This is the case for any Bluetooth microphone headset, it has nothing to do with the hearing aid “trying to mimic AirPods “it is because Apple refuses to give us fine-grained controls on our Bluetooth devices
Depends if the hearing aid presents itself as an audio sink (with no mic) or as a headset with mic. The phone will only use the mic if it's available (which is generally what you want if you're using an actual headset).
Right, and the hearing aid has a microphone, so it presents itself as a headset with mic. This is not new, the Oticon also does this.
The difference is that the Oticon supports the "Made for iPhone" hearing aid settings which means you get fine-grained control over which microphone is used.
Apple should give that control to all devices, including standard bluetooth headsets.
Step one: make all items cost an even five cents after tax.
step two: when making price adjustments like discount, round the effect to the nearest five cents.
Step three: charge everyone this amount
And you can repair an already-paired device by either holding down the power button for a few seconds or flipping the power switch on and off a few times, depending on the model.
My biggest annoyance with Apple devices is in software, that AFAIK there's no way to prevent macOS from pairing to any Apple Bluetooth device connected via USB, even if it's already paired with another device and you only intend to use it via USB.
Right, it doesn't get my main email at the moment, true, turns out an app needs `android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS` to do that. I do, however, expect them to do that later -- looking at their declared permissions, it's hard to assume a good will:
- `BLUETOOTH_SCAN`, `ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION`, `ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID` -- all together. Yes, I see they use `android.ext.adservices`
`READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`? `WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`?
What for? Do they even offer saving a PDF into a Downloads folder?
I think they can do it without asking for the separate permission.
> and they can only identify apps from a fixed list
And then check their admitted privacy practices/policy from their Google Play listing (com.ryanair.cheapflights)
Notice, the first section is `DATA SHARED`, not just collected. It's shared with the undisclosed third parties (we know from the privacy policy[1], though, that at the very least it includes all the social networks
>> Photos, User ids (plural, it's not just email used to login), Installed apps once again, Files and docs (?!)
Generally;
I have a very little trust for a vendor that is known for the deceptive practices and which lies from the outset about the reasons to force all passengers into using their app.
If they lie in such a fundamental question, it should be assumed they're using deceptions and trickery.
Because they will be back-paid when the government reopens and if they stop showing up then they will be fired. Now, you could ask: won't they be able to get a job back later, who knows.
Three years using FreeTaxUSA, it’s excellent. First year had some learning curves coming from TurboTax but it’s as good, if not better and not a scam with dark patterns.
FreeTaxUSA is excellent, but we shouldn’t have to use it.
Taxes having third party companies being just about the only way to file electronically would be like if you could only vote at selected partner businesses like Walmart or Target and you had to pay to vote for state level candidates unless you went through a process that took twice as long and involved leaving the store and going somewhere else to do it all over again.
Yep, FreeTaxUSA is what I've been using for the last 5 years. Reasonably priced & their forms are good for my fairly uncomplicated setup (W-2, 1099, a few other miscellaneous forms). Bounced off TurboTax & TaxACT years ago because they were too pricey & pushy about upgrades.
are there any Free Software tax programs that are kept up to date with tax codes? I would so prefer not to have a for-profit company handling my taxes.
It's a piece of software I've developed that is not publicly released, but eventually will be and will be AGPL3.
A few other people have also written such software. One guy still maintains it and surprisingly wrote a whole IRS / 1040 library in C. Mine is more oriented towards business and employer related taxes, though, than personal / investment sort of tax forms (although it will do the latter).
Biggest weakness is it will only support 1 or 2 states because I don't have the resources to make an accurate system for all 50.
And SwiftUI is not part of Swift open source, it's just for Apple platforms. The underlying Swift language features could be used by other UI systems if someone wanted to make a crossplatform system, though.
I'm not worried that I'm going to lose access to V2. I'm worried that they are moving in the same rent-seeking direction that Adobe did that caused me to migrate to Affinity in the first place.
Creative tools are, to artists, like IDEs and git repositories are to coders.
Imagine you spend years getting very proficient at specific development tools, and you use a repo host like GitHub. One day your dev tools providers tell you that they are moving to a subscription model. You can continue to use the legacy stuff to access your source code. But if you choose to migrate to a new vendor, all of that legacy source code is now coupled to your old dev tools. Hopefully you have some sort of export -> import functionality so you can migrate. But this doesn't help the fact that you spent years honing your craft in a particular eco-system and now that ecosystem has deal breakers AND make it cumbersome and difficult to migrate away.
An artist has "source" files just the same as developers. They are the project files that have all of the raw layers and assets that would allow tweaks and revisions to be made.
For some artists, this can even make contracts difficult. I own a business, outsourced the creation of our logo to a local artist. Years down the road, if I wanted to ask her to send me the file in a different format, or make tweaks etc. she may charge me money for that, but it is totally on the table.
Imagine one day that happens and she has to tell me "Sorry, due to vendor lock-in and bullshit I had to switch to a different program and no longer have access to all of the project files that went into creating your logo."
