Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
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The New York Times
4.5 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I have a story about technology. |
| 0:02.2 | What's that? |
| 0:02.5 | Saving my ass. |
| 0:03.8 | Let's hear it. |
| 0:04.7 | So I was on a flight across the country yesterday with my kid, and I made a huge mistake, |
| 0:12.3 | parenting-wise. |
| 0:13.7 | I did not understand that when you download things off of Netflix to use on a kid's |
| 0:18.0 | iPad, for example, during a long flight, they expire. |
| 0:20.7 | They don't stay there forever. So we got on the plane, and I pull kid's iPad, for example, during a long flight, they expire. They don't stay there |
| 0:21.3 | forever. So we got on the plane, and I pull out the iPad, which is, you know, the only way to take a flight with a three-year-old. If other parents are doing this without it, God bless. God bless. For me, not going to happen. Can't happen. Pull out the iPad, get his little, like, Bluetooth headphones on. I go to Netflix, nothing downloaded. |
| 0:39.2 | Everything's expired. |
| 0:40.3 | Oh, no. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm thinking to my... Pull out the iPad, get his little, like, Bluetooth headphones on. I go to Netflix, nothing downloaded. |
| 0:39.1 | Everything's expired. |
| 0:40.3 | Oh, no. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm thinking to myself, this is going to be the longest five hours of my life. |
| 0:43.8 | Absolutely. |
| 0:44.7 | Then, I learn via my seatmate that you can now connect your Bluetooth headphones to the TV on the back of the seat in front of you. |
| 0:53.6 | That finally works? That finally works. And it saved me. And so to the TV on the back of the seat in front of you. That finally works? That |
| 0:54.8 | finally works. And it saved me. And so to the person at United Airlines IT department who figured out |
| 1:02.5 | how to connect the Bluetooth headphones to the in-seat TV, I salute you. You saved me. Absolutely. |
| 1:09.0 | Is that something you could have figured out in 2011? Sure. |
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