The Pixel Tablet’s dock should have been a Nest speaker - The Verge

At launch — words I’ll come back to — it’s just a dock. It charges the Pixel Tablet, and it has speakers that the tablet can use when it’s docked. And it enables that Hub mode I was talking about. When you take the tablet off the dock, it’s a tablet. But the dock is just clutter. You can’t cast audio to it, you can’t ask it questions, and you can’t even use it to charge your other devices. It just takes up space.

Yeah, that would have made more sense.

🆕📝 Letters with Jose: May 18, 2023

Apple weighs in on the “mice” versus “mouses” debate.

Also from the press release:

Shortcuts adds Remember This, which helps users with cognitive disabilities create a visual diary in Notes for easy reference and reflection.

I’m eager to see how this is implemented since it seems more like a Siri feature. Would also be perfect for that rumored journaling app.

Of course, even the microwave’s clock reads 9:41 in Apple’s accessibility announcement today.

Well, dang. All Consuming is possibly my very favorite current podcast. The show “ended” before, but came back in a different format for a second season. Maybe it’ll rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes once more. But you should still listen from the beginning. Thanks, Noah and Adam, for a great ride!

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-05-14

Oh hey, look what just came in! Nothing too impressive, but I felt compelled to complete this challenge in my new hometown. Next up, the 46ers! 📷

Amazing day to be out on a big multi-pitch rock climb. It was my first time running up the Chapel Pond Slab on the Regular Route (5.6) with @saw_dust_ery. Big rock! 📷

I had such a good day! It was beautiful out. I had an excellent hiking client and took them on a really fun trail (Three Brothers). Got a long-overdue haircut. Got back on some rock after a couple of weeks off from climbing. Great Ahi Stack dinner. AND I’m going to bed early. 😁 📷

I love my town. 🧡 📹

I think I’m done with “fediverse” as a term. “Social web” sounds more approachable and accurate.

Does anyone else feel like launching a shortcut with the Action Button is conspicuously slow?

Whoa! Good on @manton and team at Micro.blog with this bonkers deal for the summer. Full Micro.blog experience (my favorite personal-yet-fediverse-compatible social network and blog!) for just $1 per month. Happy Summer of Blogging!

House purchasing is a terrifying experience that slingshots from being rush, rush, rush to a nerve-racking waiting period. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

🆕📝 What Even Is E2E Encryption, Then?

🆕📝 9to5Mac: ‘Apple’s former head of iCloud will be in charge of making GM EV software without CarPlay’

The universe was playing tricks tonight. I picked up my new Subaru Outback today(!) and then after visiting my wife at work, the only two vehicles in the lot were my new car (right), and an exact copy of my old Forester (left). It was just begging for me to get into the wrong one. 😆

Mariana Alfaro, for Washington Post:

Republican Party leaders are coming to terms with the fact that the leading candidate to be their next presidential nominee was just found guilty of sexually assaulting and defaming a woman in a Manhattan clothing store.

Should Trump be the party’s presidential nominee? Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told reporters, “That’s a choice that the voters will make.” Hawley went on to say that he also thought that Trump will be the party’s nominee.

Wild times.

🆕📝 Some Quick Observations on Final Cut Pro & Logic Pro for iPad

I just got into the Raycast AI beta, and I’m already so sold. I don’t use Raycast for everything (I’ve liked Alfred better), but this could make me a convert. The killer feature is it living at the same keystroke I already use to search for everything. Watch @matt@isfeeling.social’s video for a great rundown.

Aw man, I cannot wait for this to come in! 😂

The Messages app on my Apple Watch Ultra has been crashing any time I receive a new message for over a week. As in it crashes before I can even see the notification. I don’t think it started with a software update, and a full un-pair/re-pair didn’t solve it. Has anyone else been experiencing this?

🆕📝 The Verge: ‘What’s it like on Bluesky right now, anyways?’

The good news has reached the “normies”! My wife, unprompted, said tonight, “Apple TV+ has really good shows!” We’d gotten sucked into their auto-playing previews after the latest Ted Lasso. I think she was amazed at how many of our favorites were from TV+, a good portion of which she chose for us.