Photos will automatically categorize pictures by person, place, thing, etc… I never bother making folders or albums because I can just search by date or place or “black cat” or whatever. If the system can’t figure it out on its own you can easily multi-select a bunch of pictures and add keywords, which can then be searched. If you really don’t want to see the whole unfiltered camera roll ever you can just stay away from the library entry. If you are in “My Albums”, for instance, and quit the app, when you come back you’ll still be there.

I guess I don’t really understand what you’re looking for.

He technically didn’t. It was originally owned by George Lucas! But it was mostly just the cgi arm of his special effects. Jobs bought it off Lucas and turned it into the Pixar movie studio we think of today. (Jobs is credited as executive producer on the original Toy Story)

Unfortunately the communities that I’m interested in didn’t really move. I tried very hard to just quit Reddit cold turkey, but instead I’ve dialed it back to only 4-5 core topics that I’m interested in. For general doomscrolling I mostly use Apple News now. I check Lemmy every day or two but it’s hard to get stuck in when the discussions I’m interested in aren’t really flourishing here. Hopefully it grows over time.

Just keep it on Catalina and use that until it dies. I gave my dad a 2011 MacBook Air a while ago and that hasn’t been updated since High Sierra. It still works fine.

The fact that the login UI has username, password, and 2FA code all on one screen means this immediately wins. I hate this new trend of “put in your email, now go to another screen, put in your password, now go to another screen…” Ugh. My password manager can autofill more than one box at a time, you know!

Pandora wasn’t only focused on stuff you haven’t heard though. It was a mix. It’s actually closer to the Apple Music “personal station”.

I bought a miniKORG 700FS a while ago and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. This week I finished a track that uses it quite extensively. It’s a unique sounding instrument and I find its limitations to be a spur for creativity as opposed to a hindrance.

When I worked at Beats Music the office Wi-Fi was “Bits by Dre”.

Sadly, it’s just an ancient tower PC that I put together to be a NAS before Synology existed.

I’m as deep in the ecosystem as you can be. I have multiple everything: phone, iPad, Watch, TV, HomePod, many Macs (I’m an Apple developer, it’s all business-related!). Subscribe to Apple One Premier for the family. Apple Pay, Apple Card, etc., etc… I’ll be first in line for Vision Pro next year.

Basically, if there’s an Apple version of something, I will use it over the competition, regardless of any other consideration.

I’ve been a tech nerd for 40+ years, and honestly, I love it. I built my own PCs for years. I can program assembly language if need be. I’ve got a Linux box in the closet acting as my home server. It used to do a lot of the internet router stuff, but I moved that to an Airport Extreme many years ago.

I just don’t want to mess around with that stuff anymore. For the most part, “it just works” is true. Yes, there are bugs and glitches and frustrating limitations, but show me a hardware/software system that doesn’t have them.

Since Reddit became unadulterated evil I’ve been using Apple News to fill my clickbait/doomscrolling quotient and it’s actually not too bad once you customize your following sources/topics list. I pay for News+ so I rarely run into a paywall. I’ve suppressed the sources that require additional subscription (sorry Washington Post). Did you know if you are reading a story in Safari that has a paywall, but that source is available in News+ you can click the share button and “Open in News” will take you to right to a version you can read?

You could start by messing around with GarageBand on an iPhone or iPad. It’s free, surprisingly deep, and you can wear headphones to not bother your SO.

I started in the industry doing 6502 assembly language programming and I’m still learning a ton from him!

Ben Eater. He’s been explaining the low level details of how computers work. Literally building a functioning computer from nothing but a cpu and a breadboard. Incredibly good explanations.

I love bad gear. I’ve got many of the things he’s made videos about and I always get a laugh out of the endless rapid fire meme onslaught.

I have a 14 pro max and it sits fine in the duo charger next to a 45mm watch

I love it. Clean, minimal, gets out of the way, does what I want. With the iCloud keychain password management, 2FA management, auto-fill-then-delete codes from message/email (iOS 17/macOS Sonoma), it’s a real time-saver.

If you’re on a laptop for any amount of time during the day the battery life is unbeatable.

yep i have been a sodium citrate convert since i watched an adam ragusea video on the topic. https://piped.video/watch?v=KcM_MZoJWOo

i picked up a bag off amazon for cheap and it really is magic.

i’ve got a max size phone… can’t one hand it.

iPhone didn’t have native swipe keyboard until 2019. I’m guessing a lot of people had iPhones for years without having a native swipe option so they just never bothered with it. I’m definitely in that category. Honestly I totally forgot it was even a thing until reading this post just now. After years of practice I’m crazy fast with two thumb typing, I can only imagine swipe would slow me down to the point of irritation.