Resurrecting a 2017 MacBook Pro With Linux
Years ago, when my old company was decommissioning hardware, I bought the 2017 MacBook Pro from them, the 13" A1708 with function keys instead of the Touch Bar. I bought it because it was really…
Going back to Linux on desktop, finally
Following a definitely-not-on-a-whim purchase of a new GPU, I decided it was time to fold back into the Linux ecosystem after a couple years off. This time I feel like I've got a better understanding…
Owncasts for iOS and tvOS get updates!
In 2024 “Owncasts” for iOS was released as a side project to give a native interface on the iPhone and AppleTV. I highly recommend you read the first post in this series: Owncasts for iOS…
Life of a Shitmaker
A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator by the Norwegian Consumer Council describes how a “shitmaker” is tasked into making the products and services terrible. It feels so real, it hurts! As this…
Keyboard Phones are Back - Unihertz Titan 2 Elite
A couple of days ago I started an experiment. After years on the iPhone I switched to a Unihertz Titan 2 Elite. Not my first Android phone but my first phone with a physical keyboard and a smaller…
The Electric Vehicle – Tip of the Spear
My wife is sick to death of hearing me talk about electric cars. A few of my friends probably are too. And I can’t really blame them. If you spend enough time around me, you’d be forgiven…
F-Droid
Download Download APK-file from the official website: f-droid.org. Repos IzzyOnDroid; Guardian Project; The Calyx Institute; microG; Bitwarden; Brave Browser; IronFox Browser; Molly; SimpleX Chat;…
Autoplay does not work on Mobile Safari in Low Power Mode
TLDR: There is no clean way to fix this. But there is a hacky workaround.
NASA-TLX in CHI
NASA-TLX use at CHI from 2006 to 2024. Blue is the share of all CHI papers including NASA-TLX, rising from about 3% to nearly 10%; red is the raw paper count, rising from 5 papers to 99. The NASA…
The Four Apps Behind My AI Workflow
Paste, CleanShot X, Wispr Flow, and 1Password do the unglamorous work that makes my AI workflow fast, visual, and safe.
RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V. Here it is.
Does this make ChatGPT Codex half-Mac-assed?
On The Talk Show 452, “A Scam Held Together with Patriotism and Golden Paint”, John Gruber said: One of the things that, to me, just defines a Mac app is being able to open whatever the…
Apple Music weirdness
I was out on a walk yesterday, listening to the ’70s Hits Radio Station on Apple Music, when “Don’t Leave Me This Way” came on. I pulled my phone out of my pocket to look at a text while the song was…
What My Nest Hub Does Besides Show Family Photos
Teaching a Google Nest Hub to show more than family photos: a driveway camera feed on movement, and a now-playing card for whatever's on the living room Apple TV.
TMTG, again
Late last year, Trump Media and Technology Group announced that it planned to merge with TAE, a 27-year-old fusion energy company. It was a weird idea! A strictly inferior version of the X social…
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (33/2026): NFC in Plasma
NFC integration is landing in Plasma Mobile, and Bazaar has been accepted into GNOME Circle, an official Signal Desktop ARM64 beta (.deb + AppImage only). On the hardware side, Dawndrums has received…
Bar None
Marcin Wichary: Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware? With its retirement a few years in the rearview mirror, we know that the Touch Bar, mercifully, did not kill off function…
The long and winding road that leads to Siri AI
While I was renewing my Apple Developer Program membership earlier today, a thought occurred to me: until this year, I’d never installed and used beta versions of Apple operating systems; not in any…
The Flattening
The ongoing flattening of everything is really, really fucking us up. I can spend many hours researching a specific type of backpack. Things that may have been one guy’s fan...
Using a shock collar to stop myself doomscrolling
I’m hooked up to the dopamine scroll machine where Meta harvests my soul for advertising. At this point that’s how I see it. Like anyone with a smartphone and social media I’m…
NFC Integration for Plasma Mobile
Following the recent look at the state of GNSS API on Linux Mobile, I did a similar exploration of where we are with the Near Field Communication (NFC) stack.
Taking Vanilla OS 2 for a Spin: A Stable Core with Infinite Apps
I’ve been keeping an eye on Vanilla OS for quite a while, but almost all the official documentation was still focused on version 1. Back then, they were planning for the big v1 to v2 upgrade, so I…
Meta & TikTok APIs: my castle is on someone else's land
From the first day I started Message24, one of my biggest worries was what happens when the platforms I depend on change their rules? what happens when they decide to enter the game and compete with…
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