Notices by John Siracusa (siracusa@mastodon.social), page 2

Can anyone identify this iPad?

(Via https://toot.community/@Finin/111856984658632630)

I'm kind of surprised this isn't called UnsafeRawMarketplaceKit

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/marketplacekit

Five months after I purchased my AirPods, I’m still seeing this popover daily on multiple devices. Whyyyyyy 😕

The cure: hamburger menu in the upper-left corner, More Settings, Other Settings, Show Discover on homepage: off.

We’ve come a long way, baby.

Julia (@b0rk) is amazing, and this talk is a great introduction to her work and her whole deal. If you do anything with computers, you should check it out.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/10/06/new-talk--making-hard-things-easy/

“We are dealing with not one but two unreliable narrators: Musk and Isaacson himself.”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review

My wife’s FineWoven case has a pretty bad, er, case of the misaligned port cutout problem. She’s already had to return some USB-C cables to buy new ones with smaller connectors that will fit within the cutout.

(“Just buy a new case!” I know, and it will probably happen eventually…)

We all joke and complain about Apple’s upgrade pricing for RAM and SSD space, but it really can’t be said enough. It is, as @snazzyq rightly exclaims in this video, ludicrous. https://youtu.be/u65QuZT1ZJo

Oxo’s long, slow decline continues.

“What if you were writing a profile on someone named Janet, and I was your editor, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, for balance, find someone who wants to kill Janet’” https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/12853332-we-need-to-talk-about-the-new-york-times-with-tuck-woodstock

New Mac Studio Oven just dropped. https://youtu.be/sVQy5nqo-EM

Kudos to Apple for resisting the name EyeD.

iSight/EyeSight joins Macs/Max, iBook/iBooks, etc. in the pantheon of Apple name-siblings.

I just heard someone describe emacs as “a Linux program” which accelerated my process of crumbling to dust.

Everyone: Hey, it’s Adele at the Super Bowl!

Me and the people I follow: Eddy!