Tan Teen Oni Waifu, episode 4

Our Mighty Hero is thoroughly whipped, unable to put up even a token struggle when Our Determined Waifu refuses to allow him to hedge by calling her “fiancée”, and then publicly announces her intention to have 10 kids. He wants to wait three years before bedding her, but it sounds like she’s planning on three weeks at most.

The real elephant in the room is Our Harem Lord Next Door. Contrary to rumor, he’s not an usurper with a slave harem, he’s a persecuted minority who freed his people from slavery and won the hearts of a small army of loving wives.

Verdict: a whole lot of talking this week, but in a good way, as Hero and Heroine advance their relationship, and the nearest neighbor turns out to be a Hero-worshipping friend.

10 Years A Harem Lord, episode 4

It’s nice to see that when the current haremettes age out, there’s a new generation waiting in the wings. Plenty of time for them to grow up, though. I mean, an entire generation has been groomed to view him as the real hero, so he can have his pick of the litter. It’s almost a shame he’s the good guy; there’s a whole other genre of story that could be told here.

Anyway, does it count as foreshadowing when it only takes about five minutes until the inevitable betrayal? At least it gave Our Cuddly Apprentice time to fight a desperate delaying action. And to learn the first rule of a gunfight: have a gun.

Verdict: good clean fun.

(unrelated, but they’ll do in a pinch)

Apple hates old people

The more I see my mother struggle with her iPhone, the more I’m convinced that the iOS engineering team not only doesn’t test with senior citizens, but actively hates them.

My mother hasn’t been home for several weeks after a trip to the emergency room. She’s currently in a local senior-care facility so she can get daily physical therapy and more active monitoring than her 94-year-old husband can provide. So her phone decided that it was not in a known place and started requiring Face ID every time she tried to make a phone call, even though she’d just unlocked it.

Try to turn this off, and because “stolen device protection” was somehow turned on (not by me), and it was not at a “recognized location” (despite having been in the same place for two weeks), restoring normal functionality required:

1. try to turn off “require face id for phone app” using secret hidden menu, rejected; must disable SDP first.
2. try to turn off SDP, requires Face ID only (which has been failing unless she has her glasses on, even though it’s configured to recognize her both with and without).
3. SDP imposes mandatory 60-minute delay, at which point it will send a notification.
4. You must click on the notification when it comes up; going back to the same settings screen doesn’t work.
5. Click notification, turn SDP off again, requiring her to put on her glasses for Face ID.
6. Click-and-hold iPhone app to pull up secret hidden menu with “require face id for phone app” option. Turn it off, and aim the phone camera at her again, with glasses on, for it to approve.

She could never have turned this off without help, and there was no useful information about what was going on or why the phone’s behavior changed in the first place. Morons.

(oh, and while she would have liked to use it with no passcode at all, since she’s barely able to leave the house on a good day any more, you can’t turn on the “find my phone” feature without one, and without Face ID, apps like MyChart won’t let you into your account without the ubiquitous “type in the 6-digit code we just texted you”, which is not easy for an old woman with Parkinson’s; and, no, the iPhone’s automatic “auto-paste code from text message” isn’t 100% reliable)

(sometimes they demand FaceID and a code as a bit of security theater)

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