The biggest (and if I’m honest) only complaint about the Apple News App has always been the inability to remove politics from the news. I hate politics and I do NOT want to see ANY politics in the news feed. I see various promises that claim that they only populate your news feed with the items you say you are interested in but sadly, that is just not true.
I ordered a new xBox yesterday morning. I waited an entire year to see if the price would drop. It did not.
Looking forward to seeing how much better the graphics are. I have an xBox One S with 4k resolution but the processor(s) aren’t really designed for the advanced graphics of 4k.
Not too many options as I had when I ordered a One S. My One S is blue. I don’t recall seeing any other color available than black.
Update: NOT at all disappointed. This machine rocks!! You can tell the difference between the One S and the One X straight away. The details are amazing and the game play is a lot more smooth. Thumbs way up.
Well, this is the only part of the new software that has given me any issues. The iOS 12 installs on my iPhone X and iPad Pro went extremely well and the operating system seems pretty solid out of the gate.
I’ll admit that sometimes I get impatient on software installs and may not have waited until everything was finished before restarting the MacBook Pro. After booting into Mojave, I couldn’t do anything. My guess is that I just didn’t wait long enough on the install.
I rebooted in recovery mode and am currently re-installing Mojave.
I’ll keep you posted.
Update: iOS 12 Prediction has come true. Apple has “by default” limited the USB data port activity to one hour. If you do not use the data port in a one hour period, the port is turned OFF. Well played, Apple.
Update: I’ve had many problems trying to load Mojave onto my 2017 MacBook Pro. Several reboots/reloads/praying…etc. I am actually still waiting for the 3rd or 4th try.
Update: (06.06.2018) – I tried an update last evening after I finally restored my old system. This morning it was locked up so I tried a different approach. I wiped out the SSD and instead of trying a complete restore of my user data — I just restored the OS using the recovery tool. The good news is that I was successful. The bad news is that I have to manually restore some of my files. It will be well worth it. I like Mojave so far.
There are a lot of upset and angry developers this morning. Almost like Microsoft is pulling a dick move prior to WWDC.
Seems they are buying Github and I haven’t seen any positive comments about it.
I hear vacation calling — oh, wait. That is a cat — coughing up a hairball.
Nevermind.
This is the biggest software conference that matters. Well, it matters to all of us Apple people anyway.
In light of the whole GrayBox thing, I am going to predict that either Apple will allow you to turn off your lightning data port for everything except charging or they will turn it off by default.
So far, that’s all I got.
I look forward to spending next week in Swift/XCode land.
Tent is up. Hoping to spend the night out in the rain.
Crazy. Yes.
Fun. Hell, yes.
Update: Did NOT rain last night as far as I could tell. Had a most excellent night sleep. It was the perfect temperature.
05.31.2018 – Updated Update: I have been sleeping in the Winterial Bivy Tent all week expecting to be rained on at some point. It finally rained this morning and I am happy to report that this tent is holding up pretty well.
06.01.2018 – Updated Updated Update: Last evening was a good steady rain and the tent is holding up. Good to know if I ever find myself in a monsoon.
This is something I found interesting enough to purchase.
The link is here.
Basically, this is a dongle that you attach to your computer that gives you the computer version of a ham radio.
Google employees have been given the unofficial “green light” to be evil if they wish to be.
Google has removed the phrase “Don’t be Evil” from their employee manual.
I’m waiting for this story…
“Well, I had planned on donating blood today but I saw that my company [Google] had removed the don’t be evil thing from the employee book…thing and well, I decided to run over a bunch of puppies instead. You know…since it’s ok now…and all.”
I got a wild idea this morning. Pack up the clothes I’ll need for the week into my Battlbox backpack and walk 4 miles to work.
Deposit the clothing and grab a shower.
Return home using the bike I left there last week.
Mission successful. I got a nice 8 mile workout out of it.
Series: Tyrus Rechs: Contracts & Terminations
Authors: Jason Anspach and Nick Cole
