That's going to be a big surprise to my phone, and the phone before that, and... so for several years now. I don't remember all the dates I bought smart phones.
It's called "Find My Mobile" on my cheap Samsung. Google has "Find My Devices" so it can locate even more stuff than just the phone.
I have TWO apps to find my phone if need be. Although mostly I borrow someone's, call the BFF, and listen for it ringing. A few weeks ago when it slid under the couch and I couldn't find it even with a flashlight, I went to my next door neighbor's and he just dialed it for me.
Methinks you're a bit behind on tech (but that's to be expected if you like living in the walled garden).
I haven't been in the Apple ecosystem since the Apple ][ and have never seen anything that makes me think I need to change -- even less now I'm on a fixed income and Social Security will be gone by the time I get that old. (sobs in Kamala and Tim)
So, hey, I can look forward to that glorious day that "Find My Devices" can locate even more things. Although I'm still not installing the app unless I don't know where it is, which, no chance on that one, amirite? 😉
I'm an art director and a graphic designer so, yes. I use Macs.
I also used Android phones for many years (and a Palm Pre prior to that, still the most innovative mobile OS I've ever seen). I used Android phones because I preferred a hardware keyboard, when I could no longer get a flagship Android phone with a keyboard, I decided to move to iOS. Immediately, I wondered why I waited so long, the hardware's an order of magnitude better and more durable, iOS is smoother and far less crash prone (I can count on one hand the number of crashes I've had since switching — and that would be 3). Oh, and I've kept my hand in the Android world, purchasing a tablet every couple of years to see what was happening there — and always was disappointed by the mediocre "skins" that various phone manufacturers applied to Android and the jaggy animations and barely adequate hardware. The last Android device I used was a Google Pixel 8 Pro that I purchased because I needed a second phone for a project. I was underwhelmed.
So you can be all superior and talk about the "walled garden". but I've actually used both environments and stayed current on both and there really is no competition. Android is far the lesser of the two.
Yeah, I can't art to save my life, so no need for a Mac.
However, my Android phones don't crash either and they play nice with all other phones in the world, which is especially good when you're texting to people outside North America, which I do.
I find the Androids aren't jaggy and don't have annoying themes. I've had Android tablets for over a decade now. The standard Apple themes and buttons don't appeal to me, and it's just too... bossy and all-encompassing. I've been using computers since 1977*, I still write HTML in a document/notes, I don't need my hand held. And of course, I'm old enough to know better than to load dodgy apps. I remember when the very first spam appeared on Usenet in the 80s, and the "joys" of September and Eternal September (Little did we know).
People who aren't serious artists like yourself mostly pay too much for Apple because it's a status symbol. Although even my friends who have fallen for that idea still use Windows, because they've been using it since maybe 3.0. They do their photo, video, and art editing just fine on those; two of them are smallish-level professional event photographers/videographers.
But although I have many many many nerdy friends, absolutely nobody I know has anything else beyond an iPhone. And they don't touch Linux either, because that is a nerd bridge too far for most of them (I live very near Silicon Valley, so my nerd-friend quotient is ridiculously high).
Also, the cost for the phones is so much higher, and a lot of people refused to buy them when they were AT&T only so they never got started, or they refuse to use closed systems in general, or they're poor. I certainly can't afford them. And being poor is going to become a LOT more common in the Mump era, sadly. I've never bought a Google phone since they're high-priced too, and have been on a fixed income for a decade.
They have improved a lot since they finally caught up to Android and quit claiming that their NEW! features were actually NEW! when everyone on Android was all "...um? Been using that for 2 years. What took them so long to reverse-engineer it?"
Anyway, the point is, Android phones have had the "find" stuff enabled for a number of years, because it's an easy thing to do. I guess you never set that up on your Pixel8.
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Fun aside on software, hardware, and "these kids today (und der Swastikar manufacturer)": they were whining that some of the people they exposed the identities of in the Social Security database were "150 years old and still getting paid!"
Because not only do a couple of generations (und der Kar Führer) not know how to actually write code or even follow it, they don't realize a lot of the government is still built in old code including COBOL, and if there isn't a birth date listed in that one particular database, it defaults to 1875, which is like the honorary birthdate of the SSB. (This is a *vast* simplification for the non-nerds.) So in the more up to date records that really matter, people have their real birthday and get checks because they're still alive.
The MAGA teens didn't know that they didn't know enough to know enough to run an online search as to why. Because they didn't even spot that all those entries had the same birthdate of May 20, 1875, since it wasn't all laid out for them in an app.
I think the early B&W Macs used that epoch too, and might sometimes default to that day upon misbehaving, despite having different software.
Old geeks are shaking their fists and LOL for good reason. Some of them made a ton of money in 1999 updating banking software; some people can still program Voyager. Everyone else is just LOL.
I'm LOL and thankful I'm young enough that nobody made me learn COBOL nor use punch cards. Pretty sure I'd still notice the identical birthdates, though, and look madly on different search engines to find out why.
I apologize to all the people who only came here for electronic-dick jokes!
*Pretty sure I could still knock out a little Fortran77. Definitely could still write BASIC. The pseudo-code class I took in college was very helpful in getting my head around different languages.
Remember those ghost guns people could make online and 3D print. Why can't there be a ghost vibratory shop with sizes, from baby lima bean to grande, any color, bend, gel firmness or softness you want with built in AI that gets it right. USB and A/C adapter included.?😂😂❤️😍
You're baaack! First, besides making me scream laugh, you have invented the perfect bananabrator! Shark Tank? You're on the precipice of millions of Canadian dollars and a total earthquake of sales.
Women are waiting, and maybe a few men too.
Maybe add an "extract" button, so it doesn't get lost in there and we have to go to the ER.💃💃
Although I'm not hooking up anything that... personal to an app. No spotty incel nerds need to know what I'm doing. Be it... that, or my washing, or my fridge or anything.
American ladies in red states, if you can't afford to move, at least delete all the period/ovulation tracking apps you might be using. That data WILL be used to throw you in jail if you don't carry to term. Put it on paper, which you can at least hide or burn.
Should not have opened this on a bus in a conservative area of my city lol
hahaha, the title didn't give it away?
🎶Baa nana nana nana, nana nana nana, nana nana nana nah🎶 😎
😆😆
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂! Brilliant! Salacious! Robyn, you are the best! ❤️
I'm fanning myself like a corseted lady in a Victorian-era novel . . .
I hope you didn't catch a case of 'the vapors' Jan 😆
Ha! I was so disappointed when I learned that 'the vapors' just meant gas.
Also needs a « Find my… » function
Knowing Apple’s rather Puritan views onto the naughty and their zealous protection of their patents…
…I think you can fuggedabout “Find My Dildo”…
It's OK, Android DGAF about what you do in your own home with your own devices, so they'll do "Find My Dildo".
What part of "Apple patent" was unclear?
Google/Android can't do "Find My"...
That's going to be a big surprise to my phone, and the phone before that, and... so for several years now. I don't remember all the dates I bought smart phones.
It's called "Find My Mobile" on my cheap Samsung. Google has "Find My Devices" so it can locate even more stuff than just the phone.
I have TWO apps to find my phone if need be. Although mostly I borrow someone's, call the BFF, and listen for it ringing. A few weeks ago when it slid under the couch and I couldn't find it even with a flashlight, I went to my next door neighbor's and he just dialed it for me.
Methinks you're a bit behind on tech (but that's to be expected if you like living in the walled garden).
I haven't been in the Apple ecosystem since the Apple ][ and have never seen anything that makes me think I need to change -- even less now I'm on a fixed income and Social Security will be gone by the time I get that old. (sobs in Kamala and Tim)
So, hey, I can look forward to that glorious day that "Find My Devices" can locate even more things. Although I'm still not installing the app unless I don't know where it is, which, no chance on that one, amirite? 😉
I'm an art director and a graphic designer so, yes. I use Macs.
I also used Android phones for many years (and a Palm Pre prior to that, still the most innovative mobile OS I've ever seen). I used Android phones because I preferred a hardware keyboard, when I could no longer get a flagship Android phone with a keyboard, I decided to move to iOS. Immediately, I wondered why I waited so long, the hardware's an order of magnitude better and more durable, iOS is smoother and far less crash prone (I can count on one hand the number of crashes I've had since switching — and that would be 3). Oh, and I've kept my hand in the Android world, purchasing a tablet every couple of years to see what was happening there — and always was disappointed by the mediocre "skins" that various phone manufacturers applied to Android and the jaggy animations and barely adequate hardware. The last Android device I used was a Google Pixel 8 Pro that I purchased because I needed a second phone for a project. I was underwhelmed.
So you can be all superior and talk about the "walled garden". but I've actually used both environments and stayed current on both and there really is no competition. Android is far the lesser of the two.
Yeah, I can't art to save my life, so no need for a Mac.
However, my Android phones don't crash either and they play nice with all other phones in the world, which is especially good when you're texting to people outside North America, which I do.
I find the Androids aren't jaggy and don't have annoying themes. I've had Android tablets for over a decade now. The standard Apple themes and buttons don't appeal to me, and it's just too... bossy and all-encompassing. I've been using computers since 1977*, I still write HTML in a document/notes, I don't need my hand held. And of course, I'm old enough to know better than to load dodgy apps. I remember when the very first spam appeared on Usenet in the 80s, and the "joys" of September and Eternal September (Little did we know).
People who aren't serious artists like yourself mostly pay too much for Apple because it's a status symbol. Although even my friends who have fallen for that idea still use Windows, because they've been using it since maybe 3.0. They do their photo, video, and art editing just fine on those; two of them are smallish-level professional event photographers/videographers.
But although I have many many many nerdy friends, absolutely nobody I know has anything else beyond an iPhone. And they don't touch Linux either, because that is a nerd bridge too far for most of them (I live very near Silicon Valley, so my nerd-friend quotient is ridiculously high).
Also, the cost for the phones is so much higher, and a lot of people refused to buy them when they were AT&T only so they never got started, or they refuse to use closed systems in general, or they're poor. I certainly can't afford them. And being poor is going to become a LOT more common in the Mump era, sadly. I've never bought a Google phone since they're high-priced too, and have been on a fixed income for a decade.
They have improved a lot since they finally caught up to Android and quit claiming that their NEW! features were actually NEW! when everyone on Android was all "...um? Been using that for 2 years. What took them so long to reverse-engineer it?"
Anyway, the point is, Android phones have had the "find" stuff enabled for a number of years, because it's an easy thing to do. I guess you never set that up on your Pixel8.
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Fun aside on software, hardware, and "these kids today (und der Swastikar manufacturer)": they were whining that some of the people they exposed the identities of in the Social Security database were "150 years old and still getting paid!"
Because not only do a couple of generations (und der Kar Führer) not know how to actually write code or even follow it, they don't realize a lot of the government is still built in old code including COBOL, and if there isn't a birth date listed in that one particular database, it defaults to 1875, which is like the honorary birthdate of the SSB. (This is a *vast* simplification for the non-nerds.) So in the more up to date records that really matter, people have their real birthday and get checks because they're still alive.
The MAGA teens didn't know that they didn't know enough to know enough to run an online search as to why. Because they didn't even spot that all those entries had the same birthdate of May 20, 1875, since it wasn't all laid out for them in an app.
I think the early B&W Macs used that epoch too, and might sometimes default to that day upon misbehaving, despite having different software.
Old geeks are shaking their fists and LOL for good reason. Some of them made a ton of money in 1999 updating banking software; some people can still program Voyager. Everyone else is just LOL.
I'm LOL and thankful I'm young enough that nobody made me learn COBOL nor use punch cards. Pretty sure I'd still notice the identical birthdates, though, and look madly on different search engines to find out why.
I apologize to all the people who only came here for electronic-dick jokes!
*Pretty sure I could still knock out a little Fortran77. Definitely could still write BASIC. The pseudo-code class I took in college was very helpful in getting my head around different languages.
You mean… when I say « right there…don’t stop » it would actually pay attention, and not try to switch it up just for fun?
Exactly 😆
Remember those ghost guns people could make online and 3D print. Why can't there be a ghost vibratory shop with sizes, from baby lima bean to grande, any color, bend, gel firmness or softness you want with built in AI that gets it right. USB and A/C adapter included.?😂😂❤️😍
😆😆😆 OMG that's absolutely hilarious and I'm imagining it now.
You're baaack! First, besides making me scream laugh, you have invented the perfect bananabrator! Shark Tank? You're on the precipice of millions of Canadian dollars and a total earthquake of sales.
Women are waiting, and maybe a few men too.
Maybe add an "extract" button, so it doesn't get lost in there and we have to go to the ER.💃💃
Bananabrator haha, well played Linda.
Ooh extract button--good idea, I'll let the engineering boys know.
From reading this, I can conclude you've never seen "The Terminator". Because your idea is exactly what it would lead to.
haha, well if there's a robot uprising this wouldn't be the worst way to go.
My town has a vibratorium
😆😆 That's phenomenal
Just like Asian appliances
It won't work like you expect and broke before you know it!
I think that's most things these days to be fair.
I dunno, my Samsung Induction Range works damned well…
Samsung Range is good so far ...GE microwave: 4 in the last 6 years🤔
Yeah, I gave up on GE years ago...
I saved this for the last thing I read on the internet tonight.
Because reading the title left me sure there would be plenty of laughs and synonyms right before I logged off. And I was right.
Glad it didn't disappoint!
Although I'm not hooking up anything that... personal to an app. No spotty incel nerds need to know what I'm doing. Be it... that, or my washing, or my fridge or anything.
American ladies in red states, if you can't afford to move, at least delete all the period/ovulation tracking apps you might be using. That data WILL be used to throw you in jail if you don't carry to term. Put it on paper, which you can at least hide or burn.
G ..will be a Chinese version of a good product.
Could be ok and likely not.
😳😳😳😳🫢🫢🫢🫣🫣🫣🫣🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭😂😂😆😆😁😂😂🤣🤣🥰😍🤣🤣😂😂
Can you get these on amazon?
Let's hope not 😆
God forbid anyone buy them on Temu!