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  • Turning on the iPhone’s Stolen Device Protection is simple—it’s just one small toggle in your phone’s settings.

    There is one crucial detail that the article doesn’t mention: Find My iPhone must be enabled to enable SDP. That is to say, enabling Find My (along with biometric authentication) is a prerequisite for SDP.















  • Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (joint UK and US production, premiered first on Channel 4)

    great ones that never took off in the states

    This TV series fits this description to a T because I reckon that most people, when thinking of a sci-fi TV anthology series, would bring to mind Black Mirror.

    I watched Electric Dreams shortly after finishing the latest season of Black Mirror; I found the former more enjoyable and poignant than the latter.





  • exposition dumps

    The most egregious example that I encountered recently was in Annihilation. What specifically annoyed me was the scene in which a member of the Shimmer team who rows in the same boat as Natalie Portman’s character tells her something to the effect of, “We’re all damaged goods.”

    She then proceeds to provide Portman’s character a straight up list of the internal struggles that each of the team members face.