I’m 5+ years late to this party, but I finally started playing Breath of the Wild back in the fall. Videos always made the combat seem complicated, but it really isn’t. The complexity the world is amazing. I watched a cut scene where Zelda stood up and dusted the dirt off her pants. My brain is still trying to reconcile that level of detail with 8-bit blob at the end of the NES edition.

I’ve loved this game so much I hate to actually finish it. But it’s such a big thing, I don’t want to start Tears of the Kingdom right away. But I’ve still got a couple of shrines to find. And I’ve never been in battle on a horse.

Made a lot of progress yesterday with reverse engineering the messaging protocol for a USB powered light. Turns out Wireshark is not just for network snooping!

Today’s adventure – USB packet sniffing. Gonna throw the engineering contraption in reverse! 🤞

So if you’re wearing a Vision Pro and you see someone else wearing a Vision Pro, you just see the headset, right? Somebody at Apple is furiously working on recognizing other headsets and replacing them with Personas.

Leaked image of Apple’s forthcoming “Extended Battery” for the Vision Pro.

Our first Mac was a purple gumdrop G3 iMac DV with MacOS 9. We were in grad school at the time and my wife used it to write her thesis in Word. The iMac was a fantastic little machine, but Word would occasionally center her entire document so there was cursing and crying. I don’t think we ever had anything fancy enough to plug into those FireWire ports. #MyFirstMac

It’s the kind of day where you have to disable System Integrity Protection. I’m sure this’ll all turn out fine.

Merry #BunnyButtFriday to all who celebrate!

Somebody nicked our credit card number and Bank of America sent new cards. Cool. Then I have to manually update Apple Wallet on like 6 different devices… not as cool.

(HBO) Max app: If you liked “Julia”, you may also like “Rap Sh!t”!

Me: Sure sure sure.

TIL: AVCaptureDevice documentation says the ‘uniqueID’ is ‘a unique identifier that persists on one system across device connections and disconnections, application restarts, and reboots of the system itself’. Unless you plug that webcam into a different USB port. Then the Mac is all ‘Woah! WTF is this thing?!’

Because the good hay is on the bottom. Apparently. #RabbitsOfMastodon

I have a project that failed to build under Xcode 15. It links a 3rd party framework written in C++ but the link step fails with unresolved symbols. This classic mode flag for the linker fixed it right up.

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Just working on some recreational Ansible. As you do.

Wait, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds s2e10 is the end of the season?

Oh no.

Python in Excel! But you have to write your python in the little Excel formula box? Like getting a Ferrari but having to drive it with an app on your phone.

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It’d be cool if the Apple Card (like the physical card) worked with Find My, so my wallet doesn’t have to have a dog tag.

That thing where the list of states on a web form is alphabetized by state name, but display text is the two letter abbreviation… so the list goes NV, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND. Who looks at that and is like, yeah, we got it!

Am I reading this right?

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Disney+ and Hulu are getting big price increases, $3 a month for both services on the ad-free tier. So if you subscribe to both, it currently costs $26 and that’s getting bumped to $32. BUT they’re adding a bundle of ad-free Hulu and Disney+ for $20. So if you subscribe to both (like me!), this is actually going to save $6?

I’ve been moving SonicBunny Software from Google Workspace to Office 365 over the last few weeks. I like 365 and it offers a lot of features, but the time it takes to make a change is a bit of a shock. Configuring Exchange and so many things take 5 or 10 minutes to kick in. I guess Google is similar, but with a small installation, it seems like Google was nearly instant where O365 really does take several minutes. But I just hit the kicker – ‘Please allow 24 to 48 hours for this to take effect.’ Yowza!

First hard drive, 10s of megabytes. Latest hard drive, 10s of terabytes. My brain can’t really fathom how much more that is.

A side dish of “cucumber salad” is fine, but order a “bowl of pickles” and people look at you funny.

HVAC died today on (almost) the hottest day of the year, 8 days after it’s annual service. Luckily, the AC peeps were out in about an hour! Turned out to be a loose wire in an electrical box — easy fix. 🥵

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iPhone rerouted us over the weekend to avoid “severe weather”. First time I’ve seen that. It helped but we still nearly floated away.

Only scored 9 out of 10. It’s the black and white western that got me.

Can you guess the TV show from a random person in the opening credits?:

Prove you recognize these total strangers from TV.