∞ Apple Support: How to turn on AirPods Pro Conversation Boost

∞ Apple Support: How to turn on AirPods Pro Conversation Boost:

In a million years I would not have figured this one out. Watch the video below, see if you agree. This is some pretty low discoverability.

That said, props to the Apple Support team for making this video. Very well explained.

[There’s almost no way I’d remember all those steps… but at least they made the video.]

Source: The Loop

iPad Pro Magic Keyboard trackpad suddenly stops working

iPad Pro Magic Keyboard trackpad suddenly stops working:

I had the same problem, 2018 iPad Pro running 13.5.1 with the Magic Keyboard. Removing the both the iPad and the USB-C power cord from the keyboard (i.e. no power going to the Magic Keyboard from any source) seems to reset things enough to get it to start working again.

[I’m marking this just for me to find again. It doesn’t happen very frequently for me, but when it does I never remember exactly what to do… (of course, now I will)]

Source: Apple Community

Don’t Not Eat at Bros

Don’t Not Eat at Bros:

In Lecce, Italy, there is a Michelin-starred restaurant called “Bros”. Recently, Geraldine DeRuiter and her friends had an amazingly awful experience there.

Recommendation: Do not eat here. I cannot express this enough. This was single-handedly one of the worse wastes of money in my entire food and travel writing career bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha oh my god

You should not visit Bros. You shouldn’t go and not eat there, as DeRuiter and her friends did. But you should read DeRuiter’s spectacularly funny write-up of their bizarre “meal”.

You never know what you never know…

Dear Liberals, Stop Trying to be the Good Guy. | by Julianne King

Dear Liberals, Stop Trying to be the Good Guy.:

Stop talking about the altruism of food stamps and start referring to it as national security. Hell, move the food stamp budget over to national security because, and here’s the kicker guys, IT IS. When people eat, they tend to be a little slower with the pitch forks. It’s no coincidence that 25 percent of the insurrectionists had recently declared bankruptcy. Poor people are desperate. Desperate people are dangerous. FEED THEM.

“This not going to go the way you think…”

‘Bad Company’ by the Group Bad Company, from the Album ‘Bad Company’ – Lost Art Press

‘Bad Company’ by the Group Bad Company, from the Album ‘Bad Company’ – Lost Art Press:

Two lessons: Big business will try to bully you. They will try to decide when to pay you. They will decide how your pricing should work. They will ask for special treatment compared to your smaller customers.

Don’t give in. Once you start treating your customers differently, you are in for a world of drama and deceit. Whenever we get asked for special treatment, I simply remember what Jennie Alexander always said: “’No’ is a complete sentence.”

The second lesson: Pay your vendors on the day you get their invoice. When someone drops off work they did for us, they leave with a check. When an invoice arrives, John pays it the same day.

Vendors remember this. And if you’ve wondered how we kept so many of our products in stock during the pandemic shortages, you now have your answer.

These folks are such a pleasure to deal with, and they produce (and write) some of the best works in the field. The books themselves are a joy, beautifully designed, printed and bound. I must repeat this line… it’s so important! “Jennie Alexander always said: “’No’ is a complete sentence.”

Say Yes: Mel Brooks at 95

Say Yes: Mel Brooks at 95:

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out”… You say yes, and you never do it.

This seems like quite the win as a life hack…

Piping stdout and stderr to Preview

Piping stdout and stderr to Preview:

A while back, I wrote about how handy it was to redirect a man page into Preview. This allows you to keep the man page open, search it, and generally have a better user experience than struggling with more (or less) to navigate through the information provided there.

man -t apropos | open -fa Preview

Recently, someone asked me about more modern command line interaction, specifically, commands that use --help or similar to provide their documentation. Could that information be opened in Preview as well.

So I put on my thinking hat and set to work.

Git better with fzf and Fish

Git better with fzf and Fish:

You’ve probably heard me mention fzf before. It’s an amazing command line tool created by Junegunn Choi. It takes a list of data and turns it into a command line menu with fuzzy searching, multi-select, and can even preview each item in whatever way is appropriate. I’ve been using it in all kinds of scripts — where I used to have rudimentary numbered menus, I now have much friendlier and more flexible terminal navigation.

fzf is available via Homebrew, just run brew install fzf. See man fzf for very good documentation.