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Finished reading: Nutzen Sie Ihr zweites Gehirn by Tiago Forte 📚

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I finally found the answer 🙂

Draft widget on iOS lockscreen stating 42 drafts in the inbox.
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Our dog relaxes on the train ride towards the holiday.

Dog relaxes on train's floor.
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I've come to a decision today.

I’ve been using Apple products for almost 18 years now. I adore their hardware and used to be a big fan of their software ecosystem. However, the software quality has plummeted lately, to the point where I’ve decided not to buy any new Apple products for the time being.

Because it just does not work (reliably).

I will continue using the devices I already have, and I do have quite a few. But I will actively resist the urge to acquire new flashy products from Cupertino until I feel that Apple gets its act together again.

Here are just a few random examples:

  1. My new Airpods Pro (2nd Gen) just do not appear in Find My.
  2. The for us essential Screen Time feature often doesn’t work at all on my youngest son’s iPhone.
  3. Both of my Macs often lose all their entries in System Settings / Accessibility, rendering a bunch of apps useless until I manually add them back in.
  4. System Settings itself are a nightmare.
  5. Messages ALWAYS informs me that my son has enabled “do not disturb mode,” preventing him from receiving incoming messages. Of course, that is not true at all.
  6. Screen Time requests from my son show up in a group chat with him and my wife. I have to delete all messages daily in that chat because the Screen Time messages make the thread unresponsive. It even crashes on macOS. So, the chat becomes unusable for communication. We have to use another app - WTF?
  7. Preview under macOS loses text notes for annotations I’ve made after saving a PDF. This is a complete showstopper for the entire app. Data loss should be unacceptable.
  8. My Home Pod mini in the kitchen often forgets timers. This really makes me happy during cooking.
  9. Don’t even get me started on the general reliability of Siri.
  10. Recently, I discovered that many files do not appear in Spotlight search. It’s frustrating when I know a file is there, but it simply cannot be found. This is almost as bad as data loss.
  11. And then there all those little bugs I just ignore on a daily basis. There are definitely enough to start a “a bug a day” series …
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I would also have liked to have hiked directly to the castle on the horizon, but there was no time for that :-)

Landscape photo with castle on the horizon
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I thought before I implement my own blogroll on my omg.lol page, I might as well first compile a list of blogrolls created by people whose blogs I like to follow. So, a blogroll for blogrolls: blogroll.lol

It’s still a fairly short list, but maybe it will get longer with time. I really don’t know why I’m such a meta lunatic. 🤦‍♂️

#blogroll

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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week thirty: week.esamecar.net/30

Teaser: Not so much, as I was a little sickly. 🤒

#weeknotes

A forest path in the middle towards the horizon. Right and left trees. In front a dog can be seen from behind
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I am very grateful to be able to be in the forest within a few minutes to walk my dog.

Dog on a drag line on a path in the forest.
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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week twenty-nine: week.esamecar.net/29

Teaser: #Sourdough, Summerfest #macOS App, #Playdate, #Obsidian and some #iOS apps.

#weeknotes

Sourdough bread on a wire rack
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Great scenery on today’s bike trip.

Cyclist, two castles and a rain frontDetail of a road, grain field and dark clouds

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Found this one. Those were days!

an old WD HDD with 170 M(!)B
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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week twenty-eight: week.esamecar.net/28

Teaser: #IndieAppSales for #macOS and #iOS, my initial purchases on Apple’s App Store, and some footnote thoughts on collecting, TV, and movies.

#weeknotes

In the center a dog on a dirt road, right and left grain fields; in the background a thunderstorm front.
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The sky is falling down.

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Indie Dev Sales

So, the Indie Dev Sales for #macOS and #iOS apps is currently running. Here is what I

bought

already have

consider

  • Personal Best – Workouts - wrote about my initial thoughts here; it’s not exactly what I was looking for but seems like a real bargain right now
  • Reading Time - still tempted to buy this, but it only works with page numbers and Readwise Reader does not provide them

considered

What apps are your favourites?

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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week twenty-seven: week.esamecar.net/27

Teaser: It was hot, the #ACAC is still growing, got a new MacBook, looked into some #iOS Apple Health companion apps and refined my #PKM workflow.

#weeknotes

Burning grain field
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Dog on a country lane; on the horizon a rainbow

towards the rainbow 🌈

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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week twenty-six: week.esamecar.net/26

Teaser: The #ACAC is growing, I went to a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert and to a Wedding party. Therefore, only a few new #macOS apps, no iOS, no TV, no movies.

#weeknotes

Stage of Red Hot Chili Peppers concert in Mannheim, Germany
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Okay, I didn’t expect Iggy Pop 🤘🤯

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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week twenty-five: week.esamecar.net/25

Teaser: I started the #ACAC and of course tried a number of #macOS and #iOS programs and experimented with #Obsidian 😎

KoFiProfilePicMarcoUni
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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week twenty-four: week.esamecar.net/24

Profile picture in the unmistakable style of Andy Carolan. Me with a cap, glasses and a hoodie with a racing bike on it.