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I am curious. I help people frustrated with how difficult it is to use technology. I value autonomy, self-determination, empowerment, and uplifting people were they are, as they are. Neurodivergent. Norse. Gen X

Started a Hello page, but I want to use too many words and over explain. I’m working on a draft, but I will have to distill it for a while. I love one-on-one coversations. In groups, I recede as I process and correlate and think of things to say that the coversation has already left behind

Bone conduction headphones and multipoint pairing make a wonderful tool to use at work

If you put the work into rating tracks in your music library, the result can be of a playlist based on your highest-rated tracks. Set up shuffle or random play, use a 12-second crossfade, and welcome to your perpetual soundtrack.

That feeling when you have been using Mac OS for a long time and you discover something about the UI that you didn’t know.

As a resident of geography that might be referred to by some as “fly-over-country,” I’m often grateful but sometimes resentful.

If we don’t repeat the stories, no one else can know them

Chicken Curry with Onion from Ming’s Garden works every time

Hanging out with my Mom and my kid at the fire. I don’t think I remember the last time I “roasted” hotdogs that way

4 hours and 47 minutes into an annual IT exercise. In my role, I’m basically a fly on the wall, unless or until urgent communication or coordination is needed.

Generally, I’m a coffee-first kind of person. This morning, it took a while before I was ready to make the effort. I did come to my senses, though. And the coffee is actually delicious, thank you.

Dusting off the old chili recipe, today. Slow-cooking, now.

I had been a long-time MusicMatch user, before I had bought my first iPod. Before I had purchased my first Mac. Only was reminded of this today when I was deduplicating tracks. The software agent that ripped the track is part of the metadata visible when you Get Info in Music.

Target Corporation, I don’t care how much money you paid for the rights. You. Do. Not. Use. Prince. Songs.

I feel like I’m getting trolled by Apple’s meta data as I re-rip my CDs. I wish occasional incorrect track titles was the worst of it.

Surprise and delight. I had read a while ago that one could import audiograms into settings for AirPods Pro. It’s true. You can use your camera. And then you can edit what it imports.

And the results brought tears to my eyes.

https://www.soundly.com/blog/airpods-as-hearing-aids

The amazing thing about humanity, and the living artifact of the internets, is that you don’t have to wonder if someone has been there before. They have, and there is a well-worn path.

But first, Coffee!

I do pay for identity services, in the sense that I own a vanity domain. I can also link presence and identity to it, with no fees, by adding unique text records. Tools like Google, Keybase, Mastodon, BlueSky and Nostr can use these to establish a link. That’s one way forward.

I can be Meta Verified on both Instagram and Facebook for the low, low price of $24.99 per month. I was interested this did not include Threads. $300 a year to show I’m me. I did not accept this offer.

This article explains so much about the Apple Watch that wasn’t making sense to me, before: Making the Apple Watch compatible with Android wouldn’t be easy – and here’s why

Will be waiting a long time until the watch is what I want it to be.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/22/apple-watch-compatible-android/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon