eSIMs: being able to buy a phone plan for the country(ies) you’re travelling to in advance, and not having to line up at an airport counter after a long flight, is game-changing. Plus you won’t need to swap SIMs and risk losing your main one.
CarPlay: there’s no need to learn the janky UI of whatever car the rental company is handing you. Plug your phone in, and you instantly have access to a familiar interface & all your media.
If you’re pissed at GM for dropping CarPlay, wait until the car rental company hands you the keys to one of their cars, and you have to figure out how to work the navigation system while a tired toddler is screaming at the back.
Watched The Iron Claw on my flight back to Oz.
Great movie, and tremendous performance by Zac Efron (!). If the final scene doesn’t make you at least teary eyed, you’re not human.
I wanted to report an issue on Apple Maps to tell it a 2-way street is actually 1-way, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to report this specific type of problem with the data 😕
I’m in Europe for the first time in years.
An odd thing I immediately noticed were the numerous & omnipresent contrails making the sky “polluted” with lines.
Living in Melbourne, we forget that we are lucky to be able to look at the sky in its untouched form (apart from the occasional SYD<->JSB overflying us).
Reminds me of how we’re hiding the Milky Way with light pollution.
In Xcode 15.4, SPM now auto-generates Swift symbols for catalog assets.
That's great! Except they're declared internal, therefore they're useless in a package whose sole purpose is defining a Design System 😕
@david@harshil the thing is, they don’t. Everything is delivered in a giant nightly SDK you install first thing in the morning while sipping a cup of coffee.
If you really need to use something another team just made that day, you install a “root” which is just a tarball overwriting the relevant files in the SDK.
Gross? Yeah. Does it matter? No, tomorrow morning you wipe it all off and install a fresh SDK anyway.
It's shocking how much more usable Chrome is, now that they finally fixed erratic ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED errors.
I can't believe this took them 5 months to finally get around to fix.
I am sorry to be a downer, but I give @delta a week at most before it is hit by a Cease & Desist letter from Nintendo.
There’s no way in hell they’ll let emulators for their consoles exist in the App Store. And unless the developers (or the EU?) are ready to fight them in court, at huge costs, this will be a short-lived “freedom”.
@layoutSubviews Is “Cease & Desist” even a thing in EU? I was under the impression that in EU you had to go to trial to get anything like that through?
After ~2 years, I have finally finished re-listening to every Hardcore History ever produced.
A word of warning: hearing about atrocities, crimes against humanity, and overall human suffering while rocking a baby to sleep is not for the faint-hearted.