Donald Trump is still sent to be sentenced in New York on 11/26 for the Campaign Funds Misappropriation case. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/what-happens-to-trump-criminal-cases/index.html He could serve up to 4 years.
Running iOS 18.2 / Sequoia .2 developer betas today. I want to get in the habit of using Apple’s AI features (now backed by ChatGPT when necessary) but my 14 year muscle memory of not using Siri for anything means I’ll probably just open the ChatGPT app instead of finding it via Siri. We’ll see. I …
Going on a desert hike today, off road trails and a few museums on the eastern side of the country.
View from the Apple Store Dubai waiting area.
Animals. No 5X lens required on this safari.
What are they going to do with all of those #StopTheSteal24 hats and t-shirts that were printed?
Boba feels like comfort food right now.
@geoffoliver something about a free people is an educated people. It seems like the gutting of education in America has only helped those who gutted it.
Just sitting here wondering how the platform of “migrant crime” and hating non-whites and selling the proven pipe dream of trickle down economics is actually doing well.
I’m up. Going to go to a wildlife safari then ride a camel. I can’t keep staring at news sites. I’m going to lost my whole day.
Great first day in UAE
200 miles coast to coast in UAE today.
And regarding the “stop the steal” narrative, the stealing has been going on for decades. Gerrymandering, electors, super-electors, lacked of ranked choice or popular vote and the placement of biased federal judges along with the filibuster makes government not work. I’m tired. 1. People should vote …
It’s weird being in the Middle East during this year’s general election. Heather has “escaped” to Vermont for 3 weeks and we’ve both mailed in our absentee ballots which were accepted. I hope when I’m back in country in 10 days, we’ll have a new president. When the losing party draws things out for …
Today, I was up at 5AM, rode 400 miles round trip to Myrtle beach to pickup some new luggage boxes for my bike. Home. Packed 120 pounds of gear and to the airport. Big day. I’m pretty tired.
Amex Lounge @ CLT - Boarding in 2 hours to ATL, will probably do a bit more drinking in that lounge then I'm hoping the 6 hour flight to AMS I can just sleep the entire time. Then 8+ hours to Dubai where I have some light reading and studying to do
I finally setup my Personal Voice in MacOS (a feature that arrived in Spring of 2023). I think about my voice and how powerful it would be, should I ever lose it, to still have text to speech conversations with family, not through an AI voice but through mine. It took 20 minutes to setup and will …
M4 Max is 60% faster than M1 Max for CPU and nearly 3X faster in GPU. That's amazing.
My MacBook Pro (M1 Max) versus M4 Max: CPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/8598378?baseline=8593555 Metal: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/compare/3038340?baseline=3039919
Sweet. Drone approved for UAE!
OOOH hey, so here’s the map of all of the places I’ll be visiting in UAE. Total of 9 days with 7 As a tourist (in BMW’s marketing / press tour group) then 2 days in meetings as delegate for North American BMW Owners at the International Council of Clubs: …
Well, I just gave the UAE government $50 and praying they approve my drone for entry into their airspace by this weekend. Up to 10 days to approve drones so I’m hoping they can do it in 3 days because that’s when I fly out.
I have Mail on iPadOS set to download “no limit” on how much mail to sync and now this issue that began on iOS 17 unfortunately has not been fixed on iOS 18. My email inboxes are iCloud and Office 365 and yet I can’t search my inbox. Here’s Mail on iOS 18 versus Outlook’s search. So frustrating that …