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Apple News remains an utterly broken experience if you happen to be in a country it hasn’t launched in yet and are using an iPhone. Links regularly just don’t work and they don’t fall back to the original website either.

21 September 2024 @ 7:14 am

The sense of urgency described in this article on buying Oasis tickets will be very familiar to anyone who’s tried to buy an iPhone on the first day of pre-orders: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/sep/01/oasis-ticketmaster-in-demand-standing-tickets?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

1 September 2024 @ 1:06 pm

#SilentSunday #bavaria

26 August 2024 @ 7:23 am

UniFi’s modular setup of a separate controller and router / gateway software has always struck me as a bit weird.
But after our UniFi USG died this evening, everything basically just kept working after plugging theAPss and controller into another router.
Now the architecture suddenly makes a lot more sense. 😅

21 August 2024 @ 9:08 pm

Sad to see Apple retailer Gravis being shuttered: if it wasn’t for my college job selling Macs & iPods there while studying political science, I’m not sure I would have switched degrees and ended up working in the software industry. https://chaos.social/@obrhoff/112104761807774327

16 March 2024 @ 11:17 am

Thanks to all the #marchintosh reminders I finally got around to taking the pram battery out of the iMac G4. Hopefully it’ll last a few more decades now…

3 March 2024 @ 9:33 am

Well that's a new one – had to restart the Apple TV remote when it randomly stopped being able to control our soundbar via IR. Good to know that's a thing… https://support.apple.com/en-euro/102569#:~:text=Restart%20your%20remote&text=Hold%20the%20buttons%20down%20for,Wait%20while%20your%20remote%20restarts.

29 February 2024 @ 8:21 pm

Let’s go EU, do WiFi speakers and streaming services next.

30 January 2024 @ 6:36 pm

Congratulations to all the parents of young kids who put them to bed far too late last night and paid the price for it today – you've made it through the day!

1 January 2024 @ 7:55 pm

It’s not often that an Apple product gets worse over time, but after a few good years the HomePod setup (2 large 1st gen HomePods and 2 minis) we have is so unreliable and buggy: stereo pair drift out of sync, songs don’t play and I don’t even need to bring up Siri.
Now the bass woofer on one of the large HomePods has died… Back to Sonos I think!

16 December 2023 @ 8:08 am