Pat Riot

Oh, I almost forgot. I want nothing to do with AI on my iPhone. iPhone 15 and higher have AI. Apple says it can be turned off. I kinda doubt it’s actually off if one turns it off.

I agree. They all suck in one fashion or another. Huawei uses Google. No dice! BlackBerry…I’d rather go Google. The “suck” is everything with them. But Thank you for your suggestions. I have over 40,000 photos. With every update the search function gets worse. I have a 13 Pro Max. I love the phone. It’s the giggly-boy updates they Don that doesn’t add functionality unless you’re a socialite high school girl. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. Thank you. I have looked and looked for an alternative. If I lived in Europe or Asia there are lots of options. Not so much here. ————————————————— Well, Pards, I think I am just going to have to live with the iPhone. I think I will join one of their forums and try to voice my concerns and see if anything changes. Though I think it would just be more aggravation. Funny story: A couple of years ago I submitted a complaint with a request for a change after an update. I actually got a response saying “Post your concerns with our community. Maybe someone there can help you.” So I did. Within 24 hours I got the kind of help I expected. A bunch of snotty comments telling me to “just deal with it!” So, I did. I posted a GIF that I cannot post here of a hand with a crank on the side. The crank turns and raises the middle finger. I got about a dozen responses thanking me for the “very cool GIF” and that was it.

I have damn near had it with Apple and iPhones. Ever since Covid started they screw up one thing after another and I am sick of it. I find it odd that after I find one more thing they totally screwed up I see there’s a new software update coming, so I wait and see if that update fixes the problem. It used to be that it did. Now not only does it not fix the problem it just adds more. There was a recent update. Today I find you cannot do a search within Photos for anything. I was searching for rifle photos, in particular one that shows when I mounted a certain scope to a certain rifle. No can do. Search doesn’t work for anything. I see there’s a new update tonight. Probably ANOTHER security update where they hide more convenient options from their customers. Enough ranting. Anyone know any options besides Apple IPhones or Google / Microsoft / Android options. I despise anything Google related. Oh, and DON’t say flip phone (dumb phone). If you do I will fart in your general direction and post photos of your secret crush.

Sorry, Pard, but I think you missed it because it was the night before last. Glad I am not the only one that gets my days mixed up.

I can’t understand why, but I have been a day off all week, I mean year. No, week…let’s make a month. This month. Last month too…and the one before that. Yeah December…

Sh**! Missed it!

My kind of Pi Day thing… https://www.fire.blazepizza.com/2025-pi-day/

I saw it in the theater a couple of years ago. It was fantastic…again.

Pretty sure they’d catch fire or explode.

Are you for real, Widder? See what I Dolin there?

The best I could do with my phone with an Astrophotography App.

True! That and undersea volcanoes.

I took a couple of photos with my iPhone and my cheap $50 Chinese spotting scope. Here the eclipse was not “total” but it was still very pretty. I was disappointed in my phone telescope mount and this #%$&ing iPhone 13 Pro Max. I had an iPhone XS Max and I could take decent night shots of the moon with it. This phone just plain sucks for that. No matter how nicely full used the scope is the phone just can’t pick up the detail, even with supposed astrophotography apps. I tried my telescope and my Celestron spotting scope with the phone and they were a no-go. The crappy little spotting scope and the iPhone worked okay together. The hero of the morning. the phone enhanced the light. Here’s a nice shot as the eclipse was beginning to end.

My email is locked down good. I did discover that all the securities I activated on Yahoo were deactivated with a new iOS update a couple of months ago about a week after the update. I had forgotten sites like Yahoo will do that with updates and upgrades.

One of the reasons I bought the tool I did was because when I tried tensioning the spring and then reassembling on several 10/22 mags I had my front garage door open. The neighbors and passers-by on that first sunny day in months got to hear lots of colorful language. I was pretty angry with that “creative” design as I tried reassembling those mags.

Well would you look at that. A California Prop 65 warning pressed into the top of the bread loaf.

Pro Mags make excellent targets when they malfunction.

They cannot tell it was opened.

It’s “Do as I say and do as I do and don’t make me angry or I will become everything that I am against!” with these people.

I think they just grab mags out of a bin and put them in the rifle box. The sad thing is Ruger has known about their magazine issues for a few years, yet they still let a few out that aren’t timed right with the spiral springs. I think they have one lazy sonofa…in their magazine assembly area that just keeps on doing crappy work.

@Yul Lose a few years ago I bought a 10/22 rebuild tool for setting the spring up to factory spec. It works. I bought several mags for my grandson and they had issues. All I did was use my till to properly set the springs and they have worked great ever since https://www.ebay.com/itm/266386938383?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=cygQ6fdQSj6&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=bC8RdwrNQg-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Yep, me too.