MS Office Reset
TIL that you can easily uninstall your entire MS Office package under #macOS with Office Reset (https://office-reset.com/), then download only the app(s) you need from the Mac Appstore and use your existing Office 365 subscription. I always thought you had to purchase a new one somehow via Apple IAP. Cool, now I’m rid of all that garbage MS AutoUpdater.
Here are a few things that caught my attention in week 37.
Teaser: and not much again 🤷♂️
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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week 36: week.esamecar.net/36
Teaser: not so much 🤷♂️
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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week 35: week.esamecar.net/35
Teaser: iOS and macOS stuff
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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week 32 - 34: week.esamecar.net/34
Teaser: Family vacation, lots of RetroGaming, a little Obsidian, iOS and macOS stuff, one movie and a little TV.
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How to use kagi search within Launchbar
There is a kagi help document for Alfred and another one for Search Templates in Launchbar I used as a reference. It’s really easy to set up:
- In your Browser
- Invoke Launchbar
- select
Menu bar / Index / Show Index - in Launchbar index go to
Web / My Search Templates1 -> add a new one - paste your Session Link into the Template URL field
- append
&q=%s
- select
- done
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on my system it’s in German, but you’ll figure it out ↩︎
Okay, until just now I thought my 3D printer was just such a useless thing. But far from it - look what you can do with it! 🪿😍
Let’s have some fun 😅
VW Bulli T1
Finished reading: Nutzen Sie Ihr zweites Gehirn by Tiago Forte 📚
I finally found the answer 🙂
Our dog relaxes on the train ride towards the holiday.
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:
- My new Airpods Pro (2nd Gen) just do not appear in Find My.
- The for us essential Screen Time feature often doesn’t work at all on my youngest son’s iPhone.
- 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.
- System Settings itself are a nightmare.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- My Home Pod mini in the kitchen often forgets timers. This really makes me happy during cooking.
- Don’t even get me started on the general reliability of Siri.
- 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.
- 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 …