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I’m one of the weirdos that loves the Magic Mouse, so that’s what I use – Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Keyboard 2 (the rechargable models, but alas, some of the only devices I have left with Lightning ports). Purchased both in 2018 and the battery life is still decent – I charge the mouse maybe once...

Not really a rant, but a funny Siri failure I had to share. I ordered Chinese food online yesterday, and the ordering system for my local Chinese place generates your order number by using the date and time that the order was place. So my order number was 20260507192738361 – for 2026, 05/07...

I started experimenting with Claude to make myself a couple of specialized utilities, and it’s really quite impressive. The first one I made is a simple Raycast plugin that takes two color hex values, calculates the RGB shift between them, and generates a line of SCSS that converts one to the...

My sister recently bought my brother-in-law’s old 14” M1 MacBook Pro as an upgrade from her 2008 (!) white MacBook. She stopped by an Apple store while she was in the area to ask how to transfer her data from the old computer to the new one, but didn’t have the old one with her. The employee...

Somehow, I never realized that the author behind the Macalope had ever publicly identified himself – and apparently, according to the Wayback Machine, he did so back in 2019. I always assumed it was him anyway!

I thought Tim Cook was a great CEO overall, but launching the Vision Pro at $3,500, pushing services at the expense of software UX, and most recently his pathetic kowtowing to Trump has completely soured me on him, so I was ready for a change and I’m glad it’s happening now. The “engaging...

I bought a hardcover copy and really enjoyed it. It’s a very easy read but also very thorough. I couldn’t think of a single thing where I was like “hey, how come there was no mention of X?” As far as I can tell, he covered every important detail of every major event and product in Apple’s...

Right, but I mean if they advertised it as 14.5 hours of battery life, then to the user it wouldn’t matter if that was its “true” 100% capacity or a hard 90% limit – you’re getting the same battery life out of it either way. But the latter would be much better for the overall health of the...

The addition of the charge limit feature in macOS Tahoe 26.4 got me thinking: if keeping a battery charged to 100% is bad for its long-term health, why doesn’t Apple limit the maximum charge to say 90% of the actual physical limit, and just advertise slightly lower battery life? For example...

I think when wireless CarPlay is active, it creates an ad-hoc wifi network to communicate with the car. I noticed once that if I try to change wifi networks or turn wifi off, it'll disconnect CarPlay, so it's not just using Bluetooth to communicate (presumably the bandwith is too low?). I assume...

Now that the Mac Pro has officially been discontinued, I would love to know: why did they even transition it to Apple Silicon with the M2 Ultra model in 2023, as opposed to just dropping it then? The whole thing is weird. When the Mac Studio was announced in March 2022, it sure seemed like that...

Toyota, actually (2025 Sienna). I had no idea this was determined by the manufacturer, I just assumed it was inherent to CarPlay itself. Any way I can force disable it? Haha.

I generally really like CarPlay, but one aspect of it has really been annoying me: when the car is in motion, it limits the number of items in scrolling lists to 12. If you’re viewing an album in the Music app, for instance, and the album has more than 12 tracks – sorry, you can’t play anything...

The A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo is apparently faster in single-core performance than the M1, which until yesterday was still available for sale via the Walmart-only M1 MacBook Air. And that machine sold well enough to persuade Apple to build a new Mac laptop specifically for this price range. I’m...

It’s not for me, I’m really impressed by the MacBook Neo. It’s both less expensive than I expected and more full-featured than I expected. I was assuming a low-cost Mac laptop would be more like $799, and stripped down to the point that it wouldn’t really serve any purpose other than to push...

Well this is odd: when I took my phone off the charger this morning, it was at 100%, even though I have it limited to 90% (I double-checked that the setting was still active just to confirm). Is this like something it does every so often to keep the battery calibrated? I’ve never noticed this...

Weird, I just saw that bug for the first time a few days ago. The shadow on the text for “Camera” was slightly off, but just that one icon and nothing else. Restarted the phone and it fixed itself.

Darn, 3x as many cycles as mine but you have 3% more maximum capacity? I wonder what causes it to vary so much.

I also should have mentioned that I don’t keep anything else in the same pocket as my iPhone, other than sometimes my AirPods (but that was true when I had the iPhone 12 Pro too). But even then, I put the phone facing inward and the AirPods in front of the phone, so they’re not touching the...

This is entirely anecdotal, but hear me out. Over the years I’ve owned the following five iPhones: iPhone 4 (2010-2014) iPhone 6 (2014-2018) iPhone XR (2018-2022) iPhone 12 Pro (2022-2025) iPhone 15 Pro (September 2025-current) Seemingly every year with each new iPhone, Apple touts how their...