Honestly, this could’ve been a direct quote from the wilderness first aid class I took in college.
Eric Blair
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Opinions are my own… or possibly what the little green men have implanted.
Guinness reps are here installing a “printer” and picked up the round.
They said it was totally unexpected that it’d be posted to social media. Totally.
TIL about standalone CarPlay Simulator app. It is trippy to turn it on, play audio on your phone, and hear it come through your Mac’s speakers.
I would like to have words with the addle-minded twit that thought a 7:30am flight was a good idea.
Years ago, I flew Southwest to WWDC. Their free tier let me read Twitter and post via the then-bundled Twitter share sheet.
However, it blocked the response to posting.
…and the share sheet would dutifully retry on failure.
My phone posted a dozen-plus copies of this before I realized and killed the wifi connection. 🤦♂️
https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1594826668463788033?s=12&t=Ydi0iPw4nH9txFUs34pbXw
Ryan Jones on Twitter
“Everyone’s asking how @FlightyApp’s Airplane Mode works: 1. Plane WiFi allows iMessage 2. Guess what else uses that protocol? new Live Activities 3. So, send LA updates (max 4kb payload!) and have app load *that* data Presto! The app updates via Live Activities 😎 - by @ifrins”