I remain pissed that Yahoo blew away Sent messages with no warning. I had been downloading messages annually because I use them for subscriptions to other services. However, searching for Sent vs. Inbox items was always a PITA. These are signs that I should move on, but it’s gonna take a lot of work. 
Been doing that for years. I started out as a Google Reader fan, but as is the way with all good Google technologies, they got distracted by something shinier and retired it, so I’ve been using The Old Reader ever since.
But even there, you have to make sure to add things you may not usually gravitate towards to your feed, otherwise you end up with a very narrow stream of news, specifically tailored to your interests and those alone.
I don’t actually use it on my phone however, but then, I rarely if ever use my phone for that sort of general Internet usage (I’m aware I’m an outlier here.)
My phone’s for music, photography, maps, reading email, the occasional game while on the john at work, and lastly, being a phone.
Eh, my original Switch hasn’t seen any use at all since I got my Steam Deck.
Partly because joycon drift is real, partly because most of the games I was playing on it were on the Deck, were cheaper, and ran better.
Ad audio is usually normalised, so while it’s technically peaking at the same level as whatever you’re watching, EVERYTHING in the advert is playing at that level.
Weird, this doesn’t seem to have happened to me. One thing that did happen to me is that my Yahoo account was arbitrarily locked out due to a “terms-of-service violation” and I lost access to everything. I opened a ticket and they said that there was nothing they could do and they couldn’t even provide detail on the nature of the violation. At this point I had been using my Yahoo email mostly for e-commerce stuff, but that’s when I moved all of my really important e-commerce activity to another address.
About four days later I was able to get back into my account, fully intact, with no explanation.
Add my name to the phone email haters!
I freaking HATE using my phone for email! I’m a Boomer. My eyes are old and the teeny-tiny keyboard + autocorrect just make me insane! 
Not quite the same situation, but related, and annoying as all get-out:
A few years ago, my school switched from actual telephone lines to VOIP. The plan was to have virtually everybody receive their phone calls via their desktop or laptop computer, using headsets - only a few people on campus would have actual desktop phones. Everybody would get “free” voicemail, which you would receive via emailed messages. If you didn’t want to receive your phone calls on your computer, you had another option: have your work phone automatically forwardd to your personal cell phone or your home phone.
When they got around to asking us which of the two styles of headsets we wanted, I said “no, thanks”. I explained that I did not want to have to put on a headset to answer the phone, and I refused to consider having my work phone forward to one of my personal phone numbers. I wanted to have an actual desktop phone, handset and all. After about six weeks of back-and-forth, they gave in, and I now have an Avaya phone on my desk.
VOIP does give us Caller ID, which we didn’t have before, and four lines per phone (which I’ve never had reason to use). An unexpected joy is that power blips nuke phone service until your phone can reboot.
I work from home these days, but my employer did the headset thing about 10 years ago. One of the things we coders used to do was put a phone in a huddle room on speaker and gather round to solve problem with a DBA or someone in in infrastructure support. It’s more difficult to corral the people required to work on a given problem than it used to be. And I guess I’m not supporting my remote work very well. I suppose the replacement is Teams chat.
Also, I’d NEVER let my employer have anything to do with my personal phone. Hard NOPE! Good for you for sticking to your phone!
It helped that my first thought when I read the announcement about the headsets was literally “I am too old for this shit”.
I would go without an office phone before I let them tie anything to my personal phone.
My employer got rid of physical phones at the onset of Covid and went headsets only, using an app called Jabber. It is fucking atrocious and I’ll spare the details.
Back in March I had a sudden back spasm and had to call an ambulance. Of course I couldn’t reach the headset, and even if I could I still wouldnt have known how to make an emergency call via the jabber app. I was finally able to reach a coworker via IM over Teams who made the call.
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I worked in a call center for 6 months, 30 years ago. I think I’ve fulfilled my lifetime quota of phone calls.
At work we use a mix of Slack and Teams for audio/video/screenshare calls. That’s fine with me. Feels more like being there talking with someone than just a disembodied voice over a phone (which always felt like being halfway in this world and halfway in another one at the same time).
We used to use Jabber, too! No need to describe how awful it is. I know!
Currently, we have this piece of software called E911 that is supposed to allow us to make emergency calls from Teams. I’ve never had cause to use it, so no idea if it even works.
I’m glad you were able to reach a co-worker to make that call!
At least AMC is warning customers now, but it still sucks:
The last two times I went to a movie at AMC were terrible experiences. And trailers are one thing, but it’s really hard for me to understand the business case for them spending so much of the pre-movie time advertising the theater chain itself. Every single person who sees that already bought a ticket, so if you want their repeat business it seems like giving them a better movie-watching experience would work better than forcing them to sit through additional ads for the theater.
I don’t understand this announcement quite honestly.
The last time we went to an AMC theater was in 2003. Back then it had 33 minutes of ads, not counting trailers. 25-30 is actually a decrease.
I’m one of those weirdos who actually likes watching trailers. I also have a family that has a hard time showing up on time to anything, so knowing my margin of error is comforting to me.