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I'm loving my new Apple Watch 5. (Finally replaced my first gen!) When I'm using my watch to play iTunes content from my phone, how do I get back to Playlists to play something else? This is what's currently happening: (1) I look at my watch face, (2) tap the tiny Now Playing icon at the top of my watch face, I'm taken to the iTunes interface screen (Pause/Play in the middle, previous track on left, next track on right, speaker control bottom left, current track list bottom middle, 3-dots current song far right). At the top left corner of the watch is a blue arrow pointing left; when I tap this, it takes me to a screen with two large boxes: the current song/album playing, and a second box la

Many third-party apps like Carrot Weather, Dark Sky, and Things have different complications available. How do you customize these? I just spent an hour on the phone with Apple, and they had no idea what I was talking about. There are tons of websites just about Carrot's complications (which are awesome) but I'm not a Carrot customer so I can't access help from them on this. I just wrote to the developer of Things to ask how do you customize the Things complication, and am waiting for an answer. Anyone here know how to customize a third-party's complication(s)?

In LOTR, it seems Tolkien adopted a firm rule: when a proper noun is used, the verb comes first: "I want the ring!" said Boromir to the other members of the Fellowship. Whereas if a pronoun is involved instead, the pronoun comes first: "Step off, B!" they said, "you're not the designated ring carrier." [Made up dialogue, obviously.] I looked at other books on my shelves, but couldn't find the same discipline with regard to the noun-verb order; other writers don't seem to follow this rule. And though I've started reading blogs (and postings here) about DTs, I can't find any mention of this order issue.

And thoughts? Or can anyone point me to a good resource on the web for this?

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Hi, all, could really use some networking help. I’ve been asking on other subs for a month and haven’t been able to find anyone helpful or sympathetic yet. Sorry for the length, but I have weird peculiar needs that take some explaining.

I’m working from home now. I need a solid network now more than ever. My ten-year-old Airport system just isn’t cutting it. Also, fifteen years ago I had a real handle on hardware and networking; now I don’t know what’s going on or how/what to upgrade with. Please bear with me because I’m at a two-year-old idiot level and need to approach this at stroller speeds.

I’m paying Verizon for 300 Mbps fiber down to their box; it’s in an out-of-the-way closet b

A friend has a 2016 subaru Impreza. I believe that car supports Pandora. How do you get the service up and running WITHOUT a phone? Does her deal have to do that by connecting a computer to her car? Or can she log in on the car's screen to get it to start working?

Hey all. Sorry for the length! The TL;DR is: I'm paranoid!!

I used to frequent this sub three (four?) years ago when I had a horrific infestation in Brooklyn. Got some AWESOME advice, finally got rid of them, and yes, totally! They never came back.

So fast forward to now. Different place, different town, different AREA, finally brought everything home after being double (sometimes triple) sealed in storage for 18 months to 2 years.

However, I am now TERRIFIED of BBs coming back. So I'm posting. Need just general advice. Hi there, u/raftah99! I guess you're not a mod, and a lot of the mods look new, but you look like a very savvy poster. Thanks for all the advice you've been dispensing.

For a year or two I've known about #trashtag as a thing. I sometimes go out on my own somewhere and do it. But I also want to do it with people. Either in my area, or, I'm also willing to travel (up to 100 miles). So why can't I find others who are similarly inclined/inspired to go out to places and clean them up? I'm really surprised at the low membership here (NOT a criticism of you guys, please understand), and ESP that a "trashtag" search on Meetup yielded NOTHING. That is really disheartening.

Any info/views/opinions appreciated. Thanks!

I have tried everything. Rebooted, re-paired the AirPods a dozen times. Rebooted the MacBook Pro over and over again. All MacOS updates are current, AirPods are current, what can I do? This is driving me nuts. I have to go and tell the Mac to disconnect from the AirPods via the Bluetooth drop-down, then reconnect. Going nuts.

Hey motivated folks, I saw an amazing post within the last week (maybe ten days), but I'm not sure which sub it was on; might have been here, or LPT, or casual conversation...I can't remember, and I can't find it, but I really want to, because it was a brilliant "model for living thing" I didn't feel I was up to at the time, but now I think maybe I'm ready.

It wasn't just a simple paragraph....it was a long post, very carefully formatted, multiple paragraphs, on various themes like "How to present yourself to the world," "How being really positive will have a phenomenal impact on your social exchanges," and more stuff like that. Very concrete, very user friendly stuff.

If anyone can h

I'm bullet-proofing my new Mac. I want to set up a Hosts file before I ever even open Safari. I downloaded Gas Mask, and I have a decent hosts file, but I don't know where to put it, whether it kicks in on all logins (i.e., right at boot up) or if it has to be put somewhere for each login, I don't know what the extension should be, and I don't know whether Gas Mask automatically puts it in the right place. Also, I really want to test it by putting a dummy IP address in it (for something like Amazon) and seeing if it effectively blocks Amazon. How do I do that? The problem with going to stackoverflow etc. for these queries is that they know too much. I need an ELI5 on this, if anyone ca

What I need to know is: what the hell happened this week with the latest iOS update and Word update? MS seems to have instituted some weird, slo-mo version of latency on the keyboard echo. This is with the IPP sitting in the Apple Smart Keyboard, and I have MS Office 365. This is driving me nuts. Can anyone with Word take a look? Thanks.

Bought a brand new 2015 MacBook Pro. Pulled it out of the box, turned it on, created admin account, IMMEDIATELY turned off wifi. The first thing I did. BlueTooth was already off out of the box. How the hell is it that all my building's Apple TVs are showing up? I thought wifi and BT were IT as far as contact with the world. Help.