Why on earth were people negging this? — If you didn’t watch this, go watch it now. I’ll wait. Okay? If you previously thought this was a ridiculous product that nobody would want, I imagine that you realize now that you were wrong. If you do NOT understand that now, go watch it again. I think Apple…

Sometimes the little woman can be a bit trying — This morning did not begin well. I admit to being a bit grumpy due to an unseasonable chill in the air and the fact that my wife of many decades chose to sleep in, leaving me to prepare my own morning meal. I had decided to overlook that, but when…

Because it’s worse for both of you — This morning I read “Questions from an Unsuitable Caregiver” by Orrin Onken. Orrin asks a number of partly tongue in cheek questions about caring for a partner with a chronic disease. He asks questions such as “Should dinner be what the cared for person wants to eat or what the…

I’m Done With Apple’s Shortcuts and It Could Get Much Worse — I really thought Apple’s Shortcuts would be a good tool. I recognized its frustrating interface and its limited power, but because I was able to do a few useful things with it, I had hope. Apple Shortcuts: Love It or Hate It? Shortcuts is coming to Mac and Automator is on life support. What say you?medium.com That hope has dried up like my birdbath in July.

Now tell me how it can’t tell truth from lies — You may already know that I listen to a lot of podcasts. I’m retired; I have the time, and I learn many things while listening. For example, today one podcast host explained the “reality” of AI’s like ChatGPT. “It can’t think. It just strings words together and all of those…

Couldn’t we do better? — This is more of a question than an opinion, so I’d really like those who agree and especially those who disagree to jump into the comments. I was listening to TWIT talk about Twitter’s now useless blue checks and how contenders for the throne like BlueSky need to verify users…

The new Voice Isolation feature truly surprised me — Once a week I call my sisters. One of them gets up early, so I talk to her for an hour first. After we are done, the other one calls in and I spend another hour or so with her. We don’t use FaceTime because we are usually doing chores…

But it has become more possible because of AI — A couple of years back, I posted an article explaining why I don’t think we will see a tech singularity for many, many years. The link for that follows this paragraph, but the TL;DR version is that we do not have the necessary communication between different researchers and may never…

Once we have this, we are done — Making a cup of coffee and bringing it to me is an incredibly difficult task. If you don’t agree with that, try teaching it to a child under two years old. Keep the vacuum and paper towels handy; you’ll need them. Young children obviously can and do learn to do…

I have learned a lot, but I’m often frustrated — Eventually we will live in a world where language translation is either automatic or unnecessary. That is, either everyone will speak a common language or our personal tech will translate anything accurately and easily. Our tech is not so very far from that latter choice. It’s good enough now to…