Noticed that a previous post, cross-posted to another platform, gained a lot more traction than I’d anticipated, not all of it positive. Thankfully I both didn’t see the replies at the time and have become sufficiently immune to the negative comments from the illiterate and uneducated.
Trump moved from demanding a Nobel peace prize to becoming a despised war criminal in a matter of months. There really is no lower boundary, below which he will not sink.
I was very wrong. Since the first rumours surfaced of a Mac based on a phone SOC I’ve held the view that this was not a product but an engineering test platform. This was based an understanding of engineering needs for hardware and software development and how products are developed. But also an understanding of keeping intellectual property under wraps and a recognition that Apple doesn’t target the low cost, low quality market.
I was very wrong and remain surprised that Apple have bifurcated their Mac products even further with a lower cost laptop of limited compute power. We’ll have to wait and see how it actually performs.
I remember the good old days, when it took an alarm to wake me up. Lately I am awake at 4 and dozing till around 6 regardless of weekdays or beeping phones.
U S Who?
The post by The Whitehouse is disgraceful. Sport must always be good natured, friendly rivalry. Losing with humility, winning with similar modesty and respect. Anything less should rule your team and if necessary your country inadmissible from future competition.
Still exploring Superwhisper for dictation, finally got around to running and configuring the MacOS app. (Then ironically not using it for this post.)
Well done the Team GB mens curlers. They played well. Fantastic game. Kept everyone on the edge of their seats!
So much for Swiss neutrality…
Been watching the Winter Olympics almost exclusively for the last two weeks and have no idea what to watch once they’re over. The TV has been on the Games nonstop, and I definitely enjoy the Winter sports more than the Summer Olympics.
When Daring Fireball features how to force restart an iPhone then it’s time to leave off the OS update. The OS26 suite continues to illustrate Apple’s attention to liquid glass style over the substance of the software, quality and user experience.
Struggling to remember the last time I slept the entire night uninterrupted. Too much on my mind.
Everything seems to be up in the air at the moment. There are so many moving parts that the storm was difficult to keep track: to book, arrange, confirm, and organize.
At every level and in every part of life, in and out of work.
The trick is not to let it show, not to let anyone see. That’s how you really demonstrate that you’ve got it together. If no one notices.
Because if the façade falls, then this creates many of more things to worry about.
The USA supporters at the Olympics are characteristically loud. I would have thought some humility would be essential right now given their negative impact on the world and what rest of planet thinks of them.
Incredible story about Rae fell for a chatbot called Barry, but their love might die when ChatGPT4-o is switched off.
We can all dare to dream, even talk to ourselves when we need to work through an issue, but I have had an invisible friend.
Even in my darkest days I could never imagine “chatting” and sharing personal information with what is essentially just software running on a server somewhere.
Actually, I think all the winter sports are insanity. The skeleton is king of the lunatic larking about on ice.
It’s easy to forget just that the half-pipe snowboarding is insanity. Incredible.
Watching my better half get ready to go out on “her hen do“ with the girls is incredible. She looks so beautiful. No photo as she doesn’t want a photograph to be posted, but she looks absolutely fantastic, I feel so lucky.
Watching the men’s downhill and going in excess of 120km/hr (75mph) and making 45m jumps is absolutely incredible. A medal for bravery for every competitor.
Please, please, media outlets, remember the C word: context. You can’t discuss Trump’s apes post - or his ‘blame a staffer’ excuse - if you’re not also factoring in and reminding your viewers/readers about his birtherism, his ‘send her back’ remarks, him calling Somalis ‘low IQ’.
Anyone not watching the Olympics opening ceremony isn’t missing much. The competition is always more interesting than the ceremonies.
Yet more evidence that there is nothing beneath Trump. Disgraceful.
The truth hurts:
Trump has threatened to sue comedian Trevor Noah after the Grammy’s:
“Song of the Year - that is a Grammy that every artist wants almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense because Epstein’s island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton.”
From BBC News.
Dear IT managers: the HP “Elitebook” is horrific. There is nothing “elite” about it. Performance is glacially slow and completely unreliable, with a trackpad which is unusable.
Another incredible video from Elle Cordova