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I've also noticed my ability to taste salt is pretty shot.

That's really interesting - for most people it is the nasal receptors that are included - lost of "taste" is actually lost of smell. I'm not sure I've head of someone losing salt, sweet, soutr or bitter.

What non-SMS non-Apple app can I use to "text" my younger kid on their iPad

Hi! My less-than-10-year-old has their own iPad (registered under my apple id) and wants to be able to “text” with the rest of the family. Most of us are not Apple people though: Android phones, using some combo of SMS, Discord, and Signal. The little one doesn’t have a phone, so I think that prevents us from signing them...

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Enjoy. Feel free to message me if you get stuck. Also check out the screen time and parental control options in iOS Settings - they are pretty good for setting limits on what a little’un can do and for how long.

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No, the article is clear evidence that they are imperfect - not that they don't generally care about user privacy. In general the work they have done on privacy has been pretty good. Apple mandating end-to-end encryption might be something that they sholuld have done - and that's a reasonable criticism, but it looks like it is possible for individual app makers to encrypt their notifications: . There's syill the metadata, of course.

If I am being paid to shill for Apple they are being particularly tardy with their payments. But to answer your question, no - I'm a user who is privacy conscious and thinks Apple does a reasonable job.

I am, however always interested in knowing about where they are falling down so I can mitigate. General handy wavy accusations don't really help me practically - or indeed anyone.

HeartyBeast,
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That’s a claim. You haven’t given any tangible evidence that it’s a lie, you just talk in handywavy generalities

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But what should they specifically do in this case to improve the situation - got any actual suggestions?

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So. What do you suggest they in practice?

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The two conflicts are not even remotely comparable.

That was largely my point.

HeartyBeast,
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Oh yeh. But of course, that just happens to be where the discussion is hosted. The people discussing it could be hosted anywhere

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I don't agree that they are the same.

It's just that the difference is infinitely small

HeartyBeast,
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Stop throwing your old vinyl at turtles, guys

HeartyBeast,
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They have a small pack of these in London zoo - always were a favourite of mine.

HeartyBeast,
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Loads. Not just seabirds, but lots of heath and farmland birds too.

Puffins were almost impossible to see, though. We went in Easter when they are there nesting. Their burrows are on a cliff edge and you could only really see them from a neighbouring cliff/headland. Both binoculars you could just about make them out from their distinctive orange feet

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Stayed there for a week a few years ago. Pretty magical place.

The kids keep nagging us to go back

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I've always worn a watch. I got myself a smartwatch when my kids kept insisting on texting me, while I was cycling home - usually while I wasa half way up a hill. Much better than rummaging to get my phone only to find it was some bit of nonsense.

Subsequently bought an Apple Watch 4 which I still have today and wear daily. I find it very sndy for reminders, as a fitness tracker and like the Apple Maps haptic direction prompts

HeartyBeast,
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It’s low risk - or, it’s at least a more quantifiable risk. It’s easier for studios to be able to estimate the returns on investment

HeartyBeast,
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My apologies, when I read the article originally, it had a very different headline.

Edit Original headline I saw was: "New study finds that masculine language, reshapes men’s perspectives on vegan dishes "

HeartyBeast,
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Pretty bad editorialising of the headline there, OP. That's really not what the study showed. It was more nuanced than that.

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"Please make sure people on open forums are free to spread their hateful views unopposed".

No.

HeartyBeast,
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It sounds like a very useful, beneficial application - though as a Be My Eyes volunteer, I'm a bit sad that my chances of being useful will drop even further.

HeartyBeast,
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You have to be pretty determined to not find this uplifting.

HeartyBeast,
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I imagine there will be swift concrete blocks too - but I haven't read the proposed legislation.

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Sorry, don't quite understand

HeartyBeast,
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It depends if you really want to send all your text to a third party. Feels like a privacy nightmare waiting to happen to me.

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