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Goodbye Mastodon. Hello Micro.blog.

Okay. It’s out of hand now.

I honestly don’t get it. Everyone was anti-Facebook until Threads was released and they all went to threads until “oh snap, Facebook still sucks?” and now it’s like why do you all keep going to Facebook for social networking. Just rip the band-aid off.

Yesterday, Mt Washington NH about 4,000 feet elevation

Yesterday, Mt. Washington NH

Heading home.

Although regarding GPU acceleration with M chips, it does seem like the GPU is still not being pushed when exporting HEVC HDR with Dolby Vision videos. Why wouldn’t apple optimize 100% CPU or GPU when exporting? Is this because the M series has HEVC accelerators as hardware and therefore not …

In the Amex lounge and the amount of people here with $700 a year credit cards watching videos on iPhones is way too high.

It feels like the “Max” part of my M1 Max MacBook Pro is finally starting to pay off. Final Cut pro has automatic captions creation which is 100% offloaded to the GPU cores. MacWhisper added meeting recording and transcribing to text again, that uses all on-device GPU cores. Photo …

This is a weird flight plan.

No good day.

TikTok case hearing began today with Supreme Court: “The Court also established the Chrestensen doctrine. The doctrine provided that commercial speech, or expression promoting commercial activities, isn’t entitled to First Amendment protection. According to the doctrine, this holds true …

I woke up at 3AM. I flew to Charlotte NC Marriot let me check in at 8:30AM The party I flew in for that takes place at 7PM was just cancelled. I'm now stuck in Charlotte with no plans.

I woke up at 3AM. I flew to Charlotte NC Marriot let me check in at 8:30AM The party I flew in for that takes place at 7AM was just cancelled. I’m now stuck in Charlotte with no plans.

Okay, maybe I do need an M4 Max.

It appears Mastodon web host charged me again today for another month ($6) so I’m going to take my time getting Micro.blog setup but good progress so far. Need to do some customizations.

$995 to stay at a Fairfield inn for 3 nights? Seriously?

@Sarahp I feel be dumb but why would anyone create something and upload it without keeping a copy locally? Granted, my YouTube uploads folder is about 24 terabytes at this point, it seems like a design flaw that content uploaded to TikTok isn't also copied to your device photo library by …

Biden just signed into law the Explore Act which will require federally managed public land have motorized trail maps published and maintained. That’s going to be awesome for recreational 4x4 use!

@kolin You are definitely in the majority. Most people get many hundreds of emails a day.

More to do, just getting started.

New mastodon handle - @AdamChandler@micro.adamchandler.me.

https://micro.adamchandler.me --this is up.

Hello world.

@kolin I do not like this.