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Dear Apple:

QUIT FUCKING TURNING BLUETOOTH BACK ON WHEN I UPDATE IPADOS. Every other existing setting you leave untouched, afaict. Why is THIS the one I have to frob every single time???

I have mail set up on eristic.net. It's shared hosting, so the underlying "real" server name is actually a subdomain of asoshared.com. Thus, whenever asoshared.com's security certificates are renewed (as just happened a few days ago), mail apps complain about the name mismatch and I have to approve an exception to trust the certificate anyway. No big deal, so long as I'm able to do that; it was no problem in Thunderbird. It had also previously been working in the Mail app on my iPad, so I must have been able to do similar exceptions there as well. I thought there should be place I could just click "Trust" on the warning, but this time, for the life of me I can't figure out how to trust the certificate. This sort of thing and this seem like varying amounts of "maybe not even the right solution" plus "seems like more work than I should have to go through" plus "I might not be able to accomplish all that anyway" (there is not actually any certificate for eristic.net, and I'm not sure I could create one). I wondered if maybe this had changed between iPadOS 13 and 14, but that first link even more puzzlingly gives me the idea that I should have already run into this problem in 13 (and maybe even in 12), yet I don't remember it being the case - I certainly have never done anything like the solution outlined in the first link. Does anyone have any advice?

I think it was iOS (or iPad OS as the iPad version is now called) 14 that introduced -- supposedly -- popup keypad entry for scheduling Night Shift instead of being limited to the virtual scroll wheel. Does anyone else find that it doesn't work? I observe the same behavior as this person on their iPhone - that it cuts off the input and closes the keypad after you've typed one or two digits and it's impossible to type a complete time. The same behavior makes it impossible to correct such an error and I don't seem to be able to target entering the hour or minutes specifically. (Scroll-wheeling works as it always did.) The non-answer from the Apple "specialist" there was irritating.

Can anyone recommend a solution for a discussion-type (not marketing) mailing list that is not on my own domain? Yahoo, which has been cranky and unreliable about accepting mail from eristic.net for a long time now but used to work enough of the time to be going on with, has apparently decided it doesn't want to anymore*, and I'm tired of getting bounce messages from the subscribers on the list whom I can't persuade to use different addresses and having to separately forward things to them from my Gmail address every time (because I do want them getting event announcements and being able to reply to RSVP). For what I hope are obvious reasons I do not want to use a Yahoo group, and Google groups, as I recall, are a big pain to be on with anything other than a Gmail address because you can't manage your own subscription. I don't know if there's anything else out there these days.

Alternatively, although I dread having to open a support ticket because A Small Orange's customer support has become crap (oh for the days of Drak.net), if anyone can positively diagnose some problem with the mail server configuration that could be causing this, that would be helpful information if I ever manage to work up the combination of stubbornness/patience/energy required to do so. (Fiddling with it directly is definitely beyond me in terms of knowledge, and maybe not even possible in a permission sense.)

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* Common error response over the past few days has been delivery temporarily suspended: lost connection with mta7.am0.yahoodns.net[98.137.159.24] while sending RCPT TO but I have also received "message temporarily deferred due to user complaints" kinds of errors multiple times in recent months (which I assume are not due to literal persons filing literal complaints with Yahoo?).

AUGH, Microsoft, whyfor you break my enlarged system font sizes with your latest update (1709), like you had already broken them once with Creators Update last year? Why do you think those tiny font sizes are at all reasonable to read at 1920x1080? Back to Advanced System Font Changer it is, then.

Would anyone out there who has a Reddit account be willing to comment in a thread for me? I have a different model of Kindle, but seem to be having the same problem as this user about the battery life on my Kindle Fire being terrible after the update to Fire OS 5.3.2 was pushed last month, draining quickly even when the device is supposedly in sleep mode, which also means it charges slowly. (There's very little on that thread, but that seems to be the story anywhere on the internet; I would think if this problem were widespread it would be easy to find complaints, but that hasn't seemed to be the case. :-/ ) I would like to ask the OP if they ever sorted it out.

5.3.2 is the update that included Alexa, Amazon's answer to Siri or Cortana, which I immediately disabled, so I don't think it's that Alexa is listening all the time. It's not the wifi (turning that off has no effect, and leaving it on all night was never a problem before) or Bluetooth. A battery monitor and wakelock detector reveal that there's no particular app doing the battery suck, it's just that the CPU is being held awake large percentages of time (90% in the case of last night) for... no reason I can determine, leading to 20-30% battery drain overnight instead of ~5% as had previously been the case. The native email app is the worst offender as far as the number of times it wakes the CPU (it must be something like twice or three times a second), but it only gets ~10 minutes total wake time over an 8 hour night and accounts for only a couple percent of the battery drain. A lot of the wakelocking seems to be by the kernel and I just can't fathom what's going on.

Does anyone have any thoughts on why my Tumblr tracked tags properly tracked what I had seen across multiple browser instances of Pale Moon (i.e. my home, work, and laptop installations) but Chrome doesn't behave the same way? That is, with Pale Moon I could go through my tracked tags at work, and when I went home the same tags would only pop up again on the different computer if there were actually new posts I hadn't seen in the past hour or whatever since I left work; whereas with Chrome I may have to go through the same posts again because it's basing it off the last time I used that particular computer, which is typically the previous day. (I use Chrome for this use case because New XKit isn't supported in Pale Moon and Tumblr is pretty much unbearable without XKit.)

Does anyone know how to stop Photoshop (Creative Cloud 2014) from saving scanned images acquired by WIA as bitmaps in some folder? I want them to just be opened in Photoshop as new untitled documents and not saved anywhere. This scanner's WIA with CS5.5 under 32-bit Win XP used to work that way, but 64-bit Photoshop under 64-bit Win 7 seems to want to act differently. (Those factors are not something I have control over; this is my work computer.) The scanner itself is the same and the software seems to act the almost the same as it used to under paint.NET, actually (except I have to pick the device each time even though I only have one, but that's a single keypress) but Photoshop now insists on prefacing the normal scanning interface dialog with another box asking me where I want to save the image, giving me the option to also open it in Photoshop, but not to only do that.

No matter what I do I can't seem to get the scanner to appear under the File > Import menu with its own name like it used to, only the general File > Import > WIA Support option (which was always there too, but which I never used). I feel like that might be related, but I've installed all the versions of the driver I can find (HP offers three, a "basic feature" driver, a "TWAIN driver and utilities" that might be useless because I read that you can't use TWAIN in 64-bit Photoshop, and a rather large full software suite I don't really need) and none seem to have the desired effect.

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Stygian Syzygy: also, the "live stream" Apple advertised? Wasn't.
enchawntment!: oh?
Stygian Syzygy: Yeah.. apparently they weren't prepared for the amount of interest
enchawntment!: seriously??
Stygian Syzygy: I know, right?
enchawntment!: not prepared for the interest that they specifically tried to generate?
enchawntment!: seriously, you can't big-gorilla your way in here, building new buildings*, taking out trees, and then pretend you didn't know anyone would care??


* Not exactly, not in the sense of a permanent structure, though I think our Marketing department's calling it a "tent" (their exact term in the email inviting faculty and staff to take a look tomorrow afternoon, bring your District photo ID on pain of something) is rather understating it:



For reference, here's a picture of the empty space from a point roughly at the bottom of the steps that guard is standing at the top of:



Really, guys? You couldn't predict you might need pretty robust serving of internet traffic to stream your event here?

And yes, they did take out some trees that had only been there two years, like the one that replaced the tree in the bottom right of that photo when the Sunken Garden was recently renovated. (In kind of an ugly way, I might add - repaving the already-asphalt areas, ok, but they replaced half the grass with gravel because nobody knows why, and then they go and flag it part of the so-called "Historic Corridor" between the Trianon Building and the Baldwin Winery like it looks anything other than totally modern?) I hope those are at least going to be replaced. I can only imagine how much money Apple must have given the college for the privilege of having this event here (although I suppose De Anza probably won a low-bidding war or something). enotsola says this is apparently the anniversary date and place of Steve Jobs' first product presentation, or something, but I don't know whether that's verified.

Oh, and did I mention there was basically a turf war on some of the days back in August that we were trying to get a truck in here to take our pallets of boxed library books away to storage, since Apple (well, their construction and security dudes) were blocking driveways and laying claim to every which where and saying no way you plebs can't walk through here etc. etc.? Fortunately that was not something I had to personally sort out.

If there's a domain name that will be expiring in the not-too-distant future, and I would like to maximize my chances of being able to register it, what should I do (if that's possible)? Assume for the purpose of the question that there are other individuals who have the same idea as well as a fair likelihood of a squatter.

Bonus points for telling me how I might go about transferring it to a different registrar, if I did manage to get my hands on it. (I understand there are, at the very least, waiting periods involved...)