I was pleasantly surprised by accidentally discovering Universal Control just working on an old iPad at work. I had assumed this was one way, where the Mac controlled the iPad.
Tonight I discovered the trackpad and keyboard of my iPad case will also control my MacBook.
I am astonished by the detail I don’t remember while surprised how much of my recollection of the story is written over by the movies. I noticed this as well with another series.
I was at a company function a few days ago. A pair at the gathering approached excitedly to tell me they had walked across Reykjavik. There, they purchased and brought back a sweater, which was now being worn by one of the two. They were excited to show me because they had been told I was from Iceland.
Somehow there has been discussion of where I’m from, where Iceland was the answer. I’m reasonably certain it’s the unique order of consonants and vowels that constitute my full name. My name has apparently been going around without me.
I’m Wisconsin born, but I’m from Minnesota. The origin story of how I got my name, which includes the European Theatre of World War II, but does not include Iceland, is far more dramatic than the tale of where I’m from. I’m happy to tell you where I’m from. And I’m happy to tell the story of my name, which began decades before my birth.
The tale of how they got the sweater is a good one to tell. It was a really nice sweater. And now, they can add color, about the guy who was, disappointingly, not from the same place.
In yet another nod to me not being in the correct demographic, I lament today that the Apple Journal app is only available on my phone. Not my iPad or Mac where I can properly sit down at the keyboard and bleed. Blood on the oliophobic and water resistant phone is not at all the same.
Jeopardy Tournament of Champions is making me feel less smart than I felt a few short hours ago. I don’t generally go around feeling smart. Nevertheless, less so, now.
Mourning the death of a social media system whilst extricating myself from it. Letting go of expectations. Not expecting anything else to be the same. Embracing an independent way forward.
My sense is that Apple is planning to go through Vision Pro evolution before the phone disappears. In other words, I see Apple’s path passing through iterations of Assisted Reality and Virtual assistant technology, making devices disappear behind services.
I wish that an iPad had the same phone capability as the iPhone itself. I wish now, just as I did when I had a Gen 1 iPad, that I didn’t have to carry so many devices. For the number of actual phone calls I participate in, my watch or my AirPods would work just fine, with an iPad being the center of mobile compute and data. I’m preferring the iPad more and resenting non-iPad software more.
I did the math and storing all of my collection uncompressed is very doable. Now I’m thinking about something more right-sized for the serving music in my house than the old mid-tower machine running W11. Like a Raspberry Pi or some other low-power unit.