This episode was pure comfort food for me! Very useful advice. It reminded me of 15 years ago when I came back home (from Scotland) to visit my family here in New Zealand. Coincidentally 2 friends were also returning to our home town to visit their Mum’s.
We booked in a wine tour one afternoon (nice to visit your home as tourists!) and it turned out that all three of us had spent the morning fixing up our parents tech. The curse, we discovered, was that while we were away they’d all bought stuff that was either cheap or overly complicated (thank you salespeople!). The sort of stuff we three avoided because we knew how annoying it was. And then we ended up having to fix them anyway.
Let’s not even discuss printers.
Glad you enjoyed it! 
But I want to complain about how I am the only one who can, apparently–once a year–get my dad’s printer to work with his devices (Windows and Android, 
).
My devices, iPhone and and iPad, print to it just fine!
Honestly, an Apple “it just works” Printer is all I want out of the company. HP can burn into a fire.
As the only Mac user in a family of Windows and Android fans, I neatly sidestep all tech support questions.
“Sorry, haven’t touched a PC in over a decade. Wouldn’t know where to begin.” 
I feel a lot of what Cindy was saying in the previous post. The most rapturous day I’ve had was when I dumped Windows so long ago and switched to Mac, thus giving me the chance to say “hell if I know, I have a Mac” whenever a relative would to come with their issues. Man, that was gratifying.
I doubt Apple will ever build another printer because consumer printers are dying market. However here is the secret:
Can’t view the article because the Verge is now paywalled for some of their stuff. I have used Brother laser printers for over a decade now. They work great, and since the lasers don’t use ink you don’t have to worry about it drying up.
But the wifi thing can be a pain. It helps to buy one with a display so you can properly set it up without having to print test pages. On the other hand, I just plugged mine into my network, works great and no wifi issues.
That said, I print made 3-4 times a year.
I purchased a Brother printer on sale around 2016, for the same price as the replacement toner cartridge I purchased at the same time. I print one copy of my tax return each year, and occasionally another page or two. I may still be on my first pack of paper.
Gotta give a shoutout to Proton Drive for photos. They recently brought photo sync to their Cloud Platform and I recently purged my photos app since I am confident in Proton’s services and security. (Sans Shared albums with the family)
A question/ statement my sister in law makes to everyone is, why do I have all my husband’s contacts on my phone and I get his messages and he gets all hers. My response is always that you both need your own Apple IDs. Then she says to me no I’m wrong I don’t know what I’m talking about.
But then my other Brother law chimes in and says all you have to do is turn off not on this phone and it won’t download the contacts from the other phone. I said but your not fixing the problem.
+1
One of our senior executives had the same problem years ago. And you are correct, they each need their own Apple ID.
@WayneG it’s funny cause the other brother in law who is supposed to be the “expert “ is like no you don’t need your own apple. He was made the expert by everyone else in the family. It’s so funny.
@mikeschmitz and @MacSparky, just heard the mention of Print Centre on iPhone and iPad. I only discovered it recently, but also discovered that you can add a control to it in Control Centre on iOS18, which wasn’t a thing previously. Very rarely can be helpful for jammed print jobs where the printer, not the OS, is the culprit.
