There’s also a brewery I follow that has stoped taking real product shots of their beers and just generates AI shots instead and it’s really frustrating how bad it looks.
I’m not using social media so I really don’t see AI generated content that much but now that some blogs that I follow via RSS are starting to use it, it’s really annoying me. I’ve experimented with some AI generated blog content but you can tell it’s not real. Just …
Also ordered new tires for the Audi. 2021 date code and on their last leg. So it was time.
Did heathers brakes today. $550 in parts. Pads and rotor all around. Took me 4-5 hours and I saved $1100 by DIYing it. Rears were metal on metal.
The dutch tracking notifications are really fun compared to other carriers.
“Apple Podcasts Subscriptions will soon support video, allowing creators to offer subscriber-exclusive episodes, ad-free video, early access, and bonus content,” I don’t understand why these need to be delivered as video.
The Apple Watch Ultra 4 lasted 84 hours with the screen off before I hit 15% battery life remaining. I recharged it in 90 minutes using one of my chargers (not sure if that was fast charging). That’s 3.5 days on a charge…probably could have gotten the full 4 days. I do not work out.
Saturday at 6AM, I took Apple Watch Ultra 4 off the charger. Monday at 10AM, I’m at 46% battery. It’s about a day longer than I experience with my Ultra 2 after battery degradation. I should get a full 5 days.
Matilda went to her first Apple Store today (Montreal, QC) -
Also, no iPhones this year. My iPhone 17 Pro 1TB and heather’s 17 Pro Max 512GB are going to be with us for at least another year, maybe longer. I really want an iPhone Duo Pro with the pro camera array to come.
Heather went Series 11 Jet Black to Series 12 Dark Bronze. She’s a big fan. My hope is that each of us can cancel our Oura subscriptions saving us $140 a year with these new health features. I went Ultra 2 to Ultra 4 (digging the new screen)
First trail loop. I have orange and sand alpine loops already. It’s very comfy and the yellow and burgundy contrast well.
By the way, shout out to Coax for AppleTV - coaxtheapp.com I’ve been using it for over a month and it’s replaced just scrolling my Plex Server for what to watch.
But there ARE some new features and it’s a free update.
Kind of unlike bjango to not publish release notes for an iStat Menus update - bjango.com/mac/istat…
Done teaching for the week. Tired. Montreal this weekend.
Well shit. That’s an insane stat. Now if the YouTube player can just remember that I do not want captions turned on?
Looks like by Wednesday, I’ll be able to turn off the dehumidifier. Low of 38. Winter is coming.
YouTube enabling closed-captions by default is so freaking annoying. Are THAT many people watching muted videos? Do people not have headphones?
Related, a month ago I moved to Claude’s Max plan ($100 a month) because I was spending about $100-$150 a month in credits. Haven’t had to spend any credits since. It’s been nice to just budget for the AI usage and I’m really pushing the models to do more complex things every …
I’m going to wait for iOS 27.5 but I think I need to put Siri in my iOS dock to convince myself to reach for it first over Claude - pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tes…
apps.apple.com/us/app/ma… Mactracker continues to be an amazing app. I love how consistently it’s updated.
AppleCare One Family Launched and it says only 7 of our 14 devices can be covered. I can see one exception which is one of our AirPods is over 1 year old but it’s not showing two Apple Watches, one AppleTV, one HomePod or my wife’s M5 MBP.
Biggest surprise / complaint - Apple Watch didn’t get Nano-Texture treatment this year. Every Apple device family has a nano-texture option now except Apple Watch. I hope Ultra 5 and iPhone X2 (20th anniversary) get nano-texture.
It was not a low-spend Apple year though. 16” MacBook Pro M5 Max + 14” MacBook Pro M5 Pro which were huge purchases. Two iPhone 17 Pros last year so no upgrades planned. iPads are both M4 powered and both of us have AirPods Pro 4. Next year will be iPhone upgrades.