When I tapped on a shortcut to edit it #SiriAI helpfully summarized what I’ve been using for years in case, you know, I forgot what it does. When I say, “Siri, water 400 millilitres,” it runs this shortcut and records exactly that amount to the Health app. But according to the all-knowing Siri AI it should have recorded 400 megalitres. A factor of a billion off is just a rounding error, right? 🤦🏻♂️
@sundogplanets This #comic is for you and all the other good people fighting the idiotic idea of space mirrors.
I highly recommend Alex Hallatt’s Arctic Circle comic as she comments on environmental issues without a confrontational attitude.
Today I noticed that the macOS Golden Shower Preview app can no longer select words in a PDF document. Works fine if I open it in other PDF-capable apps. Good ol’ Apple, always “improving” their apps. I wonder which AI engine that stoner developer used.
So 64%(!) of #Ottawa’s eligible voters will have no complaints over the next four years. That’s not a question.
I migrated from #macOS Paranoia to macOS Golden Shower because I heard positive reviews. But it still has MANY bugs. An #AppleScript app I've used for years pops up a dialog with Cancel and OK buttons; I click OK and it dismisses. But now it beachballs for 10 seconds before it accepts the click. If I don't click, it waits a few seconds and beachballs again. This cycle repeats.
Solution? Open the script, recompile, save, run, accept security permission prompt. Now it works fine. Sigh.
#iOS27 and #macOS27 have a feature that when a 2-factor code is sent via SMS they detect that and offer to fill in the code in the field. But some "brilliant" web designers have separate input cells for each number so that the OSes can't fill in the code, and you can't paste in the code. On macOS I work around that with a Keyboard Maestro macro that reads the last message, copies the code, and another macro that types whatever is on the clipboard. All because some web dev wanted to get fancy.
Fantastic public wifi!
Just found another bug in macOS Golden Shower in the Apple Mail app where if the message has an HTML table that doesn't restrict width then the text in the cell spills off the right side of the window, is truncated, and a horizontal scrollbar appears … that can't be scrolled.
Either Apple has lousy regression testing or they just don't care.
… delete the third circle. I can name the second circle, but the third unnamed circle is now permanent. Sometimes it shows the circles for tagged people, sometimes there is no circle but it appears in the Get Info window.
Sometimes dogs are classified as people and sometimes pets, but it is almost impossibly difficult to convert the people tag to a pet so you can't merge photos. There always seem to be duplicate people requiring merging.
That's all the bugs I care to mention for now. I …
How is it possible in macOS Golden Shower's Photos app for it to still, after all these years, make it so difficult to add a face circle and move it to the correct location without dragging the whole image?
And when I view an image for the first time it shows unnamed faces even though I've tagged these people countless times? But it gets better. I name one of the people and the name circle for the other person vanishes. Then I add a circle back and the second circle reappears, but now I can't …
Setup of the new iPhone requires bringing the new phone and the old phone together and the process initiates to transfer the data over. One of the steps is to upgrade the software on the new phone, which I did only to be greeted by this error on the old phone.
Now the new iPhone can’t find the old iPhone. Sigh.
Ordered a new #iPhone to replace the wife's hand-me-down iPhone 7 with a replaced screen, and an aging battery.
The pre-order setup was easy, which I did after the announcement on Wednesday. The iOS Apple Store app locked me out until 08:00 EDT and then showed another wait page for several minutes. Then it started hiccuping between several pages before finally letting me complete the order.
Why don't they let people order anytime and fulfill using a lottery. Fair and no need to get up early.
Pretty accurate.
Me: "Dear #AI, what's the best way to do this?"
AI: "This way."
Me: "But that looks suboptimal. Wouldn't it be better if I did it this other way?"
AI: "Yes, that's a much better solution."
🤦🏻♂️
#Apple: "We're going to nag you every damn time you open this app until you get so fed up that you install the new version. But then we're going to nag you constantly to pay for the subscription because we at Apple firmly believe you just can't give us enough money."
… more powerful. It runs in Docker but was trivial to install. It's fast, looks nice (mainly), and is much more powerful. I can write scripts to extend its functionality, like detecting the total on a receipt and populating a custom field. Most importantly, it has a future.
I've been using Mariner Software's Paperless document management app for years, and it still runs well on Sequoia, although with some annoying bugs. Those bugs will never be fixed because the company went out of business many months ago without the decency of informing their customers. It's an Intel-only app so its days are numbered.
I'm currently testing https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ and it's going well, although it's quite different from Paperless. Some missing features but overall much …
RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116957571811403553
Let me edit that for you, "We would like to address the recent controversy about one of the owners of Mullvad making a donation to a Swedish FAR RIGHT, FACIST, PRO-REMIGRATION political party THAT REQUIRES MASSIVE SURVEILLANCE THAT WE PRETEND WE'RE AGAINST. DON'T EXPECT US TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT OUR CUSTOMERS' MONEY PAYS OUR CEO AND ENABLES HIM TO FUND A NAZI PARTY. PLEASE DON'T CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. PRETTY PLEASE!"
Did I get that right, #Mullvad?