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FaceTime with tvOS 17 Stuttering
I’ve tried restarting everything and using different devices to do the continuity camera and it still stutters like crazy as of tvOS 17.0 on the newest generation of AppleTV 4k. The person on the other end of the call gets relatively clear and smooth video but on the AppleTV the video will stutter like crazy.…
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tvOS 17 Remote Volume Buttons
tvOS 17 brought some new features but it also made my volume buttons stop working on my AppleTV remote. I exhausted all of the things I knew how to do to fix this, and then after a quick google search apparently this just requires a remote restart. That process is documented here.
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I’m so happy iOS 17 is here. The keyboard has felt legitimately better and I’m so happy to have shared iCloud Keychain passwords finally.
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Vegan Búðin
Today is the sad last day of Iceland’s only vegan grocery store, Vegan Búðin. When we first came here in 2018 we made sure to visit and spent a silly amount of money on chocolates and various other snacks we ate for our trip. Amazingly, even a few snacks made it home with us. Every…
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Kia Navigation Update Surprises
I had incorrectly assumed that software updates in Kia vehicles would be just as awful as they’ve historically been in most other major vehicle manufacturers. With my move to Iceland, I’ve purchased a couple of electric cars, one being a Kia Soul EV. This was the first car we purchased due to availability and I…
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Sometimes my attention issues cause me to procrastinate when I hit a roadblock. So far I’ve found the most use of AI chat bots in helping tell me what to do next when I’m feeling overwhelmed by my own anxiety, stress, and overall attention deficit. Thank you robots for helping me be a slightly more…
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Útlendingastofnun, the Icelandic immigration offices sent me a sms 30 minutes before they closed that I could come pick up my residency card. Luckily I work right around the corner. I can finally travel throughout Europe and the U.S. again freely 🙌 for the next year and 5 months 😂 until I have to do…
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The wild thing about people in the U.S. going crazy about Tesla’s connector vs CCS is that in Europe it’s all CCS. Our Model Y in Iceland has a standard CCS connector and it works fine. It’s like bikeshedding over USB-C power delivery vs using a proprietary power connector. The open standard works fine but…
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Oh lord I’m not a huge fan of being away from Iceland right now. My tiny family is having a rough time and I just found a giant cockroach strutting across the floor of my hotel room in Novi Sad so now I’m sitting here unable to sleep, looking at a photo dump with all…
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Serbian Graffiti
Palms are sweaty, knees weak, Microcenter ready. (For context, there’s a computer store named Microcenter off of a road called “14 Mile Rd” in Michigan not far from where I used to live.)