Mastodawn

@airspeedswift We had a similar “mounds of dirt in the yard” problem, but for us, it was rabbits (eastern cottontails?). But, interestingly, rather than leaving the evidence, the bunnies would conceal their little nests/warrens, so, unlike groundhogs, the dirt mounds would disappear within hours of appearing. I thought it was quite considerate of them.

Robert Ryan 4d ago

A few months ago, I upgraded our network to Ubiquity/UniFi. Overall, it’s been brilliant (if expensive). One word of warning: The “Lite” 16-port PoE switch is great compromise of small form-factor and PoE, but the power budget (45W) is so modest that the 8 PoE ports might qualify as false advertising. Adding a 4th PoE AP tripped the device into “power budget” failures. Solved by upgrading to the USW-16-Pro-PoE (admittedly overengineered for my purposes), which works flawlessly.

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Robert Ryan 4d ago

In the interest of full disclosure: after unplugging my AppleTV, a few hours later the associated HomePods suddenly complained: “Trying to play music, but cannot find AppleTV.”

So it appears the HomePods (not on beta) may be the guilty party. We have no “start music” automation, and it doesn’t seem to be Siri, unless Siri has taken to whispering commands to itself into the inky silence of the wee hours.

My aspersions against tvOS beta seem to have been misplaced.

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Robert Ryan 4d ago

@mamouneyya A while ago, I replaced Photoshop/Illustrator w Affinity. Premiere w Final Cut (though DaVinci was in the running). Re Audition, I’m leaning Audacity, but don’t know. Re AfterEffects, it depends a lot upon what you use it for. Xd w Figma. I was DreamWeaver user yesteryear, but it is now irrelevant. For Acrobat (for me, just optimize/OCR scans), my scanner now OCRs and Apple Preview is good viewer (and better printer). I'm deep into Lightroom Classic, though, so may survive the cull.

Robert Ryan 5d ago

My AppleTV (tvOS 26.6) randomly starts playing music. After a bunch of diagnostics, I've finally found a fix:

I’ve unplugged it.

Robert Ryan 6d ago

For my first foray into homerow mods, I’m leaning towards GACS…

Robert Ryan 6d ago

I have finally downgraded my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription to the Photography subscription (and might even get rid of that eventually). So many of the tools I was using are either irrelevant now or have more cost effective alternatives that are sufficient for my purposes.

Robert Ryan May 14

Any Kinesis Advantage Pro users out there on macOS? I’ve heard that the Bluetooth connectivity has improved, but really how solid is it now?

Robert Ryan May 5

I thought that Arsenal had squandered their Premier League championship chances (going from heavy favorites a few weeks ago to slight underdogs to Man City, as of last week). But Man City drew Everton, putting the Gunners back in the driver’s seat. Fingers crossed. https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48618699/the-earliest-dates-arsenal-man-city-win-premier-league-title

And today Gunners made it into the Champion’s League finals for the first time in 20 years. So there’s that, too. https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48687101/arsenal-atletico-madrid-champions-league-semifinal-final

Robert Ryan Feb 7

Irrelevant Google ads are now appearing on StackOverflow (and other StackExchange sites) when visiting from my phone.