I make @sixcolors & @incomparable & @upgrade among other things. I've been writing and talking about Apple since back when it was doomed. I lost on Jeopardy!, baby.
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Last Notes npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Spotify, already the bane of many podcasters’ existence, has decided to amp things up: Now it’s scouring podcasts to see if any infringe on “literary content.” It’s already flagged one podcast I host, which reviews/critiques an author’s books one by one, for “infringing” on the book. This is dire. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell One of our WordPress plugins added a bunch of nonsensical AI features and stuck them in our faces. @nprofile…75c7 has built a simple replacement that we control, which is great. Still some weird Wordpress quirks to work through, like why this post happened?!?, but I think it's worth it to take control back from someone else's misguided software. https://zeppelin.flights/@sixcolors/116663746258786721 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @nprofile…75c7 @nprofile…l5lx never be surprised that people haven't heard a random podcast! npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Google took a moment at Google Cloud today to put up an Apple logo and read the same sentences that it released in a statement a few months back. Still, hard not to see their pride in being chosen as Apple’s AI provider https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/116/449/678/451/807/434/original/e5a06a1e8d3c1247.jpg npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell If you’re involved in administering Apple systems in a large organization, I’d love for you to participate in our annual Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise report card! https://forms.gle/JpT5pRAJpmSfsVr89 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Microsoft in the summer of 2025: Perhaps we should improve Windows somewhat. https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/116/375/666/311/934/569/original/133a1f7e5a22080a.jpg npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell For All Mankind S5E1 is out! And when you’re done, please visit @nprofile…75c7 and myself in the NASA/Mars Vending Machine: https://www.theincomparable.com/nvm/32/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @nprofile…75c7 @nprofile…pgfj We know they do. Also I found this thing floating around in my images folder… https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/116/296/213/029/282/693/original/03ea92106375aa50.png npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @nprofile…75c7 @nprofile…3knw @nprofile…6p0k I could also argue the movie is titled 2001 and a space odyssey is a subtitle or ancillary title because of the colon. Either way, it's clear he knows what it is and is not meant to be a gotcha, though I would've said the whole name. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Here's the Incomparable debrief about my Jeopardy experience, recorded just after I got back, with fellow players @nprofile…6p0k and @nprofile…75c7 https://www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/809/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Today is the day! Watch Jeopardy tonight as Jordan and I take on the amazing Jamie. It's a Triple-J! Jamie is trying to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. We are your humble resistance. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell TOMORROW the game-show host becomes the game-show contestant! He certainly appears to be in some serious Jeopardy given the quality of opponents this week! https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/116/252/178/392/922/834/original/e429751aa1ce04d7.jpg npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell I beta-read this one and it's got Dan's usual mix of widescreen sci-fi/adventure and quirky characters. Get in ETERNITY'S TOMB! Uh, but also get back out before it falls into a black hole. #nevent1q…755m npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell This Creative Studio roll-out really has highlighted how lousy and inflexible the App Store back-end is. Double versions, app updates that tell you to download other app updates, and presumably why there's only one bundle on offer... developers knew this already of course npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell New Upgrade: We discuss what laptops Apple is expected to release in 2026, Apple's AI parsing of podcasts, that time Jason didn't really almost work for Apple, and weird snacks. https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/594 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just another reminder that Apple launches all sorts of products without anything but a surface consideration of the Mac. https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/115073118967917762 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell I'll do a live stream with @nprofile…z7vu at 5 Pacific / 8 Eastern tonight breaking down the Apple results, which are forthcoming! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrMz_sqUwE0 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Made a new topic page for "26 OS Versions" that includes the four Public Beta first looks @nprofile…z7vu and I just dropped, total of 15,000 words, please read and enjoy. https://sixcolors.com/tag/26-os-versions/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @nprofile…4057 @nprofile…e8sw everything's fine https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/114/903/206/493/467/537/original/b5b1da265a7c4dea.png npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell FB18584359 "Finder sidebar mixes metaphors and smashes Liquid Glass" https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/114/790/400/948/215/956/original/abc4eee2b088157a.png npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Dan and I are in the lab, doing weird stuff with Shortcuts https://zeppelin.flights/@sixcolors/114744718959589240 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell If someone else has already done a podcast entirely recorded with local recording on iPadOS 26, I tip my cap to you, but @nprofile…z7vu and I did it today. https://zeppelin.flights/@sixcolors/114677178357366490 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell iPad local audio capture appears to be mono FLAC in an MP4 container. Stereo gets mixed down to mono, multichannel interfaces appear to just not work. Biggest need: manual gain control with preview of levels. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell This. Never judge Developer Beta 1 as a finished product. Not only are some pieces obviously not remotely done, but this is the cycle for feedback. Dunking on Beta 1 bugs can be fun but what Apple really needs is to hear your feedback. https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/114660091936603132 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell My pal Birmo wrote this fun piece for me about how his dictation productivity has skyrocketed when he switched from the old-school stuff to Whisper. But also: acknowledging the forthcoming AI wars and the fact that his great dictation results are based on unauthorized use of his own novels. https://zeppelin.flights/@sixcolors/114597497499214440 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Glenn is taking questions from anyone out there, just email glenn at sixcolors dot com https://zeppelin.flights/@glennf/114575150035822176 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @nprofile…j8zt Finally, a Kryptocurrency I can get behind. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @nprofile…z7vu your middle name is Beecher’s? Weird. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @nprofile…z7vu Defeated by the insatiable need for local angles! npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: Beware the tariffs! Inside Apple’s latest financial results https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/05/beware-the-tariffs-inside-apples-latest-financial-results/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: Apple Q2 2025 results and charts: $95.4B revenue https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/05/apple-q2-2025-results-and-charts-95-4b-revenue/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: The hammer falls on Apple’s malicious-compliance scheme https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/05/the-hammer-falls-on-apples-malicious-compliance-scheme/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell New Upgrade: Apple tiptoes a line between the U.S., China, and India, while Europe hits back with a big fine. Is the solution to the iPad's high-end malaise... the Mac menu bar? And for Google, no thermostat is forever. https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/561 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell You can't always play the hits, but you know, the hits are also pretty awesome. https://zeppelin.flights/@incomparable/114407650291402283 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: Sleeping with the Apple Watch https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/04/sleeping-with-the-apple-watch/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @nprofile…z7vu @nprofile…qd72 the exceptions keep proving the rule npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell This is the new 8GB RAM https://isfeeling.social/@matt/114189684630791231 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Had a surprise visitor during Ask Upgrade this week, and I don't mean @nprofile…md38. https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/114/181/315/790/234/590/original/e4f453f59e228f93.jpeg npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: I’ve been framed: Shareshot, Framous enhance device screen shots https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/03/ive-been-framed-shareshot-framous-enhance-device-screen-shots/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @nprofile…3vva v3 turbo using whisper.cpp https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell One of my favorite things about having a M4 Max MacBook Pro with 32 GPU cores is that it absolutely destroys on Whisper transcriptions. 27× transcriptions! https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/114/144/950/614/277/716/original/2b04def5f07670c9.png npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell This has always been a huge part of the problem with Apple's strategy here -- you're asking app developers to become faceless back-end processors for information to be mined by Siri. If the future of phones is using AI assistants, then the future of apps is to be grist for the mill. Hard to envision a lot of app developers being willing to work extra hard to be fed into the wood chipper. https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/114122893893005514 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell I'll just add that almost every example of taking screenshots of DRM material would be fair use and therefore legal. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/114089294709103856 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: How to bulk download Kindle files, while you can https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/02/how-to-bulk-download-kindle-files-while-you-can/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell big updates to my charting workflow today - I no longer have to edit all the charts to push the data set forward a quarter, and might actually have a shortcut that will parse Apple's data PDFs for me and put the numbers on the clipboard. https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/113/998/977/318/119/261/original/40b48f89c59257ab.mp4 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @nprofile…z7vu @nprofile…9kl0 Fountains of Wayne is one of my favorites, their big hit was "Stacy's Mom”. Their former co-lead songwriter was Adam Schlesinger who died during the early days of COVID. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell If you ever wanted me to talk entirely and only about making charts about Apple earnings, this is the podcast for you! Thanks @nprofile…fxst ! https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2025/02/ccatp-808/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Google just doesn’t care about indie developers or users that rely on their apps https://social.panic.com/@panic/113273222385009576 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Well, I asked: If you are an AirPods Max user and you want the new USB-C version and you rely on 3.5mm cable audio input, there is currently no solution for you. Apple doesn't sell that cable. I suspect they will, eventually, but at launch they don’t and other cables probably won't work. 🙄 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: Ten. https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/09/ten/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Backstory: I wrote this for free for Macworld in exchange for promoting Six Colors when it launched, after I was laid off. It has since been removed from their site so I'm republishing it on Six Colors so I can refer to it. Also: Look, it's the debut of the Camera Bump! https://zeppelin.flights/@jsnell/113119950550950142 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus review: Bigger is in fact better (in the right hands) https://sixcolors.com/post/2014/09/iphone-6-and-iphone-6-plus-review-bigger-is-in-fact-better-in-the-right-hands/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell New Upgrade: Fornite returns to the (not your) iPhone, Apple opens up NFC and enacts new restrictions on Patreon, Spotify posts a link, and we discuss what is and is not a 'Tabletop Robot.' https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/525 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell That's the last episode of the current batch. If you have questions for me or @npub15ml…2w4s send 'em to robot at theincomparable dot com. We're recording new ones Thursday. https://zeppelin.flights/@incomparable/112989536478515331 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell I will share some good news. I haven't verified it lately, but it's my understanding that permissions now survive a system migration? Meaning that when you migrate, you won't have to approve 200 dialog boxes and check boxes in Settings to get apps up and running. That's a win for the users, I guess. Meanwhile I suppose I should schedule some weekly 'authorize my apps to do what I installed them to do' time in my calendar... npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell I know, I know, "security." This shows utter contempt for the user. I was just asked to authorize an app that I've used SINCE THE 1990s so it would continue working for a week. And next week I guess it'll ask again? You have to let the user say, somewhere, "never ask me again--always allow." https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112916905882020099 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1utv…87lr There's beauty in the breakdown npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Is my next Six Colors piece just an excuse to make a Real Genius reference? Look, I don't need an excuse. But yes. It goes from Me to Real Genius to Six Colors to the cleaners. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Submit to Skeletor https://cottonbureau.com/p/5FJDBY/shirt/number-1-draft-pick npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell At some point I thought I got a closed local trail removed from Apple Maps, but it's back and being used in the new trail route feature in the betas! I don't know where Apple's getting its trail data from but this trail has been closed for five years. You can't even see it now, it’s entirely overgrown. https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/112/696/685/058/031/247/original/dc40755d5fcc838b.png npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Microsoft seemed to care a lot about intellectual property when it was copy protecting disks and generating Windows serial numbers. But if copyright law stands between tech giants and their next billion, they're against it. Sure. https://zeppelin.flights/@dmoren/112696246172728830 npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub15ml…2w4s You're a few months behind npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1hvd…9sq9 I believe this is also true of all Wirecutter stories and recipes if you're on the basic NYT tier, right? npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Legitimately surprised it was the "Crush" ad and not the AI-powered replacements for musicians as the thing that fed the discourse. Me, I'm still shaking my head about the guy gleefully editing Numbers spreadsheets on BART. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Apple renews For All Mankind for season 5 AND announces a Soviet-focused spinoff? @npub1na9…nagt and I are ready for more visits to Star City's vending machines! https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/112/287/616/024/330/121/original/de91819207256798.jpeg npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just bought mediocre hot chocolate from a kiosk with a robot arm and it was totally worth it https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/112/226/298/513/852/046/original/3d71808e6b68f1b9.png npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Apple's next immersive video release, a five-minute-long MLS playoff documentary, drops tonight at 6pm PT, 9pm ET. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1hvd…9sq9 how much extra do we pay to not be on a zoom with you 😉 #glenning npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Now live on Upgrade: https://relay.fm/live npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1sdu…w074 Mustard been hard for you to keep it a secret - I will relish the big reveal npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: M3 MacBook Air Review: More of a good thing https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/03/m3-macbook-air-review-more-of-a-good-thing/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1utv…87lr The problem is getting over all the TV-like features of it. That's a pretty good price though. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell I know you feel smart in saying that now that Apple has cancelled its car project, they can have those people work on OS stuff instead. But you'll be sorry when the next version of Mail has tail fins and whitewalls npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: The Vision Pro shows that it’s time for Apple to get weird https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/02/the-vision-pro-shows-that-its-time-for-apple-to-get-weird/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1p9k…865w @npub19wj…8n03 @npub13ek…4jax @npub1cd0…qe9h oh have you now? https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/111/880/936/245/191/488/original/f4449467b52ae413.jpeg npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1jaj…54mc doesn't look a day over 30 to me npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell If you can't make money and do good journalism with the Sports Illustrated brand you should be banned from the media business literally forever. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Amazingly, @npub1na9…nagt and I were able to interview the co-creators and showrunners of "For All Mankind" about the recently-concluded season, alt history Apple products, and (of course) vending machines. https://www.theincomparable.com/nvm/31/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell I don't think I even want to know how the gory details about how this finally happened, but shortly you'll be able to install Audio Hijack and other Rogue Amoeba audio utilities with no rebooting or adjusting of esoteric security policies. https://sixcolors.com/link/2024/01/installing-rogue-amoeba-apps-is-about-to-get-a-lot-easier/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1utv…87lr @npub1n3v…yvsf I was also struck by the lack of new assets. It's the same photos as June?! No refresh at all?! npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: There and Back Again: Foregoing Fantastical https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/01/there-and-back-again-foregoing-fantastical/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Kicking off Christmas in a traditional way, with a classic Doctor Who Christmas special featuring Santa, elves, reindeer, and murderous telepathic face huggers taking over a polar base under siege. (It's a long story.) https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/111/642/182/571/372/600/original/3515747063459d5f.jpeg npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Today's @npub18n2…vq8m episode is about Soylent Green. It turns 50 this year and you all know how it ends, sort of, but let me tell you--it's a pretty good movie and it's a shame nobody remembers the rest of it. https://www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/694/ https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/111/547/603/452/675/888/original/0b1f6f975105f35f.jpeg npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1eee…e209 @npub1na9…nagt yes, I think this is the best season, which is saying something. I also think the theme song (Jagger likes the books?) is perfection npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1xsy…cevg @npub1wm2…yawh Margo is now far away from her birthplace working for people who were theoretically her enemies and not speaking her native language, geez doesn't that sound like the very situation her mentor was in? (We mention this on the podcast, too… serious WVB vibes.) npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1xsy…cevg @npub1uu9…ek7g I just stole it from @npub1c5n…24hn :referenceacknowledged: npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: A picture is worth a thousand permissions requests https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/11/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-permissions-requests/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell I've seen the first episode of "For All Mankind" season 4, which premieres Friday, and while I will not spoil anything serious, I will say that the phrase “vending machine" is uttered! Related, @npub1na9…nagt and I do a podcast about "For All Mankind" called NASA Vending Machine and it's coming back this Friday, too. https://www.theincomparable.com/nvm/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: A magic number: New MacBook Pros and iMacs usher in the M3 era https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/10/a-magic-number-new-macbook-pros-and-imacs-usher-in-the-m3-era/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1eee…e209 @npub1lm2…88r3 maybe Tapback icons should be moved so they cover content too. Then we can have a fun game of tapping and holding to read anything at all npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell I made a themed Connections puzzle. Hard? Easy? All I know is that it might be haunted by a g-g-g-g-g-g-ghost! https://lexfriedman.com/connections/p/?data=VZBNTwQhDIb_CnLuxY-TV01MTPbkzcumO9OFZllKoKyi8b9bx-wkw6Ekbx8eKN9eWRP5R_8ufGo3Hjx2jVItecUm2b1lSsniUKWXW4tDlKZgtSdohSalajtX1pXa02dJyJn-NE-VqAx34caKypKXWxbwztozZoI2iSp8YEpQ-rmcOK_IxvVSCdXt_9cVuV8sJZrHtYghDHDHSjO4C6UzrtjG9EyZvyg3J0enkdxuNBtkuB1O0ZDroQdD7XFyGFBSV4FDZcyQcB4rsp0Wq4p92yyh-Z9f npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Just posted on Six Colors: The price of Apple’s old-products strategy https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/10/the-price-of-apples-old-products-strategy/ npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1xsy…cevg @npub1z9l…4trf oh and I hate to be that guy, but it's three in that graf npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1hvd…9sq9 Almost all evidence shows that, overall, the world is a better place for humanity than it was in 1970. Living standards are way up. Life expectancy is up. Now if you're talking the USA, oof, things don't look great. But overall humanity has made a lot of great strides npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell Every so often Music has a sync failure and dupes a bunch of my playlists by adding a 1 on the end. Turns out it's not appending, but incrementing... https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/111/128/061/159/582/221/original/81c6cc4b6a0f5a1e.png npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell 5x 2x 1x https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/111/105/450/986/790/871/original/c9ff697ba8316d6e.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/111/105/451/745/982/489/original/f1657bf7abee4299.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/zeppelinflights/media_attachments/files/111/105/453/046/431/333/original/d15c305b39fc6b2c.jpeg npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1hvd…9sq9 well that's really really not good npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1hvd…9sq9 Well, they sent it to his agents. Sounds to me like maybe they wanted him to actually narrate it or something? Still. npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1ke3…xcva volcanoes… npub1s57dv8jl5ajw037jxravamqqutandkryz0zr9z08g0s7nrz6vw6qthjgdu Jason Snell @npub1ke3…xcva It is, in fact, California's Mt. Shasta