Let me explain. Jesse knows all the dirty words, long before he came to live with us he associated all of those dirty words with being punished.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been trying to control my language around him because even saying \u201cShit\u201d can cause him to get nervous.<\/p>\n
One of my pet peeves is technology arbitrarily claiming that configuration has changed when in fact I\u2019ve made no changes to the configuration. Apple I\u2019m looking at YOU!<\/p>\n
Microsoft of course has been doing this kind of thing for years. That\u2019s one reason that I don\u2019t use Microsoft in my daily computing.<\/p>\n
It looks like Apple is getting more like Microsoft every day. Eventually, they\u2019ll equal or surpass Microsoft in annoyance factor and spawn a whole new computer or technology industry. One where user convenience, customer service, and reliability are the top concerns of the company.<\/p>\n
Sadly that day is not today.<\/p>\n
Microsoft and Apple are like two political candidates. You are faced with shitty choices so you choose the least shitty choice and hope it works for you<\/p>\n
This rant started because I wanted to have lunch. When I have lunch, I usually watch an episode of Archer, or Rick & Morty. So, as I\u2019ve done for the last year I grabbed the Apple TV Remote, pushed the button to wake up the Apple TV and waited for the monitor to clunk on.<\/p>\n
Everything looked normal. I clicked on TV Shows and got a black screen. It was working last night. I was watching another TV show I\u2019d purchased. I\u2019d shut things down last night when I went to bed and again noticed nothing amiss.<\/p>\n
I restarted the Apple TV. Still got a black screen when I asked for TV shows, but the Movies I\u2019d purchased displayed properly.<\/p>\n
Wondering if the problem was on the Apple side, I picked up my phone. I\u2019ve used my phone to watch shows before. This time nothing worked. I was apparently logged into the right stuff but my phone said I had no purchases. And no subscriptions. That\u2019s not correct, so I restarted my phone too.<\/p>\n
Then my watch claims there\u2019s something going on with passwords. This was my\u00a0first<\/strong> and only clue about what might have been going on.<\/p>\n Needless to say my frustration level has been steadily rising during all this idiocy. All I wanted to do was watch a TV show while I ate lunch. I didn\u2019t want to deal with some long drawn out technology troubleshooting situation.<\/p>\n As my frustration rose so did the level of swearing. All of which freaked Jesse out.<\/p>\n Once I finally figured out that the phone, and the AppleTV were effectively lying to me. Something was totally wrong with the credentials. Signing out \u00a0took forever. Much more swearing and a colorful vocabulary ensued.<\/p>\n The problem is that I haven\u2019t touched logins or passwords for months. There\u2019s no reason for these devices to believe there\u2019s been a change, and none of the other devices in the house appear to have been affected. Although I should probably test all the HomePods just to be sure.<\/p>\n Jesse, disappeared. While waiting for all the logins to do their thing, I noticed he was gone.<\/p>\n He was hiding out in his room\/cage.<\/p>\n I\u2019d lost my temper. He thought I was mad at him. I wasn\u2019t but he doesn\u2019t understand the difference.<\/p>\n The poor puppy!<\/p>\n This is going to cost me plenty of cuddles and treats.<\/p>\n I honestly don\u2019t know what is going on with Apple lately. But I\u2019ve noticed that the software isn\u2019t as elegant as it once was. I\u2019m not at all thrilled with the System Settings on my Mac. Was there really an overwhelming need to change systems settings? Or was this all driven by someone who needed to keep their job and redesigned settings for no other reason? There are other aspects of the system(s) that are clunky and frankly confusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let me explain. Jesse knows all the dirty words, long before he came to live with us he associated all of those dirty words with being punished. I\u2019ve been trying to control my language around him because even saying \u201cShit\u201d can cause him to get nervous. One of my pet peeves is technology arbitrarily claiming … <\/p>\n