Hi! I’m Adrian Thomas, a senior product manager at TeamViewer. Also a European (via Wales) living in Munich who enjoys photography, technology and the mountains.
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I think I've managed to talk myself out of getting a 3D printer after committing to making some 3D models *before* I get the thing.
Lots of ideas on what to use it for around the house, but turns out not much interesting in actually learning how to use 3D modeling software.
Feels like this work gets much easier in a little while with AI, but it's not there yet as far as I can see. Great 3D renders of concepts? Yes. Printable files ready to go? No.
The best noise canceling headphones I’ve ever bought have to be the JBL Jr310.
Cheap and basically indestructible! Just pop them on your kid’s head and put on their favourite audiobook for hours of uninterrupted silence.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@_maxobermeier/116093143224789780
Neat idea! Simple widget and a really nicely designed app to boot 🌱
Sheesh - just needed to use brew on a relative’s new Mac Mini (old printer needed drivers) and the first result for “homebrew install” was a sponsored link to an Evernote page that looked semi-official. It had the usual copy & paste terminal command with a dodgy base64 encoded url.
Stay frosty out there folks!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dmnelson/116038179866777494
It seems wild now, but back when I was working at a Mac reseller as a student, the easy end-user upgrades were a selling point. #righttorepair
macOS mystery disk space reporting strikes again: My 1TB drive was filled with 600GB of APFS snapshots that none of the usual tools were able to clear.
They turned out to be failed time machine backups that you can clear in Disk Utility, but that's not shown or explained anywhere, they were just lumped in with "System Data".#macos
Does anyone else get battery anxiety watching Stranger Things? I mean it’s the 80s and they’re running around with battery powered torches and radios all day – didn’t things have like 90 minutes of battery life in the 80s?
Does anyone like Spatial Audio for watching TV or films? Whenever we’re watching something on Apple TV and the audio seems weirdly off or quiet, it’s always Spatial Audio that’s somehow been switched on again.
The “Automix” option in Apple Music just did a weird crossfade, slowing “Call me Al” from 128bpm down to 100bpm to match “Ldn” by Lily Allen.
Thought I was having a stroke for a second, it sounded very weird.
iOS 26 has some debatable UI choices but I’m seriously impressed how much snappier it feels – at least on my old iPhone 13 Pro.
#ios26