Apple Beta program participation disadvantage I haven’t seen mentioned before: media-sharing requires signing out and back in, or de-authorizing and re-authorizing—after applying each update. On AppleTV this means not being able to connect to my server or access iTunes Match
Second dose acquired.
The Vaccination, Part II: Return to House Pfizer
The Voice seasons seem to move really fast now. I don’t feel like I get to know the contestants and their personalities like we used to
Have lost a cousin to COVID today. It’s still killing people.
Be careful, everyone.
My work day started with my awesome new Logi MX KEYS keyboard not Bluetoothing to anything, anywhere.
I was worried I owned a nicely-weighted, space gray brick.
It’s rechargeable and therefore sealed. The power switch didn’t change anything. None of the key presses in the Quick Start guide changed its behavior. None of the forum posts addressed what I was seeing. So I went rogue. After a lot of searching for any mention of what I was seeing, I began experimenting with long key presses and multiple key combinations and finally got to where I could pair the keyboard to my Mac again.
I was able to hold the fn and F13 keys to get it into pairing mode for device 1. Then, on my MacBook, I was able to use the Bluetooth preferences in the System Settings application and subsequently the Logi Options app saw it again, as well.
Phew.
When you don’t use the filter basket, the coffee maker doesn’t behave the same way.
I’m left astonished with wonder at how I failed to notice this while I did everything else in anticipatory preparation.
After cleaning up, I’m making a second attempt at coffee, now.
Also: Coffee is hot. Because I have no patience, my thumb will continue to remind me of several failures throughout the day.
The end result is I have cleaned my coffee maker and I will shortly be sipping hot, delicious coffee.
TIL The Trashmen were from Minneapolis.
This just in:
COVID is still deadly.
Putting some thoughts here, while they are on my mind:
Political parties and news organizations love to pretend that an election is an ideological mandate. When the candidate you vote for wins, it’s fun to feel that way.
I think an election is simpler, it’s a snapshot in time, and it’s very much about who is on the ballot. Sometimes a vote is yes to a candidate, to a party or to a platform, but sometimes a vote is against a specific person. I suspect that the 2016 and 2020 elections reflect this in America more than Americans traditionally would admit.
I think the political parties are their own machines, representing their own self-preservation and the agendas of large donors. As such, neither party in the U.S.A. would ever change anything fundamentally.
I don’t think that political parties represent a mandate any more than an election does.
I think political parties aren’t representative of us, of We The People, because the parties generally and the candidates specifically are beholden to money.
I think Ranked Choice Voting is worth a try and might better represent overall preferences, or show where more of us actually agree. We really need to pay attention to what we have in common and fight hard for that.
I think it’s really hard to step outside of a bubble I have willingly been inside of for decades.
I used to wonder why George Carlin seemed so angry toward the end of his career. I’m starting to understand.
Hot coffee and cookies on a cool morning