Ain’t ‘Murica already great enough? ChatGPT certainly thinks so. I asked it to give me Alt-Text for the image above and got back this. The image depicts a touching urban winter scene: A person is sitting on the ground, backed by a wrought iron fence with ornate details, surrounded by…

For hearing aids and even AirPods Pro — My wife has had some really bad experiences with hearing aids. We tried three different brands; they all hurt her ears and would fall out too easily. She tried to put up with it, tried different-sized ear tips, but nothing solved her problems and eventually she gave up. The expensive…

Some of us learned a little math in school — Medium introduced their optional price tier yesterday. I signed up immediately, as did many of the people I read regularly. Why? I WANT to pay the people I read — maybe like you — — more money. I want more people to come here to write; I want the people…

Nobody wants these photos — I have a large number of old family photos, some going back to the beginning days of photography. I scanned all of them, added what history I could, and then made an album shared with all of my family and every cousin I could find. I offered the originals to…

Though I’d rather work with Siri — I’ve been using ChatGPT to write Alt-text for some of the photos I use here. I was a bit amused by what it came up with for the photo above. A cheerful elderly man stands in a home interior, adorned in a classic entertainer’s outfit. He sports a black pork…

I sure hope they do it right for our future sake — Is Apple peering into nanotube battery tech? So said some recent reports. This could be quite exciting, as some of what I’ve read implies that CNT (Carbon Nanotube) batteries could have five times the storage capacity of current lithium-ion technology. Of course, “could have” is always a tricky little bit…

Morgan Stanley says Edge AI is Apple’s Golden Ticket — AI is hot, hot, hot. Hotter than a pepper sprout, as Johnny Cash once sang. Even I, a notorious cheapskate who can squeeze a penny so tight that Lincoln winces in pain, pay ChatGPT their $20 monthly extortion fee. …

What costs as much as an iPhone but didn’t need to? — Oh, my. Two former Apple employees raised almost a quarter of a billion greenbacks to start Humane and build a quasi-smart-phone that you wear on your lapel. It costs a hundred dollars less than a brand new iPhone 15 and does a whole lot less. But Sam Altman of ChatGPT…

But my wife heard it too — Apple makes some nice speakers they call HomePods. Translation for the Apple haters: Apple makes some crappy, unbelievably over-priced speakers that sheeple like me buy. I have a wall switch that controls our Apple TV, the TV itself, and two HomePod Mini’s. …