Apple

I decided to cave and pre-order the iPhone 16 Pro Max, mainly due to the trade-in value I was given for my iPhone 14 Pro Max. I was able to cross paths with the UPS truck before they got to my house and get the delivery sooner than expected, which was a plus, I guess it pays to track your shipments when driving home from work. The overall upgrade from my current iPhone 14 Pro Max on Visible to this one was more or less flawless. I performed a backup, and went through the restore to the new phone, which asked to upgrade to the beta. After that, it was as simple as firing up the Visible app and activating this phone with the eSim. That process took about 5 minutes to complete and maybe around 10 minutes for SMS to fully start working to the new phone. ...

If you ever need to format a USB thumb drive on macOS from the command line, this will get you going. The first command will show you the drives so you can figure out which one is the USB. You will want to swap out DRIVENAME for what you want to name the USB drive. diskutil list diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 DRIVENAME /dev/disk2

When I was running updates on my system, I kept getting this error about Mullvad compinit:527: no such file or directory: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_mullvad It looked as though when Mullvad was removed, it never fully removed itself from my system. Thankfully, the fix was as easy as grabbing the Mullvad macOS uninstall script from GitHub and running it, which properly removed all of the symlinks and leftover files. You can grab the script and run it from the CLI by doing the following. ...

While I would like to say I have been a " longtime" Apple Watch user, it has only been a few years… well, since the Series 3, which was my first dive into the world of Apple Watches. I was never much for watches, and the last thing I wanted was another accessory I had to put on in the morning, charge, care for, etc. Still, I figured back then why not, as the analytics alone were interesting to me, enough so that eating the cost of the watch seemed worth it to me. ...

I picked up some Apple AirTags a while back and put one in my laptop bag, on mine and Nicole’s keychains, in my wallet, and even one in my truck (_Figured it could help with finding my truck in a parking garage or something lol). However, I now have 3 more sitting here gathering dust and I haven’t the slightest idea on what to do with them. I have thought about hiding them in the kid’s backpacks just in case they misplace them, also attaching them to our bikes as well but I feel they would end up getting lost somehow, and then there would be a hunt trying to find the lost AirTags. ...