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On 12/25/2024 9:50 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> On Christmas Eve, I got ready for the holidays, and didn't watch much
>> seriously.
>>
>>
>>
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Hey, thanks for asking!
> 
> Here’s a conversation between me and Ob  Veeus:
> 
> Ob:
>>>> THE JETTY:  A 2024 miniseries on Hulu starring Jenna Coleman from DR. WHO.
>>>> This miniseries consists of 4 hour long episodes and plays out a murder mystery.
>>>> No nudity and very little swearing/violence, so this is suitable for the whole family.
>>>> The first episode starts off weak as the Jenna Coleman character seems like
>>>> nothing more than a fairly incompetent detective.  The episodes get better as
>>>> they go along.  Plus, you get a few witty lines of dialog such as:
> 
>     "It is not the cough that carries you off.
>      It is the coffin that they carry you off in."
> 
> 
> Me:
>>> Thanks for the recommend. I’ll try to check that out although annoyingly Disney+
>>> no longer works on the iPad. It requires the newest system update which the iPad\
>>> can’t handle. But I can probably still look at it on the iPhone.
> 
> Ob:
> The built-in obsolescence of modern devices is really annoying.  I am sure
> that
> there is no valid reason why they can't continue to offer streaming to your
> iPad
> other than that they want to sell you a new device instead.  The same TV
> sets
> worked for the first 50 years of broadcasting.  Black & white TV sets even
> worked
> for color broadcasts, they just didn't show the colors.  Now, sets that are
> just a few
> years old are becoming unusable without add-on devices (like
> Roku/Firestick) just
> because the manufacturers stop updating software and try to force people to
> buy
> newer devices.
> 
> 

The other week I was trying to get the built in Netflix to work on my 
mother's TV then it turns out Netflix won't work even though it's built 
in because it's an older TV model.  And as far as iPads go, I have games 
I paid for that won't work on the newer models.  And my much older model 
stopped working a long time ago.  One of these days, I might see about 
getting the old one fixed so I can play those games again.

But in the case of the iPad, it's the software updates that will cause 
certain apps to no longer work.  Although that's nothing new for Windows 
users.  You never knew what game would suddenly no longer be compatible 
with the latest operating system update.  But it's way more annoying 
with iPad software updates since that's less of a choice.  At least with 
Windows you had to go out of your way to buy the update and it was 
usually well known in advance what would or wouldn't work after an update.