The history of the “clicker” remote is fascinating. I grew up in the age of infrared remotes, so I had no idea the clicking actually controlled the TV.
watchOS 9.6 is killing my battery. Even a reboot of the watch, which usually helps, has done nothing to improve the battery.
It’s amazing that despite watching mostly science, space, and history videos that YouTube’s algorithm constantly thinks I want to watch some right-wing “anti-woke” videos about Disney. It doesn’t matter how many times I tell YouTube to not recommend channels or content like that.
I was obsessed with Pee-wee Herman when I was a child. RIP Paul Reubens.
While Linux distros have increased their UX over time, third-party apps still look like they were made in VB 6.0 and that’s disappointing.
Somehow I missed that Tech N9ne came out with a new album a couple of weeks ago. I’m slipping in my old age. Now listening to the album Bliss by Tech N9ne.
Power is out, which means no AC. It has been out for an hour and a half now and it’s starting to get stuffy. Hope it comes back soon or it’s going to be a long night.
I have a 2015 Macbook Pro that I’m not longer using and it’s no longer getting updates from Apple. Last night I installed Linux Mint on it since it’s been a while since I played around in Linux. UX and UI has come a long way. Not sure what I’ll use it for yet.
Favorite salts (in order most to least):
- Pretzel salt
- Salt from the tears of my enemies
- Popcorn salt
- Iodized salt
- Non-iodized salt
- Sea salt
I just lowered my internet bill by $20 a month and got twice the speed. I should have called my cable company a long time ago.
Pleasantville is such a good movie. The fact that I love it so much despite disliking the two main actors in the movie goes to show how good the story is.
Random lights turning on by themselves used to be a sure sign of a ghost. Now it just means a bug in HomeKit.
Evergreen
STOP REOPENING APPS AND WINDOWS AFTER A REBOOT FROM A SOFTWARE UPDATE IF YOU DON’T HAVE THE SETTING CHECKED. Source: Dear Apple - Knock it Off | shep, but online
The Max app is so shitty I would cancel their service if I wasn’t getting it for free.
Animated artwork in the Music app is kinda neat, but I don’t think I need 2Pac blinking at me.
What Is Reddit's CEO Doing?
This article really doesn't look good for Steve Huffman or Reddit's investors. Some of my favorite bits:
About a year into his tenure as Reddit CEO, it came out that Huffman was rogue-editing comments that were critical of him...
Huffman chose to compare the moderators who objected to his API decision-making as the “landed gentry”...
Huffman seems confused about his competitors and about the risk factors of community moderation...
Reddit just reopened r/Place, a kind of collaborative art project, which may be a way of gauging the mood. Huffman’s handle on Reddit is “spez,” and you can count for yourself the number of times Redditors have written “fuck spez” on r/Place.
It looks like Proton Pass now has support for credit card entries and notes. It doesn’t look like credit card autofill works, but they are making progress quickly. I may be ditching my current solution sooner than I expected. Still waiting for a Safari extension though.
My dog has been itchy all summer. He even broke open his skin and caused an infection on his shoulder that is still healing 3 months later. The only thing that seems to help (to some extent) are pills that cost $81 for a 30 day supply and he’s itchy as soon as they run out. Time for a new vet?
I have never clicked on a YouTube short on purpose.
Tupac Shakur was a huge presence in my adolescence. All these years later he remains in my top 10 played artists each year. It will be interesting to see if anything comes from the search warrant that was executed in relation to his murder that took place more than 25 years ago.