ethanschoonover

ethanschoonover, 1 day ago to random

YEARS back before Evernote was stripped for parts I used to use my ScanSnap to dump scans directly into it.

I missed that and built a free little script to do the same in #AppleNotes

https://youtu.be/KrVcf2nN0b8?si=rMxEQHpaGtkGXhOT

ethanschoonover, 1 day ago to random

All AI voices should just be HAL 9000 so we start from a position of adversarial hostility and always carry the pod bay door key with us.

ethanschoonover, 2 days ago to HikingPics

Continuing the biennial "completely rebuild my #backpacking water filtration and storage system" (DIY quick release bite valve so I can plug in my gravity filter to the same inlet)

ethanschoonover, 9 days ago to HikingPics

Added a dedicated crane-type scale to my sliding #backpacking / #hiking gear storage

ethanschoonover, 11 days ago to random

Cabin air filter in my truck: new vs old after 5000 miles of great american road trip, wild fires, and general hard use.

ethanschoonover, 11 days ago to random

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world files didn't exist and apps could just handle everything like magic. iPadOS still sucks."

• Charles Baudelaire

ethanschoonover, 12 days ago to random

ChatGTP-4o demos all sound WAYYYYYY to perky.

Let's take it down a notch or 10.

ethanschoonover, 17 days ago to random

i have the most 80s reading glasses imaginable

ethanschoonover, 17 days ago to random

My daughter drove my trail-mud covered pickup and parked in front of our local elementary school and it's good to see the kids understood the implied assignment.

ethanschoonover, 18 days ago to random

Nothing like a real map on the wall with map pins for planning trips

ethanschoonover, 18 days ago to apple

Thin is boring.

Take a year off hardware, #Apple . You just launched an AR headset and killed off a billion dollar a year car. You're all over the map.

New pencils are nice but what creative people REALLY need is for you to sort out your software story. Fix what's broken. Innovate on your apps and interoperability between them. Figure out how to use all that power in the iPad besides just "it's a big phone".

Step by step you are ship-of-theseus forgetting what makes you a great company.

ethanschoonover, 19 days ago to random

Baking (reusable) desiccant for winter clothes storage (and to drop into my bags of extra cables and electronics)

desicant packs on a tray going into the oven

ethanschoonover, 22 days ago to random

When I was a kid I feel like a lot of hobbies were presented as "Hey! Stamps are cool you can do some fun stamp collecting by saving some off envelopes" whereas now when I search for some hobby related content it's exclusively "THIS HOBBY IS MY WHOLE IDENTITY AND LIFE AND HERE'S HOW YOU LEVEL UP TO HOBBY LEVEL ONE THOUSAND STARTING NOW"

Bring back slacker level hobby engagement!

ethanschoonover, 28 days ago to HikingPics

New DIY unistrut backpacking gear sliding hang system.

Took 20 minutes to build and install (including time to cut the mounts and threaded rod).

#backpacking #camping

ethanschoonover, 1 month ago to Camping

Starting to write the R values on our sleeping pads now that we have apples-to-apples ASTM numbers available. Some of the revised ASTM values are a significant drop from original claimed R values. #camping #backpacking

ethanschoonover, 1 month ago to Seattle

Seattle Public Schools is really going to suffer from cutting off HCC and advanced academics. Seattle private school applications are through the ROOF right now because of this. SPS will end up losing students, losing funding, and slip into a precipitous decline even worse than it is now.

(my kids both go to public, my wife teaches in public… we’re advocates for public education but none of the current SPS policies will result in positive outcomes for public education)

#seattle #schools #sps

ethanschoonover, 1 month ago to Camping

The crime, the criminal

(patched a sleeping pad and was test inflating the cat pounced on one of the baffles, neatly clawing another hole and resulting in patch number 2) #camping #cats

cute cat on carpet

ethanschoonover, 1 month ago to random

Proud to be the go-to hair braider in our house. I enjoy the fact that I can repair my truck, fix our house, and also sew, braid, and cook for the family.

None of these things need to be gender roles. They can just be human roles and I hope more men embrace being full people that have all the skills.

ethanschoonover, 1 month ago to random

I have subscription fatigue like everyone else but I'll say the one exception to that is my @flexibits subscription which gets me Fantastical and Cardhop. The monthly regularity of Fantasical improvements (fixes and new features and small really helpful tweaks to existing features) is ongoing and reliable. My calendar app is my lifeline to staying sane. Worth it imo. https://flexibits.com/fantastical/releasenotes

ethanschoonover, 1 month ago to apple

Apple Reminders is more competent that Siri when it comes to understanding intent.

I dropped “broc in bag” into my groceries list and it automatically slotted it into the Produce section.

Meanwhile half the time when I ask Siri to add something to my groceries list it tells me that “I can’t find a grocery list”. #apple #applereminders

ethanschoonover, 1 month ago to random

My (teen) son and I are playing the 1993 LucasArts classic game Day of the Tentacle and one of the puzzles requires familiarity with a VCR including what SP/EP means and he was just totally stumped. This was my “I have a very specific set of skills” moment (the skills being my Gen X VCR mastery).

ethanschoonover, 1 month ago to random

Back from lakeside camping up by Mount Baker including a wilderness hot spring soak. #camping #pnw

ethanschoonover, 1 month ago to hamradio

Past week+ of two way contacts all made on 10 watts (so lightbulb level power) from my little #hamradio. We're close to solar maximum right now so conditions are good.

ethanschoonover, 1 month ago to earthquake

Mastodon and Threads both completely missing trending story of the #earthquake in Taiwan. Twitter (RIP) has Tsunami as top trending right now so it is still close. Bsky actually sort of does the worst in that there is no trending section and the best in the sense that at least there is a public bot that shows trending topics and has the earthquake, not just tsunami, as the hot topics https://bsky.app/profile/nowbreezing.ntw.app

I really, really want the fediverse to be better at breaking #news

ethanschoonover, 1 month ago to random

google maps what now please go on