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  • Apple Fitness Training Load Thoughts

    Apple Fitness Training Load Thoughts

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Apple Fitness App now has Training Load data. It looks at the workouts you have done over the last 7 days and compares it to the last 28 days. In theory this is interesting but in practice I find it frustrating. To be specific about what I find frustrating, the Apple…

  • Why I chose to Deactivate Threads

    Why I chose to Deactivate Threads

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I woke up to people insulting me for not being an Apple fan boy on Threads. Before that I was trolled for several other reasons and the consequence is that I have now deactivated my Threads account. For me the web is a place where, if you agree, or if…

  • MacBook Pro Battery Replacement

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have a 2016 MacBook Pro that now requires me to swap the battery. The issue is that because this is a machine from 2016 it is seen as obsolete by Apple. This means that Xcode and other apps no longer get updated. Neither does Final Cut Pro X and other apps.…

  • Garmin and Other Services

    Garmin and Other Services

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I wore the Suunto Peak 5 alongside the Apple Watch SE rather than the Apple Watch SE and Garmin device as I usually would. The reason for this is that I want to continue playing with Suunto devices, and I’d like to wean myself off of the Apple Watch, for at…

  • Apple Watch SE Versus Others

    Apple Watch SE Versus Others

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople will always ask me why I wear two watches and the answer is now “because one is a smart watch and the other is for sports, and people accept that quite easily. The reasons I used to give are no longer needed. I learned how to keep a short answer convenient,…

  • Apple and Meta Fight About Privacy And the EU Weighs In

    Apple and Meta Fight About Privacy And the EU Weighs In

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesA few days ago we saw that talks between Apple and Meta had amounted to nothing. There was talk about including Meta’s AI efforts into Apple Intelligence, unti Apple said “Forget it” or somethign to that effect. I skimmed the headlines but don’t remember the details. This is significant. The reason for…

  • Apple Intelligence and the European Union

    Apple Intelligence and the European Union

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesApple Intelligence may not come to Europe. It blames the Digital Markets Act, regulatory uncertainty and compromised security if it needs to give access to third parties. Whether this is valid is not is uncertain but it does bring relief. If Apple Intelligence doesn’t come to Europe then the key reason for…

  • Digital Minimalism and Apple

    Digital Minimalism and Apple

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesThe problem with tech is that mobile phones, computers and more have reached a plateau. This plateau implies that the desire and need to get the latest and best new devices is gone. I am writing this blog post on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 gigs of ram, that cost about 100…

  • Of Photos, Aperture, and Sliding Between Volumes

    Of Photos, Aperture, and Sliding Between Volumes

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesOver the years I have used Aperture, Picasa and the Apple Photos Apps. In that time they have organised my files chronologically, automatically, as soon as I took pictures, in some cases. ## What They Do Aperture was well behaved. It would organise photos by year, by month and by day, so…

  • Apple Vision Pro Stagnation

    Apple Vision Pro Stagnation

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople want us to see the Apple Vision Pro VR kit as revolutionary but it isn’t, for a simple reason. Several years ago I was going to the World VR conference and loved playing with various VR kits but they almost all had the same problem. They cost an arm and a leg…