I got my new car and I’m now in CarPlay heaven. The 11.6” screen is damn stunning.

The insurance company just called to inform me my car was totaled. I don’t have the settlement amount yet but I need to think about options. Bad timing as we have 7 people coming from out of town to visit next. 😭💔

In happier news – when I joined Printables.com December of 2022 I thought there was no way I’d ever earn enough points (350) for a free spool of filament. But I did get a freebie last year because when you first join Prusa “juices” points earning quite a bit. Lacking any further “boosts” I thought I’d never earn a 2nd free spool. Yet today I was notified I had indeed earned a second. Shipping costs are pretty high so I won’t redeem it until I need to order several other things.

Today has not been a good one. A woman t-boned my car ‘because her view was blocked by another car’. 🤷🏼‍♂️ She also said she was emotional because she just found out she’s pregnant. I got the impression that was unwelcome news to her. Fortunately no apparent injuries and she admitted fault to the police. Guess that’s the best to hope for. Hopefully the insurance doesn’t total my car.

Every time I see a Kenwood TH-D75 HT I want one. I can’t justify the $$$ price but the good thing about is transceivers hold their value really well so I could “rent” one for a year and then resell it for not much of a loss. I’ve sold 3 radios over the past few years and done well enough.

A rant about Brown

I hate hate hate UPS delivery and some companies don’t give customers a choice. UPS is so often late with packages and making it worse they lose track of packages making tracking useless. In today’s case an expected gift is MIA.

Yes, this indeed is just a first world person’s pointless rant. But I feel better now. 😆

I really enjoy the convenience of iCloud’s “hide my email” feature. So little friction I always use it and can then easily identify who sold/leaked my disposal email address. And instant block them.

Some people might be interested in the details.

The latest MacBook Pro beats my high-end PC for content creation engadget.com/the-latest-macboo engadget.com/the-latest-macboo

I feel seen… mastodon.social/@macrumors/112

Maybe it is time for folks to trash their Asus routers. If I had one it would be gone gone gone.

High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/security/2024/ arstechnica.com/security/2024/

About damn time ➡️ You Can Select a Preferred Home Hub in iOS 18 - MacRumors macrumors.com/2024/06/14/ios-1

Just discovered my old Apple Pencil isn’t compatible with my new iPad Air. I’m not an artist but I do use the pencil for some financial analysis so with a bit of a stretch I’m saying a new one is cost justified 🤷‍♂️

I like the fosstodon instance quite a bit. But I sometimes wish there was a way to see only the “technical” posts from instance members. Searching for the hash tag works fairly well but not everyone uses it and not every technical post is about Linux.

We got in 4 hours of hiking today. Not at lot for some people but we rarely get a chance to hike. Inadvertently we did the most strenously terrain in the last 45 minutes. Sure made us grateful to get back to the car and some AC! 🥾

Being a couch potato today ahead of tomorrow’s road trip and a week of hiking. 🛋️

Got out this morning for 30 minutes of exercise in 90ºF/70% RH weather followed by an hour of light outdoor chores. I’m finally cooling off and drying off and my body is strongly encouraging me to nap. Must. Resist. 🥱

ma ma ma my mamatus… ☁️

Another day of heavy rain storms. Today’s peaked at a rate of 4” per hour and the storms just keep on rolling through. ⛈️⚡️

Hamburger tacos in process. 😋😋

An update from my search engine of choice:

What's next for Kagi? | Kagi Blog blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for

My wife and I got our 13” iPad Airs last night. The screen is so much sharper and brighter than the 6 year old 12.9” Pros we are trading in. Reading text is markedly easier. Didn’t really expect much screen difference but I guess the old ones had age degradation.

The sky above me. Quite a pleasant evening out back.

The 13” iPad Airs seem just what we would hope for so we went with blue and purple. Only disappointment is the new keyboard only works with the iPad Pro but for the price difference I am more than content with the older keyboard.

My wife and I are heavy users of our 6 year old 12.9” iPad Pros. I’m interested to see today what the rumored 12.9” Air will offer at what price. And also what the trade-in offer will be. I’m pretty sure the new iPad Pro will be excessively costly for our needs.

I saw so many people hyping this thing up before even trying it. I guess now they’ll sell it as an NFT.

Rabbit R1 review: A $199 AI toy that fails at almost everything engadget.com/rabbit-r1-review- engadget.com/rabbit-r1-review-