Heading to Dubai in 6 days. Thinking back on 2024 which isn’t even over yet. I turned 38, went to Miami for a week long rave, went to the Arctic Circle on my motorcycle, spent 2 months in NH/VT/ME riding around in the woods, lost 50 more pounds this year, camped 40+ days off the motorcycle, earned 3 …
Stars are aligning.
M1 Max MacBook Pro is still performing well for me. Mid-December, AppleCare will expire and I'd like more than 2 terabytes of storage while 64GB of RAM has been more than enough rarely have I gotten close to max utilization. I should wait another year because a replacement will likely cost …
Next week, I’ll be riding a #BMWGS around Dubai for 5 days. Here is the route for a week of riding. I can’t wait to share photos & videos back here.
@kolin have you tried an ebook? Might be easier
Matilda is one year old.
@mjtsai I recently had Time Machine issues on Developer beta where I wasn’t getting successful backups. I tried everything and finally disabling the MacOS Firewall fixed it for me. MBP wired Ethernet to Synology using SMB on x.1 developer beta.
@oliverames as a work challenge, my team and I reset our cellular usage one month ago and here’s my data usage since 9/20. iPhone is a utility for me since I don’t really do any social media and can’t imagine watching video on a tiny screen.
At Duke today (rode over on the motorcycle) for an executive training course. I’ll be here all week. I’ve heard of Duke. Have never been here.
Heading to @dukefuqua’s Executive Leadership Training this week in #DurhamNC. I only needed a couple of things so I just used my @greenchileadv straps to put the @tumitravel roller on the tail of the #r1250gsadventure. Lots of cotton on display in the back roads of NC today and 75 degrees.
The older I get, the most things randomly crack when I move.
Heather made these for Matilda's 1st birthday.
This is the second time in one week that I was duped. Someone offered me chocolate which I gladly accepted only to later learn it was white chocolate. White Chocolate is not Chocolate.
One week until Vermont for a few days. It's been a whole (checks calendar) six weeks since I've been up there.
@mjtsai I'm actually curious what BestBuy pays Apple per month of AppleCare. I get AppleCare for $179 per year as a Total Tech member for unlimited devices(about 12 currently). I imagine BestBuy is losing money on me but are they paying Apple $9.99 a month per iPhone applecare plan or are they …
@mjtsai I've been thinking about that for a while. I remember when MacMall would have deals on standard configs but we're talking a couple of bucks less than Apple (single digit percentages). Apple controls things so tightly but I'd wager given how brazen 3rd parties market and sell …
I’m in Dubai on Election Day. Never missed a vote since I turned 18 and cast my presidential ballot for Al Gore in Florida.
@mjtsai It's reached a point that I never order from Apple.com unless I'm building a MacBook that needs more than 1TB of storage. Every other device is 15-25% cheaper than Apple.com almost every day of the year. Ultra 2 was $50 off on launch day at BestBuy. iPhone cases were $36 instead of …
@mjtsai - RE: Displays, you quoted $1599 MSRP for Studio Display. I guess it's correct to report Apple's prices but aside from BTO/CTO Macs, I haven't paid MSRP on an Apple Device in a while. Channel Partners have gotten brazen about prices that undercut Apple's the point that I buy …
I've worked really hard the past 10 years to get to “maxing out my 401K" like incrementally doing more and more. 2024 is the 2nd year I've maxed it out. I'll be putting in the full $23,000 this year at age 38. Work match is decent so it's a combined $30,600 in 2024 contributed …
The sound of my new set is obviously leaps and bounds better than Vision Pro + AirPods Max, it’s a communal activity with the 3 of us all enjoying the television and can do double duty connected to Switch or XBox. @mgs ‘s notion that https://spyglass.org/pro-vision-apple/ Vision Pro should be …
Should be a blog post but with the purchase of this new television, I keep thinking about what if I had put that money into purchasing a Vision Pro (again)? I buy most things through Best Buy Outlet and that has a 2 year warranty for me + 1 year for using the Amex card and I got the Sony A95L 65” …
It took 2 months but i finally detailed the #R1250GSA after the cross country trip.
@oliverames You are a trendsetter!
Enjoying the new setup. I did have to order new HDMI cables since Xbox requires a new cable for 4K 120 and Dolby Vision.