Apple still sells the USB SuperDrive. I’m using one with a USB-A to USB-C adapter on a Re-Rip project. I’m thinking I should pick one up as a spare.
I use Apple Wallet functionality almost every week day, both via phone and watch. I did not know that the “bank card” in my Apple Wallet would expire independently of the physical card expiration.
It does. Looks like a two-year registration that must be redone, and isn’t a simple matter of updating an expiration date and CVS.
Apple Wallet then sent transactions to a credit card and put me over my limit. I did not note any notification anywhere the preferred bank card had expired. I’m wondering if I missed something, somehow. And I’m feeling disgruntled.
I only noticed at all because I went to check a balance and it was not what I expected. In the Wallet app on my iPhone, the entry for the bank card had a red expired indicator. But there was no indicator on the Wallet app icon itself. Thankfully, nothing had been declined and that was the worst of it.
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.
Currently reading: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚
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.
To all who celebrate, I wish you a Happy New Year!
Have just finished being a right jolly old elf. Just about to settle in for a long winter’s nap.
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.
It would be cool if MacOS had a calculator widget.
It wouldd be cool if iPad OS came withh a calculator.
Can’t have it if I don’t ask, right?
I clean up alright.
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.
Video just does not syndicate well. Too soon. I know.
What you do when you have taken care of business but you don’t need to be at the airport for a few more hours: Niagara Falls from the Ontario side.
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.
EStem Choir Concert
There are countless reasons why fellow passengers may be allowed to board before you. All of which let you know where you stand.
Somewhere at YYZ
Mississauga, second night
Elsewhere in Mississauga
Somewhere in Mississauga
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.
I am a huge fan of Apple’s Find My technology. Very expensive losses can be very happily found
Wonderful phrase from a Teams meeting “I’m laughing on mute.” I think that is just amazing on several levels.
I have been giving increasing thought to dropping a phone and phone number altogether. Alas, there are still a few critical use cases.
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.