribe", pay $2, and send you a $25 cartridge, then let you keep that cartridge if you cancel right after. It's a physical product, not Netflix.

That's likely what happened to OP. If you buy the cartridges outright, they don't depend on a subscription.

I'm back, baby!

Nope, never happened to me.

Given that scams are all over the place, I'd approach with caution. I suggest you or your wife look up your state's office that runs childcare licensing (or wherever this person claimed to be calling from) and call them back through the posted number on the official website, not the number that called you.

If this person calls again, get their details and don't share any non-public information like your address, kid's name, etc until you verify a bit more and understand what's going on

Hope everything is OK.

I originally went with Android because it allowed you to set default apps by activity or file type (e.g pick the web browser that links would open in, pick the Maps app, keyboard, etc.).

iPhone now lets you do this too, but not back when I first picked Android.

I've stayed with Android because I prefer the way it handles notifications, and Pixel's excellent call screening.