Hi,

My iPhone was pickpocketed in LA 2 weeks ago and it is now in China. I've already turned on the Lock iPhone setting and clicked erased all data. Is that good enough to secure myself? I don't want anybody getting into my bank or gaining other private information that was on my old iPhone. Should I remove the device or just keep it in a locked and erased state?

The people who keep saying "chill, this is no big deal" have no idea that for many use cases, things have gotten dramatically worse.  I'm not a big alarm/sleep timer user, but understand that anyone who DOES depend on that would be HUGELY pissed.  And that's a BASIC feature.

The queue management is what gets me most.  That's BASIC functionality and should be table stakes in The Year of Our Lord 2024. 

I fear the writing is on the wall that local music libraries are an endangered species, and I'm among the dinos looking around confused.  Aside from not being able to search my local library, the fact that I now need to scroll the entire list vs having the letters pop up so I can get to "W" when I want to listen to Wilco is a huge pain in the ass.  And the scrolling is slow and hiccups constantly as it pauses to load more data.  Given that local storage was one of the reasons Sonos deprecated some of the old gear a couple years back, the fact that nothing is cached within my system is just not acceptable. 

I have somewhere north of 20 Sonos speakers and I've been with them over a decade.  I've been a beta tester in the past.  This is the first time I've been truly disappointed with them.  I trust they'll make it better in the long run, but we shouldn't be talking "months" as the time horizon.  It needs to be "weeks" at the worst. 

 I'm not going to go waving my hands and threatening to sell everything I have; I have Roon as my backup plan and they support Sonos better than Sonos does now for local libraries.  I guess if Sonos becomes "streaming only" which is entirely plausible given the emphasis on Atmos and the fact that any Atmos listening requires a subscription plan with somebody, I'll survive, but I am disappointed.  I guess when I'm out of places to put more Sonos, the threat to quit buying more is an empty one, but, man, what a downer.  I had them up there with Apple as one to depend on.  We'll see if that faith is merited in the coming weeks.

I don't know if this is cool or not here, but I just had a great experience with my earbuds and wanted to praise Google a little bit.

Two days ago I finished a run, and afterwards put my pixel buds-a (which I use on runs) on a table. They were sweaty and salty.

My dog loves salty foods. She ate them. At first I thought I was going crazy because I couldn't find them, and then I saw her cough one up. I got it but not the other one.

I was a bit concerned about the lithium battery inside of her, but my dog is a gulper, not a chewer: the first bud came out intact and pristine, so I had a hope the other bud was not chewed up as well.

The next day, I found the second bud in her poop. Completely intact, looked like new, except poopy. I cleaned up both buds with rubbing alcohol, replaced the little rubber nubs, charged them up, and just now tried them out.

Reader, they sound as good as new. Google build the cheap version of their buds well enough to withstand the insides of a dog. Nice work y'all.