People getting excited about new iOS notifications that show live scores and such. We had this years ago on iOS until Apple regressed them. MLB showed live scores and a full box score.
People getting excited about new iOS notifications that show live scores and such. We had this years ago on iOS until Apple regressed them. MLB showed live scores and a full box score.
Back to Overcast for podcasts for a bit. I really like Castro but honestly the app feels abandoned. At least I know Overcast is being worked on even though it feels a bit dated. Looking forward to an update later this year.
Hey Slack. WHY WHY WHY is the notification count still on the iOS app icon when I have read the message on desktop? Clear it. Come on.
Airpods batteries dying is a sure sign I’ve been on too many Zoom calls for too many hours straight. That’s it…I’m out. See you Monday.
Nice run through downtown east with the usual Sunday gang this morning and then some time spent at the beach this afternoon. Gotta love living in Toronto.
Enjoyable Jays game this afternoon. We got over to the local pub/restaurant and enjoyed watching on the covered patio with some chicken fingers and other pub classics. Happy to have this option post-COVID. It was something we did a fair bit in the before times.
This new profile popup feature on micro.blog continues to frustrate me. They pop up all the time accidentally, and most of the time they don’t self-clear, blocking the content behind. On Twitter, which has basically the same thing, there is a slight delay before it’s shown even if you hover over the avatar or name and when you move off, they clear quickly.
Meta is such a crap company. No innovation. Someone else innovates (Snap, TikTok, etc.) and they just pick one of their services to change to be “the same”. How about you stop wrecking Instagram to be like TikTok and make something innovative? Right…you can’t. And you literally never have. Ever.
So…the Red Sox are not having a good night.
Tonight’s fun: Drove down to get ice cream on a warm summer night and discovered I had a flat tire along the way. Luckily I have a pump, so I parked it and then pumped it up to 30PSI to see if it would at least hold air for a bit to get home. Then we got the ice cream. It was yummy.
On the way back to the car, I watched as a bunch of asshole drunks on a local bar patio made fun of a guy for wearing a mask. Guy with the mask literally had a chemo port on his bicep. The asshole drunks got put in their place by this guy who took it far better than I would have.
The tire was holding air fine, so I pumped it up a bit more just to be safe and drove home. Once at home, I jacked the car, and swapped the leaky one for the spare. Luckily it’s an older RAV4 that has a full-size spare on the back so I’ve got some time to get the nail removed and the tire repaired.
Tuned into the Blue Jays game just in time to see Janssen hit a three-run blast to make it 14-0 in the 4th. Red Sox fans seem unhappy.
Tomorrow it’s a drive up to drop the kid at her summer camp job after her week off and then the drive back home.
Using both my work MacBook Pro (Intel, Late 2016) and my personal MacBook Air (M1, late 2020), I can say the Intel Pro gets and stays ridiculously warm while the Air is basically ambient temperature. I need to upgrade this work computer one of these days.
Power is back. Outage was from 7:37 A.M. to 8:57 A.M. according to the logs on my ADS-B feeder Raspberry Pi. The UPS on my networking gear lasted the entire time which was nice (and good to know). This has me thinking about battery options for a Raspberry Pi 4 now so I could maybe keep the ADS-B feeder going throughout a short outage. 🤪
A planned power outage is underway in our neighbourhood. I’ve got the UPS powering my fibre ONT and one Eero to get wifi for a while. And the gas stove and my trusty Aeropress has provided the morning coffee. Supposed to be about four hours so the UPS will give out after a while and I’ll need to switch to tethering to stay online.
At least right now, it’s almost too warm to work outside on the deck today. Waiting for the sun to make it’s way across the sky to where our umbrella provides more coverage.
Enjoying my few days of post-vaccination side effects. Sore arm to start, then poor sleep and a low-grade headache with ear ringing. Now, a bit of fatigue but nothing terrible. It’s basically a carbon copy of my past experiences. Here’s hoping I avoid the weeks-long headache I experienced with the first booster.
To 4th dose or not to 4th dose. That is the question.
I bought myself a Kindle Paperwhite 4 last year and used it a fair bit over the summer. This year I had my eye on the latest generation of the Paperwhite with a bigger screen and USB-C (Paperwhite 5 11th gen). The Prime Day sale today got me to pull the trigger and my old one will be handed over to another reader in the family. I tend to borrow ebooks from the library (OverDrive) and I convert them over to be readable on the Kindle. Occasionally I will buy a book from the Kindle Store, but only if I can’t wait around to get to the top of the wait list at the library.
This is great. I like to think that we “give a shit” at my work. I know that I certainly do. allenpike.com/2022/givi…
My work MacBook Pro is apparently going to be officially vintage on July 31. It’s still going strong and I have no intention of retiring it mostly because the new computers from work come loaded with corporate spyware and restrictions.
Musk is a lunatic.
Shared iCloud Photos libraries look very nicely implemented. Moving some photos over now. It’s really nice how the Photos apps let you look at either your Personal library, Shared library or both. Super slick.
I say this as Rogers is down nationwide across Canada for both mobile and cable internet.
Happily a Rogers-free household for a decade now. Cable to the house doesn’t even exist as it came down in the big ice storm many years back and we just clipped it off at the fence. Happy Telus customer since the beginning (I had ClearNET). We’ve never had a Bell outage on fiber.
At this point, I have to conclude that Elon is a LARPer. Either that or the “we’re living in a simulation” is true.
Our smart chief medical officer says no 4th doses for people because some dummies still haven’t gotten a 2nd or 3rd. They’ve had their opportunity and didn’t bother. I’ll walk in and get a 4th tomorrow if you let me. www.thestar.com/politics/…