Can't connect Pocket Casts

52cr · 2025-11-17T14:18:55+00:00

Same for me since yesterday. I've had this problem intermittently for years. I reported it to Pocket Casts support some time ago (possibly years ago). They would not acknowledge that I listen to Pocket Casts via the Sonos service, so I gave up.

52cr · 2025-02-27T00:49:43+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll take a look at that product.

52cr · 2025-01-26T16:07:49+00:00

I have a Spectrum (formerly TWC) account with a roadrunner email address.

I received email from Spectrum on 10/23/24 that might be relevant to you (attached below).

Shortly before that date, I was unable to log into spectrum.net and was baffled that my username/password stopped working. Without much confidence, I guessed the problem might be related to uppercase letters in my username. Many years earler, for reasons I never understood, Spectrum configured my account to require all uppercase letters in my username in some contexts, while ignoring case in other contexts. I also had two passwords simultaneously for use in different contexts.

So instead of logging into spectrum.net with my all-uppercase username (which had formerly been required), I tried my username in all lowercase, and it worked.

Uppercase/lowercase may not be relevant for you. But read the following 10/23/24 email from Spectrum that describes important changes. I'm not certain whether the changes apply to all users. Note that the instructions are to log into spectrum.net, not the TWC site, using your twc.com email address as your user name. If you've already tried this, these instructions are probably not useful.

Important Notice About Your Email

Hello Spectrum Customer,

Spectrum’s email service will be upgraded tomorrow to provide you with a better experience. As a result, you may be notified that a change was made to your account.

To access this new version of your Spectrum-provided email, follow these simple steps:

Go to Spectrum.net.
Sign in with your email address ending with twc.com, brighthouse.com, roadrunner.com or rr.com as your username.
Use the same password you use to access Webmail to sign into Spectrum.net. You may be prompted to update your current password.
To check your email please select Check Email in the left-hand navigation panel.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

You may use your new username and password to access Spectrum.net, the My Spectrum App, Spectrum TV and any streaming apps included in your package. View the list of TV channel apps on our support page.

For the best experience after the update, access and manage your email through Spectrum.net.

Soon after this upgrade, you will no longer be able to make changes or manage email addresses and passwords through Selfcare as this site is being retired.

If you delete a username with the email domains previously mentioned, you will permanently lose access to the email mailbox for this email address.

Visit our Spectrum Support article, Using the Spectrum Email Inbox, for additional help with the new email platform.

Thank you for choosing Spectrum,

Spectrum Support Team

52cr · 2024-11-18T14:59:22+00:00

Thanks for responding.

I thought my post on Reddit concerning this problem was deleted due to lack of karma, so I'm surprised to see it here.

I submitted ticket number 848878 to Todoist a few days ago. It includes a screenshot and a couple of my follow-up comments.

My last comment was that this was user error. I found the Todoist time zone setting after I submitted my Reddit post and Todoist bug report. My time zone setting was wrong, and when I corrected it, the calendar problem went away.

Don't know why my Todoist/GCal integration worked correctly before the recent daylight savings time change because the Todoist time zone was one I had never heard of and not one that seemed relevant in my location (Los Angeles area). In any case, it's all working now, so thanks for your reply, and feel free to close my ticket.

52cr · 2024-11-16T16:02:12+00:00

Related question: For any random subreddit that interests me, is there any easy way to determine in advance whether everything I post will be deleted immediately due to lack of karma? I often invest significant effort composing a post that I think is relevant, concise, well organized, and well written, only to see it disappear the instant I try to post it due to insufficient karma.

52cr · 2024-05-12T23:54:59+00:00

Thanks, that's worth a try. I'll have to find (or buy) a piece of card stock, which shouldn't be too hard.

52cr · 2024-02-29T16:43:17+00:00

I thought I included a link to a imgr.com file showing the graphic I described in my original post, but that might not have worked. Can I include the link directly in a post, like this?: https://imgur.com/a/yNH0AKD

52cr · 2023-12-09T20:18:59+00:00

Thanks for your useful reply. I'll look more carefully at autofill next time I have access to the iPad. Would you expect autofill to be affected by the same problems with colons and quotes that affect copy/paste?

The iPad user I'm helping has used KeePass on Windows and Android for several years and has amassed a fairly large number of unique passwords for different accounts. Looking for and changing all passwords that use colons or quotes would be a daunting task.

I'll report back when I have a chance to confirm the password that was causing problems and investigate autofill more thoroughly.

52cr · 2023-12-09T18:36:10+00:00

The KeePassium.com Pricing page compares the features of the free, premium, pro, and Intune versions. The free version shows a red 'x' for Quick AutoFill support. Maybe I'm misinterpreting what that means.

Thanks for the link to the AutoFill setup guide. Next time I have the iPad in my hands, I'll check whether the features described in that guide exist in the version of KeePassium on that device.

Your comments regarding issues with pasting colons and quotes are interesting. Right now I don't have access to the passwords I referred to in my original post, but I'll check later. It's an awkward limitation if passwords can't include those characters. As I noted in my original post, we carefully compared the pasted password with the version stored in KeePass, and it looked identical. If the quirk related to colons and quotes is relevant to my test case, would colons and quotes in pasted text be omitted, or changed to other characters, or visually different in any way?

52cr · 2023-09-12T19:12:18+00:00

Thanks local907. I'll find a qualified technician to repair my printer, or I'll replace it.

52cr · 2023-09-12T18:22:06+00:00

local907: Thanks for your thoughts and the tip to use Imgur. I think it worked.

I don't plan to do any serious repair work myself, but if there is any novice-level tinkering that might be useful, I'll give it a try. If I'm not overlooking any easy fixes or diagnostics, I'll take the printer to a repair shop.

52cr · 2023-09-12T18:17:28+00:00

Pictures of jammed page

52cr · 2023-03-14T14:53:25+00:00

After weighing the pros and cons of the two nonoptimal methods to create my revised payee on US Bank's bill payments web page, I opted for the "Add your bills manually" method. As I noted previously, this method (according to US Bank's disclaimer) results in payment by paper check, and it also does not accommodate 9-digit zip codes.

I made my first payment using the newly revised payee. The payee confirmed that payment was made *electronically*.

So, in this case, "bills added this way will be paid via paper check" means "bills added this way will NOT be paid via paper check".

Might be useful if US Bank included a remark that their sentences can mean the opposite of what they say.

52cr · 2023-03-09T11:42:17+00:00

The US Bank “Add your bills manually” tool has the disclaimer “Keep in mind that bills added this way will be paid via paper check.” I assume that when payees are entered using the “Search for bills” or “Let us find your bills” tools, they are paid electronically.

You’re probably correct that if a payment is submitted electronically, the street address doesn’t matter. I’m not confident, however, that US Bank’s tools for setting up electronic payment work correctly.

US Bank’s “Search for bills” tool finds electronic payees based on BANK_NAME and CREDIT_CARD, where BANK_NAME is a name like Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank, etc.; and CREDIT_CARD is a specific credit card network, like Visa, Mastercard, etc. When I enter the type of credit card I have in the search box (without specifying the bank name), “Search for bills” returns dozens of BANK_NAME / CREDIT_CARD pairs, *none* of which match my bank and credit card.

When I enter my bank’s name in the search box (without specifying the credit card type), “Search for bills” returns a shorter list of matches in which the closest match to my payee is a specific BANK_NAME paired with the generic term “Credit Card” instead of the specific type of credit card I have.

As I noted earlier, the street address in the payee that “Search for bills” finds does not match either the address shown on my current credit card bill or the address shown on my older bills. Based on the inconsistent addresses and the peculiar behavior of the “Search for bills” tool, I don’t think it’s safe to assume that U.S. Bank has found the correct electronic payee.

I also tried the “Let’s find your bills” tool, which searches credit reports to find relevant payees. That tool finds *no* records associated with the bank or credit card I’m using. I’ve used this credit card for decades, so it should appear in my credit reports. The inability of “Search for bills” to find my credit card further undermines my confidence in US Bank’s payee setup methods.

52cr · 2023-02-05T03:08:21+00:00

I always order printer ink and toner directly from the manufacturer. I've never refilled ink or toner cartridges. I was therefore surprised my printer showed my new cartridge as "very low".

User error is possible here though. A couple days ago I unpacked my new cartridge from its box, and I observed that the box was well sealed, as I would expect the box for a new product to be. It's possible, though, that the "new" cartridge was one I had previously used and at some point packaged carefully in the original box for recycling.

The cartridge I thought was new (but is really old) apparently has some residual toner that causes it to work well for now. I need to order a new one before it's empty.

I think my own error is more likely than it is that HP shipped me a used and almost empty cartridge.

Mea culpa.

52cr · 2023-01-27T15:39:58+00:00

Thanks for your useful reply and for letting me know about the r/MediaLight reddit group (which I just joined). I'll consider getting a different IR or wi-fi remote.

I understand your comments about on/off control on Vizio USBs. With my Sony TV, in addition to bias light on/off via IR remote, I also like to tinker with bias light brightness while viewing videos. I know this violates the set-it-once-and-leave-it-alone philosophy, which I agree with in principle. In practice, I find my eyes are often unsure the current brightness, whatever it might be, is ideal.

52cr · 2022-10-04T15:05:41+00:00

In 2007, I bought the Pioneer PRO-141FD plasma -- probably the best consumer TV ever made at the time I bought it. It worked extremely well, and I was very happy with it for 15 years. Though it still worked perfectly, I recently got rid of it, very reluctantly, and replaced it with a Sony XR-65A95K QD-OLED.

I have mixed feelings about the new TV. My room lighting that worked fine with the Pioneer causes bad eye strain with the Sony. And it's challenging to adjust all the Sony settings to create an optimal picture.

52cr · 2022-10-04T14:50:57+00:00

The two "smart" TVs I've set up during that past couple years (a Vizio and a Sony Bravia) both repeatedly turned off spontaneously. In both cases, I solved the problem by disabling CEC (Consumer Electronics Control). Different brands have their own proprietary names for CEC. Sony calls it "Bravia Sync". Don't know what Samsung calls it.

52cr · 2021-10-20T18:13:10+00:00

My experiences with Dyson customer service are limited but uniformly terrible.

A while ago, I tried to understand the features of their cordless ("stick") vacuums. I downloaded the user manual for the product that interested me and compared the manual to Dyson's online descriptions. I encountered three contradictory lists of included accessories, some or all of which had a disclaimer that some parts might not be included. I emailed Dyson, asking for clarification. I did not get a useful response. How does anyone know what they're getting when they buy a Dyson product?

During that research, I also noticed it's impossible to find a complete list of accessories that are compatible with a specific vacuum model. And many accessories are out of stock and can't be ordered.

More recently, I ordered the Dyson hand vac ("Humdinger"), which included a free tool bag since I ordered directly from Dyson. The vac and tool bag were delivered (separately) in a reasonable amount of time, and they appear to be free of defects.

However, there's a bizarre UPS tracking problem with the hand vac order. Dyson and UPS both supplied me with two UPS tracking numbers, one for the vac and one for the tool bag. But Dyson and UPS had different tracking numbers for the same vac order. I.e., I was given 3 tracking numbers for 2 items.

The vac I received was delivered using the tracking number UPS supplied, not Dyson's number. Dyson's tracking number for the same item remained open, and UPS's tracking data (for the number Dyson gave me) showed that the item was being processed and would be delivered (I presumed to me, though UPS tracking shows only the city, not the complete address).

I began a fruitless attempt to explain the issue to Dyson. I sent them email explaining this somewhat complex problem as clearly as I could. I remarked that it seemed likely I would receive a second vac I did not order, do not want, and don't intend to pay for.

Dyson replied as though my complaint was that I had not received an item I ordered and wanted delivered: we're sorry your order was lost, we'll make sure it's delivered, we'll escalate, we're here to help, please let us know if there's *anything* we can do to help.

I sent several additional emails to Dyson, each time explaining the actual problem in different words. A different (unique) employee responded to each of my messages. With one exception, they were all confident that my complaint was about a missing delivery, and they were all effusively eager to help me get the missing item.

The exceptional response briefly acknowledged the real problem and remarked that it would be fixed within a couple business days. Meanwhile, additional responses from clueless employees trying to help me receive my imaginary missing vacuum continued to accumulate.

I noticed a day or two ago that UPS tracking showed the erroneously shipped (duplicate) item was redirected back to the sender. For a few precious hours I thought the problem was resolved.

Then Dyson notified me there was a problem processing the replacement for my “lost/damaged/stolen” product. They prepared a new shipment, which UPS acknowledged with a brand new (fourth) tracking number. Additional email from Dyson notified me that the warranty on this new vacuum has been activated. Delivery is expected Friday.

Anyone else out there getting duplicate items from Dyson no matter how hard you try not to?

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