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Father. Photographer. Engineer.

Chicago

websitehttps://lipsey.org

My mom is in Asheville without water or power for nearly a week, but somehow UPS is delivering.

So now Amazon thinks I’m a prepper and all my recommended products are for living in a collapsed civilization.

@ismh86 Apple issued this warning about “micro-abrasions” when the iPhone 7 was released in Jet Black. Any word on whether the Jet Black Apple Watch Series 10 is similar in terms of scuffs being noticeable?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111943

iPhone 7 - Technical Specifications - Apple Support

Apple Support
Every year, I recognize fewer of the people I’m supposed to during the commercials.

Really looking forward to having seventeen app stores on my phone.

Think back on all the disgusting, privacy-hostile things Facebook has done over the years and try not to dwell on the fact that notarization will soon be the screen door through which all your data will flow to Meta from Instagram and Threads.

For once I decided to be an early adopter of the new hotness AND I managed to get an order placed.

“We predict 14 inches of snow will fall, starting in 12 hours. But also, there’s a one in twenty chance there will be no precipitation at all.”

Apple Weather is terrible at predicting snowfall accumulation. In this case they’re predicting twice as much snow as every other weather service.

I asked Dall-E to make a gift certificate for my kid for a PS5 download copy of “Lies of P”. Instead, it made one for a nonexistent game based on “Life of Pi” (about the kid who travels in a boat with a tiger) and I’m totally giving this to him.

@gruber
Perhaps Mastodon’s limited popularity is a feature rather than a drawback? Your description here seems pretty accurate and also of a pretty wonderful community.

Eighteen months ago, if a quirky social network emerged mostly for nerds, with a lot of thoughtful discussion and was also free of algorithmic, engagement-maximizing timelines, wouldn’t you have been pretty excited to join?

My niece just had me complete a questionnaire for a psych class project and I suddenly realize the way around IRB is to have a high school student perform your study.