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Apple, 2015: “We’re introducing USB-C charging for our laptops. Soon all of your Apple devices will just use one connector to charge. It’ll be great. Apple, 2017: Oh, hey, we’re introducing wireless charging. You can now use three different connectors to charge your Apple devices, none of which interoperate across multiple device categories. You’re welcome.…

I’m back at Jackson Acres getting into I guess fast four now. Got back on Thursday evening, and now it is Sunday. I haven’t left the property at all since, despite being overdue to appear at the river and get some groceries. Anyway, the plan was and is to spend my time here doing the…

I suppose arguably today was day one of the “sit down and commit to writing” part.  I got down more than the Stephen King guideline of 2000 words.  Close to 3000, when all was said and done, and it started quite literally with me saying to myself, around 9 pm, I need to write something…

AITA for re-gifting a sentimental graduation present from a deceased relative? I graduated Law School over 10 years ago and my father gave me an interesting but kind of strange gift. At an antique store, he found an old brass balance scale that happened to have an eagle on top of it, and I guess…

I can’t believe the phone captured this so well. It’s the sort of sight that hovers easily in my imagination, yet that I as a photographer always struggle to capture. Yet the sort of thing I feel a lot of authors can capture better than a photograph. How would that go? On this cloudy moonless…

Note: This is actually a cross-post from my post to Apple’s user support forum on the topic, a place I expect to now start contributing in lieu of /r/applehelp. —- This is kind of bordering more on an article than a question at this point. I’ve tried everything including long discussions with AppleCare. As far…

I have come to the conclusion that essentially all social media is inherently toxic. I feel a moral problem myself with posting to social media at all, because even if I do everything in my power to keep my content healthy, to the other side it simply serves as bait to assist social media companies…

I’m getting reports, on Facebook, that people are getting a spam page when they try to click to this site. I think it’s a Facebook issue, but my sysadmin is also helping me look at the WordPress side. The issue with WordPress is that, it turns out, keeping it safe from hackers and spam is…

It’s surprisingly tough to talk about human nature in a venue with a comments section. Why? Simple. Because the comments will almost always be dominated by “this doesn’t apply to me” comments. But the beauty is that almost always, the “this doesn’t apply to me” commenters will usually include a hilariously non-self-aware explanation for why…

I saw this article today on Apple News: https://apple.news/AT-wxdA5FSeSSdjzJcJUfpA This is a good story and worth reading, but the summary is that it may be controversial that Disney fairly openly uses scent stimuli to manipulate guests. The article also says, though, that the side effects of this manipulation are mostly positive, with effects of stress…

“Dad, are you sure it’s time?  It’s… 1996.  They’ve had a solid decade to deal with HIV and they still haven’t gotten over dehumanizing people who contract a virus.  Don’t you remember last time?  I barely got past the “forgiveness” and self-righteousness parts before they killed me.  I don’t want to go down again if…

It’s funny how when we ship things, they usually go on every kind of vehicle except a ship. Starts in a car, goes to a truck, then a plane, then another truck, maybe a train here and there between if only across the airport. Everything but an actual ship.