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Garmin’s Vector 3 power meter pedals are rather excellent. Their connectivity to my Wahoo ROAM head unit (via ANT+) has been spotless. However, their ability to connect to my iPhone via Bluetooth to check battery status and update firmware has not been great, good, or even passable. Pairing a bluetooth device should be painless by this point in the evolution of technology. The process for doing it should go: Turn on both devices Enable bluetooth on the phone Find the device in your phone’s bluetooth settings menu Click it Enter a pairing code, if needed Boom, connected, done Not so with these Garmin pedals! ...

From 9To5Mac: The point is that for most people, a MacBook Air is about web browsing and light work and such. The base model MacBook Air is powerful enough that — as surprising as this may sound — the extra $200 to upgrade to 16GB of RAM is probably not worth it for most. This is the one I bought. I considered that it could be just like the iPhone - stupid good with minimal amounts of RAM. ...

Apple made some updates to this page (h/t to Rene Richie for finding this): Privacy protections macOS has been designed to keep users and their data safe while respecting their privacy. Gatekeeper performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer’s signing certificate is revoked. We have never combined data from these checks with information about Apple users or their devices. We do not use data from these checks to learn what individual users are launching or running on their devices. ...

How it started Jeff Johnson (@lapcatsoftware) seems to have noticed it first: Hey Apple users: If you’re now experiencing hangs launching apps on the Mac, I figured out the problem using Little Snitch. It’s trustd connecting to ocsp.apple.com. Denying that connection fixes it, because OCSP is a soft failure. (Disconnect internet also fixes.) 2024-11-10: Editor’s footnote.1 Tweet link. The day where no one could open software on their Mac’s because Apple’s OCSP server was very, very slow. ...

70F in November – nice! ...

Not bad. Still injured. ...

Highlights of the day. Rainy Day The mountains are gorgeous in the rain. Sitting outside and listening to the rain echo off the trees across the mountains is enchanting. Or ensorcelling. Podcasts I was worried last week, early in the week, that I would not be bringing enough podcasts with me on vacation. I’ve hit the end of my typical playlists (tech, economics) on regular weeks at home while working - so clearly a 10+ hour car trip and lots of time social-distancing in a cabin in the woods would drain my playlists immediately. ...

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Beautiful views. ...

From Tidbits: It was a gray day in late 2005. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year’s iPod. Without knocking, the director of iPod Software—my boss’s boss—abruptly entered and closed the door behind him. He cut to the chase. “I have a special assignment for you. Your boss doesn’t know about it. You’ll help two engineers from the US Department of Energy build a special iPod. Report only to me.” ...