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Wow. micro.blog version 2 looks great @manton.

I know being an Indy or small app developer is hard. But I have serious subscription fatigue. I’m not paying $73 a year for a calendar app when I can make do with the default. I’m not paying $37 a year so I can make custom widgets. A writing app isn’t worth $80 a year to me.

I wish iOS widgets could be 4 apps wide but only 1 app high. Like a 1U server.

Cool. Electric aeroplanes! Sounds Air aims to offer first regional zero-emission flights

This is a reasonably basic request that the machines of our glorious machine-learning present should understand. But no. Of course not.

A year ago I thought of a conversation I’d have to have in French when we move back to Wellington. I panicked because I just couldn’t think of 80% of the words I’d need. Today I thought of that conversation again and I flowed without thinking about it. Yes! Um, oui! C’est bon.

I’m rewatching Star Trek: Discovery before the new season starts next month. I’m up to the mirror universe part of season 1 and holy hell it’s dark. Are… are we in the mirror universe?

Update on iOS 14 battery woes: turns out it’s any widget with location data. So maps, weather with your current location, etc. Turn those off and your phone will be back to normal battery consumption.

Hey Kiwis, daylight saving starts tonight, so remember to do absolutely nothing because all the clocks that matter to you are connected to the internet and will change automatically.

Does anyone remember the name of the Windows 98 extension that let you super customise the entire look of the desktop?

Anyone else find that iOS 14 is murdering their battery?

Update: it is now actually Friday.

That’s a low-blow suggestion Siri. Why you gotta be so truthful?

I keep thinking it’s Friday. It is not Friday.

Daylight saving starts in Aotearoa on Sunday. We’re in DLS for a majority of the year, and I wish we’d just switch to being permanently GMT+13.

Flux is a great word.

Does anyone else find back-tap in iOS 14 to be really hit-or-miss. Seems it requires a pretty rapid set of taps, or taps of a specific strength, or something that means I miss 50–70% of the time.

I don’t know what my phone was doing this morning, but it burnt through 65% battery in 3 hours. 😬

2TB of iCloud storage, Apple Arcade and music = NZ$49 a month

The family plan of Apple One is $32, with 200 GB, the difference between 200 GB and 2 TB is $12 a month, so it’ll be $44.

$5 a month savings until my free TV+ expires, then $14 a month. Begrudgingly worth it.

Sitting barefoot and in shorts. Here comes summer!

Does anyone know if there’s a way for Shortcuts in iOS to launch an app with one of the app’s long-press quick actions? Would be useful for some apps combined with the back-tap action in iOS 14.

It’s raining super heavily this morning (no wind). Some bastard thought it’d be funny to open our letterbox so it filled with water.

Without thinking I went to the shed, grabbed my drill and drilled 4 holes in the bottom of the letterbox. Problem solved, forever, bastard.

Thanks Safari! (PiHole would have caught the rest I imagine).

The trailer for The Mandalorian Season 2 looks… pretty good.

I’m using 230 GB of our family 2TB worth of iCloud drive/storage. Apple One Premier doesn’t look like it’ll be an option in New Zealand.. so… 🤷🏻‍♂️