🚙 The second row behind the passenger in a modern minivan is the secret to a wonderful vacation. I have two arm rests, my own AC vent, a shade for my enormous window, a cup holder… I even lost my shoes in this thing! Seriously, I feel like I’m on vacation from my vacation.
📷 Jason Snell’s Six Colors site offers tips from time to time and I always find them to be super helpful. This article about organizing photos from multiple people is no different.
But it’s not something you can do on an iPad. Apple: Let Photos on iOS become this powerful.
I like Seattle.
I’m using all my powers to get Rob to move back to NYC.
📚 I just finished reading Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult. I liked the story, but the writing didn’t feel authentic. Everyone came across as too clever. The ending was also a little too neatly wrapped up.
But the topic of racism isn’t talked about enough and that makes me give the book a rating of Recommend.
Apple should absolutely remove the Infowars app from App Store. It makes no sense delist the podcast and still keep the app.
Apple, remove the app.
📰 I am so glad to support Pro Publica each month. This reporting is the kind of work I only dreamed of doing in college.
🇺🇸 Even if they don’t all win, this is what the future looks like. And it sure as hell doesn’t look like the Republican party.
🖕 Apple removing Alex Jones from its database is the first step (and one that was long overdue) in what I hope is a march towards removing his far-reaching soapbox.
His hate can spew from his hole like it did in days past: On a street corner with his pants around his ankles.
📚 I just finished The Heart’s Invisible Furies, by John Boyne. It was a lot of story.
Despite so much sadness, I give it my just-made-up-now rating of Recommend.
🎧 I just thoroughly cleaned out my AirPods and I think I have PTSD.
💻 Apple must realize not only is 5GB an embarrassingly small amount of storage to offer as its free tier, it’s also not enough for its customers to get fully invested into what it can do for them.
If Apple wants folks to see how important iCloud storage is, it needs to give them enough to really get into it.
Something like this would do it:
50GB: Free
200GB: $1.99
500GB: $3.99
1TB: $6.99
2TB; $9.99
As far as the 2TB level goes, which is a very good deal, all Apple has to do is convince families to share the iCloud Drive space and, before you know, there are a lot of people paying $10/month and being quite happy about it. Yes, spending Tim Cook’s money really is fun.
☢️ Wow, hell of a grift. And so many fell for it.
💻 Between age and better technology, I am finding it harder and harder to use my 11" MacBook Air. I think it’s the new way macOS Mojave renders fonts, but it is what is and my eyes are what they are.
It’s been my favorite Mac for five years now, but after using retina-quality screens on iPads and MacBook Pros, I just can’t read on these old screens any longer. It might be time to pass this down to the boy.
☢️ While it may bring some joy, as a whole, Facebook is detrimental to society.
📲 iOS 12 Public Beta is a little pokey on iPad Mini 2, but perfectly serviceable. I think it’s even faster than under iOS 11.x. Impressive considering it’s over 4 1/2 years old.
🏨 As part of being a U.S. citizen, it’s now become necessary to tell our government to NOT do bad things. So, here goes: Dear Government, Don’t take health coverage away from us. -Citizen Bob
🏛 Do we really have to call our elected officials to let them know we don’t support putting children in cages? If that’s the case, we already lost.
⚖️ It will take a lifetime to undo just 18 months of this administration. The world is listening.