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Thanks to Kurzgesagt I just learnt about Black Hole Stars. And holy hell the universe is mind boggling.

Does anyone know why the Satellite imagery from Apple Maps online (e.g., through DuckDuckGo), is years more up to date than those you get in the Maps app in iOS or macOS? Is it because of the 3D?

As far as my biking wet weather clothing goes, everything’s coming up Milhouse. My feet are soaking wet, but my cuffs are bone dry. So people who commute by bike: how does one keeps one’s feet dry in the pouring rain?

I’ve decided I’m going to start drawing again. I used to draw every day and when asked to draw something by kids of friends I always surprise myself at how much muscle memory I still have to get shapes onto the page. Expect some terrible artwork from me.

Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) hits a lot differently when you’re a 40 year olds who doesn’t know what they want to do with their life, as opposed to a teenager not appreciating the power and beauty of their youth.

Got my fifth covid vaccination. And my first bivalent variety. I’m now 6 times less likely to die if I catch covid than with just the original vaccine, and 30 times less likely to die than an unvaccinated person. Science 💪🏼

Charging a battery via pass-through charging from another. Some kind of batt-ception which feels oddly wrong for some reason? Also seen here, a rubber coaster shaped like a floppy disk.

If the holodecks from Star Trek existed, I’d simply acquire one and live there. Who wouldn’t. You’re talking Matrioshka Brain-like realities.

Go and listen to some music you like.

So, winter hit today. And I’m wearing my summer clothing. Shit it’s cold.

I am loving the TNG reunion in Picard season 3. However it won’t truly be complete because the greatest star fleet office in history (which is canon! It was in Lower Decks) Chief Miles O’Brien won’t be there.

I feel like there’s one internet meme or page each person remembers reading or seeing and then thinking about for years. And the you try and find it and it’s lost to the mists of fallible human memory and the ethereal nature of the internet.

TIL about why that one salad spoon that has a slot: “One of the spoons has a slot allowing the draining of excess salad dressing or gravy.”

I’m hoping the next iPhone will change to USB-C (as rumours suggest). That’ll leave me with two things I need special cables for and can’t charge with Qi/MagSafe - one old micro USB device and most frustratingly of all, my Apple Watch.

I can’t get push notifications working on my phone in any app. Does anyone else have that issue? Using Fastmail in Apple Mail.app and Spark.

Waking up my Mac: “I’m up! I’m up! Log in! Let’s gooooooo!!!”

Waking up my work Windows laptop: “Huh? Ugh. Gimme a second. I’m initiating the start up delay. Which is a thing. Man, I wasn’t expecting this. Let me spin a bit. OK. Log in. Thanks. Hang on. Hang on…”

Fun fact, a majority (~58%) of humans live in Asia.

Cool. The iOS Passwords settings (it really should be its own app), can add 2FA to any of the passwords you store. Go to the password you want to add to, press the “Set Up Verification Code” and the scan the QR code the website gives you. FYI for anyone with TXT 2FA on Twitter.

I’m so disappointed in Picard season 3. Not because it’s not fantastic - because it is. But because seasons 1 and 2 could’ve been this good and they absolutely were not.

Sure you’ve seen a lunar eclipse. Maybe even a solar eclipse. You may have even see a comet. All predictable. But one thing I’m absolutely ecstatic that I got to witness with my own eyes was earthquake lightning. Bright, flickering blue flashes during the Kaikōura earthquake.

Hey bike commuting buddies. I need recommendations for rain pants/trousers, as we’re (at least here) heading into autumn and winter.

Outside of America, Where’s Waldo? is correctly titled Where’s Wally?

Chatting with a friend today, suggested they use iCloud to manage passwords. Opened Passwords on their iPhone and the security alerts was a❗️They’ve spent the day changing passwords. During the changing spree, someone (not them) tried to change their Amazon password 😱

“If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

Yes, Newtonian physics work whether there’s an observer or not. Next question.

“Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”

The egg, by several hundred million years.

I bought a Sony X90H 65” TV a couple of years ago. Great TV, dim in the corners, but well worth what I paid and half the price of the OLEDs of the same size. Only 2 years later, OLED TVs are now at the same price of the old X90H, and Mini LED is the new premium.