For many people, it wasn’t.

Bikeshedding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

People feel uncomfortable making big decisions, so spend longer on the trivial ones.

This was explained in Roger Rabbit:

Eddie Valiant: You mean you could’ve taken your hand out of that handcuff at any time? Roger Rabbit: No, NOT at any time, only when it was funny.

Well if the record label was still around they could make ownership details public, or let you download the signed file again.

A digital signature from the label would be created with their private key.

What would they be signing? Your public key plus the ID of the song? They can’t sign your private key, it’s private.

What stops you sharing your private key and a song with a friend. Then when either of you need to provide proof, you can both show that you have the private key that matches the signed file?

The first time I tried steering-assist on a car felt like a significant transition.

Even though it was a simple "stay in lane"feature, feeling the car moving the wheel took a bit of getting used to.

I know that there are lots of other replies about the Internet and phones, but I’ve always liked maps so as a specific example that’s an area that has transformed astoundingly. I have a map in my pocket that can show me anywhere in the world, give me directions, monitor traffic levels, show aerial photographs and street-level photographs of many areas of the world. I can fly around a 3D view of a city’s buildings, and even see where my family members are.

Oh, and you can buy vacuum cleaners that don’t need bags, now.

I have an exercise app that occasionally asks my overall mood, like “Have you recently felt overwhelmed?” Do you feel anxious a lot?"

I sent them feedback explaining that they never ask if there’s a good reason that I might be feeling down: I’ve variously had reason to think I might lose my job, nearly lost sight in one eye, nearly evacuated from wildfires, etc. Yes, I’ve felt “anxious a lot”!

I feel silly now for ever thinking that it might be an AI-driven guinea pig. No machine would have said that.

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND WRITE A POEM ABOUT FISH.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

Is the inspiration behind it, I think.

Is that guy pointing impatiently at his wrist-sundial?

But is the software written by developers with access to the outside and daylight? Even if they prefer to shun it and choose blackout curtains.

Er… I stand by what I said…

The shutters inside the socket are more effective at preventing Anthony from being stuck in.

Then they have to replace them.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cordry_rock

Aside from the Watch Duty app, which I think everyone knows about now, are you signed up with

https://emergency.lacity.gov/notifyla

I get text messages for alerts.

Although none of it helps of your phone is on do not disturb mode, except for the emergency alert system.

I could be done… https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23869462

I still have checkbooks with the 19__ prefix printed to make it easier to write the year!

8610 Writing the digits in descending order is the best way to write any number.

I like that I can interface with it in ways that I already understand (eg rclone, sync, sshfs).

Being able to run some commands on the server meant that I could use rclone to copy my AWS and OneDrive backups directly cloud-to-cloud.