Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

They broke the podcast player. Now it will play one podcast episode, regardless of how many episodes are under that title, and then stop. NOT good when you're solo driving 500 miles. And a day or two ago they released the first patch as they badly broke email for MS Exchange users, but they didn't fix the podcast app.

I worked out a partial alternative of using my iPad Mini, which is still running iOS 10.x, but it's not really practical as it only has 16 gig of memory and has LOTS of programs and books, and there's only so many things that I can easily delete.

For me, iOS 11 has otherwise been OK and I haven't otherwise experienced any trouble.

Then I had a thought. Why not hit a pawn shop and see about getting a used iPod Touch?

So I did. And they had one. Except it wasn't an iPod Touch: it was an iPhone 3GS. With 16 gig of memory. For $20!

It suits my needs perfectly, even if it is limited to iOS 6.x. It plays podcasts correctly. I turned off the cellular, I'd leave it in airplane mode except it needs Bluetooth on to properly connect to my car. It doesn't need any programs or data, so I don't bother linking it to my iCloud account, thus it has pretty much the full 16 gig of memory available for podcasts. I'll have my iPhone 6S for music for my trip home Friday, and I'll have my (sort of) new iPhone 3GS for listening to podcasts for the drive.

And for $20!

When I get home, I hope to do a restore to get my iPhone 6S back to iOS 10, but it's possible that Apple has already deleted the encryption keys and I'm stuck. They do that a couple of weeks after a new iOS is released. We'll find out Friday night.

The dangerous thing is the pawn shop has a 64 gig iPad 3 with T-Mobile cellular for $125! I've been thinking about getting a full-size iPad for some time now, mainly to get more memory: I'll freely admit that it's pretty stupid getting an iOS device with only 16 gig of memory, the OS just takes too much of it for it to be useful. I'm VERY torn on whether or not to get it. I shouldn't, but the odds of me finding another deal like that are very low.

And it now occurs to me that I could return the 3GS, which would drop the price on the iPad to $105, restore my Mini to the new iPad and go back to using my Mini as a podcast player until Apple gets around to fixing the podcast app....

"I think we should just...go back to what our Founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the Ten Commandments. It's pretty simple."
-- Sarah Palin

When is her 15 minutes going to be up? I guess she's never studied the Establishment Clause.

Speaking of which, the Legal Lad podcast did a two-parter on the Establishment Clause of the Constitution here:

http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-establishment.aspx

http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-establishment-2.aspx