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  • June 24, 2025 3:02pm
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    Apple & Tech

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    I’m happy that, in Canada, we don’t have Apple Pay (yet?) because otherwise we would be flooded by ads in the Wallet app. 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • June 24, 2025 2:58pm
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    Apple & Tech

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    ☝🏻 Glass > Liquid Glass.

  • June 24, 2025 2:23pm
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    My current tolerable settings in iOS 26 beta 2.

  • June 24, 2025 9:23am
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    Apple & Tech

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    Never take your Mac for granted. Did my first day at my new job and got my new Windows laptop. Quite a beefy one for that mather: 32 GB of RAM, 500 GB of NVMe SSD and an i5 Intel CPU, large display. Yet, running Windows 11, this thing can be so slow and battery life never gets past 1.5 hours. Less than two hours!!! What is this HPE Probook? About 25% of CPU is spend on security-related processes… AT ALL THE FUCKIN time!

  • June 23, 2025 8:37pm
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    Apple & Tech

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    How many options and switches do we have today in Settings.app, on all platforms, because Apple had to step back… as a recent example, on macOS, we now have “Menu Bar \ Show Menu Bar Background” so that we can get our dear and readable menu bar… Settings is getting bloated with options that are the consequences of Apple’s indecision in UI design.

  • June 23, 2025 8:16pm
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    Apple & Tech

    On iOS 26, why is this panel not Glass, just like the notifications center?

  • June 23, 2025 5:37pm
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    Apple & Tech

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    I can confirm that beta2 doesn’t bring much fixes, on the iPad, at least. In fact, it might be worse than beta1. Investigating… 😐😑

  • June 23, 2025 5:14pm
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    Apple & Tech

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    Too stupid to wait, upgrading my iPhone 15 Pro Max to beta 2. 🫣

  • June 22, 2025 7:43pm
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    Apple & Tech

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    Work

    Today, I tested my LG UltraFine 4K monitor on my wife’s Windows 11 laptop, but the monitor wouldn’t power up, and the Windows Device Manager also failed to recognize it. This means I’ll probably need a USB hub to go with my future work laptop if I want to use that monitor. I’ll probably buy a new monitor specially for my work laptop, since the company will be paying for it.

  • Micro.blog Question Challenge

    June 22, 2025 1:48pm
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    Blogging

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    Jim Mitchell, on his blog: As is customary after posting my own, I’m extending the challenge to Numeric Citizen (@numericcitizen) and David Johnson (@crossingthethreshold) to answer the same questions: Here are my answers! Why did you start a blog in the first place? It was when Apple had iWeb, part of MobileMe. It was a family thing only. iWeb died, so did my blog. Eventually, I returned to blogging on Blogger, now part of Google, while developing iPhone apps in 2009. Continue reading →

  • June 22, 2025 8:28am
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    Apple & Tech

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    I’m eagerly anticipating the release of beta 2 of iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 from Apple this week. I’m particularly interested in seeing how much the Liquid Glass feature will be toned down, if at all. I won’t lose faith until the public beta is available.

  • June 22, 2025 7:33am
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    Apple & Tech

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    I prefer Apple to build a partnership with Perplexity instead of buying them outright. By partnering with them, Perplexity would join ChaptGPT as a third-party source of AI, helping Apple remain AI agnostic. If they buy Perplexity, they would close the loop, which is bad in the long term for them. I want Apple to remain open and bring as many AI partners as possible.

  • June 22, 2025 6:50am
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    Apps & Services

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    Unpopular opinion: The Browser Company should have made Dia a part of the Arc Browser. I don’t see the need for a new paradigm to achieve what Dia is trying to do as a stand-alone app. Plus, how come a browser company rely on someone else’s browser engine to do its thing? My understanding is that Dia is built on Chromium, just like the Arc Browser.

  • June 21, 2025 8:11am
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    Blogging

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    It’s funny how I treat my online assets like my websites. I think of these like software or apps. That is why I maintain change logs for them, just like app release notes. You can find one here, and one there. It’s fun.

  • June 20, 2025 7:59am
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    Is this a plain website? Is this a digital garden? Is this a landing page? No, it’s "Who Is Numeric Citizen?" A newly launched personal landing page where you can learn about him and his creative journey. Learn all the details (what, why, how) by visiting the website! I’ll meet you there.

  • June 19, 2025 6:37pm
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    Misc

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    Today, I placed my order to have my face processed through Iconfactory’s pixelated portrait service. I’m eager to see what they come up with. Maybe I’ll update my avatar that I’ve been using for so many years?

  • June 19, 2025 5:59am
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    Apps & Services

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    I mentioned earlier this week that I began exploring alternatives to Mailbrew. Digest seems to be a similar service. It appears to be a clone of Mailbrew. The thing is, it looks like abandonware, too.

  • Directly from... Raycast!

    June 18, 2025 12:59pm
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    Heeeeeeere’s Johnny!! Just kidding, I’m testing a blog post from Raycast. Sounds cool, right? Yes, it is! Continue reading →

  • June 18, 2025 6:25am
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    Apple & Tech

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    Because of iPadOS 26, I can see a future where I could get rid of my Macs and focus on the iPad as the main computer beside my iPhone. Of course, I would probably switch to a larger size if that was the case. Using an iPad with an external monitor now makes much more sense and no longer a gimmicky thing.

  • June 17, 2025 7:41pm
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    Apps & Services

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    It seems I overlooked that Inoreader can’t send email summaries of RSS feeds on the Pro plan; an Enterprise plan is necessary. That’s disappointing. I’ll search for alternatives to replace Mailbrew, then. 🤔

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