You’re doing what you’re paid for, which is to sacrifice a normal schedule that the rest of humanity is on, in order to be available when an emergency happens, and they will eventually happen. No, you should not say something. Why would you try to make your job worse for yourself and your coworkers? The company has decided that this is how much your specialized training, experience, and time is worth, and you agreed.

It’s kind odd that a movie about women is being excluded from nomination because it didn’t meet inclusion criteria.

And as long as you keep sharing that information with your friends and family, they’re going to keep expecting free help. You need to get used to saying “I don’t know”, even when you do.

“Oh, I wish I could help, but I don’t know anything about that. That’s not my area of expertise.”

Get good at variations of that theme or you will be miserable. That or start a side business where you charge for your services.

Right? I never talk about it unless someone else brings it up first and doesn’t have an embarrassing score. LOL. I have a friend who took the test when we were in high school, and was bragging about how he got a 98. He wasn’t smart enough to realize that’s not a good score. The rest of us were like “oooh, that’s greeeeat!”.

What IQ is the 95th percentile?

Edit: huh, if this chart is accurate then I’m in the 99th percentile based on the score I have repeatedly received from multiple tests. This can’t be right. I’m not that smart!

Correct.

Lol, nice.

That’s true about the search bar. I do actually use that to find and open apps though, so I hadn’t considered it fluff. I don’t use Google to search the web though. I forgot about the news feed because I don’t have it. I uninstalled the news app and a bunch of other crap I don’t need. Idk what At A Glance feature you’re talking about. I don’t think I have that. Overall you are right. There’s some initial fluff that I forgot about because I removed it years ago.

There are definitely intelligent people in the trade jobs, but the overall mindset is completely different, and a certain lack of soft skills that get developed in other types of careers.

There’s that, but it was really glitchy too. Siri only worked half the time. The subtitles would start and then stop after a couple sentences and need to be restarted constantly. There were a never ending stream of glitches. Text selection is still awful. It’s just not a good phone compared to the competition. I will say that it looked and felt nice though. The build quality of the actual hardware seemed good.

That was my suspicion too, but I didn’t want to come right out and say it without more information

Because then they don’t have an excuse to move all your data to Apple servers and scan it for later use.

And if there’s a class action lawsuit then it’ll be $95 million settlement spread out over 1.46 billion customers (this just happened over Siri spying).

What if I don’t want Apple looking at my photos in any way, shape or form?’

Then you don’t buy an iPhone. Didn’t they say a year or two ago that they’re going to scan every single picture using on-board processing to look for images and videos that could be child porn and anything suspicious would be flagged and sent to human review?

That’s still spending $1000 on a phone, even more if you pay interest.

The stock android pixel UI has gotten so full shit I have to use a launcher.

What? I use a stock Pixel Pro and there’s no fluff. It’s very vanilla, but does everything I need it to do without fuss. I was using Nova Launcher Pro, but they sold it to an advertising company a while ago, so I went back to the stock launcher.

I tried the new iPhone 16 Pro. They should be ashamed of what they’ve created. If that’s their flagship phone, then I can’t even imagine how glitchy their base models are. It felt like a Fisher Price OS compared to Android. I returned it after two weeks. My several year old Pixel Pro can do more stuff more reliably than Apple’s brand new flagship device.

Don’t they mean Tim Apple?

That’s Apple though. “We know what you want better than you do” is almost a company mantra.